Born on Wednesday, 4th March – Famous Birthdays

04/03/2007

Miya Cech, American actress

Miyako Cech, known professionally as Miya Cech, is an American actress. She made her film debut in The Darkest Minds (2018). She then starred in Rim of the World (2019), the second revival of Are You Afraid of the Dark? (2019), The Astronauts (2020–21) and Marvelous and the Black Hole (2021).

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04/03/2002

Jacob Hopkins, American actor

Jacob Turner Hopkins is an American actor who voiced Gumball Watterson in the animated series The Amazing World of Gumball from 2014 to 2017.

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Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva, Australian rhythmic gymnast

Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva is an Australian former rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games clubs champion, team silver medallist, and all-around bronze medallist. She also won two bronze medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She is a four-time Australian all-around champion. She won five bronze medals at the 2022 Maccabiah Games and has competed at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships five times.

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04/03/2001

Freya Anderson, English freestyle swimmer

Freya Ann Alexandra Anderson is a British swimmer, known primarily for her achievements as a freestyle sprinter, especially as a relay swimmer for Great Britain. Anderson achieved nine relay gold medals at three editions of the European Championships, including 5 golds in a single meet at the 2020 European Championships in Budapest, as well as two bronze medals at the Commonwealth Games and a bronze at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships. In July 2021, she won gold as part of the British team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay, swimming the freestyle anchor leg in the heat.

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George Pickens, American football player

George Malik Pickens Jr. is an American professional football wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs, winning the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship as a junior. Pickens was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second round of the 2022 NFL draft.

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04/03/1999

Brooklyn Beckham, English model and socialite

Brooklyn Joseph Peltz Beckham is a British media personality. He has worked as a model, photographer, and created a cooking show which aired in 2022. He is the eldest child of former professional footballer David Beckham and fashion designer and former Spice Girls member Victoria Beckham.

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04/03/1998

Obi Toppin, American basketball player

Obadiah Richard "Obi" Toppin Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A power forward, he played college basketball for the Dayton Flyers.

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04/03/1997

Matisse Thybulle, Australian-American basketball player

Matisse Vincent Thybulle is an Australian-American professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected in the first round of the 2019 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics before being traded to the Philadelphia 76ers the following day. Thybulle was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team as a member of the 76ers in 2021 and 2022. He was traded to the Trail Blazers in 2023.

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Kwon Hyun-bin, South Korean actor and singer

Kwon Hyun-bin, also known by his stage name Viini, is a South Korean actor, rapper and model. He is known for his appearance in the second installation of Produce 101 and debuting in the former boy band, JBJ.

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04/03/1996

Michael Gallup, American football player

Michael Gallup is an American professional football wide receiver. He played college football for the Butler Grizzlies and Colorado State Rams, where he was a consensus All-American in 2017. Gallup was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the third round of the 2018 NFL draft. He has also been a member of the Las Vegas Raiders and Washington Commanders.

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Antonio Sanabria, Paraguayan footballer

Arnaldo Antonio Sanabria Ayala, also known as Tony Sanabria, is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Cremonese and the Paraguay national team.

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Lukas Webb, Australian rules footballer

Lukas Webb is a professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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04/03/1995

Chlöe Howl, English singer-songwriter

Chlöe Howl, is a British singer-songwriter. She was shortlisted for the BBC Sound of 2014 and the 2014 BRIT Awards: Critics Choice Award.

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Bill Milner, English actor

William Henry Milner is an English actor. He starred as Will Proudfoot in Son of Rambow (2007), Edward in Is Anybody There? (2008), and the young Erik Lensherr in X-Men: First Class (2011).

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Valeri Nichushkin, Russian ice hockey player

Valeri Ivanovich Nichushkin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a right winger for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Dallas Stars in the first round, 10th overall, of the 2013 NHL entry draft. Nichushkin won the Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 2022.

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04/03/1994

Callum Harriott, English footballer

Callum Kyle Harriott is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Braintree Town. Born in England, he represents the Guyana national team.

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Luisito Pié, Dominican taekwondo athlete

Luisito Pié, also known as Luis Pie, is a Haitian-Dominican taekwondo athlete who won the bronze medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 58 kg category.

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AJ Tracey, British rapper and record producer

Ché Wolton Grant, known professionally as AJ Tracey, is a British rapper and record producer from Ladbroke Grove, London. Tracey rose to popularity in 2016 and was listed by The Guardian in a list of "best new acts to catch at festivals in 2016".

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04/03/1993

Jenna Boyd, American actress

Jenna Boyd is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress with roles in the 2003 films The Hunted, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star and The Missing, and the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. On television, she appeared on all four seasons of the Netflix comedy-drama Atypical (2017–2021).

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Bobbi Kristina Brown, American singer and actress (died 2015)

Bobbi Kristina Brown was an American reality television personality and singer. She was the only child of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. Her parents' fame kept Brown in the public eye, as did her appearances on the reality show Being Bobby Brown.

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Richard Peniket, English footballer

Richard James Peniket is an association football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is currently manager of Emirati club Gulf United.

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04/03/1992

Nick Castellanos, American baseball player

Nicholas Alexander Castellanos is an American professional baseball right fielder and third baseman for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, and Philadelphia Phillies.

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Erik Lamela, Argentine footballer

Erik Manuel Lamela is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or right winger. He is currently an assistant coach at La Liga club Sevilla.

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Bernd Leno, German footballer

Bernd Leno is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Fulham.

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Karl Mööl, Estonian footballer

Karl Mööl is an Estonian professional footballer who plays as a right back for Estonian club Paide Linnameeskond and the Estonia national team.

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Jared Sullinger, American basketball player

Jared Malcolm Xavier Sullinger is an American professional basketball player for the Guangdong Southern Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for the Ohio State Buckeyes before being selected 21st overall by the Boston Celtics in the 2012 NBA draft.

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04/03/1990

Andrea Bowen, American actress

Andrea Bowen is an American actress. She began her career appearing on Broadway musicals such as Les Misérables and The Sound of Music. In 2004, she began playing the role of Julie Mayer on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives, a role she played on a regular basis until 2008. She later appeared on a recurring basis until the show ended in 2012. Bowen later went on to star in a number of Lifetime television films.

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Draymond Green, American basketball player

Draymond Jamal Green is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Green, who plays primarily at the power forward position, is a four-time NBA champion, a four-time NBA All-Star, a two-time member of the All-NBA Team, and a two-time Olympic gold medalist. Considered one of the greatest defensive players of all time, he is a nine-time All-Defensive Team member, was NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 2017, and led the league in steals the same year.

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Paddy Madden, Irish footballer

Patrick Stephen Madden is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a striker or second striker for EFL League Two club Accrington Stanley on loan from EFL League Two club Chesterfield. He represented the Republic of Ireland national team at various levels, playing once for the senior team in 2013.

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Fran Mérida, Spanish footballer

Francisco Mérida Pérez is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.

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04/03/1989

Benjamin Kiplagat, Ugandan long-distance runner (died 2023)

Benjamin Kiplagat was a Ugandan long-distance runner specialising in the 3000 metres steeplechase.

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04/03/1988

Josh Bowman, English actor

Joshua Tobias Bowman is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Daniel Grayson in the TV series Revenge.

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Gal Mekel, Israeli basketball player

Gal Mekel is an Israeli former professional basketball player. He played for the Dallas Mavericks and spent time in Europe and Israel.

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Laura Siegemund, German tennis player

Laura Natalie Siegemund is a German professional tennis player.

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Adam Watts, English footballer

Adam James Watts is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender.

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04/03/1987

Ben McKinley, Australian footballer

Benjamin "Ben" McKinley is an Australian rules footballer who previously played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the West Coast Eagles.

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Tamzin Merchant, English actress

Tamzin Claire Merchant is an English actress and author. She is most notable for her roles as Georgiana Darcy in the film Pride & Prejudice (2005), as Catherine Howard in The Tudors (2009–2010) and as Anne Hale in Salem (2014–2017).

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Cameron Wood, Australian footballer

Cameron Wood is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions, Collingwood Football Club and Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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04/03/1986

Steven Burke, English road and track cyclist

Steven James Burke is a former English track and road cyclist, who rode for the now disbanded Team Wiggins Le Col cycling team. He represented Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics, beating his pre Olympics personal best in the individual pursuit by eleven seconds, to take the bronze medal. He stood on the podium alongside his cycling idol, gold medallist Bradley Wiggins.

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Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer

Tom De Mul is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a right winger.

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Margo Harshman, American actress

Margo Harshman is an American actress. She is known for playing Tawny Dean on Even Stevens, Alex Jensen on The Big Bang Theory, and Delilah Fielding-McGee on NCIS.

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Mike Krieger, Brazilian-American computer programmer and businessman, co-founded Instagram

Michel Krieger is a Brazilian entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram in 2010 with Kevin Systrom, and served as its chief technology officer (CTO) until 2018. During Krieger's tenure as CTO, Instagram's user base expanded from a few million to 1 billion monthly active users. After that, he co-launched two more products, "Rt.live" and Artifact, with Systrom. Since 2024, he has been at Anthropic.

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Park Min-young, South Korean actress

Park Min-young, also known as Rachel Park, is a South Korean actress. She rose to fame in the historical coming-of-age drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal (2010) and has since starred in television series City Hunter (2011), Glory Jane (2011), Healer (2014–2015), Remember (2015–2016), What's Wrong with Secretary Kim (2018), Her Private Life (2019), Forecasting Love and Weather (2022), and Marry My Husband (2024).

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Siim Roops, Estonian footballer

Siim Roops is an Estonian footballer.

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Bohdan Shust, Ukrainian footballer

Bohdan Romanovych Shust is a professional Ukrainian retired footballer.

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04/03/1985

Jake Buxton, English footballer

Jake Fred Buxton is an English former professional footballer and manager who played as a defender. He is currently manager of Alfreton Town.

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Scott Michael Foster, American actor

Scott Michael Foster is an American actor who was born around 1985. He is best known for his roles as Captain John Paul "Cappie" Jones in the ABC Family comedy-drama series Greek (2007–11), Leo Hendrie in the ABC Family drama Chasing Life (2014–15) and as Nathaniel Plimpton III in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2017–19). Foster has also had recurring roles on Californication (2012), Halt and Catch Fire (2014), Once Upon a Time (2014), and You (2021).

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Whitney Port, American fashion designer and author

Whitney Eve Port-Rosenman is an American television personality, fashion designer, and author. In 2006, Port came to prominence after being cast in the reality television series The Hills, which chronicled the personal and professional lives of Port and friends Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag, and Audrina Patridge. During its production, she held internship positions with Teen Vogue and Kelly Cutrone's People's Revolution.

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04/03/1984

Tamir Cohen, Israeli footballer

Tamir Cohen is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the son of the late Maccabi Tel Aviv and Liverpool player Avi Cohen.

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Anders Grøndal, Norwegian racing driver

Anders Grøndal is a Norwegian rally and hill climb driver. He has won at least 5 gold medals, 3 silver, and 2 bronze at the Norwegian championships. In 2019, he and co-driver Marius Fuglerud won the Rally Tron in the Ford Fiesta MK2.

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Spencer Larsen, American football player

Spencer Larsen is an American former professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arizona Wildcats, primarily as a linebacker. Larsen was selected by the Denver Broncos in the sixth round of the 2008 NFL draft.

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Jeremy Loops, South African singer-songwriter and record producer

Jeremy Thomas Hewitt known by his stage name Jeremy Loops, is a South African singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Raven Quinn, American singer-songwriter

Raven Quinn is an American musician, singer and songwriter. Her first self-titled album was released March 4, 2010. Quinn released the title track "Not In Vain" from her sophomore album on October 31, 2013, with the full second album Not In Vain seeing release on October 6, 2014. On December 8, 2015, Raven Quinn released The Acoustic EP, containing acoustic versions of songs from her first two albums.

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Zak Whitbread, American-English footballer

Zak Benjamin Whitbread is an American retired professional soccer player who played as a defender.

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04/03/1983

Samuel Contesti, French-Italian figure skater

Samuel Contesti is a French-Italian former competitive figure skater. He originally competed for France, then switched to Italy after the 2006–07 season. He is the 2009 European silver medalist and a five-time Italian national champion (2008–12).

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Adam Deacon, English film actor, rapper, writer and director

Adam Steven Deacon is an English actor. He is known for his lead role in the films Kidulthood, sequel Adulthood, and for his directorial debut, Anuvahood.

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Jaque Fourie, South African rugby player

Jaque Fourie is a South African former professional rugby union player. He was a versatile backline player whose usual position was in the centres. He was a member of the 2007 Rugby World Cup winning team, playing at outside centre for 6 out of 7 matches, including all 80 minutes of the World Cup Final, which South Africa won 15–6.

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Drew Houston, American entrepreneur

Andrew W. Houston is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service. According to Forbes, his net worth is about $2 billion. Houston held 24.4% of voting power in Dropbox before the company filed for IPO in February 2018.

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Sergio Romo, American baseball player

Sergio Francisco Romo is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Rays, Miami Marlins, Minnesota Twins, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, and Toronto Blue Jays. A right-hander who served as a closer during his career, his main pitch was his slider.

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04/03/1982

Landon Donovan, American soccer player and coach

Landon Timothy Donovan is an American former professional soccer player and coach who was most recently the interim head coach of San Diego Wave FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Often considered one of the greatest U.S. men's players of all time, Donovan was the all-time top assist provider in international football (58) until 2023 and is tied with Clint Dempsey for the most international goals scored by a male U.S. player (57). Donovan won a record six MLS Cups and is the league's all-time assists leader with 136. The Major League Soccer MVP Award has been renamed the Landon Donovan MVP Award in his honor.

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Cate Edwards, American lawyer and author

Catharine Elizabeth Edwards is an American attorney. Edwards is the daughter of former United States Senator John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards.

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Ludmila Ezhova, Russian gymnast

Ludmila Ezhova Grebenkova is a Russian former competitive gymnast. She won bronze in the team event at the 2004 Summer Olympics and four medals at the World Championships.

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K. Michelle, American singer

Kimberly Michelle Pate is an American singer, songwriter, television personality, and actress. She was a regular cast member on the VH1 reality television series Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta during its first two seasons, later returning to the show during its fifth season. She subsequently signed with Atlantic Records. Her debut album, Rebellious Soul, debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, and number one on the US Top R&B Albums charts. Her second album Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? was released in 2014, debuting at number six on the US Billboard 200 and number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, selling 87,000 copies in its first week. It spawned three singles, the Platinum selling "Love 'Em All", Gold selling "Maybe I Should Call" and Gold selling "Hard to Do".

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Yasemin Mori, Turkish singer

Yasemin Aygün Savgı, better known as Yasemin Mori, is a Turkish alternative rock singer.

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04/03/1981

Ariza Makukula, Portuguese footballer

Ariza Makukula is a former professional footballer who played as a centre-forward.

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Helen Wyman, English cyclist

Helen Wyman is a British cyclist for the Experza-Footlogix team. She participates in both road cycling and cyclo-cross, and, since she began competing at the age of 14, Wyman has represented her country at many international events including World Cups and World Championships. Except for 2013, she was the British national champion in cyclo-cross from 2006 to 2015.

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04/03/1980

Rohan Bopanna, Indian tennis player

Rohan Machanda Bopanna is an Indian former tennis player who specialized in doubles. He attained the world No. 1 ranking after winning his first major men's doubles title at the 2024 Australian Open with Matthew Ebden, becoming the oldest first-time No. 1 at the age of 43. He plays as the marquee player for SG Pipers in the Tennis Premier League.

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Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer

Omar Bravo Tordecillas is a Mexican football manager and former footballer who played as a striker.

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Suzanna Choffel, American singer-songwriter

Suzanna Choffel is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has appeared on national television and in film. Known for her distinct voice and reggae-inspired guitar technique, her music has been described as "a unique sound equal parts Beat poetry, smoky soul grooves and indie-pop eccentricity".

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Alex Garcia, Brazilian basketball player

Alex Ribeiro Garcia, commonly known as either Alex Garcia, or simply as Alex is a Brazilian professional basketball player. He also represented the senior Brazilian national team. He is a 6-foot-3-inch (1.91 m) 225 pounds (102 kg) shooting guard-small forward.

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Giedrius Gustas, Lithuanian basketball player

Giedrius Gustas is a former Lithuanian professional basketball player. At the height of 1.90 m tall and a weight of 86 kg, he mainly played at the point guard position. During his club playing career, as a member of Žalgiris Kaunas, he won the EuroLeague championship in 1999. As a member of the Barons LMT, he won the Europe Cup championship in 2008. He was also a member of the senior Lithuanian national team, and with Lithuania, he won the gold medal at the 2003 EuroBasket and the bronze medal at the 2007 EuroBasket.

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Scott Hamilton, New Zealand rugby player and coach

Scott Elliot Hamilton is a New Zealand international rugby union player, who plays both on the wing or at fullback; he played two times for the All Blacks in 2006 and has played for the Crusaders in Super Rugby and Canterbury in the NPC. New Zealand's provincial competition. Hamilton moved to Leicester Tigers in 2008 where he played 142 games in 7 seasons winning three Premiership Rugby titles in 2009, 2010 and 2013.

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Jack Hannahan, American baseball player

John Joseph Hannahan IV is an American former professional baseball utility player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians, and Cincinnati Reds and in the KBO League for the LG Twins.

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Michael Henrich, American ice hockey player

Michael Henrich is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. An NHL first-round draft pick of the Edmonton Oilers in 1998, Henrich played several years of professional hockey in North America before moving to professional hockey in Europe. Henrich is the first Jewish player to be selected in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft, and the only player taken in the first round of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft who did not play a regular season game in the National Hockey League.

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Phil McGuire, Scottish footballer and manager

Philip McGuire is a Scottish former professional footballer. He is currently the manager of Carnoustie Panmure in the SJFA East Superleague.

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Aja Volkman, American singer-songwriter

Aja Volkman is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the frontwoman of the indie rock band Nico Vega. She has also released an EP titled Egyptian as a duo with her then-husband Dan Reynolds under the moniker Egyptian.

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04/03/1979

Trenton Hassell, American basketball player

Trenton Lavar Hassell is an American former professional basketball forward. A 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), 227 lb (103 kg) guard-forward, Hassell was selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 30th overall pick of the 2001 NBA draft.

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Sarah Stock, Canadian wrestler and trainer

Sarah Stock is a Canadian professional wrestler. She is known for her role in All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and as a trainer and producer for WWE. Previously began her career in Canada and moved back and forth across the country, working for various promotions, facing both male and female wrestlers. She then moved to Mexico, where she worked under the ring name Dark Angel for Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) and later for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). She is also known for her time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where under the ring name Sarita she became the inaugural and two-time TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion, holding the title the first time with Taylor Wilde and the second time with Rosita. She has also worked in Japan for JDStar and World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she held the Wonder of Stardom Championship.

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04/03/1978

Pierre Dagenais, Canadian ice hockey player

Pierre Brüno Dagenais is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who most notably played in the National Hockey League (NHL). He last played for the Akwesasne Warriors of the Federal Hockey League.

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Jean-Marc Pelletier, American ice hockey player

Jean-Marc Pelletier is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey goaltender who played seven National Hockey League (NHL) games over parts of three seasons for the Philadelphia Flyers and Phoenix Coyotes between 1999 and 2004. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1998 to 2010, was mainly spent in the semi pro leagues.

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04/03/1977

Nacho Figueras, Argentinian polo player and model

Ignacio "Nacho" Figueras Bermejo is an Argentine polo player and model with a 6-goal handicap. Dubbed the "David Beckham of polo", Figueras is considered to be the most famous polo player in the world. He currently co-owns and plays for Black Watch Polo Team. Since 2005, Figueras has been the face of Ralph Lauren's Black Label. In 2015, models.com ranked him in the top eighteen of their Money Men.

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Traver Rains, American fashion designer and photographer

Traver Rains is an American TV personality, celebrity fashion designer, and photographer.

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04/03/1976

Robbie Blake, English footballer

Robert James Blake is an English former professional footballer who is a first-team coach at National League South club Eastbourne Borough. He began his career as a striker but was increasingly used as midfielder in the latter part of his career.

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Tommy Jönsson, Swedish footballer

Ulf Tommy Jönsson is a Swedish former footballer who played as defender. He represented Malmö FF and Halmstads BK during a career that spanned between 1992 and 2010. A full international in 2003, he won three caps for the Sweden national team.

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04/03/1975

Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player

Antti Sami Aalto is a Finnish retired professional ice hockey player who played for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the National Hockey League.

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Mats Eilertsen, Norwegian bassist and composer

Mats Eilertsen is a Norwegian jazz musician and composer. He is known for recording with numerous bands, including the Maria Kannegaard Trio, Ola Kvernberg, Nils Økland, Eldbjørg Raknes, Anders Aarum Trio, Eirik Hegdal, Sverre Gjørvad, Nymark Collective, SKRUK, «Jazzmob», «Dingobats», Håkon Kornstad Trio, Food with Iain Ballamy, Jacob Young Band, Solveig Slettahjell's Slow Motion Orchestra, Håvard Wiik Trio, and «JazzCode».

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Patrick Femerling, German basketball player

Patrick Oliver Femerling is a German former professional basketball player who played as a center.

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Kristi Harrower, Australian basketball player

Kristi Harrower is an Australian professional basketball coach and former player. She was a decorated player with the Australian Opals, winning three silver medals and one bronze medal at four Summer Olympics. She played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1998 to 2005 for the Phoenix Mercury and Minnesota Lynx.

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Hawksley Workman, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Hawksley Workman is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who has garnered critical acclaim for his blend of cabaret pop and glam rock. Workman has released eleven full-length albums throughout his career. A multi-instrumentalist, he plays guitar, drums, bass, keyboards and sings on his records, often switching between those instruments when playing live.

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04/03/1974

Crowbar, American wrestler

Christopher Ford is an American professional wrestler, best known for his tenure in World Championship Wrestling under the ring name Crowbar, where he was a one time Hardcore Champion, a one time World Tag Team Champion with David Flair and a one time Cruiserweight Champion, which he held jointly with Daffney. He, Jerry Lynn and Christopher Daniels are the only wrestlers in history to have wrestled for World Wrestling Federation, World Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, Ring Of Honor and All Elite Wrestling. He currently performs on the independent circuit either as The Timeless One, Crowbar or Devon Storm.

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Mladen Krstajić, Serbian footballer and manager

Mladen Krstajić is a Serbian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back.

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Karol Kučera, Slovak tennis player

Karol Kučera is a Slovak tennis coach and former professional player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 6 in September 1998, reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open the same year.

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Ariel Ortega, Argentinian footballer

Arnaldo Ariel Ortega is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. His nickname is "El Burrito", thus he is called Burrito Ortega.

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Tommy Phelps, South Korean-American baseball player and coach

Thomas Allen Phelps is an American former professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball. He is currently a coach in the Miami Marlins organization.

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ICS Vortex, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Simen Hestnæs, better known by his stage name ICS Vortex or simply Vortex, is a Norwegian musician. He is the vocalist of the similarly named band ICS Vortex, the avant-garde metal band Arcturus and the doom metal band Lamented Souls. He is also a vocalist and the bass guitarist to the progressive metal band Borknagar, and the former bass guitarist and clean vocalist for the symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir.

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David Wagner, American tennis player and educator

David Wagner is an American wheelchair tennis player. Paralyzed from the mid-chest down and with thirty percent function in his hands, he competes in the quad division. He plays by taping the tennis racket to his hand. He is currently ranked number three in the world in singles and number two in doubles.

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Bill Young, Australian rugby player

Bill Young is an Australian former professional rugby union footballer. He played rugby for the Brumbies in the international Super Rugby competition and played for Australia over 40 times.

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04/03/1973

Massimo Brambilla, Italian footballer and coach

Massimo Brambilla is an Italian professional football coach and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He is currently head coach of Serie C Group B club Juventus Next Gen.

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Phillip Daniels, American football player and coach

Phillip Bernard Daniels is an American football coach who is the defensive line coach for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Hs is also a former American football defensive end who played for 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth round of the 1996 NFL draft. He played college football at the University of Georgia.

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Valery Kobelev, Russian ski jumper

Valery Vladimirovich Kobelev is a Russian ski jumper.

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Linus of Hollywood, American singer-songwriter and producer

Kevin Dotson, better known by stage names Linus of Hollywood and Linus Dotson, is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. The stage name comes from his early days in Los Angeles, where he would frequently wear striped shirts similar to the Peanuts character Linus van Pelt. He is currently a member of Nerf Herder, comedy duo Jarinus and electronic rock duo Able Machines.

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Penny Mordaunt, English lieutenant and politician, Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council

Dame Penelope Mary Mordaunt is a British former politician who served as Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons from 2022 until 2024. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Portsmouth North from 2010 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, she ran for the party leadership in 2022, losing to Liz Truss. In the 2024 general election, Mordaunt lost her Portsmouth North seat to Labour's Amanda Martin.

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Len Wiseman, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Len Ryan Wiseman is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his work on the Underworld series (2003–2016), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), the 2012 remake of Total Recall, and Ballerina (2025). Wiseman runs the production company Sketch Films.

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Chandra Sekhar Yeleti, Indian director and screenwriter

Chandra Sekhar Yeleti is an Indian film director known for his works in Telugu cinema. He made his directorial debut with the Neo-noir crime film, Aithe, which received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu, and the Nandi Award for Best Story for that year. Another neo-noir film Anukokunda Oka Roju garnered two State Nandi Awards, including Best Screenplay for Yeleti.

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Casimiro Ynares III, Filipino politician

Casimiro "Jun" Alcantara Ynares III is a Filipino physician and politician who is currently serving as the mayor of Antipolo since 2022, previously holding the position from 2013 to 2019. He previously served as the governor of Rizal from 2007 to 2013, as well as the public information officer of Antipolo from 2019 to 2022 under the mayorship of his wife, Andrea Bautista-Ynares.

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04/03/1972

Katherine Center, American journalist and author

Katherine Sherar Pannill Center is an American author of contemporary fiction.

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Nocturno Culto, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Ted Arvid Skjellum, also known by the stage name Nocturno Culto, is a Norwegian musician best known as the vocalist, lead guitarist, and partial bassist of the influential black metal band Darkthrone. He has been with the band since 1988. He is also the vocalist of the band Sarke, and has a solo project called Gift of Gods. He currently works in Norway as a school teacher, and has a son and a daughter. He has also released a documentary film called The Misanthrope in which he deals with black metal music and life in Norway.

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Robert Smith, American football player and sportscaster

Robert Scott Smith is an American college football analyst for Fox Sports and the Big Ten Network. He played professionally as a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, and played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes.

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Ivy Queen, Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, rapper, actress and record producer

Martha Ivelisse Pesante Rodríguez, known professionally as Ivy Queen, is a Puerto Rican rapper and singer. She is considered one of the pioneers of the reggaeton genre. Dubbed the Queen of Reggaeton, she is one of the most influential reggaeton artists of all-time.

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Jos Verstappen, Dutch racing driver

Johannes Franciscus "Jos" Verstappen is a Dutch racing and rally driver who competes in the European Rally Championship as a privateer. Verstappen competed in Formula One between 1994 and 2003.

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Alison Wheeler, English singer-songwriter

Alison Wheeler is a British singer, best known as the female vocalist for The Beautiful South from 2003 until they disbanded in 2007.

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04/03/1971

Iain Baird, Canadian soccer player and manager

Iain Baird is a Canadian former soccer defender who earned nine caps with the Canadian national soccer team between 1984 and 1986.

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Claire Baker, Scottish politician

Claire Josephine Baker is a Scottish Labour politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife region since 2007.

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Anders Kjølholm, Danish bass player

Anders Nielsen, known professionally as Anders Kjølholm, is a Danish musician, best known as the former bassist of the rock band Volbeat. Before Volbeat, he was the bassist in Dominus, which also featured Volbeat founding member Michael Poulsen. He primarily uses Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay basses, but is also seen playing a black Fender Jazz Bass and uses TC Electronic amps.

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Satoshi Motoyama, Japanese racing driver

Satoshi Motoyama is a Japanese professional racing driver and team manager. He is best known for racing in the Super GT Series, formerly known as the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) as a factory driver for Nissan, and for racing in the Formula Nippon Championship. He is a three-time champion of the GT500 class of Super GT, and a four-time Formula Nippon/Super Formula champion, making him one of the most successful Japanese racing drivers of all-time.

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04/03/1970

Andrea Bendewald, American actress

Andrea R. Bendewald is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Maddy Piper on Suddenly Susan.

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Àlex Crivillé, Spanish motorcycle racer

Àlex Crivillé Tapias is a Spanish former professional motorcycle racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1987 to 2001, most prominently as a member of the Honda factory racing team. In 1992 he became the first Spaniard to win a 500cc Grand Prix and, in 1999 he became the first Spaniard to win the 500cc World Championship.

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Will Keen, English actor

William Walter Maurice Keen is an English actor. Recognised for his work on stage and screen, he is a prolific figure of modern British theatre and a trustee of the James Menzies Kitchin Award, an award set up for young theatre directors.

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Caroline Vis, Dutch tennis player

Caroline Vis is a former tennis player from the Netherlands.

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04/03/1969

Chaz Bono, American writer, musician, and actor

Chaz Salvatore Bono is an American writer, musician and actor. His parents are entertainers Sonny Bono and Cher, and he became widely known in appearances as a child on their television show, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.

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Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian footballer and manager

Pierluigi Casiraghi is an Italian professional football coach and former player who played as a striker.

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Wayne Collins, English footballer

Wayne Collins is an English football midfielder.

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Annie Yi, Taiwanese singer, actress, and writer

Wu Chin-yi, professionally known as Annie Yi or Annie Shizuka Inoh, is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and writer.

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04/03/1968

Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan baseball player

Giovanni Carrara Jiménez is a Venezuelan-Italian former professional baseball pitcher who most recently served as the pitching coach for the Saraperos de Saltillo of the Mexican League. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Seattle Mariners, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Seibu Lions.

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Jorge Celedón, Colombian singer

Jorge Celedón also known as Jorgito Celedón is a Colombian musician and singer of vallenato music. Celedón was one of the backup singers for the vallenato group Binomio de Oro de America who joined after the death of Rafael Orozco Maestre. In 1998, he decided to create his own vallenato group and teamed with accordionist Jimmy Zambrano.

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Patsy Kensit, English model and actress

Patricia Jude Francis Kensit is an English actress, singer, and model. Beginning her career as a child actor, Kensit first gained attention when she acted in a string of commercials for Birds Eye frozen peas. She went on to appear in films such as The Great Gatsby (1974), Gold (1974), Hennessy (1975), The Blue Bird (1976) and Hanover Street (1979). In 1983, Kensit formed and became the lead singer of the pop band Eighth Wonder, which released the top-20 hits "I'm Not Scared" and "Cross My Heart" before disbanding in 1989.

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Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek banker and politician, Prime Minister of Greece

Kyriakos Mitsotakis is a Greek politician currently serving as the prime minister of Greece since July 2019, except for a month between May and June 2023. Mitsotakis has been president of the New Democracy party since 2016. He is generally associated with the centre-right, espousing economically liberal policies.

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Graham Westley, English footballer and manager

Graham Neil Westley is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a striker.

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04/03/1967

Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer and coach

Daryll John Cullinan is a former South African first-class cricketer who played Test cricket and One Day Internationals for South Africa as a specialist batsman. He was regarded as a gifted batsman, as he was equally adept against pace or spin. Cullinan has said that his most important batting fundamentals were his balance, knowing where his off-stump was and getting his defence in order. He ended up playing 70 tests and 138 ODIs for South Africa. Cullinan's career Test average of 44.21 is only surpassed by ten South Africans with more than ten Tests. At the time of his retirement, he held the record for scoring the most test centuries for South Africa, with 14. Cullinan was a member of the South Africa team that won the 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy.

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Evan Dando, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Evan Griffith Dando is an American musician and the frontman of the rock band the Lemonheads. He has also embarked on a solo career and collaborated on songs with various artists. In December 2015, Dando was inducted into the Boston Music Awards Hall of Fame.

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Ivan Lewis, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Ivan Lewis is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury South from 1997 to 2019, initially as a member of the Labour Party then as an independent from 2017.

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Dave Rayner, English cyclist (died 1994)

David John Rayner was an English professional racing cyclist who died aged 27 after an incident outside the Maestro nightclub, in Manningham Lane, Bradford. He was put on a life support machine at Bradford Royal Infirmary but died the next day.

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Sam Taylor-Johnson, English filmmaker and photographer

Samantha Louise Taylor-Johnson is a British filmmaker. Her directorial feature film debut was 2009's Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of the Beatles' singer and songwriter John Lennon. She is one of a group of artists known as the Young British Artists.

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Kubilay Türkyilmaz, Swiss footballer

Kubilay Türkyilmaz is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a forward. He ended his international career as the all-time joint leading goal scorer for the Switzerland national team, with 34 goals in 64 appearances between 1988 and 2001, equalling the goals scored by Max Abegglen. Their record was bettered by Alexander Frei in 2008.

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Tim Vine, English comedian, actor, and author

Timothy Mark Vine is an English comedian, actor, writer and presenter best known for his puns and other one-liners and his role on the TV sitcom Not Going Out. He has also released a number of stand-up comedy specials and written several joke books.

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04/03/1966

Emese Hunyady, Hungarian speed skater

Emese Hunyady is a former Hungarian-Austrian speed skater.

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Kevin Johnson, American basketball player and politician, 55th Mayor of Sacramento

Kevin Maurice Johnson, also known by his initials KJ, is an American former professional basketball player and politician who served as the 55th mayor of Sacramento, California, from 2008 to 2016. Before entering politics, he played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), primarily with the Phoenix Suns.

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Fiona Ma, American accountant and politician

Fiona Ma is an American politician and accountant. She has been serving as the California state treasurer since January 7, 2019. She previously was a member of the California Board of Equalization (2015–2019), the California State Assembly (2006–2012), and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (2002–2006).

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Helmut Mayer, Austrian skier

Helmut Mayer is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary he won a silver medal in the Super-G competition at Nakiska. He also won a silver medal in the giant slalom at the World Championships in 1989 at Vail, Colorado.

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Dav Pilkey, American author and illustrator

David Murray "Dav" Pilkey Jr. is an American comic book writer, author, and illustrator of children's fiction. He is best known as the author and illustrator of the children's book series Captain Underpants and its spin-off children's graphic novel series Dog Man, the latter published under the respective writer and illustrator pen names of George Beard and Harold Hutchins, which are also the names of the two protagonists of the Captain Underpants franchise.

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Grand Puba, American rapper

Maxwell Dixon, known professionally as Grand Puba, is an American rapper and record producer, best known as a member of Brand Nubian from New Rochelle, New York. He was formerly a member of Masters of Ceremony.

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Mike Small, American golfer and coach

Mike Small is an American professional golfer and college golf coach.

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04/03/1965

Paul W. S. Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter

Paul William Scott Anderson is an English filmmaker who is best known for his science fiction films and video game adaptations.

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Stacy Edwards, American actress

Stacy Edwards is an American actress. She appeared in a number of B movies before her breakthrough role in the 1997 black comedy film In the Company of Men, for which she received Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead nomination. Edwards later had roles in films such as Primary Colors (1998), Black and White (1999), and Driven (2001), and was a regular cast member in the drama series Chicago Hope (1997–1999).

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Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-American novelist

Khaled Hosseini or Khalid Husseini is an Afghan and American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician. His debut novel The Kite Runner (2003) was a critical and commercial success; the book and his subsequent novels have all been at least partially set in Afghanistan and have featured an Afghan as the protagonist. Hosseini's novels have spread awareness about Afghanistan's people and culture.

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Yury Lonchakov, Russian pilot, and cosmonaut

Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov is a Russian former cosmonaut and a veteran of three space missions. He has spent 200 days in space and has conducted two spacewalks. From 2014 to 2017, Lonchakov served as head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

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04/03/1964

Brian Crowley, Irish lawyer and politician

Brian Crowley was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Munster and South constituencies from 1994 to 2019. He served as a Senator from 1993 to 1994, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.

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Paolo Virzì, Italian director and screenwriter

Paolo Virzì is an Italian film director, writer and producer.

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04/03/1963

Jason Newsted, American musician and songwriter

Jason Curtis Newsted is an American musician, best known as the bassist of heavy metal band Metallica from 1986 to 2001. He performed with thrash metal band Flotsam and Jetsam for the first five years of his career before joining Metallica in October 1986 to succeed Cliff Burton, who died the month prior. Newsted performed on the albums ...And Justice for All (1988), Metallica (1991), Load (1996), Reload (1997) and Garage Inc. (1998). He left the group in January 2001.

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04/03/1961

Ray Mancini, American boxer

Ray Mancini, better known as "Boom Boom" Mancini, is an American former professional boxer who competed professionally from 1979 to 1992 and who has since worked as an actor and sports commentator. He held the WBA lightweight title from 1982 to 1984. Mancini inherited his nickname from his father, boxer Lenny Mancini. In 2015, Mancini was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

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Steven Weber, American actor and comedian

Steven Robert Weber is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Brian Hackett on the television series Wings, and as Dr. Dean Archer on NBC’s Chicago Med. He also voiced Charlie B. Barkin in All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series, and portrayed Jack Torrance in the TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining. He had a recurring role on iZombie as Vaughn du Clark. He played Mayor Douglas Hamilton on NCIS: New Orleans in a recurring role and starred as Sergeant First Class Dennis Worcester in Hamburger Hill (1987).

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Roger Wessels, South African golfer and educator

Roger Mark Wessels is a South African professional golfer.

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04/03/1960

Chonda Pierce, American comedian

Chonda Pierce is an American stand-up comedian, television hostess, author and actor.

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04/03/1959

Rick Ardon, Australian journalist

Rick Ardon is an Australian television news presenter. Since 1985, Ardon has co-presented Seven News in Perth with Susannah Carr. The pair are recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's longest-serving TV news anchor duo, having been on the air together for 40 years.

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Plamen Getov, Bulgarian footballer

Plamen Tsvetanov Getov is a Bulgarian retired footballer who played as either an attacking midfielder or a striker.

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04/03/1958

Patricia Heaton, American actress

Patricia Helen Heaton is an American actress. Heaton achieved her career breakthrough and global fame with her portrayal of Debra Barone in the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005). She began her career appearing in a recurring role in the ABC drama series Thirtysomething (1989–1991) and later appearing in the comedy films Memoirs of an Invisible Man and Beethoven. Heaton went on to star in the short-lived sitcoms Room for Two (1992–93), Someone Like Me (1994) and Women of the House (1995).

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Tina Smith, American politician

Christine Elizabeth Smith is an American politician, retired Democratic political consultant, and former businesswoman serving as the junior United States senator from Minnesota since 2018. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), an affiliate of the Democratic Party.

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04/03/1957

Nicholas Coleridge, English journalist and businessman

Sir Nicholas David Coleridge,, DL is a British former media executive, author, and cultural chair. He is chairman of Historic Royal Palaces (2023–) and Provost of Eton (2024–). He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to museums, publishing and the creative industries.

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Mykelti Williamson, American actor and director

Mykelti Williamson is an American actor and director best known for his roles in the films Forrest Gump, 12 Angry Men (1997), Con Air, and Ali, and the television shows Boomtown, 24, and Justified. In 2016, he portrayed Gabriel Maxson in Denzel Washington's acclaimed film adaptation of August Wilson's play Fences, reprising his role from the 2010 Broadway revival.

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04/03/1955

Tim Costello, Australian minister and politician

Timothy Ewen Costello AO is an Australian Baptist minister who was the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Advocate of World Vision Australia. Costello worked as a lawyer and served as mayor of St Kilda. He has authored a number of books on faith and life. A National Trust poll in 2014 elected him one of Australia's 100 national living treasures.

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Joey Jones, Welsh footballer and manager

Joseph Patrick Jones was a Welsh footballer who played as a full-back.

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04/03/1954

Timur Apakidze, Russian general and pilot (died 2001)

Temur Avtandilis Dze Apakidze was a Russian major general of Georgian ethnicity, fighter pilot, flight specialist and founder of the modern Russian Naval Aviation and Hero of the Russian Federation.

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François Fillon, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France

François Charles Amand Fillon is a French retired politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was the nominee of The Republicans, the country's largest centre-right political party, for the 2017 French presidential election in which he ranked third in the first round of voting.

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Peter Jacobsen, American golfer and sportscaster

Peter Erling Jacobsen is an American professional golfer and commentator on Golf Channel and NBC. He has played on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. He has won seven events on the PGA Tour and two events on the Champions Tour, both majors.

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Catherine O'Hara, Canadian-American actress and comedian (died 2026)

Catherine Anne O'Hara was a Canadian and American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over 50 years. O'Hara started in sketch and improvisational comedy in film and television before taking dramatic roles to expand her career. She received various accolades including two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Her films have grossed more than US$4.3 billion worldwide. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2017.

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Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian poet and author (died 2017)

Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya was a Russian Soviet dissident, poet and writer.

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04/03/1953

John Edwards, Australian director and producer

Robert John Edwards is an Australian television drama producer.

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Emilio Estefan, Cuban-American musician and producer

Emilio Estefan Gómez is a Cuban-American musician and producer. Estefan has won 19 Grammy Awards. He first came to prominence as a member of the Miami Sound Machine. He is the husband of singer Gloria Estefan, father of son Nayib Estefan and daughter Emily Estefan, and the uncle of Spanish-language television personality Lili Estefan.

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Paweł Janas, Polish footballer and manager

Paweł Janas is a Polish former football manager and player who played as a defender. He was voted the Polish Coach of the Year four times.

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Kay Lenz, American actress

Kay Ann Lenz is an American actress. She is the recipient of a Daytime Emmy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Saturn Award.

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Reinhold Roth, German motorcycle racer (died 2021)

Reinhold Roth was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Germany. His most successful years were in 1987, when he won the French Grand Prix, and finished the season in second place behind Anton Mang, and in 1989, when he won the Dutch and Czechoslovak Grand Prix Grand Prix and finished second to Sito Pons for the 250 world championship. Roth suffered severe injuries in a June 1990 racing accident and retired from competition.

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Chris Smith, American lawyer and politician

Christopher Henry Smith is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 4th congressional district since 1981. Though it has taken various forms, his district has always been situated in central New Jersey. Currently, the district contains parts of Ocean and Monmouth counties. Smith is a member of the Republican Party, having switched from the Democratic Party in 1978. As of 2025, Smith is tied with Hal Rogers for being the longest currently serving member of the House of Representatives.

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Agustí Villaronga, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2023)

Agustí Villaronga Riutort was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed several feature films, a documentary, three projects for television and three shorts. His film Moon Child was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.

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Daniel Woodrell, American novelist and short story writer (died 2025)

Daniel Stanford Woodrell was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote nine novels, most of them set in the Missouri Ozarks, and one collection of short stories. Woodrell coined the phrase "country noir" to describe his 1996 novel Give Us a Kiss. Reviewers have frequently since used the term to categorize his writing.

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04/03/1952

Peter Kuhfeld, English painter

Peter Kuhfeld is an English figurative painter. He was born in Cheltenham and is married to the English figurative painter Cathryn Kuhfeld, née Showan. They have two daughters who have often appeared in their paintings.

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Ronn Moss, American singer-songwriter and actor

Ronald Montague Moss is an American actor, musician and singer/songwriter, a member of the band Player, and best known for portraying Ridge Forrester, the dynamic fashion magnate on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 1987 to 2012.

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Svend Robinson, American-Canadian lawyer and politician

Svend Robinson is a Canadian politician. He was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2004, representing suburban Vancouver-area constituencies in the city of Burnaby for the New Democratic Party (NDP). He was the first member of Parliament in Canadian history to come out as gay while in office. In 2004, he pleaded guilty to stealing an expensive ring and decided not to run in the June 2004 election. At the time, he was one of the longest-serving members in the House of Commons, having been elected and re-elected for seven consecutive terms. In the 2019 Canadian federal election, Robinson was the NDP candidate for the riding of Burnaby North—Seymour but lost to Liberal incumbent Terry Beech by 1,560 votes.

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Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer-songwriter and producer

Umberto Antonio Tozzi is an Italian pop and rock singer and songwriter. Throughout his career, he has sold over 70 million records in different languages internationally. His biggest international hits are: "Stella Stai", "Gloria", "Tu" and "Ti Amo".

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04/03/1951

Edelgard Bulmahn, German educator and politician, German Federal Minister of Education and Research

Edelgard Bulmahn is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Member of the German Bundestag between 1987 and 2017. She was Federal Minister of Education and Research from 1998 to 2005. From 2013 until 2017 she was elected as one of the Vice Presidents of the Bundestag.

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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, South Korean-American author, director, and producer (died 1982)

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was an American novelist, producer, director, and artist of South Korean origin, best known for her 1982 novel, Dictée. Considered an avant-garde artist, Cha was fluent in Korean, English, and French. The main body of Cha's work is "looking for the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue." Cha's practice experiments with language through repetition, manipulation, reduction, and isolation, exploring the ways in which language marks one's identity, in unstable and multiple expressions. Cha's interdisciplinary background was clearly evident in Dictée, which experiments with juxtaposition and hypertext of both print and visual media. Cha's Dictée is frequently taught in contemporary literature classes including women's literature.

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Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager

Sir Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish is a Scottish former football player and manager. He is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time as well as one of Celtic's, Liverpool's and Scotland's greatest ever players. During his career, he made 338 appearances for Celtic and 515 for Liverpool, playing as a forward, and earned a record 102 caps for the Scotland national team, scoring 30 goals, also a joint record. Dalglish won the Ballon d'Or Silver Award in 1983, the PFA Players' Player of the Year in 1983, and the FWA Footballer of the Year in 1979 and 1983. In 2009, FourFourTwo magazine named Dalglish the greatest striker in post-war British football, and he has been inducted into both the Scottish and English Football Halls of Fame. He is highly regarded by Liverpool fans, who still affectionately refer to him as "King Kenny", and in 2006 voted him top of the fans' poll "100 Players Who Shook the Kop".

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Pete Haycock, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)

Peter John Haycock was an English musician and film score composer. He began his career as lead guitarist, vocalist, and founding member of the Climax Blues Band.

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Peter O'Sullivan, Welsh footballer

Peter O'Sullivan is a Welsh former footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a winger, making over 500 career appearances.

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Sam Perlozzo, American baseball player and manager

Samuel Benedict Perlozzo is an American former second baseman, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). He managed the Baltimore Orioles from 2005 to 2007 and recently served as the first base coach for the Philadelphia Phillies from 2009 to 2012.

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Chris Rea, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2025)

Christopher Anton Rea was an English rock and blues singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He was known for his distinctive gravelly voice, slide guitar playing and music style blending soft rock with blues.

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Glenis Willmott, English scientist and politician

Dame Glenis Willmott, is a British retired Labour Party politician who served as leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP) and as a Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands.

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Zoran Žižić, Montenegrin politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (died 2013)

Zoran Žižić was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro in the first two Đukanović cabinets from 1991 to 1996, and was the first Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia following the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in 2000.

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04/03/1950

Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter

María Ofelia Medina Torres is a Mexican actress, singer and film screenwriter.

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Rick Perry, American captain and politician, 47th Governor of Texas

James Richard Perry is an American politician who served as the 14th United States secretary of energy from 2017 to 2019. He previously served as the 47th governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015 and ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections.

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Safet Plakalo, Bosnian author and playwright (died 2015)

Safet Plakalo was a Bosnian playwright and poet, theatre critic, journalist, and founder of the Sarajevo War Theatre. He was a prominent figure in Bosnian drama, known for his poetic and modernist theatrical works and his significant role in sustaining cultural life during the Siege of Sarajevo.

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04/03/1949

Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian politician, 2nd President of Abkhazia (died 2011)

Sergei Uasyl-ipa Bagapsh was an Abkhaz politician who served as the second president of Abkhazia from 12 February 2005 until his death on 29 May 2011. He previously served as Prime Minister of Abkhazia from 1997 to 1999. He was re-elected in the 2009 presidential election. Bagapsh's term as prime minister included the 1998 war with Georgia, while he oversaw both the recognition of Abkhazia by Russia and the Russo-Georgian War during his presidency.

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Carroll Baker, Canadian singer-songwriter

Carroll Anne Baker CM is a Canadian country music singer and songwriter.

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04/03/1948

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, New Zealand-Australian author

Alice Lynne "Lindy" Chamberlain-Creighton is a New Zealand-born Australian woman who was wrongly convicted in one of Australia's most publicised and notorious trials. Accused of killing her nine-week-old daughter, Azaria, while camping at Uluru in 1980, she maintained that she saw a dingo leave the tent where Azaria was sleeping. The prosecution case was circumstantial and depended upon forensic evidence that was eventually found to be deeply flawed.

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James Ellroy, American writer

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990).

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Tom Grieve, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster

Thomas Alan Grieve is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball from 1970 to 1979 for the Washington Senators / Texas Rangers, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals. He was nicknamed "TAG", which are his initials, and most notably as "Mr. Ranger", as he was a member of the Texas Rangers' 1972 inaugural season. In 2010, Grieve was inducted into the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame.

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Mike Moran, English musician, songwriter and record producer

Michael Moran is an English musician, songwriter, composer and record producer.

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Jean O'Leary, American nun and activist (died 2005)

Jean O'Leary was an American lesbian and gay rights activist. She was the founder of Lesbian Feminist Liberation, one of the first lesbian activist groups in the women's movement, and an early member and co-director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. She co-founded National Coming Out Day.

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Chris Squire, English singer-songwriter and bass guitarist (died 2015)

Christopher Russell Edward Squire was an English musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist, backing vocalist, and only constant member of the progressive rock band Yes until his death in 2015. In 2017, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes.

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Shakin' Stevens, British singer-songwriter

Michael Barratt, known professionally as Shakin' Stevens, is a Welsh singer and songwriter. He was the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s.

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04/03/1947

David Franzoni, American screenwriter and film producer

David Harold Franzoni is an American screenwriter and film producer. He conceived the story for, co-wrote and co-produced the 2000 film Gladiator, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. His other screenplays include King Arthur (2004), Amistad (1997), and Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1986).

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Jan Garbarek, Norwegian saxophonist and composer

Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music.

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Bob Lewis, American guitarist

Robert Curtis Lewis is an American composer and musician. He is best known as a co-founder of the new wave band Devo.

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Pēteris Plakidis, Latvian pianist and composer (died 2017)

Pēteris Plakidis was a Latvian composer and pianist.

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04/03/1946

Michael Ashcroft, English businessman and politician

Michael Anthony Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, is a British-Belizean businessman, pollster and politician. He is a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. Ashcroft founded Michael A. Ashcroft Associates in 1972 and was the 132nd richest person in the UK, as ranked by the Sunday Times Rich List 2021, with an estimated fortune of £1.257 billion.

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Danny Frisella, American baseball player (died 1977)

Daniel Vincent Frisella was an American Major League Baseball pitcher whose career was cut short when he was killed in a dune buggy accident on New Year's Day in 1977.

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Haile Gerima, Ethiopian born US filmmaker

Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian filmmaker who lives and works in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. Since 1975, Haile has been a film professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He is best known for Sankofa (1993), which won two awards.

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Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, American journalist and author (died 2021)

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison was an American author and journalist. Her published works include rock criticism, a memoir, and two series of science fiction/fantasy and murder mystery novels. Her books are evenly divided between the series The Keltiad and The Rock&Roll Murders: The Rennie Stride Mysteries.

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04/03/1945

Dieter Meier, Swiss musician

Dieter Meier is a Swiss musician, conceptual artist and entrepreneur. He is the frontman of the electronic music group Yello, which was co-founded by music producer Boris Blank. He is a vocalist and lyricist, as well as manager and producer of the group.

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Tommy Svensson, Swedish footballer and manager

Leif Tommy Svensson is a Swedish former football manager and player. He is best known for playing for Östers IF and the Sweden men's national football team. He won the Guldbollen in 1969. He managed Sweden between 1991 and 1997 and led them to a bronze medal at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

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Gary Williams, American basketball player and coach

Gary Bruce Williams is an American university administrator and former college basketball coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Maryland, the Ohio State University, Boston College, and American University. In 2002, he led Maryland to win the NCAA tournament championship. Williams retired after the 2010–11 season.

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04/03/1944

Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer (died 1999)

Harvey Ernest Postlethwaite was a British engineer and Technical Director of several Formula One teams during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He died of a heart attack in Spain while supervising the testing of the aborted Honda F1 project.

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Anthony Ichiro Sanda, Japanese-American physicist and academic

Anthony Ichiro Sanda is a Japanese-American particle physicist. Along with Ikaros Bigi, he was awarded the 2004 Sakurai Prize for his work on CP violation and B meson decays.

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Len Walker, English footballer and manager

Leonard Walker is an English former football player and manager. He was the manager of Aldershot from July 1981 until November 1984, and then June 1985 until 11 April 1991.

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Bobby Womack, American singer-songwriter (died 2014)

Robert Dwayne Womack was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career spanned more than 60 years and multiple styles, including R&B, blues, doo-wop, gospel, funk, and soul.

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04/03/1943

Lucio Dalla, Italian singer-songwriter and actor (died 2012)

Lucio Dalla was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards.

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Aldo Rico, Argentinian commander and politician

Aldo Rico is an Argentine retired Lieutenant Colonel and politician, famous for his role in the episodes of 1987 and 1988 where sectors of the Armed Forces, known as carapintadas, revolted to protest the policies of President Raúl Alfonsín. Rico later created the MODIN political party and contested several elections. Rico was elected mayor of San Miguel (1997–2003) and was Minister of Police of Buenos Aires province for a short period in 1999.

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04/03/1942

Gloria Gaither, American singer-songwriter

Gloria Gaither is a Christian singer-songwriter, author, speaker, editor, and academic. She is married to Bill Gaither and together they have written more than 700 songs. In 2000, ASCAP named them Christian Songwriters of the Century. She performed, traveled and recorded with the Bill Gaither Trio from 1965 through 1991. Since 1991, she has served as a performer, recording artist, songwriter, scriptwriter and narrator for the Gaither Homecoming series of television broadcasts, video and DVD releases, and audio recordings.

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Charles C. Krulak, American general

Charles Chandler Krulak is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1, 1995, to June 30, 1999. He is the son of Lieutenant General Victor H. "Brute" Krulak, who served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He was the 13th President of Birmingham-Southern College after his stint as a non-executive director of English association football club Aston Villa.

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David Matthews, American keyboard player and composer

David Matthews is an American keyboardist, pianist, and music arranger.

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Lynn Sherr, American journalist and author

Lynn Sherr is an American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine 20/20.

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James Gustave Speth, American lawyer and politician

James Gustave (Gus) Speth is an American environmental lawyer and advocate who co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Zorán Sztevanovity, Serbian-Hungarian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Zorán Sztevanovity is a Serbian-Hungarian guitarist, singer and composer living in Hungary.

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04/03/1941

John Hancock, American film and television actor (died 1992)

John Hancock was an American actor.

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Adrian Lyne, English director, producer, and screenwriter

Adrian Lyne is an English film director. His films are known for sexually charged narratives that explore conflicting passions, the power of seduction, moral ambiguity, betrayal, and the indelibility of infidelity.

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James Zagel, American lawyer and judge (died 2023)

James Block Zagel was an American judge and attorney. After a stint as a prosecutor, he became a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 1987, assuming senior status in 2016. He presided over numerous high-profile trials, including those of several members of the Chicago Outfit and the corruption trial of former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich. Zagel also sat on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2008 to 2015.

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04/03/1940

Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, German scholar and judge

Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem is a German legal scholar and a former justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

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David Plante, American novelist

David Robert Plante is an American novelist, diarist, and memoirist of both French-Canadian and North American Indian descent.

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04/03/1939

Jack Fisher, American baseball player

John Howard "Fat Jack" Fisher is an American retired professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1959 through 1969 for the Baltimore Orioles, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. Fisher was a member of the 1960s Baltimore Orioles Kiddie Korps.

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Robert Shaye, American film producer

Robert Kenneth Shaye is an American businessman, actor, and filmmaker. Shaye is the founder of New Line Cinema, a film production studio that was most successful for distributing The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, based on the classic fantasy novel of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. He stepped down from New Line in 2008 after the studio was restructured as a unit of Warner Bros. Pictures.

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04/03/1938

Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan-English negotiator (died 2006)

Anton Balasingham Stanislaus was a Sri Lankan journalist, rebel and chief political strategist and chief negotiator for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a separatist Tamil militant organisation in Sri Lanka.

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Alpha Condé, Guinean politician, President of Guinea

Alpha Condé is a Guinean politician who served as the fourth president of Guinea from 2010 to 2021. He spent decades in opposition to a succession of regimes in Guinea, unsuccessfully running against then-President Lansana Conté in the 1993 and 1998 presidential elections and leading the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG), an opposition party.

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Allan Kornblum, American police officer and judge (died 2010)

Allan Nathaniel Kornblum was a United States federal judge and authored key parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. During his career he also served as an adviser to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, an FBI agent, a Treasury agent, a New York City Police officer, Director of Security for Princeton University, and an officer in the U.S. Army.

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Don Perkins, American football player and sportscaster (died 2022)

Donald Anthony Perkins was an American professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at the University of New Mexico.

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Paula Prentiss, American actress

Paula Prentiss is an American actress. She is best known for her film roles in Where the Boys Are (1960), Man's Favorite Sport? (1964), What's New Pussycat? (1965), Catch-22 (1970), The Parallax View (1974), and The Stepford Wives (1975).

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Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish academic and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs

Adam Daniel Rotfeld is a Polish academician and diplomat who was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 5 January to 31 October 2005. He served earlier as deputy foreign minister. While in that position, Rotfeld established the Warsaw Reflection Group on UN Reform and the Transformation of the Euro-Atlantic Security Institutions, with participation from leading US and European experts and politicians.

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04/03/1937

José Araquistáin, Spanish footballer (died 2025)

José Araquistáin Arrieta was a Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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William Deverell, Canadian lawyer, author, and activist

William Herbert Deverell is a Canadian writer, criminal lawyer, and civil liberties activist. One of Canada's best-known novelists, his debut novel Needles, based on his legal experience, won the $50,000 Seal First Novel Award from McClelland & Stewart. He received the Hammett Prize in 1998 for Trial of Passion, which also won the 1998 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel; April Fool won the same award in 2003. Trial of Passion launched his long-running crime series about Arthur Beauchamp, a classically trained, self-doubting barrister who solves crimes in releases such as April Fool, Kill All the Judges, Snow Job, I'll See You in My Dreams, Sing a Worried Song, Whipped, and Stung.

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Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer

Graham Thorne Dowling is a former cricketer who played 39 Test matches for New Zealand and captained the national team in 19 of those matches. He led New Zealand to its first victory in a Test series, against Pakistan in November 1969. He was a specialist right-handed batsman who usually opened the innings. After his playing career, he became an administrator.

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Leslie H. Gelb, American journalist and author (died 2019)

Leslie Howard "Les" Gelb was an American government official, academic and journalist. He was a correspondent and columnist for The New York Times and served as the 4th Director of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs from 1977 to 1979. He was the President and President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Yuri Senkevich, Russian physician and explorer (died 2003)

Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich was a Soviet physician, voyager, scientist, and Candidate of Sciences.

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Barney Wilen, French saxophonist and composer (died 1996)

Bernard "Barney" Jean Wilen was a French jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer.

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Richard B. Wright, Canadian journalist and author (died 2017)

Richard Bruce Wright was a Canadian novelist. He was known for his break-through 2001 novel Clara Callan, which won three major literary awards in Canada: The Giller Prize, the Trillium Book Award, and the Governor General's Award.

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04/03/1936

Eric Allandale, Dominican trombonist and songwriter (died 2001)

Eric Allandale was a trombonist, songwriter, and bandleader. During the 1960s, he was in number of bands in various genres which included jazz pop and soul.

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Jim Clark, Scottish racing driver (died 1968)

James Clark was a British racing driver from Scotland who competed in Formula One from 1960 to 1968. Clark won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1963 and 1965 with Lotus, and—at the time of his death—held the records for most wins (25), pole positions (33), and fastest laps (28), among others. In American open-wheel racing, Clark won the Indianapolis 500 in 1965 with Lotus, becoming the first non-American winner of the race in 49 years.

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Aribert Reimann, German pianist and composer (died 2024)

Aribert Reimann was a German composer, pianist, and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of Shakespeare's King Lear, the opera Lear, was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who performed the title role. His opera Medea after Grillparzer's play premiered in 2010 at the Vienna State Opera. He was a professor of contemporary Lied in Hamburg and Berlin. In 2011, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for his life's work.

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04/03/1935

Edward Dębicki, Ukrainian-Polish poet and composer

Edward Dębicki is a Polish Romani poet, musician and composer. His work is connected with the Romani community and its cultural, itinerant and music traditions.

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Bent Larsen, Danish chess player and author (died 2010)

Jørgen Bent Larsen was a Danish chess grandmaster and author. Known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play, he was the second-strongest non-Soviet player, behind only Bobby Fischer, for much of the 1960s and 1970s. He is considered to be the strongest player born in Denmark and the strongest from Scandinavia until the emergence of Magnus Carlsen.

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04/03/1934

Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian-American composer and academic (died 2019)

Mario Davidovsky was an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the United States, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape.

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John Duffey, American singer-songwriter and mandolinist (died 1996)

John Humbird Duffey Jr. was an American bluegrass musician.

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Anne Haney, American actress (died 2001)

Anne Ryan Haney was an American character actress. She appeared in small supporting roles in around 50 film and television productions and was best known for her roles as Mrs. Sellner in Mrs. Doubtfire, Mrs. Chapil in The American President and Greta in Liar Liar.

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Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (died 2007)

Barbara Jean McNair (March 4, 1934 – February 4, 2007) was an American singer and theater, television, and film actress. McNair's career spanned over five decades in television, film, and stage. McNair's professional career began in music during the late 1950s, singing in the nightclub circuit. In 1958, McNair released "Till There Was You", her debut single for Coral Records, which was a commercial success. McNair performed all around the world, touring with Nat King Cole and later appearing in his Broadway stage shows I'm with You and The Merry World of Nat King Cole in the early 1960s.

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Sandra Reynolds, South African tennis player

Sandra Reynolds Price is a South African former tennis player who won four Grand Slam women's doubles championships and one Grand Slam mixed doubles championship. Her best Grand Slam singles result was reaching the 1960 Wimbledon final, losing to Maria Bueno 8–6, 6–0. Reynolds is the only South African woman to reach the Wimbledon singles final, and is one of three to have reached a major singles final. In 1961, she was seeded No. 1 for the Wimbledon singles event, making her the only South African player ever to be seeded first in a singles major. She was the runner-up at the 1959 U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships, losing to Sally Moore in the final. Price won the German Championships in 1960, 1961, and 1962. She was the runner-up at the 1959 Italian Championships, having defeated Bueno in the semifinals, then losing to Christine Truman in the final.

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Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist and academic (died 2015)

Janez Strnad was a Slovene physicist and popularizer of natural science.

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04/03/1933

Nino Vaccarella, Italian racing driver (died 2021)

Nino Vaccarella was an Italian sports car racing and Formula One driver.

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04/03/1932

Sigurd Jansen, Norwegian pianist, composer, and conductor

Sigurd Jansen is a Norwegian composer, pianist and conductor.

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Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist, photographer, and poet (died 2007)

Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist, photographer and author. He received many prestigious awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kapuściński's personal journals in book form attracted both controversy and admiration for blurring the conventions of reportage with the allegory and magical realism of literature. He was the Communist-era Polish Press Agency's only correspondent in Africa during decolonization, and also worked in South America and Asia. Between 1956 and 1981 he reported on 27 revolutions and coups, until he was fired because of his support for the pro-democracy Solidarity movement in his native country. He was celebrated by other practitioners of the genre. The acclaimed Italian reportage-writer Tiziano Terzani, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda accorded him the title "Maestro".

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Miriam Makeba, South African singer-songwriter and actress (died 2008)

Zenzile Miriam Makeba, nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate against apartheid and white-minority government in South Africa.

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Ed Roth, American illustrator (died 2001)

Edward "Big Daddy" Roth was an American artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder who created the hot rod icon Rat Fink and other characters. Roth was a key figure in Southern California's Kustom Kulture and hot rod movement of the late 1950s and 1960s.

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Frank Wells, American businessman (died 1994)

Franklin G. Wells was an American businessman who served as president and chief operating officer of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until his death in 1994.

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04/03/1931

Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (died 1997)

Wallace Bruner Jr. was an American journalist and television host. He covered Congress and the Lyndon Johnson administration for ABC News in the 1960s. He was the first host of the 1968–1975 syndicated version of What's My Line? and went on to host the syndicated home repair show Wally's Workshop. He was also one of the first Americans to receive a heart transplant.

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Bob Johnson, American ice hockey player and coach (died 1991)

Robert Norman "Badger Bob" Johnson was an American college, international, and professional ice hockey coach. He coached the Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team from 1966 to 1982, where he led the Badgers to seven appearances at the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championships, including three titles. During his time as the head coach at Wisconsin, Johnson also coached the United States men's national ice hockey team at the 1976 Winter Olympics and seven other major championships, including the Canada Cup and IIHF World Championships. He then coached the Calgary Flames for five seasons that included a Stanley Cup Final loss in 1986. Johnson achieved the peak of his professional coaching career in his only season as coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1990–91, when the Penguins won the 1991 Stanley Cup Final, becoming the second American-born coach to win it and the first in 53 years. In August 1991, following hospitalization due to a brain aneurysm, Johnson was diagnosed with brain cancer. He died on November 26 of the same year.

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William Henry Keeler, American cardinal (died 2017)

William Henry Keeler was an American cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of Baltimore in Maryland, from 1989 to 2007 and was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 1994. He previously served as auxiliary bishop and bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania. Keeler was president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1992 to 1995.

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Alice Rivlin, American economist and politician (died 2019)

Alice Mitchell Rivlin was an American economist and budget official. She served as the 16th vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 1996 to 1999. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve, Rivlin was named director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration from 1994 to 1996. Prior to that, she was instrumental in the establishment of the Congressional Budget Office and became its founding director from 1975 to 1983. A member of the Democratic Party, Rivlin was the first woman to hold either of those posts.

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04/03/1929

Bernard Haitink, Dutch violinist and conductor (died 2021)

Bernard Johan Herman Haitink was a Dutch conductor and violinist. He was the principal conductor of several international orchestras, beginning with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1961. He moved to London, as principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 1967 to 1979, music director at Glyndebourne Opera from 1978 to 1988 and of the Royal Opera House from 1987 to 2002, when he became principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden. Finally, he was principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010. The focus of his prolific recording was classical symphonies and orchestral works, but he also conducted operas. He conducted 90 concerts at The Proms in London, the last on 3 September 2019 with the Vienna Philharmonic. His awards include Grammy Awards and the 2015 Gramophone Award for his lifetime achievements.

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Peter Swerling, American theoretician and engineer (died 2000)

Peter Swerling was one of the most influential radar theoreticians in the second half of the 20th century. He is best known for the class of statistically "fluctuating target" scattering models he developed at the RAND Corporation in the early 1950s to characterize the performance of pulsed radar systems, referred to as Swerling Targets I, II, III, and IV in the literature of radar. Swerling also contributed to the optimal estimation of orbits of satellites and trajectories of missiles, anticipating the development of the Kalman filter. He also founded two companies, one of which continues his engineering work today.

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04/03/1928

Samuel Adler, German-American composer and conductor

Samuel Hans Adler is a German-American composer, conductor, author, and professor. During the course of a professional career which ranges over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. In addition, he is credited with founding and conducting the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra which participated in the cultural diplomacy initiatives of the United States in Germany and throughout Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Adler's musical catalogue includes over 400 published compositions. He has been honored with several awards, including Germany's Order of Merit – Officer's Cross.

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Alan Sillitoe, English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet (died 2010)

Alan Sillitoe FRSL was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and his early short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", both of which were adapted into films.

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04/03/1927

Phil Batt, American soldier and politician, 29th Governor of Idaho (died 2023)

Philip Eugene Batt was an American politician who served as the 29th Governor of Idaho from 1995 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, Batt had previously served as the 35th Lieutenant Governor of Idaho, Chair of the Idaho Republican Party, and as a member of the Idaho Legislature.

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Thayer David, American actor (died 1978)

Thayer David was an American film, stage, and television actor. He was best known for his work on the ABC serial Dark Shadows (1966–1971), as Dragon, the Albino ex-Nazi Director of C-2 in The Eiger Sanction (1975) and as the fight promoter Miles Jergens in Rocky (1976). He also appeared as Count Saknussemm in the film Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), as the Reverend Silas Pendrake in Little Big Man (1970), as Charlie Robbins in Save the Tiger (1973) and as Deacon in Fun with Dick and Jane (1977). His raspy, distinctive voice lent itself to voice-over work in commercials and instructional films.

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Jacques Dupin, French poet and critic (died 2012)

Jacques Dupin was a French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the journal L'éphemère.

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Dick Savitt, American tennis player and businessman (died 2023)

Richard Savitt was an American tennis player.

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04/03/1926

Henri de Contenson, French archaeologist and academic (died 2019)

Henri de Contenson was a French archaeologist and a researcher at the CNRS, The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, a research organization funded by France's Ministry of Research.

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Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma, French businessman, soldier and racing driver (died 2018)

Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma was a French prince, businessman, soldier and racing car driver, who was a member of the deposed sovereign royal and ducal House of Bourbon-Parma.

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Richard DeVos, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Amway (died 2018)

Richard Marvin DeVos Sr. was an American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Amway with Jay Van Andel, and owner of the Orlando Magic basketball team. In 2012, Forbes magazine listed him as the 60th wealthiest person in the United States, and the 205th richest in the world, with an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion.

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Pascual Pérez, Argentinian boxer (died 1977)

Pascual Nicolás Pérez was an Argentine flyweight boxer. Pérez was born in Tupungato in the Mendoza Province of Argentina, he went on to make history by becoming Argentina's first world boxing champion.

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Don Rendell, English saxophonist and flute player (died 2015)

Donald Percy Rendell was an English jazz musician and arranger. Mainly active as a tenor saxophonist, he also played soprano saxophone, flute, and clarinet.

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04/03/1925

Alan R. Battersby, English chemist and academic (died 2018)

Sir Alan Rushton Battersby (4 March 1925 – 10 February 2018) was an English organic chemist best known for his work to define the chemical intermediates in the biosynthetic pathway to vitamin B12 and the reaction mechanisms of the enzymes involved. His research group was also notable for its synthesis of radiolabelled precursors to study alkaloid biosynthesis and the stereochemistry of enzymic reactions. He won numerous awards including the Royal Medal in 1984 and the Copley Medal in 2000. He was knighted in the 1992 New Year Honours. Battersby died in February 2018 at the age of 92.

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Paul Mauriat, French conductor and composer (died 2006)

Paul Julien André Mauriat was a French orchestra leader, conductor of Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat, who specialized in the easy listening genre. He is best known in the United States for his million-selling remake of André Popp's "Love is Blue", which was number 1 for 5 weeks in 1968. Other recordings for which he is known include "El Bimbo", "Toccata", "Love in Every Room/Même si tu revenais", and "Penelope". He co-wrote the song "Chariot" with Franck Pourcel.

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04/03/1924

Kenneth O'Donnell, American soldier and politician (died 1977)

Kenneth Patrick O'Donnell was an American political consultant and the special assistant and appointments secretary to President John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's assassination in November 1963. O'Donnell was a good friend of President Kennedy and his younger brother Robert F. Kennedy. O'Donnell, along with Larry O'Brien and David Powers, was part of the group of Kennedy's advisers dubbed the "Irish Mafia".

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04/03/1923

Russell Freeburg, American journalist and author

Russell William Freeburg is an American journalist who was a former managing editor and Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune. He is the co-author of a book on the role of oil in World War II.

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Francis King, English author and poet (died 2011)

Francis Henry King was a British novelist and short-story writer. He worked for the British Council for 15 years, with positions in Europe and Japan. For 25 years, he was a chief book reviewer for the Sunday Telegraph, and for 10 years its theatre critic.

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Patrick Moore, English astronomer and television host (died 2012)

Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominence in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.

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04/03/1922

Richard E. Cunha, American director and cinematographer (died 2005)

Richard Earl Cunha was an American cinematographer and film director. Cunha's father was Albert "Sonny" Cunha, an American songwriter.

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Dina Pathak, Indian actor and director (died 2002)

Dina Pathak was an Indian actress and director of Gujarati theatre and also a film actor. She was an activist and President of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW).

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04/03/1921

Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-American composer and educator (died 2017)

Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who had a career spanning six decades. He is particularly known as an early pioneer of electronic music. In 1944 he composed one of the earliest known works of tape music, or musique concrète. From the late 1950s to early 1960s he produced influential work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

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Joan Greenwood, English actress (died 1987)

Joan Mary Waller Greenwood was an English actress. Her husky voice, coupled with her slow, precise elocution, was her trademark. She played Sibella in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets, and also appeared in The Man in the White Suit, Young Wives' Tale, The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), Stage Struck (1958), Tom Jones (1963) and Little Dorrit (1987).

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Dinny Pails, English-Australian tennis player (died 1986)

Dennis "Dinny" Pails was an Australian tennis champion.

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04/03/1920

Jean Lecanuet, French politician, French Minister of Justice (died 1993)

Jean Adrien François Lecanuet was a French centrist politician.

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Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish-English actor (died 2002)

Alan MacNaughtan was a Scottish actor, born in Bearsden, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. He was educated at the Glasgow Academy, trained at RADA, and graduated in 1940 with the Bancroft Gold Medal. An experienced Old Vic, West End and Broadway actor, he became active in television and certain films between 1954 and 1999.

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04/03/1919

Buck Baker, American race car driver (died 2002)

Elzie Wylie Baker Sr., better known as Buck Baker, was an American stock car racer. Born in Richburg, South Carolina, Baker began his NASCAR career in 1949 and won his first race three years later at Columbia Speedway. Twenty-seven years later, Baker retired after the 1976 National 500.

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Tan Chee Khoon, Malaysian physician and politician (died 1996)

Tan Chee Khoon was a major figure in Malaysian politics from 1959 to 1978, at one point being nicknamed "Mr. Opposition" for the outspoken views he presented in Parliament. He was the official Leader of the Opposition in Parliament from 1964 to 1969. Although he was originally a leader of the Labour Party of Malaya and the Socialist Front coalition which Labour had joined, Tan later co-founded Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan), and also Parti Keadilan Masyarakat Malaysia (Pekemas) after he became disillusioned with Gerakan.

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04/03/1918

Kurt Dahlmann, German pilot, lawyer, and journalist (died 2017)

Kurt Dahlmann was a German pilot, attorney, journalist, newspaper editor and political activist. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.

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Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (died 2012)

Margaret Osborne duPont was a world No. 1 American female tennis player.

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04/03/1917

Clyde McCullough, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1982)

Clyde Edward McCullough was an American catcher in Major League Baseball. After his playing career ended, he also managed in the minor leagues and was a major-league coach. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, McCullough batted and threw right-handed and in his playing days stood 5 ft 11+1⁄2 in (1.82 m) (182 cm) tall and weighed 180 pounds (82 kg).

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04/03/1916

William Alland, American actor, director, and producer (died 1997)

William Alland was an American actor, film producer and writer, mainly of Western and science-fiction/monster films, including This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula!, The Deadly Mantis, The Mole People, The Colossus of New York, The Space Children, and the three Creature from the Black Lagoon films. He worked frequently with director Jack Arnold. Alland is also remembered for his acting role as reporter Thompson, who investigates the meaning of "Rosebud" in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941).

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Giorgio Bassani, Italian author and poet (died 2000)

Giorgio Bassani was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual.

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Hans Eysenck, German-English psychologist and theorist (died 1997)

Hans Jürgen Eysenck was a German-born British psychologist. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology. At the time of his death, Eysenck was the most frequently cited living psychologist in peer-reviewed scientific journal literature.

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Ernest Titterton, English-Australian nuclear physicist (died 1990)

Sir Ernest William Titterton was a British nuclear physicist.

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04/03/1915

László Csatáry, Hungarian art dealer (died 2013)

László Csizsik Csatáry was a Hungarian citizen and was convicted and sentenced to death in absentia in 1948 by a Czechoslovak court as a Nazi war criminal. In 2012, his name was added to the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals. He would soon afterwards be taken into custody and held under house arrest. In June 2013, he would finally be criminally charged by a Hungarian court, only to die two months later while awaiting trial.

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Frank Sleeman, Australian lieutenant and politician, Lord Mayor of Brisbane (died 2000)

Frank Northey Sleeman was an Australian politician, who served as Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1976 to 1982.

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Carlos Surinach, Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (died 1997)

Carlos Suriñach i Wrokona was a Spanish-born composer and conductor.

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04/03/1914

Barbara Newhall Follett, American author (died 1939)

Barbara Newhall Follett was an American child prodigy novelist. Her first novel, The House Without Windows, was published in January 1927, when she was twelve years old. Her next novel, The Voyage of the Norman D., received critical acclaim when she was fourteen.

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Ward Kimball, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)

Ward Walrath Kimball was an American animator employed by Walt Disney Animation Studios. He was part of Walt Disney's main team of animators, known collectively as Disney's Nine Old Men. His films have been honored with two Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film.

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Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor, and architect (died 2000)

Robert Rathbun Wilson was an American physicist known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, as a sculptor, and as an architect of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), where he was the first director from 1967 to 1978.

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04/03/1913

Taos Amrouche, Algerian singer and author (died 1976)

Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche was an Algerian writer and singer. In 1947, she became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel.

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John Garfield, American actor and singer (died 1952)

John Garfield was an American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters. He grew up in poverty in New York City. In the early 1930s, he became a member of the Group Theatre. In 1937, he moved to Hollywood, eventually becoming one of Warner Bros.' stars. He received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Four Daughters (1938) and Body and Soul (1947).

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04/03/1912

Afro Basaldella, Italian painter and academic (died 1976)

Afro Libio Basaldella was one of the most important Italian painters in the post-World War II period. He began as a member of the Scuola Romana, and then embracing [informal] [abstraction], worked and had great international success together with Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana. He was generally known by the single name, "Afro".

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Ferdinand Leitner, German conductor and composer (died 1996)

Ferdinand Leitner was a German conductor. Leitner studied under Franz Schreker, Julius Prüwer, Artur Schnabel and Karl Muck.

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Carl Marzani, Italian-American activist and publisher (died 1994)

Carl Aldo Marzani was an Italian-born American political activist with a series of careers as a volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War, organizer for the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), United States intelligence official, documentary filmmaker with an Academy Award nomination, author, and publisher. During World War II he served in the federal intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and later the U.S. Department of State. He picked the targets for the Doolittle raid on Tokyo, which took place on April 18, 1942. Marzani served nearly three years in prison for having concealed his former CPUSA membership when joining the American war effort in 1942.

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04/03/1911

Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, English actor (died 1984)

Charles Guy Fulke Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, 7th Earl Brooke, was a British peer and the last Earl of Warwick to live at the family seat Warwick Castle before its sale in 1978. He became the first British aristocrat to star in a Hollywood movie, and was later nicknamed the Duke of Hollywood by the local press.

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04/03/1910

Tancredo Neves, Brazilian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Brazil (died 1985)

Tancredo de Almeida Neves was a Brazilian politician, lawyer, and entrepreneur. He served as Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs from 1953 to 1954, President of the Council of Ministers from 1961 to 1962, Minister of Finance in 1962, and as Governor of Minas Gerais from 1983 to 1984. He was elected President of the Republic in 1985, but he died before had the chance to take office, and was replaced by vice-president elect, José Sarney as president.

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04/03/1909

Harry Helmsley, American businessman (died 1997)

Harry Brakmann Helmsley was an American real estate billionaire whose company, Helmsley-Spear, became one of the country's biggest property holders, owning the Empire State Building, the Helmsley Building, the Graybar Building, the Flatiron Building, and many of New York's most prestigious hotels. His second marriage to Leona Roberts led to charges of false accounting and tax evasion as well as a celebrated trial, where Harry was judged too frail to plead, but Leona was fined and jailed.

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George Edward Holbrook, American chemist and engineer (died 1987)

George Edward Holbrook was a noted American chemical engineer and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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04/03/1908

T. R. M. Howard, American surgeon and activist (died 1976)

Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard was an American civil rights leader, fraternal organization leader, entrepreneur and surgeon. He was a mentor to activists such as Medgar Evers, Charles Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, and Jesse Jackson, whose efforts gained local and national attention leading up to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

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Thomas Shaw, American singer and guitarist (died 1977)

Thomas Edgar Shaw was an American blues singer and guitarist.

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04/03/1907

Edgar Barrier, American actor (died 1964)

Edgar Barrier was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre and was one of several actors who played Simon Templar on The Saint radio show. He also appeared in two films with Welles, Journey into Fear (1943) and Macbeth (1948). Barrier also appeared in the 1938 Welles-directed short, Too Much Johnson, which was long believed lost but was rediscovered in 2013.

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Maria Branyas, American-Spanish supercentenarian (died 2024)

Maria Branyas Morera was an American-born Spanish supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 117 years, 168 days, was the world's oldest verified living person, following the death of Lucile Randon on 17 January 2023.

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04/03/1906

Meindert DeJong, Dutch-American soldier and author (died 1991)

Meindert De Jong, also spelled de Jong, DeJong, or Dejong, was a Dutch-born American Newbery Medal-winning writer of children's books. During the height of his popularity, he frequently collaborated with Maurice Sendak, who illustrated seven of De Jong's books.

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Avery Fisher, American violinist and engineer, founded Fisher Electronics (died 1994)

Avery Robert Fisher, known as Avery Fisher, was an amateur violinist, a pioneer in the field of high fidelity sound reproduction, founder of the Philharmonic Radio Company and Fisher Electronics, and a philanthropist who donated millions of dollars to arts organizations and universities.

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Georges Ronsse, Belgian cyclist and manager (died 1969)

Georges Ronsse was a two-time national cyclo-cross and two-time world champion road bicycle racer from Belgium, who raced between 1926 and 1938.

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04/03/1904

Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral and politician, 69th President of the Government of Spain (died 1973)

Admiral-General Luis Carrero Blanco was a Spanish Navy officer and politician. A long-time confidant and right-hand man of dictator Francisco Franco, Carrero served as Prime Minister of Spain. Upon graduating from the naval academy Carrero Blanco participated in the Rif War, and later the Spanish Civil War, in which he supported the Nationalist faction. He became one of the most prominent figures in Francoist Spain's power structure and held throughout his career a number of high-ranking offices such as those of Undersecretary of the Presidency from 1941 to 1967 and Franco's deputy from 1967 to 1973. He also was the main drafter behind the 1947 Law of Succession to the Headship of the State. Franco handpicked him as his successor in the role of head of government, with Carrero thereby taking office in June 1973.

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George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (died 1968)

George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model, worked on radioactive decay, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and predicted the existence of the cosmic microwave background radiation and molecular genetics.

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Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (died 1942)

Joseph Schmidt was an Austro-Hungarian and Romanian Jewish tenor.

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04/03/1903

William C. Boyd, American immunologist and chemist (died 1983)

William Clouser Boyd was an American immunochemist. In the 1930s, with his wife Lyle, he made a worldwide survey of the distribution of blood types.

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Malcolm Dole, American chemist and academic (died 1990)

Malcolm Dole was an American chemist known for the Dole Effect in which he proved that the atomic weight of oxygen in air is greater than that of oxygen in water and for his work on electrospray ionization, polymer chemistry, and electrochemistry.

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Dorothy Mackaill, English-American actress and singer (died 1990)

Dorothy Mackaill was a British-American actress, most active during the silent-film era and into the pre-Code era of the early 1930s.

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John Scarne, American magician and author (died 1985)

John Scarne was an American magician and author who was particularly adept at playing card manipulation. He became known as an expert on cards and other games, and authored a number of popular books on cards, gambling, and related topics.

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04/03/1902

Rachel Messerer, Lithuanian-Russian actress (died 1993)

Rachel Mikhailovna Messerer-Plisetskaya, also known by her stage name Ra Messerer, was a Russian silent film and theatre actress.

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Russell Reeder, American soldier and author (died 1998)

Colonel Russell Potter "Red" Reeder Jr. was a United States Army officer and writer.

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04/03/1901

Wilbur R. Franks, Canadian scientist, invented the g-suit (died 1986)

Wilbur Rounding Franks, OBE was a Canadian scientist, notable as the inventor of the anti-gravity suit or G-suit, and for his work in cancer research.

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Charles Goren, American bridge player and author (died 1991)

Charles Henry Goren was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game. He was the leading American bridge personality in the 1950s and 1960s and widely known as "Mr. Bridge".

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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy-French author, poet, and playwright (died 1937)

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, was a Malagasy poet who is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar. Part of the first Malagasy generation raised under French colonization, Rabearivelo grew up impoverished and failed to complete secondary education. His passion for French literature and traditional Malagasy oral poetry (hainteny) prompted him to read extensively and educate himself on a variety of subjects, including the French language and its poetic and prose traditions. He published his first poems as an adolescent in local literary reviews, soon obtaining employment at a publishing house where he worked as a proofreader and editor of its literary journals. He published numerous poetry anthologies in French and Malagasy as well as literary critiques, an opera, and two novels.

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04/03/1900

Herbert Biberman, American director and screenwriter (died 1971)

Herbert J. Biberman was an American screenwriter and film director. He was one of the Hollywood Ten and directed Salt of the Earth (1954), a film barely released in the United States, about a zinc miners' strike in Grant County, New Mexico. His membership in the Directors Guild of America was posthumously restored in 1997; he had been expelled in 1950.

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04/03/1899

Peter Illing, Austrian born, British film and television actor (died 1966)

Peter Illing was an Austrian-born British film and television actor.

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Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and author (died 1962)

Emilio Prados was a Spanish poet and editor, a member of the Generation of '27.

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04/03/1898

Georges Dumézil, French philologist and academic (died 1986)

Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil was a French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and mythology. He was a professor at Istanbul University, École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France, and a member of the Académie Française. Dumézil is well known for his formulation of the trifunctional hypothesis on Proto-Indo-European mythology and society. His research has had a major influence on the fields of comparative mythology and Indo-European studies. In the 1930s he was a supporter of the far-right group Action Française, leading to criticism from left-wing scholars in the 1980s and afterwards.

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Hans Krebs, German general (died 1945)

Hans Otto Wilhelm Eugen Krebs was a German Army general of infantry who served during World War II. A career soldier, he served in the Imperial German Army, Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht’s Heer. He served as the last Chief of Staff of the Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH) for the Wehrmacht High Command (OKW) during the final phase of the war in Europe. Krebs tried to open negotiations to surrender with the Red Army, which failed; he committed suicide in the Führerbunker during the early hours of 2 May 1945, two days after Adolf Hitler killed himself.

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04/03/1897

Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player and manager (died 1969)

Francis Joseph "Lefty" O'Doul was an American professional baseball player and manager. Though he spent eleven seasons in Major League Baseball, most notably for the New York Giants and Philadelphia Phillies, he is best known for his career in the Pacific Coast League, where he was a star player and a successful manager. His .349 career batting average is the sixth highest in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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04/03/1896

Kai Holm, Danish actor and director (died 1985)

Kai Holm was a Danish film actor. He appeared in 41 films between 1927 and 1979. He was born in Lemvig, Denmark and died in Denmark.

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04/03/1895

Milt Gross, American animator, director, and screenwriter (died 1953)

Milt Gross was an American cartoonist and animator. His work is noted for its exaggerated cartoon style and Yiddish-inflected English dialogue. He originated the non-sequitur "Banana Oil!" as a phrase deflating pomposity and posing. His character Count Screwloose's admonition, "Iggy, keep an eye on me!", became a national catchphrase. The National Cartoonists Society fund to aid indigent cartoonists and their families, for many years was known as the Milt Gross Fund. In 2005, it was absorbed by the Society's Foundation, which continues the charitable work of the Fund.

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04/03/1894

Charles Corm, Lebanese businessman and philanthropist (died 1963)

Charles Corm (1894–1963) was a Lebanese writer, industrialist, and philanthropist. He is considered to be the leader of the Phoenicianism movement in Lebanon, which ignited a surge of nationalism that led to Lebanon's independence. In a country torn by sectarian conflicts, his intention was to find a common root shared by all Lebanese beyond their religious beliefs. At the age of 40, he quit a successful business empire to dedicate his time to writing and philanthropy. In addition to his prolific literary legacy that can now be found in most libraries and universities around the world, Charles Corm left one of the most substantial fortunes in the Middle East.

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04/03/1893

Charles Herbert Colvin, American engineer, co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company (died 1985)

Charles Herbert Colvin was an aeronautical engineer who was the co-founder of the Pioneer Instrument Company in Brooklyn, with Brice Herbert Goldsborough and Morris M. Titterington.

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Adolph Lowe, German sociologist and economist (died 1995)

Adolph Lowe was a German sociologist and economist. His best known student was Robert Heilbroner. He was born in Stuttgart and died in Wolfenbüttel.

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04/03/1891

Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (died 1961)

Charles Arthur "Dazzy" Vance was an American professional baseball player. He played as a pitcher for five different franchises in Major League Baseball (MLB) in a career that spanned 16 seasons over 21 years. A late bloomer, Vance pitched his first full season in 1922 at age 31 and, aided by his impressive fastball, became the only pitcher to lead the National League in strikeouts for seven consecutive seasons. Vance was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955.

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04/03/1890

Norman Bethune, Canadian soldier and physician (died 1939)

Henry Norman Bethune was a Canadian thoracic surgeon, early advocate of socialized medicine, and member of the Communist Party of Canada. Bethune came to international prominence first for his service as a frontline trauma surgeon supporting the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War, and later supporting the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Bethune helped bring modern medicine to rural China, treating both sick villagers and wounded soldiers.

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04/03/1889

Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician and statistician (died 1967)

Oscar Chisini was an Italian mathematician. He introduced the Chisini mean in 1929.

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Oren E. Long, American soldier and politician, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawaii (died 1965)

Oren Ethelbirt Long was an American politician who served as the tenth Territorial Governor of Hawaii from 1951 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Long was appointed to the office after the term of Ingram Stainback. After statehood was achieved he served in the United States Senate, one of the first two, along with Hiram Fong, to represent Hawaii in that body. Long was the only non–Asian American U.S. Senator from Hawaii until the appointment of Brian Schatz to the position in 2012.

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Pearl White, American actress (died 1938)

Pearl Fay White was an American stage and film actress. She began her career on the stage at age 6, and later moved on to silent films appearing in a number of popular serials.

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Robert William Wood, English-American painter (died 1979)

Robert William Wood was a British-American landscape painter. Although he never became an American citizen, most of his career was in the United States, and he is designated as an "American" artist. He rose to prominence in the 1950s with sales of his color reproductions numbering in the millions.

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04/03/1888

Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-American actress (died 1942)

Rafaela Ottiano was an Italian-American actress. She was best known for her role as Suzette in Grand Hotel (1932) and as Russian Rita in She Done Him Wrong (1933).

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Jeff Pfeffer, American baseball player (died 1972)

Edward Joseph Pfeffer was an American pitcher for the St. Louis Browns (1911), Brooklyn Dodgers/Robins (1913–1921), St. Louis Cardinals (1921–1924) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1924). His older brother Francis was known as Big Jeff Pfeffer.

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Emma Richter, German paleontologist (died 1956)

Emma Richter was a German paleontologist. She is best known for her work concerning Trilobites. She was an honorary member of the Paleontological Society of America and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen.

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Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (died 1931)

Knute Kenneth Rockne was a Norwegian-American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame. Leading Notre Dame for 13 seasons, Rockne accumulated over 100 wins and three national championships.

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04/03/1886

Paul Bazelaire, French cellist and composer (died 1958)

Paul Bazelaire was a French cellist and composer.

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04/03/1884

Red Murray, American baseball player (died 1958)

John Joseph "Red" Murray was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball.

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Lee Shumway, American actor (died 1959)

Lee Shumway, born Leonard Charles Shumway, was an American actor. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1909 and 1953. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and died in Los Angeles, California.

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04/03/1883

Maude Fealy, American actress and screenwriter (died 1971)

Maude Fealy was an American stage and silent film actress whose career survived into the sound era.

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Robert Emmett Keane, American actor (died 1981)

Robert Emmett Keane was an American actor of both the stage and screen.

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Sam Langford, Canadian-American boxer (died 1956)

Samuel Edgar Langford was a Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1902 to 1926. Called the "Greatest Fighter Almost Nobody Knows" by ESPN, Langford is considered by many boxing historians to be one of the greatest fighters of all time. Originally from Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts as a teenager, and began his professional boxing career there in 1902. Langford was known as "the Boston Bonecrusher", "the Boston Terror", and, most famously, "the Boston Tar Baby". Langford stood 5 ft 6+1⁄2 in (1.69 m) and weighed 185 lb (84 kg) in his prime. He fought from lightweight to heavyweight and defeated many world champions and legends of the time in each weight class. Considered a devastating puncher even at heavyweight, The Ring rated Langford second on their list of the "100 greatest punchers of all time". One boxing historian described Langford as "experienced as a heavyweight James Toney with the punching power of Mike Tyson".

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04/03/1882

Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian academic and politician, 61st Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1941)

Nicolae Titulescu was a Romanian politician and diplomat, at various times ambassador, finance minister, and foreign minister, and for two terms served as president of the General Assembly of the League of Nations (1930–32).

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04/03/1881

Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian educator and activist (died 1924)

Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov, anglicised as Todor Alexandrov, was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, Bulgarian army officer, politician and teacher. He initially favoured the annexation of Macedonia to Bulgaria, but later switched to the idea of an Independent Macedonia as a second Bulgarian state on the Balkans. Aleksandrov was a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO) and later part of the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (IMRO), as well as its leader.

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Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American lawyer and author (died 1965)

Thomas Sigismund Stribling was an American writer. Although he acquired a law degree and practiced law for a few years, his career was mainly that of an author of fiction. Known first for adventure stories published in fiction magazines, he later published novels of social satire set mainly in the southern USA. His best-known work is the Vaiden trilogy, set in Florence, Alabama. The first volume is The Forge (1931). He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1933 for the second novel of this series, The Store. The last, set during the 1920s, is The Unfinished Cathedral (1934). Both the second and third novels were chosen as selections by the Literary Guild.

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Richard C. Tolman, American physicist and chemist (died 1948)

Richard Chace Tolman was an American mathematical physicist and physical chemist who made many contributions to statistical mechanics and theoretical cosmology. He was a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

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04/03/1880

Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (died 1946)

Channing Pollock was an American playwright, critic and screenwriter, whose works included The Evil Thereof (1916) and the memoir The Footlights, Fore and Aft (1911). Pollock is perhaps best remembered in connection with a review of one of his later plays, in which Dorothy Parker wrote "The House Beautiful is the play lousy."

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04/03/1879

Bernhard Kellermann, German author and poet (died 1951)

Bernhard Kellermann was a German author and poet.

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04/03/1878

Takeo Arishima, Japanese author and critic (died 1923)

Takeo Arishima was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist during the late Meiji and Taishō periods. His two younger brothers, Ikuma Arishima (有島生馬) and Ton Satomi (里美弴), were also authors. His son was the internationally known film and stage actor, Masayuki Mori.

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Egbert Van Alstyne, American pianist and songwriter (died 1951)

Egbert Anson Van Alstyne was an American songwriter and pianist. Van Alstyne was the composer of a number of popular and ragtime tunes of the early 20th century.

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04/03/1877

Alexander Goedicke, Russian pianist and composer (died 1957)

Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist.

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Fritz Graebner, German geographer and ethnologist (died 1934)

Robert Fritz Graebner was a German geographer and ethnologist best known for his development of the theory of Kulturkreis, or culture circle. He was the first theoretician of the Vienna School of Ethnology.

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Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor (died 1963)

Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr. was an American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a protective 'smoke hood' that he notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue, a type of three-way traffic light invented in 1923, a hair-straightening cream, and other hair-care products. Morgan created a successful company called "G. A. Morgan Hair Refining Company" based on his hair product inventions. He was involved in African Americans' civic and political advancement, especially in and around Cleveland, Ohio.

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04/03/1876

Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet and author (died 1947)

Léon-Paul Fargue was a French poet and essayist.

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Theodore Hardeen, Hungarian-American magician (died 1945)

Ferenc Dezső Weisz, known as Theodore "Dash" Hardeen, was a Hungarian-American magician and escape artist who was the younger brother of Harry Houdini. Hardeen, who usually billed himself as the "brother of Houdini", was the founder of the Magician's Guild. Hardeen was the first magician to conceive escaping from a straitjacket in full view of the audience, rather than behind a curtain.

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04/03/1875

Mihály Károlyi, Hungarian politician, President of Hungary (died 1955)

Count Mihály Ádám György Miklós Károlyi de Nagykároly was a Hungarian politician who served as a leader of the short-lived and unrecognized First Hungarian Republic from 1918 to 1919. He served as prime minister between 1 and 16 November 1918 and as president between 16 November 1918 and 21 March 1919.

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Enrique Larreta, Argentinian historian and author (died 1961)

Enrique Rodríguez Larreta was an Argentine writer, academic, diplomat and art collector. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature ten times.

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04/03/1873

Guy Wetmore Carryl, American journalist and poet (died 1904)

Guy Wetmore Carryl was an American humorist and poet.

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John H. Trumbull, American colonel and politician, 70th Governor of Connecticut (died 1961)

John Harper Trumbull was an American politician who served as the 70th Governor of Connecticut.

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04/03/1871

Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (died 1945)

Boris Grigoryevich Galerkin was a Soviet mathematician and an engineer.

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04/03/1870

Thomas Sturge Moore, English author and poet (died 1944)

Thomas Sturge Moore was a British poet, author and artist.

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04/03/1867

Jacob L. Beilhart, American activist, founded the Spirit Fruit Society (died 1908)

Jacob L. Beilhart was the founder and leader of a communitarian group known as the Spirit Fruit Society. Beilhart believed that jealousy, materialism, and the fear of losing another's love were at the root of much of the illness in the world. Under his direction, the Spirit Fruit Society sought to model and practice those beliefs.

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Charles Pelot Summerall, American Army officer (died 1955)

General Charles Pelot Summerall was a senior United States Army officer. He commanded the 1st Infantry Division in World War I, was Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1926 to 1930, and was President of The Citadel between 1931 and 1953.

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04/03/1866

Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer (died 1931)

Eugène-Maurice-Pierre Cosserat was a French mathematician and astronomer.

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04/03/1864

David W. Taylor, American admiral, architect, and engineer (died 1940)

David Watson Taylor was an American naval architect and an engineer in the United States Navy. He served during World War I as Chief Constructor of the Navy, and Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair. Taylor is best known as the man who constructed the first experimental towing tank ever built in the United States.

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04/03/1863

R. I. Pocock, English zoologist and archaeologist (died 1947)

Reginald Innes Pocock, was a British zoologist.

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John Henry Wigmore, American academic and jurist (died 1943)

John Henry Wigmore (1863–1943) was an American lawyer and legal scholar known for his expertise in the law of evidence and for his influential scholarship. Wigmore taught law at Keio University in Tokyo (1889–1892) before becoming the first full-time dean of Northwestern Law School (1901–1929). His scholarship is best remembered for his Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law (1904), often simply called Wigmore on Evidence, and a graphical analysis method known as a Wigmore chart. He served as the second president of the American Association of University Professors.

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04/03/1862

Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (died 1940)

Jacob Robert Emden was a Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist. He is best known for his book, Gaskugeln: Anwendungen der mechanischen Wärmetheorie auf kosmologische und meteorologische probleme, published in 1907. It presents a mathematical model of the behaviour of polytropic gaseous stellar objects under the influence of their own gravity, known as the Lane–Emden equation.

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04/03/1861

Arthur Cushman McGiffert, American theologian and author (died 1933)

Arthur Cushman McGiffert, American theologian, was born in Sauquoit, New York, the son of a Presbyterian minister of Scots-Irish descent.

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04/03/1856

Alfred William Rich, English painter, author, and educator (died 1921)

Alfred William Rich was an English artist, teacher and author.

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04/03/1854

Napier Shaw, English meteorologist and academic (died 1945)

Sir William Napier Shaw was a British meteorologist. He introduced the tephigram, a diagram for evaluating convective instability in the atmosphere. He also served as president of the International Meteorological Committee and Royal Meteorological Society.

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04/03/1851

Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author and poet (died 1911)

Alexandros Papadiamantis was an influential Greek novelist, short-story writer and poet.

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04/03/1847

Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (died 1904)

Carl Josef Bayer was a chemist from Austria-Hungary who invented and named the Bayer process of extracting alumina from bauxite, essential to this day to the economical production of aluminium.

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04/03/1838

Paul Lacôme, French pianist, cellist, and composer (died 1920)

Paul-Jean-Jacques Lacôme d'Estalenx was a French composer. Between 1870 and the turn of the century he produced a series of operettas and operas-bouffes that were popular both in France and abroad. Interest in his works revived briefly during the First World War, when they were successfully revived in Paris.

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04/03/1828

Owen Wynne Jones, Welsh clergyman and poet (died 1870)

Owen Wynne Jones, often known by his bardic name of Glasynys, was a Welsh clergyman, folklorist, poet, novelist and short-story writer.

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04/03/1826

August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German linguist, ethnographer, and theologian (died 1907)

August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein was a Baltic German linguist, folklorist, ethnographer, and theologian.

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John Buford, American general (died 1863)

John Buford Jr. was a United States Army cavalry officer. He fought for the Union during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of major general. Buford is best known for his actions in the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, by identifying Cemetery Hill and Cemetery Ridge as high ground that would be crucial in the impending battle, and by placing vedettes to the west and north that delayed the enemy long enough for the Union Army to arrive.

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Elme Marie Caro, French philosopher and academic (died 1887)

Elme Marie Caro was a French philosopher.

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Theodore Judah, American engineer, founded the Central Pacific Railroad (died 1863)

Theodore Dehone Judah was an American civil engineer who was a central figure in the original promotion, establishment, and design of the first transcontinental railroad. He found investors for what became the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR). As chief engineer, he performed much of the route survey work to determine the best alignment for the railroad over the Sierra Nevada, which was completed six years after his death.

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04/03/1823

George Caron, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1902)

George Caron was a Quebec businessman and political figure. He represented Maskinongé in the 1st Canadian Parliament as a Conservative member.

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04/03/1822

Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician and academic (died 1880)

Jules Antoine Lissajous was a French physicist, after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device that creates the figures that bear his name. In it, a beam of light is bounced off a mirror attached to a vibrating tuning fork, and then reflected off a second mirror attached to a perpendicularly oriented vibrating tuning fork, onto a wall, resulting in a Lissajous figure. This led to the invention of other apparatus such as the harmonograph.

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04/03/1820

Francesco Bentivegna, Italian rebel leader (died 1856)

Baron Francesco Bentivegna was an Italian patriot, who led various revolts in Sicily against the Bourbon rulers between 1848 and 1856.

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04/03/1817

Edwards Pierrepont, American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Attorney General (died 1892)

Edwards Pierrepont was an American attorney, reformer, jurist, traveler, New York U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Minister to England, and orator. Having graduated from Yale in 1837, Pierrepont studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840. During the American Civil War, Pierrepont was a Democrat, although he supported President Abraham Lincoln. Pierrepont initially supported President Andrew Johnson's conservative Reconstruction efforts having opposed the Radical Republicans. In both 1868 and 1872, Pierrepont supported Ulysses S. Grant for president. For his support, President Grant appointed Pierrepont United States Attorney in 1869. In 1871, Pierrepont gained the reputation as a solid reformer, having joined New York's Committee of Seventy that shut down Boss Tweed's corrupt Tammany Hall. In 1872, Pierrepont modified his views on Reconstruction and stated that African American freedman's rights needed to be protected.

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04/03/1815

Mykhailo Verbytsky, Ukrainian composer of religious hymns and the national anthem of Ukraine (died 1870)

Mykhailo Mykhailovych Verbytskyi, also anglicized as Michael Werbitzky, was a Ukrainian composer and a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is considered to be one of the first professional composers of Galicia. He is best known for composing the melody to the national anthem of Ukraine.

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04/03/1814

Napoleon Collins, Rear Admiral of the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War (died 1875)

Rear Admiral Napoleon Collins served in the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.

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04/03/1800

William Price, Welsh physician, Chartist, and neo-Druid (died 1893)

William Price was a Welsh physician and political activist best known for his support of Welsh nationalism, Chartism and involvement with the Neo-Druidic religious movement. Historians have characterised Price as one of the most significant figures in Wales during the Victorian era.

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04/03/1793

Karl Lachmann, German philologist and critic (died 1851)

Karl Konrad Friedrich Wilhelm Lachmann was a German philologist and critic. He is particularly noted for his foundational contributions to the field of textual criticism.

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04/03/1792

Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (died 1886)

Isaac Lea was an American publisher, conchologist and geologist. He was a partner in the publishing businesses Matthew Carey & Sons; Carey, Lea & Carey; Carey, Lea & Blanchard; and Lea & Blanchard.

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04/03/1782

Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss philosopher, author, and academic (died 1830)

Johann Rudolf Wyss was a Swiss author, writer, and folklorist who wrote the words to the former Swiss national anthem Rufst Du, mein Vaterland in 1811, and also edited the novel The Swiss Family Robinson, written by his father Johann David Wyss, published in 1812.

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04/03/1781

Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (died 1869)

Rebecca Gratz was a Jewish American educator and philanthropist in 19th-century America. She was a member of the Gratz family, who settled in the United States before the Revolutionary War.

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04/03/1778

Robert Emmet, Irish republican (died 1803)

Robert Emmet was an Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader. Following the suppression of the United Irish uprising in 1798, he sought to organise a renewed attempt in Ireland to overthrow the British Crown and Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, and to break the recently enforced union with Great Britain. Emmet entertained, but ultimately abandoned, hopes of immediate French assistance and of coordination with radical militants in Great Britain. In Ireland, many of the surviving veterans of '98 hesitated to lend their support, and his rising in Dublin in 1803 proved abortive.

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04/03/1770

Joseph Jacotot, French philosopher and academic (died 1840)

Jean Joseph Jacotot was a French teacher and educational philosopher, creator of the method of "intellectual emancipation."

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04/03/1769

Muhammad Ali, Ottoman military leader and pasha (died 1849)

Muhammad Ali was the Ottoman viceroy and governor of Albanian origin, who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule in 1840, he controlled Egypt, Sudan, Hejaz, the Levant, Crete and parts of Greece and transformed Cairo from a mere Ottoman provincial capital to the center of an expansive empire.

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04/03/1760

William Payne, English painter (died 1830)

William Payne was an English painter and etcher who invented the tint Payne's grey.

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Hugh Ronalds, British nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples (died 1833)

Hugh Ronalds was a nurseryman and horticulturalist in Brentford, who published Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis: or, a Concise Description of Selected Apples (1831). His plants were some of the first European species to be shipped to Australia when the British colony was founded.

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04/03/1756

Henry Raeburn, Scottish portrait painter (died 1823)

Sir Henry Raeburn was a Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland.

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04/03/1745

Charles Dibdin, English actor, playwright, and composer (died 1814)

Charles Dibdin was an English composer, musician, dramatist, novelist, singer and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music and performed them himself, he was in his time the most prolific English singer-songwriter. He is best known as the composer of "Tom Bowling", one of his many sea songs, which often features at the Last Night of the Proms. He also wrote about 30 dramatic pieces, including the operas The Waterman (1774) and The Quaker (1775), and several novels, memoirs and histories.

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Casimir Pulaski, Polish-American general (died 1779)

Kazimierz Michał Władysław Wiktor Pułaski, anglicised as Casimir Pulaski, was a Polish nobleman, soldier, and military commander who has been called "The Father of American cavalry" or "The Soldier of Liberty". Born in Warsaw and following in his father's footsteps, he became interested in politics at an early age. He soon became involved in the military and in revolutionary affairs in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Pulaski was one of the leading military commanders for the Bar Confederation and fought against the Commonwealth's foreign domination. When this uprising failed, he was driven into exile.

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04/03/1729

Anne d'Arpajon, French wife of Philippe de Noailles (died 1794)

Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles was a French noblewoman and court official. She served as the dame d'honneur of two Queens of France, Marie Leszczyńska and Marie Antoinette. She was called "Madame Etiquette" by Marie Antoinette for her insistence that the minutiae of court etiquette could never be altered or disregarded.

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04/03/1719

George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot, English politician (died 1777)

George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot was twice the British President of the British East India Company.

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04/03/1715

James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, English historian and politician (died 1763)

James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, was a British politician who is sometimes regarded as one of the shortest-serving prime ministers in British history. His brief tenure as First Lord of the Treasury is lent a more lasting significance by his memoirs, which are regarded as significant in the development of Whig history.

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04/03/1706

Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect, designed the Hermitage Hunting Lodge and Gammel Holtegård (died 1759)

Laurids Lauridsen de Thurah, known as Lauritz de Thurah, was a Danish architect and architectural writer. He became the most important Danish architect of the late baroque period. As an architectural writer and historian he made a vital contribution to the understanding of both Denmark's architectural heritage and building construction in his day.

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04/03/1702

Jack Sheppard, English criminal (died 1724)

John Sheppard, nicknamed "Honest Jack", "Gentleman Jack" or "Jack the Lad", was an English criminal who became notorious in early 18th-century London.

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04/03/1678

Antonio Vivaldi, Italian violinist and composer (died 1741)

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers. He pioneered many developments in orchestration, violin technique and programmatic music. He consolidated the emerging concerto form, especially the solo concerto, into a widely accepted and followed idiom.

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04/03/1665

Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (died 1694)

Count Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, also spelled Philipp, was a Swedish count and soldier. He was allegedly the lover of Sophia Dorothea, Princess of Celle, the wife of Duke George Louis of Brunswick and Lüneburg, the heir presumptive of the Principality of Calenberg, later to become Elector of Hanover and King of Great Britain.

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04/03/1655

Fra Galgario, Italian painter (died 1743)

Fra’ Galgario, born Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, and also called Fra’ Vittore del Galgario, was an Italian painter, mainly active in Bergamo as a portraitist during the Rococo or late-Baroque period.

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04/03/1651

John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English lawyer, jurist, and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1716)

John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, was an English jurist, Whig statesman and peer. Somers first came to national attention in the trial of the Seven Bishops where he was on their defence counsel. He published tracts on political topics such as the succession to the crown, where he elaborated his Whig principles in support of the Exclusionists. He played a leading part in shaping the Revolution settlement. He was Lord High Chancellor of England under King William III and was a chief architect of the union between England and Scotland achieved in 1707 and the Protestant succession achieved in 1714. He was a leading Whig during the twenty-five years after 1688; with four colleagues he formed the Whig Junto.

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04/03/1634

Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Polish philosopher (died 1689)

Kazimierz Łyszczyński, also known in English as Casimir Liszinski, was a Polish nobleman, philosopher, and soldier in the ranks of the Sapieha family, who was accused, tried, and executed for atheism in 1689.

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04/03/1602

Kanō Tan'yū, Japanese painter (died 1674)

Kanō Tan'yū was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school. One of the foremost Kanō painters of the Tokugawa period, many of the best known Kanō works today are by Tan'yū.

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04/03/1526

Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (died 1596)

Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon was an English peer and courtier. He was the patron of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, William Shakespeare's playing company. The son of Mary Boleyn, he was a cousin of Elizabeth I.

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04/03/1519

Hindal Mirza, Mughal prince (died 1551)

Abu'l-Nasir Muhammad, better known by the sobriquet Hindal, was a Mughal prince and the youngest son of Emperor Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and the first Mughal emperor. He was also the older brother of Gulbadan Begum, the younger half-brother of the second Mughal emperor Humayun, as well as the paternal-uncle and father-in-law of the third Mughal emperor Akbar.

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04/03/1502

Elisabeth of Hesse, princess of Saxony (died 1557)

Elisabeth of Hesse was Hereditary Princess of Saxony in 1519-1537 by marriage to John of Saxony. After the death of her husband, she managed her Wittum, the Saxon districts of Rochlitz and Kriebstein between 1537 and 1547, earning her the name Elisabeth of Rochlitz. She allowed for the spread of Protestantism in her territories. She acted as mediator between her Catholic mother and Lutheran brother, and as the nurse of Maurice of Saxony.

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04/03/1492

Francesco de Layolle, Italian organist and composer (died 1540)

Francesco de Layolle, was an Italian composer and organist of the Renaissance. He was one of the first native Italian composers to write sacred music in the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style, combining it with the indigenous harmonic idioms of the Italian peninsula.

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04/03/1484

George, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1543)

George of Brandenburg-Ansbach, known as George the Pious, was a margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the House of Hohenzollern.

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04/03/1394

Henry the Navigator, Portuguese explorer (died 1460)

Prince Henry of Portugal, Duke of Viseu, better known in English as Prince Henry the Navigator, was a Portuguese prince, a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and 15th-century European maritime exploration. He is regarded as the main initiator of what would be known as the Age of Discovery. Henry was the third child of King John I of Portugal, who founded the House of Aviz.

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04/03/1188

Blanche of Castile, French queen consort (died 1252)

Blanche of Castile was Queen of France by marriage to Louis VIII. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX: during his minority from 1226 until 1234, and during his absence from 1248 until 1252.

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04/03/0977

Al-Musabbihi, Fatimid historian and official (died 1030)

Al-Amīr al-Mukhtār ʿIzz al-Mulk Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abīʾl Qāsim ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Azīz al-Ḥarranī al-Musabbiḥī al-Kātib, commonly known simply as al-Musabbihi, was a Sunni Fatimid historian, writer and administrative official. He is known to have authored some 40,000 pages of manuscripts dealing with an array of topics, including history, psychology, law, grammar, sexology and cooking. Akhbār Miṣr, a contemporary chronicle of Egyptian history and news, was among al-Musabbihi's well-known works. However, like the vast majority of al-Musabbihi's works, only fragments of Akhbār Miṣr survived; most of his writings disappeared not long after his death.

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04/03/0895

Liu Zhiyuan, founder of the Later Han Dynasty (died 948)

Liu Zhiyuan, later changed to Liu Gao (劉暠), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Gaozu of Later Han (後漢高祖), was the founding emperor of the Shatuo-led Chinese Later Han dynasty, the fourth of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He was the older brother of the Northern Han founder Liu Min.

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