Born on Saturday, 1st November – Famous Birthdays

01/11/2003

Ernest Nuamah, Ghanaian footballer

Ernest Nuamah Appiah is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Ligue 1 club Lyon and the Ghana national team.

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Lautaro Rivero, Argentine footballer

Lautaro Ruben Rivero Cruz is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a central defender for River Plate and the Argentina national team.

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01/11/2002

NLE Choppa, American rapper and YouTuber

Bryson LaShun Potts, known professionally as NLE Choppa, is an American rapper and YouTuber from Memphis, Tennessee. He gained recognition with the release of his 2019 single "Shotta Flow", which received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. The song preceded his debut extended play (EP), Cottonwood, in December of that year.

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01/11/2001

Alofiana Khan-Pereira, Australian rugby league player

Alofiana Khan-Pereira is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a winger for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League.

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01/11/2000

Gonzalo Plata, Ecuadorian footballer

Gonzalo Jordy Plata Jiménez is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A club Flamengo and the Ecuador national team.

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01/11/1997

Max Burkholder, American actor

Maxwell Henry Wolf Burkholder is an American actor. His roles on television include Max Braverman in the NBC comedy-drama series Parenthood (2010–2015), as well as young John Bennett in the Peacock fantasy comedy Ted (2024–2026), an entry in the Ted franchise. As a child, he began voice acting in roles such as Chomper in The Land Before Time, Roo on My Friends Tigger & Pooh, and World in the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends television special Destination: Imagination (2008). He has also appeared in films such as The Purge (2013) and Benjamin (2018).

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Nordi Mukiele, French footballer

Nordi Mukiele Mulere is a French professional footballer who plays as a right-back or centre-back for Premier League club Sunderland.

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Elvis Rexhbeçaj, Kosovan footballer

Elvis Rexhbeçaj is a Kosovan professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for German Bundesliga club Augsburg and the Kosovo national team.

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Alex Wolff, American actor and musician

Alexander Draper Wolff is an American actor, musician, and singer-songwriter. He first gained recognition for starring alongside his older brother, Nat, in the Nickelodeon musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band (2007–2009) that was created by his mother, Polly Draper. Wolff's father, Michael Wolff, co-produced the series' soundtrack albums The Naked Brothers Band (2007) and I Don't Want to Go to School (2008), both of which were placed on the Billboard 200 charts.

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01/11/1996

GeorgeNotFound, English internet personality

George Davidson, better known online as GeorgeNotFound, is an English internet personality, YouTuber, and Twitch streamer. He gained substantial popularity in 2020 and 2021 through uploading Minecraft content. Alongside content creator and frequent collaborator Dream, Davidson founded the Dream SMP, a Minecraft role-playing server consisting of multiple storylines and characters. As of July 2023, Davidson's five YouTube channels have all collectively reached over 15.2 million subscribers and over 742.1 million views.

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Jeongyeon, South Korean singer

Yoo Jeong-yeon, known mononymously as Jeongyeon, is a South Korean singer. She is a member of Twice, a South Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment.

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Chinanu Onuaku, American basketball player

Chinanu Michael Onuaku is an American professional basketball player for Bnei Herzliya of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for the Louisville Cardinals. In 2021–22, he led the Israeli Basketball Premier League in rebounds per game.

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Lil Peep, American rapper (died 2017)

Gustav Elijah Åhr, known professionally as Lil Peep, was an American rapper and singer-songwriter. He was a member of the hip-hop collective GothBoiClique, and is credited as being a leading figure of the emo rap sub-genre, and an inspiration in alternative youth subcultures.

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01/11/1995

Joe Chealey, American basketball player

Joseph Emmanuel Chealey is an American professional basketball player who last played for Juventus Utena of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). He played college basketball for College of Charleston located in South Carolina. He was born in Orlando, Florida where he grew up and went to Apopka High School.

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Margarita Mamun, Russian gymnast

Margarita Mamun is a retired Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympic All-around champion, two-time World All-around silver medalist, the 2015 European Games All-around silver medalist, the 2016 European Championships All-around silver medalist, three-time Grand Prix Final All-around champion and a three-time (2011–2013) Russian National All-around champion.

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01/11/1994

Brent Rooker, American baseball player

Terry Brent Rooker Jr. is an American professional baseball designated hitter and outfielder for the Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Minnesota Twins, San Diego Padres, and Kansas City Royals. He made his MLB debut in 2020. Rooker was selected to the 2023 MLB All-Star Game and won the American League Silver Slugger Award at designated hitter in 2024. He was again named an All-Star in 2025.

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James Ward-Prowse, English footballer

James Michael Edward Ward-Prowse is an English professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Burnley, on loan from Premier League club West Ham United.

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01/11/1992

Semaj Christon, American basketball player

Semaj Rakim Christon is an American professional basketball player for APU Udine of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played college basketball for Xavier, and was taken in the second round of the 2014 NBA Draft.

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Filip Kostić, Serbian footballer

Filip Kostić is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a left midfielder, left wing-back or left winger for Serie A club Juventus and the Serbia national team.

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01/11/1991

Reece Brown, English footballer

Reece Brown is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. He began his career with Manchester United, but failed to break into the first team and after loan spells at Bradford City, Doncaster Rovers, Oldham Athletic, Coventry City and Ipswich Town, he joined Watford in 2013. At the end of the 2013–14 season, he spent a month on loan to Carlisle United, before leaving Watford for Barnsley on a free transfer ahead of the 2014–15 season. He lasted just a season there before joining Bury. He joined Sheffield United for the 2016–17 season, but was released in January 2017 and returned to Bury. At the end of the season, he joined Rochdale, but his time there lasted just one season. His elder brother, Wes, also played for Manchester United from 1998 to 2011.

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Anthony Ramos, American actor and singer

Anthony Paul Ramos Martinez is an American actor and singer. After graduating in musical theater from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, Ramos began performing in stage musicals. In 2015, he originated the dual role of John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in Hamilton, for which he won a Grammy Award. He received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role in a Limited Series or Movie for his performance in the 2020 stage recording.

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Jiang Yuyuan, Chinese gymnast

Jiang Yuyuan is a retired Chinese gymnast. She is the 2008 Chinese all-around senior National Champion and a member of the gold medal-winning People's Republic of China team for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Jiang was a member of the silver medal-winning Chinese team at the 2007 World Championships, the bronze medal-winning member at the 2010 World Championships and 2011 World Championships, and the all-around gold medalist at the 2007 Good Luck Beijing Olympic test event. In 2010, she replaced Cheng Fei as the captain of the Chinese national team. She won a silver medal in the all-around competition at the 2010 World Championships, which is the highest position that a Chinese woman has ever placed in the all-around competition at a world or Olympic championship.

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01/11/1990

Tim Frazier, American basketball player

Tim Frazier is an American professional basketball player for Minas in Novo Basquete Brasil. Frazier played high school basketball for Strake Jesuit College Preparatory and competed at the collegiate level with Penn State as a point guard. He earned various accolades with Penn State, including first-team All-Big Ten and All-Big Ten Defensive team honors, both as a junior in 2012. Frazier has played nine seasons in the NBA, with eight different franchises.

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01/11/1988

Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player

Masahiro Tanaka is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in NPB for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees.

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01/11/1987

Ileana D'Cruz, Indian film actress

Ileana D'Cruz is a an Indian-born Portuguese actress who primarily appears in Telugu and Hindi films. She is the recipient of several accolades including a Filmfare Award and a Filmfare Awards South.

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Bruce Irvin, American football player

Bruce Pernell Irvin Jr. is an American former professional football linebacker. He played college football for the West Virginia Mountaineers and was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round with the 15th overall pick of the 2012 NFL draft. Irvin won Super Bowl XLVIII over the Denver Broncos, and also played in Super Bowl XLIX where he became the first player ever to be ejected from a Super Bowl.

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01/11/1986

Penn Badgley, American actor and television personality

Penn Dayton Badgley is an American actor and producer. He is known for his roles as Dan Humphrey in The CW teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007–2012) and Joe Goldberg in the Netflix psychological thriller series You (2018–2025).

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Ksenija Balta, Estonian high jumper, sprinter, and heptathlete

Ksenija Balta is an Estonian long jumper, sprinter and heptathlete. She won the long jump at the 2009 European Indoor Championships in Athletics.

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01/11/1985

Marcus Landry, American basketball player

Marcus Landry is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and other leagues. Landry attended Vincent High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and played college basketball at the University of Wisconsin from 2005 to 2009.

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Paulo Orlando, Brazilian baseball player

Paulo Roberto Orlando is a Brazilian former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals. He represented Brazil at the 2013 World Baseball Classic, and currently serves as the baserunning coach for the Brazil national baseball team.

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01/11/1984

Miloš Krasić, Serbian footballer

Miloš Krasić is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a winger. He played for the Serbia national team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and at one point in his career, he was named by FourFourTwo as one of the 100 best players in the world.

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Natalia Tena, English actress and musician

Natalia Gastiain Tena is a British actress and musician. She is best known for playing Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter film series (2007–2011), and the wildling Osha in the HBO series Game of Thrones.

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Stephen Vogt, American baseball player

Stephen Guy Vogt is an American professional baseball manager and former catcher and coach who currently serves as the manager for the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball (MLB). Vogt played in MLB for the Tampa Bay Rays, Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers, San Francisco Giants, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Atlanta Braves, and served as both the bullpen and quality control coach of the Seattle Mariners in 2023. He was an MLB All-Star with the Athletics in 2015 and 2016. Vogt was selected by Tampa Bay in the 12th round of the 2007 MLB draft.

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01/11/1983

Matt Moulson, Canadian ice hockey player

Matthew Keith Moulson is a Canadian former ice hockey left winger. Moulson played 650 games in the National Hockey League (NHL), the majority of which were spent with the New York Islanders and Buffalo Sabres.

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Yuko Ogura, Japanese model and singer

Yuko Ogura is a Japanese gravure idol and model who typically aimed for the cute, innocent schoolgirl look prior to her 2011 marriage. She is represented by Platinum Production.

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Jon Wilkin, English rugby player

Jon David Wilkin is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played as a second-row, loose forward, scrum-half or stand-off in the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s. He played for Hull Kingston Rovers, St Helens and the Toronto Wolfpack at club level and for England and Great Britain at international level.

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01/11/1982

Bradley Orr, English footballer

Bradley James Orr is an English former professional footballer who played as a right-back.

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Warren Spragg, English-Italian rugby player

Warren Spragg is an English-born Italian rugby union international. He is a versatile back and goalkicker.

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01/11/1981

Matt Jones, American actor and comedian

Matt Jones is an American actor known for his portrayals of Brandon "Badger" Mayhew on the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad, Baxter on the CBS sitcom Mom, and Ned Dorneget in NCIS. He stars as Douglas Wheeler on the CBS sitcom Bob Hearts Abishola, and is also known for his voice roles as Gunther Magnuson in Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil (2010–2012), Hector Flanagan in Sanjay and Craig (2013–2016), Nuber in F Is for Family (2018–2020), Pig in Pig Goat Banana Cricket (2015–2018), and Wedge in the video game Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020).

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01/11/1980

Bilgin Defterli, Turkish footballer

Bilgin Defterli is a Turkish former women's football forward. She had been a member of the Turkey women's national football team from 1999 to 2014 and served as their captain. Defterli is 160 cm tall.

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01/11/1979

Coco Crisp, American baseball player

Covelli Loyce "Coco" Crisp is an American former professional baseball outfielder and MiLB team manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Royals, and Oakland Athletics. While primarily a center fielder throughout his career, Crisp also played left field for the Athletics and during his stints with the Indians. With the Red Sox, he won the 2007 World Series over the Colorado Rockies. He served as manager of the Mahoning Valley Scrappers of the MLB Draft League in 2021.

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Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer

Milan Dudić is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a defender.

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Alex Prager, American photographer and director

Alex Prager is an American artist, director, and screenwriter based in Los Angeles.

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01/11/1978

Helen Czerski, English physicist and oceanographer

Helen Czerski is a British science writer and broadcaster. She has presented numerous television and radio programmes since 2012, mainly for the BBC, and has written three books and regular columns.

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Danny Koevermans, Dutch footballer and manager

Danny Koevermans is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Jessica Valenti, American author

Jessica Valenti is an American feminist writer. She was the co-founder of the blog Feministing, which she wrote for from 2004 to 2011. Valenti is the author of six books: Full Frontal Feminism (2007), He's a Stud, She's a Slut (2008), The Purity Myth (2009), Why Have Kids? (2012), Sex Object: A Memoir (2016), and Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win (2024). She also co-edited the books Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape (2008), Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World (2020). Between 2014 and 2018, Valenti was a columnist for The Guardian. She currently runs the Abortion, Every Day newsletter. Fellow feminist Michelle Goldberg described her as "one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation".

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01/11/1977

Steve Hutchinson, American football player

Steven J. Hutchinson is an American former professional football player who was a guard for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, and was named a unanimous All-American. The Seattle Seahawks selected him in the first round of the 2001 NFL draft, and he also played for the Minnesota Vikings and the Tennessee Titans. A seven-time Pro Bowl selection, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2020. Later that year he would be employed by the Seahawks as a consultant.

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01/11/1976

Sergei Artyukhin, Russian-Belarusian wrestler (died 2012)

Sergei Yevgenyevich Artyukhin, also known as Siarhei Artsiukhin, was a Russian-Belarusian heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler. He was born in Moscow and won the 2001 World Cup while representing Russia. After that, to avoid severe competition within Russia, he competed for Belarus and won the European title in 2005 and bronze medals at the world championships in 2005 and 2006. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he was eliminated in his second bout. He was initially trained by his father, Evgeny Artyukhin, Sr., who was also an international heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler.

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Bryan Harsin, American college football coach

Bryan Dale Harsin is an American college football coach who was most recently the offensive coordinator at California. He was the head coach for the Auburn Tigers from 2021 to 2022. Prior to Auburn, he was the head coach at his alma mater, Boise State from the 2014 season through the 2020 season where he posted a 69–19 overall record. He began his head coaching career at Arkansas State University for the 2013 season. Harsin was the co-offensive coordinator at the University of Texas for two seasons. Before leaving for Texas in 2011, Harsin was an assistant at Boise State for 10 seasons, the last five as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

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01/11/1975

Bo Bice, American singer and musician

Harold Elwin "Bo" Bice Jr. is an American singer and musician who was the runner-up against Carrie Underwood in the fourth season of American Idol. Prior to auditioning for American Idol, Bice released a solo album as well as a few albums with his bands while performing on the night club circuit.

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Keryn Jordan, South African footballer (died 2013)

Keryn David Jordan was a South African footballer who primarily played as a striker during a fifteen-year career.

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Megan Wing, Canadian figure skater and coach

Megan Wing is a Canadian retired ice dancer and current coach. With former partner and husband Aaron Lowe, she is a two-time Four Continents bronze medalist.

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01/11/1974

V. V. S. Laxman, Indian cricketer

Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman is an Indian former international cricketer and a former cricket commentator and pundit. A right-handed batsman known for his elegant stroke play, Laxman played as a middle-order batsman in Test cricket. Laxman is currently the Head of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy (NCA), and the head coach of the India Under-19 and India A teams. Laxman was a member of the Indian team that was one of the joint-winners of the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy, the title being shared with Sri Lanka.

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01/11/1973

David Berman, American actor

David Berman is an American actor and researcher mostly known for his work on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation where he played Assistant Medical Examiner David "Super Dave" Phillips.

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Geoff Horsfield, English footballer and manager

Geoffrey Malcolm Horsfield is an English former professional footballer and football coach. He made more than 300 appearances in the Football League playing as a striker.

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Aishwarya Rai, Indian model and actress

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian actress who is primarily known for her work in Hindi films. Rai won the Miss World 1994 pageant and later established herself as one of the most-popular and influential celebrities in India. She has received numerous accolades for her acting, including two Filmfare Awards. In 2004, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2009, the Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri and in 2012, the Government of France awarded her with the Order of Arts and Letters. From the late 1990s, she has often been called "the most beautiful woman in the world".

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01/11/1972

Toni Collette, Australian actress

Toni Collette is an Australian actress and singer-songwriter. She is known for starring in television, independent and blockbuster films, noted for her portrayals of troubled and multi-faceted women. Her accolades include five AACTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards and a Tony Award.

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Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer and manager

Paul Dickov is a Scottish former professional football manager and player who works as a television pundit for Manchester City TV.

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Jenny McCarthy, American actress and model

Jennifer Ann McCarthy-Wahlberg is an American actress, model, television personality, and anti-vaccine activist. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year.

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Glen Murray, Canadian ice hockey player

Glen John Murray is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins and Los Angeles Kings. He is currently the Director of Player Development for the Kings.

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01/11/1970

Sherwin Campbell, Barbadian cricketer

Sherwin Legay Campbell is a former Barbadian cricketer who played 52 Tests and 90 One Day Internationals for the West Indies, and also a former ODI captain for Windies.

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Toma Enache, Romanian film director

Toma Enache is a Romanian film director and actor. Being of Aromanian ethnicity, he directed I'm Not Famous but I'm Aromanian, the first film in the Aromanian language. Enache has also directed two other films. Activities of him outside of the world of cinema are related to poetry and theatre.

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01/11/1969

Gary Alexander, American basketball player

Gary R. Alexander is an American former professional basketball player.

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Tie Domi, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

Tahir "Tie" Domi is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Known as an enforcer, he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, and Winnipeg Jets over a 16-year NHL career. He is the Maple Leafs' all-time leader in penalty minutes, and he is third overall in penalty minutes in NHL history. He is also the player with the most fighting majors in NHL history, with 333.

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01/11/1967

Tina Arena, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, musical theatre actress and record producer. She is one of Australia's highest-selling artists and has sold over 10 million records worldwide. Arena is multilingual, singing and recording in English, Italian, French and Spanish.

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Carla van de Puttelaar, Dutch photographer

Carla van de Puttelaar is a Dutch fine art photographer and art historian based in Amsterdam.

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01/11/1966

Willie D, American rapper and entrepreneur

William James Dennis is an American rapper from Houston, Texas. He emerged as a member of the hip hop group Geto Boys, which he formed in 1986 alongside fellow Houston rappers Scarface and Bushwick Bill. He signed with the regionally-based label Rap-A-Lot Records to release his albums Controversy (1989) and I'm Goin' Out Lika Soldier (1992), the latter of which entered the Billboard 200.

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Mary Hansen, Australian singer and musician (died 2002)

Mary Therese Hansen was an Australian guitarist and singer. She joined the London-based avant-pop band Stereolab in 1992. As a member, Hansen recorded six studio albums from Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements to Sound-Dust.

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Gary Howell, American businessman and politician

Gary Howell is an American politician and businessman from West Virginia. He is currently a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates for the 56th district and chairman of the Mineral County Republican Executive Committee.

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Jeremy Hunt, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Health

Sir Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt is a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2022 to 2024 and Foreign Secretary from 2018 to 2019, having previously served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2012 to 2018 and as Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport from 2010 to 2012. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament for Godalming and Ash, formerly South West Surrey, since 2005. Hunt also served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Sunak shadow cabinet from July to November 2024.

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Ashab Uddin, Indian-Bengali politician

Muhammad Achab Uddin,(Bengali: মুহম্মদ আসহাব উদ্দীন), also spelled as Ashab Uddin, is an Indian Bengali politician and social worker. He is a two-time member of the Manipur Legislative Assembly, and formerly served as Pradhan for two terms. In October 2024, he faced disqualification from the house following his defection from Janata Dal (United) to BJP.

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01/11/1965

Michael Daley, Australian politician

Michael John Daley is an Australian politician who has served as the attorney general of New South Wales since 2023. He previously served as the leader of the opposition and leader of the New South Wales Labor Party from 2018 to 2019. He has been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Maroubra since 2005.

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Patrik Ringborg, Swedish conductor

Patrik Ringborg is a Swedish conductor, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

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01/11/1964

Sophie B. Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Sophie Ballantine Hawkins is an American singer-songwriter. Born in New York City, she attended the Manhattan School of Music for a year as a percussionist before leaving to pursue a music career. In the 1990s, she achieved critical and commercial success with her first two albums, producing a string of single hits including "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover", "Right Beside You", and "As I Lay Me Down". A dispute with her record label Sony Music over her third album, Timbre, led her to establish her own independent label, Trumpet Swan Productions, which has published her subsequent recordings.

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01/11/1963

Rick Allen, English musician

Richard John Cyril Allen is an English musician who has been the drummer of the hard rock band Def Leppard since 1978. He overcame the amputation of his left arm in 1985 and continued to play with the band, which went on to its most commercially successful phase. Known as "The Thunder God" by fans, he is ranked No. 7 on Gigwise in The Greatest Drummers of All Time list.

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Nita Ambani, Indian businesswoman

Nita Mukesh Ambani is an Indian businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the chairperson and founder of the Reliance Foundation, Dhirubhai Ambani International School and a director of Reliance Industries. She is married to Reliance Industries Limited's chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani. With a family fortune estimated in excess of US$113.5 billion, the Ambani's are among the richest in the world. She is also an art collector and the owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Mumbai Indians.

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Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager

Leslie Mark Hughes is a Welsh football manager and former player who is the head coach of National League club Carlisle United.

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Big Kenny, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

William Kenneth Alphin, best known by his stage name Big Kenny, is an American country music singer. He and John Rich comprise the duo Big & Rich, who recorded four studio albums and charted fifteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

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01/11/1962

Sharron Davies, English swimmer

Sharron Elizabeth Davies, Baroness Davies of Devonport is an English former swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and European championships and competed for England in the Commonwealth Games. She won a silver medal in the 400 m individual medley in the 1980 Olympics. In all Davies has attended 12 consecutive Olympics, including working for BBC Sport.

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Magne Furuholmen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Magne Furuholmen is a Norwegian musician and visual artist. Also known by his stage name Mags, he is the keyboardist of the synth-pop band A-ha and co-wrote hits such as "Take On Me", "Stay on These Roads", "Manhattan Skyline", "Cry Wolf", "Forever Not Yours", "Analogue ", "Minor Earth Major Sky", "Touchy!", "You Are the One", "Move To Memphis" and "Foot of the Mountain". A-ha has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. He was named Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav by King Harald for his services to Norwegian music and his international success.

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Anthony Kiedis, American singer-songwriter

Anthony Kiedis is an American musician who is the lead vocalist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis and his fellow band members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

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01/11/1961

Louise Boije af Gennäs, Swedish author and screenwriter

Louise Gunvor Catharina Lagercrantz Boije af Gennäs is a Swedish writer, feminist, and co-creator of Rederiet, the longest-running Swedish soap opera in history.

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Anne Donovan, American basketball player and coach (died 2018)

Anne Theresa Donovan was an American women's basketball player and coach. From 2013 to 2015, she was the head coach of the Connecticut Sun.

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Calvin Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Calvin Johnson is an American guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, music producer, and disc jockey. Johnson was a founding member of the bands Cool Rays, Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System, The Go Team, and The Halo Benders.

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Heng Swee Keat, Singaporean politician

Heng Swee Keat is a Singaporean former politician and police officer who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 2019 and 2025. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Tampines Central division of Tampines Group Representation Constituency (GRC) between 2011 and 2020 and the Bedok division of East Coast GRC between 2020 and 2025.

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01/11/1960

Tim Cook, American businessman and engineer, current CEO of Apple Inc.

Timothy Donald Cook is an American business executive who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple since 2011. He had previously been the company's chief operating officer under its co-founder Steve Jobs. Cook joined Apple in March 1998 as a senior vice president for worldwide operations, and then as vice president for worldwide sales and operations. He was appointed chief executive of Apple on August 24, 2011, after Jobs resigned.

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Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2024)

Fernando Valenzuela Anguamea, nicknamed "El Toro", was a Mexican professional baseball pitcher. Valenzuela played 17 Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons, from 1980 to 1997. He played for six MLB teams, most prominently with the Los Angeles Dodgers, who signed him in 1979 and gave him his MLB debut in 1980. Valenzuela batted and threw left-handed, with an unorthodox windup. He was one of a small number of pitchers who regularly threw a screwball in the modern era.

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01/11/1959

Susanna Clarke, English author and educator

Susanna Mary Clarke is an English author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), a Hugo Award-winning alternative history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time. For the next decade, she published short stories from the Strange universe, but it was not until 2003 that Bloomsbury bought her manuscript and began work on its publication. The novel became a best-seller.

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01/11/1958

Mark Austin, English journalist

Mark William Austin is an English journalist and television presenter, currently working for Sky News.

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Robert Hart, English singer-songwriter

Robert Hart is an English vocalist and songwriter. He is currently the lead singer of Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Bad Co Legacy. He has performed as a solo artist, and with bands including The Distance, Diesel and Bad Company, as well as with former Whitesnake members in Company of Snakes. He also fronted The Jones Gang, a rock group formed by Hart, Rick Wills and Kenney Jones. He was the first English writer to be signed to Disney-owned Hollywood Records.

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Rachel Ticotin, American actress

Rachel Ticotin Strauss is an American actress. She has appeared in films such as Fort Apache, The Bronx, Total Recall, Falling Down, and Con Air. She has appeared in the NBC legal drama Law & Order: LA as Lieutenant Arleen Gonzales, and guest starred in the "Warriors" episode of Blue Bloods in 2013, appearing as "Carmen Castillo". She also played Dr. Marie Cerone on the ABC medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy in 2018.

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01/11/1957

Lyle Lovett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American country singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded 14 albums and released 25 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man". Lovett has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Album. His most recent album is 12th of June, released in 2022.

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Murray Pierce, New Zealand rugby player

Murray James Pierce is a former New Zealand rugby union player who played as a lock forward. He won 26 caps for the All Blacks between 1984 and 1989 and played in the victorious New Zealand team at the 1987 Rugby World Cup. Pierce made his debut for the All Blacks in the 1984 tour to Australia and Fiji. In addition to his 26 international test caps, he played 28 additional games for the All Blacks. Pierce was also a sworn member of the New Zealand Police as were a number of other All Blacks of his era, such as John Gallagher.

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01/11/1955

Beth Leavel, American actress and singer

Beth Leavel is an American stage and screen actress and singer. She is best known for her performances in Broadway musicals such as The Drowsy Chaperone, Baby It's You! and The Prom, receiving Tony Award nominations for all three and winning for The Drowsy Chaperone.

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01/11/1953

Jan Davis, American engineer and astronaut

Nancy Jan Davis is a former American astronaut. A veteran of three space flights, Davis logged over 673 hours in space. She is now retired from NASA.

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Paul Wellings, English ecologist and academic

Paul William Wellings is an Australian/British ecologist and long serving university leader. He is notable for his past service as vice-chancellor of University of Wollongong (2012–2021), Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University (2002–2012) and Deputy Chief Executive of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1999-2002).

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01/11/1951

Ronald Bell, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer (died 2020)

Ronald Nathan Bell, also known as Khalis Bayyan, was an American composer, singer, songwriter, arranger, producer, saxophonist and co-founding member of Kool & the Gang. The band recorded nine No. 1 R&B singles in the 1970s and 1980s, including its No. 1 pop single "Celebration". The group is honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Fabrice Luchini, French actor and screenwriter

Fabrice Luchini is a French stage and film actor. He has appeared in films such as Potiche, The Women on the 6th Floor, and In the House.

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Craig Serjeant, Australian cricketer and chemist

Craig Stanton Serjeant is a former Australian cricketer who played in 12 Test matches and three One Day Internationals in 1977 and 1978.

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01/11/1950

Mitch Kapor, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Lotus Software and Electronic Frontier Foundation

Mitchell David Kapor is an American entrepreneur best known for his work as an application developer in the early days of the personal computer software industry, later founding Lotus, where he was instrumental in developing the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. He left Lotus in 1986. In 1990 with John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore, he co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and served as its chairman until 1994. In 2003, he became the founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation, creator of the open source web browser Firefox. Kapor has been an investor in the personal computing industry, and supporter of social causes via Kapor Capital and the Kapor Center. He serves on the board of SMASH, a non-profit founded by his wife, Freada Kapor Klein, to help underrepresented scholars hone their STEM knowledge while building personal networks and skills for careers in tech and the sciences.

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Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Robert Betts Laughlin is an American physicist. He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton University, he was awarded a share of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect.

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Dan Peek, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 2011)

Daniel Milton Peek was an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the co-founder of the band America, and later a "pioneer" in contemporary Christian music.

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01/11/1949

Jeannie Berlin, American actress

Jeannie Berlin is an American actress. She is the daughter of Elaine May. She is best known for her role in the 1972 comedy film The Heartbreak Kid, for which she received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress. She later played the leading role in Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975), and has acted in films such as Margaret (2011), Inherent Vice (2014), Café Society (2016), The Fabelmans (2022), and You Hurt My Feelings (2023). She also acted in the HBO miniseries The Night Of (2016), the Amazon Prime series Hunters (2020), and the HBO series Succession (2019–2023).

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David Foster, Canadian singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer

David Walter Foster is a Canadian–American record producer, composer, arranger, and musician. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 45 nominations across four decades. Across the last fifty years, Foster has composed and produced some of the most successful songs of each decade, with multiple songs reaching the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and other individual genre charts.. He has also been nominated three times in the Best Original song category at the Academy Awards.

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Michael D. Griffin, American physicist and engineer

Michael Douglas Griffin is an American physicist and aerospace engineer who served as the under secretary of defense for research and engineering from 2018 to 2020. He previously served as deputy of technology for the Strategic Defense Initiative, and as administrator of NASA from April 13, 2005, to January 20, 2009. As NASA administrator, Griffin oversaw such areas as private spaceflight, future human spaceflight to Mars, and the fate of the Hubble telescope.

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Belita Moreno, American actress and acting coach

Aurabela "Belita" Moreno is an American actress best known for her roles as Benita "Benny" Lopez on the ABC sitcom George Lopez and Edwina Twinkacetti and Lydia Markham on Perfect Strangers.

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01/11/1948

Amani Abeid Karume, Zanzibar accountant and politician, 6th President of Zanzibar

Amani Abeid Karume is a Tanzanian politician and a former president of Zanzibar. He held the office from 8 November 2000 to 3 November 2010. He is the son of Zanzibar's first president, Abeid Karume, and a member of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM). Currently, he is the Chancellor of Mbeya University of Science and Technology (MUST).

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Mike Mendoza, English radio host and politician

Mike Mendoza is a British radio presenter and former politician best known for the overnight radio shows he presented on Talksport between 2004 and 2008, initially on weeknights before being moved to weekends in 2006. Mike joined Talksport after eleven years as overnight presenter with London's LBC. Mendoza later joined his former Talksport colleague George Galloway on the Iranian government-funded news channel Press TV, presenting a thirteen-week television series entitled Off the Cuff Mendoza was a Conservative councillor sitting on Adur District Council in West Sussex and was chairman of the council. He owned a magazine called What's Happening, which he later sold. In August 2014 Mendoza joined Latest TV, a local TV station in Brighton & Hove, presenting news, political debate and newspaper reviews. Mendoza was appointed chair of Lancing parish council in 2021.

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Phil Myre, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Philippe Louis Myre is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens, Atlanta Flames, St. Louis Blues, Philadelphia Flyers, Colorado Rockies and Buffalo Sabres. He featured in the 1980 Stanley Cup Finals with the Flyers.

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Bill Woodrow, English sculptor and academic

Bill Woodrow is a British sculptor.

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01/11/1947

Ted Hendricks, Guatemalan-American football player

Theodore Paul Hendricks, nicknamed "the Mad Stork" and "Kick 'Em in the head Ted," is a Guatemalan-American former professional football linebacker who played for 15 seasons with the Baltimore Colts, the Green Bay Packers, and the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders in the National Football League (NFL).

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Nick Owen, English journalist

Nicholas Corbishley Owen is an English television presenter and newsreader, best known for presenting the ITV breakfast programme Good Morning Britain, Good Morning with Anne and Nick, ITV Sport, and the BBC's regional news show Midlands Today since 1997. He was also the chairman of Luton Town Football Club between 2008 and 2017.

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Jim Steinman, American songwriter and producer (died 2021)

James Richard Steinman was an American composer, lyricist and record producer. He also worked as an arranger, pianist, and singer. His work included songs in the adult contemporary, rock, dance, pop, musical theater, and film score genres. He wrote albums for Bonnie Tyler and Meat Loaf, including Bat Out of Hell, and also wrote and produced Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell and Tyler's Faster Than the Speed of Night.

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01/11/1946

Ric Grech, British rock musician (died 1990)

Richard Roman Grechko, better known as Ric Grech, was a British rock musician. He is best known for playing bass guitar and violin with the rock band Family as well as in the supergroup Blind Faith and later Traffic. He also played with ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker.

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Yuko Shimizu, Japanese graphic designer, created Hello Kitty

Yuko Shimizu is a Japanese designer who created Hello Kitty.

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01/11/1945

Narendra Dabholkar, Indian author and activist, founded Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (died 2013)

Narendra Achyut Dabholkar was an Indian physician, social activist, rationalist, and author from Maharashtra, India. In 1989, he founded and became president of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti. Triggered by his assassination in 2013, the pending Anti-Superstition and Black Magic Ordinance was promulgated in the state of Maharashtra, four days later. In 2014, he was posthumously awarded the Padma Shri for social work.

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John Williamson, Australian singer-songwriter

John Robert Williamson is an Australian country music and folk music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, television host and conservationist. Williamson usually writes and performs songs that relate to the history and culture of Australia, particularly the outback, in a similar vein to Slim Dusty and Buddy Williams before him. Williamson has released over fifty albums, ten videos, five DVDs, and two lyric books and has sold more than 4,000,000 albums in Australia. His best known hit is "True Blue". On Australia Day in 1992 Williamson was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) with the citation: "for service to Australian country music and in stimulating awareness of conservation issues". Williamson has received 28 Golden Guitar trophies at the Country Music Awards of Australia, he has won three ARIA Music Awards for Best Country Album and, in 2010, was inducted into the related Hall of Fame. Williamson has sold over 5 million records in Australia.

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01/11/1944

Kinky Friedman, American singer-songwriter and author (died 2024)

Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman was an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and columnist for Texas Monthly, who styled himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

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Rafic Hariri, Lebanese businessman and politician 60th Prime Minister of Lebanon (died 2005)

Rafic Bahaa El Deen al-Hariri was a Lebanese businessman and politician who served as prime minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2004.

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Bobby Heenan, American wrestler, manager, and sportscaster (died 2017)

Raymond Louis Heenan was an American professional wrestling manager, color commentator, and wrestler. He performed with the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under the ring name Bobby "The Brain" Heenan.

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Oscar Temaru, French-Polynesian soldier and politician, President of French Polynesia

Oscar Manutahi Temaru is a Tahitian politician. He has been the president of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France, on five occasions: in 2004, from 2005 to 2006, from 2007 to 2008, in 2009, and from 2011 to 2013. He has also been mayor of Faʻaʻā since 1983.

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01/11/1943

Salvatore Adamo, Italian-Belgian singer-songwriter

Salvatore Adamo is a Belgian-Italian musician, singer, and composer, who is known for his romantic ballads. Adamo was born in Comiso, Sicily, Italy, and has lived in Belgium since the age of three, which is why he has dual citizenship. By the second half of the sixties, Adamo had become the world's second best-selling musician after The Beatles. Through his career, he sold more than 80 million albums and 20 million singles worldwide, making him the best-selling Belgian artist of all time, and one of the most commercially successful musicians in the world.

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Jacques Attali, French economist and civil servant

Jacques José Mardoché Attali is a French economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant.

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01/11/1942

Larry Flynt, American publisher, founded Larry Flynt Publications (died 2021)

Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. was an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). LFP mainly produces pornographic magazines, such as Hustler, pornographic videos, and three pornographic television channels named Hustler TV. Flynt fought several high-profile legal battles involving the First Amendment, and unsuccessfully ran for public office. He was paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in a 1978 attempted assassination by serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin. In 2003, Arena magazine listed him at No. 1 on the "50 Powerful People in Porn" list. The 1996 biographical drama film The People vs. Larry Flynt, directed by Miloš Forman and starring Woody Harrelson, chronicles the life and career of Flynt.

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Ralph Klein, Canadian journalist and politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (died 2013)

Ralph Philip Klein was a Canadian politician and journalist who served as the 12th premier of Alberta and leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta from 1992 until his retirement in 2006. Klein also served as the 32nd mayor of Calgary from 1980 to 1989.

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Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (died 2013)

Marcia Karen Wallace was an American actress and comedian, primarily known for her roles on sitcoms. She is best known for her roles as receptionist Carol Kester on the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show, Mrs. Carruthers on Full House, and as the voice of elementary school teacher Edna Krabappel on the animated series The Simpsons, for which she won an Emmy in 1992. The character was retired after her death but sporadically appears through archive recording.

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01/11/1941

Alfio Basile, Argentinian footballer and manager

Alfio "Coco" Basile is an Argentine football manager and former player. He played for Racing Club de Avellaneda and Huracán before becoming a manager. He coached many teams during his career, being most notable Racing Club de Avellaneda, the Argentina national team and Boca Juniors, where he won five titles in two years.

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Joe Caldwell, American basketball player

Joe Louis Caldwell is an American former professional basketball player. Caldwell played six seasons (1964–1970) in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and five seasons (1970–1975) in the American Basketball Association (ABA). Caldwell was one of the few players to be an All-Star in both leagues, making 2 All-Star teams in each league. Caldwell was a member of the United States Olympic basketball team that won the gold medal in the 1964 Summer Olympics. Caldwell was Team USA's fourth leading scorer.

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Robert Foxworth, American actor and director

Robert Heath Foxworth is an American film, stage, and television actor.

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John Pullin, English rugby player (died 2021)

John Vivian Pullin was an England international rugby union player. A hooker, he played club rugby for Bristol Rugby and captained the England national rugby union team for which he played 42 times between 1966 and 1976. He also won 7 full caps for the British & Irish Lions and has the distinction of having beaten the All Blacks with three different sides, England, the Lions and the Barbarians.

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01/11/1940

Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott, English academic and politician

Bruce Joseph Grocott, Baron Grocott is a British politician who has been a Member of the House of Lords since 2001. A member of the Labour Party, he served as a Member of Parliament for four terms between 1974 and 2001, representing constituencies in Staffordshire and Shropshire.

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Roger Kellaway, American pianist and composer

Roger Kellaway is an American composer, arranger and jazz pianist, who has recorded over 250 albums, and composed over 20 film scores. He is a Grammy Award winner and an Academy Award nominee.

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Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Indian lawyer and jurist, 35th Chief Justice of India (died 2022)

Ramesh Chandra Lahoti was the 35th Chief Justice of India, serving from 1 June 2004 to 1 November 2005.

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Barry Sadler, American sergeant, author, actor, and singer-songwriter (died 1989)

Barry Allen Sadler was an American singer-songwriter and author whose military service influenced his work. After a stint in the United States Air Force, Sadler served in the United States Army as a Green Beret medic, achieving the rank of staff sergeant. He served in the Vietnam War from late December 1964 to late May 1965. Most of his work has a military theme, and he is best known for his patriotic song "The Ballad of the Green Berets", a number-one hit in 1966. He died at age 49 after being shot in the head in Guatemala City.

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01/11/1939

Barbara Bosson, American actress (died 2023)

Barbara Bosson was an American actress and writer. She is best known for her roles in the television series Hill Street Blues (1981–1986) and Murder One (1995–1997), for both of which she received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

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01/11/1938

Nicholasa Mohr, Puerto Rican American Nuyorican writer

Nicholasa Mohr is one of the best known Nuyorican writers, born in the United States to Puerto Rican parents. In 1973, she became the first Nuyorican woman in the 20th century to have her literary works published by the major commercial publishing houses, and has had the longest creative writing career of any Nuyorican female writer for these publishing houses. She centers her works on the female experience as a child and adult in Puerto Rican communities in New York City, with much of writing containing semi-autobiographical content. In addition to her prominent novels and short stories, she has written screenplays, plays, and television scripts.

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01/11/1937

Bill Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter

James William Anderson III is an American country music singer, songwriter, and television host. His soft-spoken singing voice earned him the nickname "Whispering Bill" from music critics and writers. As a songwriter, his compositions have been covered by various music artists since the late 1950s.

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01/11/1936

Katsuhisa Hattori, Japanese composer and conductor (died 2020)

Katsuhisa Hattori was a Japanese classical composer who also wrote music for anime films, television series and OVAs. Hattori was a respected composer in Japan; his style was classical, although he was experienced and respected in many other genres, such as New Age, Jazz, etc. He was the son of Ryoichi Hattori and the father of Takayuki Hattori, both musical composers as well.

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Shizuka Kamei, Japanese lawyer and politician

Shizuka Kamei is a retired Japanese politician served in the House of Representatives from 1979 to 2017. He was a faction leader in the Liberal Democratic Party, but left in opposition to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2005 and founded the People's New Party.

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01/11/1935

Gary Player, South African golfer and sportscaster

Gary James Player is a South African retired professional golfer who is widely considered to be one of the greatest golfers of all time. Player won over 160 professional tournaments across six continents, including nine major championships.

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Edward Said, Palestinian-American theorist, author, and academic (died 2003)

Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.

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01/11/1934

Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-Italian businessman and politician (died 2004)

Umberto Agnelli was an Italian industrialist and politician. He was the third son of Virginia and Edoardo Agnelli, and the youngest brother of Gianni Agnelli.

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Gillian Knight, English soprano and actress

Gillian Knight is an English opera singer and actress, known for her performances in the contralto roles of the Savoy operas. After six years from 1959 to 1965 starring in these roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Knight began a grand opera career.

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William Mathias, Welsh pianist and composer (died 1992)

William James Mathias CBE was a Welsh composer noted for choral works.

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01/11/1933

Antoine Kohn, Luxembourgian footballer and manager (died 2012)

Antoine "Spitz" Kohn was a Luxembourgish football player and football manager.

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01/11/1932

Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2015)

Alger Joseph Arbour was a Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and executive. He is seventh for games coached in National Hockey League history and eighth all-time in wins. Under Arbour, the New York Islanders won four consecutive Stanley Cups from 1980 to 1983 and won a record 19 consecutive playoff series through 1984. His 740 wins with the Islanders is the most for a coach with one team in NHL history. Born in Sudbury, Ontario, Arbour played amateur hockey as a defenceman with the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League. He played his first professional games with the Detroit Red Wings in 1953. Claimed by the Chicago Black Hawks in 1958, Arbour would help the team win a championship in 1961. Arbour played with the Toronto Maple Leafs for the next five years, winning another Cup in 1962. He was selected by the St. Louis Blues in their 1967 expansion draft and played his final four seasons with the team.

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Francis Arinze, Nigerian cardinal

Francis Arinze is a Nigerian prelate of the Catholic Church, who served as the Prefect of the Secretariat for Non-Christians from 1984 to 2002 and Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from 2002 to 2008. He previously served as the Archbishop of Onitsha from 1967 to 1985 and as the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria from 1979 to 1984. Arinze is the current Cardinal Bishop of Velletri–Segni since 2005 and was one of the principal advisors to Pope John Paul II and was considered papabile at the 2005 Papal conclave. According to Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Arinze is the only surviving council father among the few who went from Nigeria to the Second Vatican Council.

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01/11/1931

Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestler and coach (died 1972)

Yossef Gutfreund was an Israeli wrestling judge for his country's 1972 Olympic team. He was murdered in the Munich massacre by Black September terrorists along with 10 other members of the Israeli team.

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Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer (died 2021)

Shunsuke Kikuchi was a Japanese composer who was active from the early 1960s until 2017. He specialized in incidental music for media such as television and film. Kikuchi was regarded as one of Japan's most highly demanded film and TV composers, working principally on tokusatsu and anime productions, and also popular action films, jidaigeki, and television dramas.

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Arne Pedersen, Norwegian footballer and manager (died 2013)

Arne Knut Pedersen was a Norwegian footballer. He was a deep-lying inside forward, or offensive midfielder by today's terminology, who spent his entire playing career at his hometown club Fredrikstad FK, where he was a key player during the club's most successful period in the 1950s and early 1960s. He was also capped 40 times by Norway, and scored 11 international goals.

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01/11/1930

A. R. Gurney, American playwright and author (died 2017)

Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr. was an American playwright, novelist and academic.

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Russ Kemmerer, American baseball player and coach (died 2014)

Russell Paul Kemmerer was an American professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox (1954–1957), the Washington Senators (1957–1960), the Chicago White Sox (1960–1962), and the Houston Colt .45s (1962–1963) to finish his career.

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01/11/1929

Nicholas Mavroules, American lawyer and politician (died 2003)

Nicholas James Mavroules was an American Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He served as Mayor of Peabody, Massachusetts for a decade, then represented Peabody and much of the surrounding North Shore region in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 until 1993. In 1993, he pleaded guilty to 15 counts of racketeering and extortion and later served 15 months in prison.

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01/11/1928

James Bradford, American weightlifter (died 2013)

James Edward "Jim" Bradford was an American heavyweight weightlifter. He competed at two Olympics and four world championships and won silver medals on all occasions.

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01/11/1927

Marcel Ophüls, German documentary filmmaker (died 2025)

Marcel Ophuls was a German-French and American documentary filmmaker and actor, renowned for his notable works such as The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) and Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988). Born to German-Jewish filmmaker Max Ophuls, the family fled Nazi Germany during its rise to power in the final stages of the Weimar Republic in 1933. Subsequently, they relocated to France, but fled in 1940 when the Nazis occupied the country. Finally, in 1941, the family emigrated to the United States, where Marcel became a citizen in 1950.

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Vic Power, Puerto Rican baseball player and coach (died 2005)

Victor Felipe Pellot Pové, known professionally as Vic Power, was a Puerto Rican professional baseball first baseman. He played twelve seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles / California Angels, and Philadelphia Phillies, from 1954 through 1965. Pellot was the second Puerto Rican of African descent to play in MLB and the second Puerto Rican to play in the American League (AL), following Hiram Bithorn.

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01/11/1926

Stephen Antonakos, Greek-American sculptor (died 2013)

Stephen Antonakos was a Greek-American sculptor most well known for his abstract sculptures often incorporating neon.

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Lou Donaldson, American saxophonist (died 2024)

Louis Andrew Donaldson Jr. was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was best known for his soulful, bluesy approach to playing the alto saxophone, although in his formative years, he was heavily influenced by Charlie Parker, as were many during the bebop era.

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Betsy Palmer, American actress and game show panelist (died 2015)

Betsy Palmer was an American actress known for her many film and Broadway roles, television guest-starring appearances, as a panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing Pamela Voorhees, the antagonist and mother of Jason Voorhees, in the first Friday the 13th film (1980).

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01/11/1924

Süleyman Demirel, Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (died 2015)

Sami Süleyman Gündoğdu Demirel was a Turkish politician, engineer, and statesman who served as the president of Turkey from 1993 to 2000. He previously served as the prime minister of Turkey seven times between 1965 and 1993. He was the leader of the Justice Party (AP) from 1964 to 1980 and the leader of the True Path Party (DYP) from 1987 to 1993.

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Jean-Luc Pépin, Canadian academic and politician, 19th Canadian Minister of Labour (died 1995)

Jean-Luc Pépin was a Canadian academic, politician and Cabinet minister.

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01/11/1923

Victoria de los Ángeles, Spanish soprano and actress (died 2005)

Victoria de los Ángeles López García was a Spanish operatic lyric soprano and recitalist whose career began after the Second World War and reached its height in the years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.

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Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-American author (died 2001)

Gordon Rupert Dickson was an American science fiction writer. He was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2000.

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Menachem Elon, German-Israeli academic and jurist (died 2013)

Menachem Elon was an Israeli jurist and Professor of Law specializing in traditional Jewish Law, an Orthodox rabbi, and a prolific author on traditional Jewish law (Halakha). He was the head of the Jewish Law Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He lost the 1983 Israeli Presidential Election to Chaim Herzog.

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Carlos Páez Vilaró, Uruguayan painter and sculptor (died 2014)

Carlos Páez Vilaró was a Uruguayan abstract artist, painter, potter, sculptor, muralist, writer, composer and constructor. He took an active role in the search for survivors of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes, as his son Carlos Páez Rodríguez was a passenger.

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01/11/1922

George S. Irving, American actor (died 2016)

George S. Irving was an American actor known primarily for his character roles on Broadway and as the voice of Heat Miser in the American Christmas television specials The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974) and A Miser Brothers' Christmas (2008).

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Andy Tonkovich, American basketball player and coach (died 2006)

Andrew Edward Tonkovich was an American professional basketball player and coach. He was selected as the first overall pick in the 1948 BAA draft by the Providence Steamrollers. He played college basketball for the Marshall Thundering Herd.

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01/11/1921

John W. Peterson, American pilot and songwriter (died 2006)

John Willard Peterson was a songwriter who had a major influence on evangelical Christian music in the 1950s through the 1970s. He wrote over 1000 songs, and 35 cantatas.

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Harald Quandt, German businessman (died 1967)

Harald Friedrich Ludwig Quandt was a German industrialist, the son of Günther Quandt and Magda Behrend Ritschel. His parents divorced, and his mother was later married to Joseph Goebbels, the chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. After World War II, Quandt and his older half-brother Herbert Quandt ran the industrial empire left to them by their father, owning a stake mainly in Germany's luxury car manufacturer BMW and the electric battery producer VARTA, which emerged from Accumulatoren-Fabrik AFA, which still belongs to the family.

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01/11/1920

James J. Kilpatrick, American journalist and author (died 2010)

James Jackson Kilpatrick was an American newspaper journalist, columnist, author, writer and grammarian. During the 1950s and early 1960s he was editor of The Richmond News Leader in Richmond, Virginia and encouraged the Massive Resistance strategy to oppose the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in the Brown v. Board of Education ruling which outlawed racial segregation in public schools. For three decades beginning in the mid-1960s, Kilpatrick wrote a nationally syndicated column "A Conservative View", and sparred for years with liberals Nicholas von Hoffman and later Shana Alexander on the television news program 60 Minutes.

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Ted Lowe, English sportscaster (died 2011)

Edwin Charles Ernest Lowe was an English snooker commentator for the BBC and ITV. His husky, hushed tones earned him the nickname "Whispering Ted".

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01/11/1919

Hermann Bondi, English-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (died 2005)

Sir Hermann Bondi was an Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist.

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01/11/1918

Ken Miles, English-American race car driver (died 1966)

Kenneth Henry Jarvis Miles was an English sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the U.S. and with American teams on the international scene. He is an inductee to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. As an automotive engineer, he is known for developing, along with driver and designer Carroll Shelby, the Ford GT40, the car that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969. Miles and Shelby's efforts at Le Mans were dramatized in the 2019 Oscar-winning film Ford v Ferrari.

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01/11/1917

Zenna Henderson, American author (died 1983)

Zenna Chlarson Henderson was an American elementary school teacher and science fiction and fantasy author. Her first story was published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1951. Her work is cited as pre-feminist, often featuring middle-aged women, children, and their relationships, but with stereotyped gender roles. Many of her stories center around human aliens called "The People", who have special powers. Henderson was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1959 for her novelette Captivity. Science fiction authors Lois McMaster Bujold, Orson Scott Card, Connie Willis, Dale Bailey, and Kathy Tyers have cited her as an influence on their work.

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Clarence E. Miller, American engineer and politician (died 2011)

Clarence Ellsworth Miller, Jr. was a Republican congressman from Ohio, serving January 3, 1967 to January 3, 1993.

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01/11/1915

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, American painter, poet, and educator, co-founded the DuSable Museum of African American History (died 2010)

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, also known as Margaret Taylor Goss, Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs or Margaret T G Burroughs, was an American visual artist, writer, poet, educator, and arts organizer. She co-founded the Ebony Museum of Chicago, now the DuSable Museum of African American History.

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01/11/1914

Moshe Teitelbaum, Romanian-American rabbi (died 2006)

Moshe (Moses) Teitelbaum was a Hasidic rebbe and the world leader of the Satmar Hasidim.

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01/11/1912

Gunther Plaut, German-Canadian rabbi and author (died 2012)

Wolf Gunther Plaut, was an American Reform rabbi and author of a Torah commentary who was based in Canada. Plaut was the rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto for several decades and from 1978 was its senior scholar.

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01/11/1911

Mingun Sayadaw, Burmese monk and scholar (died 1993)

The Venerable Mingun Sayadaw U Vicittasārābhivaṃsa was a Burmese Theravāda Buddhist monk, best known for his memory skills and his role in the Sixth Buddhist Council. He was nicknamed The Book Man.

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Henri Troyat, French historian and author (died 2007)

Henri Troyat was a Russian-French writer, biographer, historian, and novelist.

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01/11/1909

Hans Mork, South African-Australian rugby league player (died 1960)

Hans Eric Mork was a South African-born Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. He played in Sydney for the Newtown club, as well as in Newcastle for the Western Suburbs club and elsewhere in country New South Wales.

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01/11/1907

Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer (died 1976)

Max Everitt Rosenbloom was an American professional boxer, actor, and television personality. Nicknamed "Slapsy Maxie", he was inducted into The Ring's Boxing Hall of Fame in 1972, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1984, the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1985, and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1993. He was sometimes billed as Slapsy Maxie Rosenbloom for film appearances.

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01/11/1906

Johnny Indrisano, American boxer (died 1968)

Johnny Indrisano was an American welterweight boxer whose career spanned the period from 1923 to 1934. He later became a film stunt performer and a film and TV actor.

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01/11/1905

Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian-French painter and educator (died 1960)

Paul-Émile Borduas was a Canadian artist known for his abstract paintings. He was the leader of the avant-garde Automatiste movement and the chief author of the Refus Global manifesto of 1948. Borduas had a profound impact on the development of the arts and of thought, both in the province of Quebec and in Canada.

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01/11/1904

Laura LaPlante, American silent film actress (died 1996)

Laura La Plante was an American film actress; her more notable performances were in the silent era.

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01/11/1903

Max Adrian, Irish-born British actor (died 1973)

Max Adrian was an Irish actor and singer. He was a founding member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

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Edward Greeves, Jr., Australian footballer (died 1963)

Edward Goderich "Carji" Greeves Jr. was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL), now known as the Australian Football League (AFL). He won the inaugural Brownlow Medal in 1924, awarded to the VFL/AFL player adjudged fairest and best during the home-and-away season. He is the son of Ted Greeves, who also played with the Geelong Football Club.

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01/11/1902

Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian journalist, author, poet, and playwright (died 1943)

Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg was a Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, journalist and political activist. He was a popular author and a controversial public figure. He served in World War II as a war correspondent and was killed while covering a bombing mission to Berlin.

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Eugen Jochum, German conductor (died 1987)

Eugen Jochum was a German conductor, best known for his interpretations of the music of Anton Bruckner and Johannes Brahms, among others. He was principal conductor for the Berlin Radio (1932–1944), Bavarian (1949–1960) and Bamberg (1969–1973) symphony orchestras.

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01/11/1898

Arthur Legat, Belgian race car driver (died 1960)

Arthur Legat was a Belgian racing driver. He participated in two Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 22 June 1952. He scored no championship points.

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Sippie Wallace, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1986)

Sippie Wallace was an American blues singer, pianist and songwriter. Her early career in tent shows gained her the billing "The Texas Nightingale". Between 1923 and 1927, she recorded over 40 songs for Okeh Records, many written by her or her brothers, George and Hersal Thomas. Her accompanists included Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet, King Oliver, and Clarence Williams. Among the top female blues vocalists of her era, Wallace ranked with Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, and Bessie Smith.

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01/11/1896

Edmund Blunden, English author, poet, and critic (died 1974)

Edmund Charles Blunden was an English poet, author, and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong. He ended his career as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times.

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01/11/1889

Hannah Höch, German painter and photographer (died 1978)

Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Photomontage, or fotomontage, is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs, or photographic reproductions pulled from the press and other widely produced media.

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Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1982)

Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker was a British politician, diplomat, academic, athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament. He carried the British team flag and won a silver medal for the 1500m run at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959.

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01/11/1888

George Kenner, German-American painter and illustrator (died 1971)

George Kenner was a German artist. He made 110 paintings and drawings during the First World War while interned as a German civilian internee in Great Britain and the Isle of Man.

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Michał Sopoćko, Polish cleric and academic (died 1975)

Michael Sopoćko was a Polish Catholic priest and professor at Vilnius University. He is best known as the spiritual director of Faustina Kowalska. He was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008.

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01/11/1887

L.S. Lowry, English painter and illustrator (died 1976)

Laurence Stephen Lowry was an English artist. His drawings and paintings mainly depict Pendlebury, Lancashire as well as Salford and its vicinity.

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01/11/1886

Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author and poet (died 1951)

Hermann Broch was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil.

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Sakutarō Hagiwara, Japanese poet and critic (died 1942)

Sakutarō Hagiwara was a Japanese writer of free verse, active in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. He liberated Japanese free verse from the grip of traditional rules, and he is considered the "father of modern colloquial poetry in Japan". He published many volumes of essays, literary and cultural criticism, and aphorisms over his long career. His unique style of verse expressed his doubts about existence, and his fears, ennui, and anger through the use of dark images and unambiguous wording. He died from pneumonia aged 55.

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01/11/1881

Perikles Ioannidis, Greek admiral (died 1965)

Perikles Ioannidis was a Greek admiral.

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01/11/1880

Sholem Asch, Polish-American author and playwright (died 1957)

Sholem Asch, also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States. A prolific and widely translated writer, Asch wrote about Jewish life in Eastern Europe and America, producing novels, short stories, and plays that reached international audiences. Asch initially wrote in Hebrew, but, on the advice of the Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz, he subsequently decided to write only in Yiddish, becoming a significant cultural figure in the Yiddishist movement.

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Grantland Rice, American journalist and poet (died 1954)

Henry Grantland Rice was an American sportswriter, columnist, and poet from Tennessee known as the "Dean of American Sports Writers". He published three books of poetry, and coined the famous phrase that it was not important whether you “won or lost, but how you played the game.”

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Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (died 1930)

Alfred Lothar Wegener was a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher.

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01/11/1878

Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter and educator (died 1925)

Konrad Vilhelm Mägi was an Estonian painter, who was one of the first modernist painters in Estonia and the Nordic countries. He only worked for sixteen years, yet the total volume of his oeuvre is estimated to be around 400 paintings.

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Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)

Carlos Saavedra Lamas was an Argentine academic and politician, and in 1936, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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01/11/1877

Roger Quilter, English composer (died 1953)

Roger Cuthbert Quilter was a British composer, known particularly for his art songs. His songs, which number over a hundred, often set music to text by William Shakespeare and are a mainstay of the English art song tradition.

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01/11/1872

Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter (died 1946)

Louis Dewis (1872–1946) was the pseudonym of Belgian Post-Impressionist painter Louis DeWachter, who was also an innovative and highly successful businessman. He helped organize and managed the first department store chain.

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01/11/1871

Stephen Crane, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (died 1900)

Stephen Crane was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation.

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01/11/1864

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (died 1918)

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, later known as Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, was a German princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine.

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01/11/1862

Johan Wagenaar, Dutch organist and composer (died 1941)

Johan Wagenaar was a Dutch composer and organist.

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01/11/1859

Charles Brantley Aycock, American educator, lawyer, and politician, 50th Governor of North Carolina (died 1912)

Charles Brantley Aycock was the 50th governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1901 to 1905. After starting his career as a lawyer and teacher, he became active in the Democratic Party during the Solid South period, and made his reputation as a prominent segregationist as the lead perpetrator of the Wilmington massacre.

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01/11/1849

William Merritt Chase, American painter and educator (died 1916)

William Merritt Chase was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later became the Parsons School of Design.

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01/11/1848

Caroline Still Anderson, American physician, educator and abolitionist (died 1919)

Caroline Still Anderson was an American physician, educator, and activist. She was a pioneering physician in the Philadelphia African-American community and one of the first Black women to become a physician in the United States.

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Jules Bastien-Lepage, French painter (died 1884)

Jules Bastien-Lepage was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of Naturalism, an artistic style that grew out of the Realist movement and paved the way for the development of Impressionism. Émile Zola described Bastien-Lepage's work as "impressionism corrected, sweetened and adapted to the taste of the crowd."

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01/11/1847

Emma Albani, Canadian-English soprano and actress (died 1930)

Dame Emma Albani, DBE was a Canadian-British operatic coloratura soprano, later spinto soprano and dramatic soprano of the 19th and early 20th century, the first Canadian singer to become an international star. Her repertoire focused on the operas of Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and Wagner. She performed across Europe and North America.

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Hiệp Hòa, Vietnamese emperor (died 1883)

Hiệp Hòa, born Nguyễn Phúc Hồng Dật, and later known as Nguyễn Phúc Thăng upon ascending the throne was the sixth Emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty and reigned for 3 months and 10 days, 130 days in total. During his brief reign, he used the era name Hiệp Hòa, and is commonly referred to by this name. He was not granted a temple name and was posthumously conferred the title Prince of Văn Lãng (文朗郡王), with the Posthumous name Trang Cung (莊恭).

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01/11/1839

Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 227th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (died 1919)

Ahmed Muhtar Pasha was a prominent Ottoman field marshal and Grand Vizier, who served in the Crimean and Russo-Turkish wars. Ahmed Muhtar Pasha was appointed as Grand Vizier in July 1912 at age 72, largely due to his prestige as an old military hero.

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01/11/1838

11th Dalai Lama (died 1856)

The 11th Dalai Lama, Khedrup Gyatso was recognized by the Ganden Tripa as the 11th Dalai Lama of Tibet and enthroned in 1842. He enlarged the Norbulingka, studied at Sera Monastery, Drepung Monastery and Ganden Monastery, and taught students.

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01/11/1831

Harry Atkinson, English-New Zealand politician, 10th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1892)

Sir Harry Albert Atkinson served as the tenth premier of New Zealand on four occasions in the late 19th century, and was Colonial Treasurer for a total of ten years. He was responsible for guiding the country during a time of economic depression, and was known as a cautious and prudent manager of government finances, though distrusted for some policies such as his 1882 National Insurance (welfare) scheme and leasehold land schemes. He also participated in the formation of voluntary military units to fight in the New Zealand Wars, and was noted for his strong belief in the need for seizure of Māori land.

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01/11/1808

John Taylor, English-American religious leader, 3rd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1887)

John Taylor was an English-born American religious leader who served as the third president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1880 to 1887. He is the first and so far only president of the LDS Church to have been born outside the United States.

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01/11/1782

F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1859)

Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, styled The Honourable F. J. Robinson until 1827 and known between 1827 and 1833 as the Viscount Goderich, the name by which he is best known to history, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1827 to 1828.

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01/11/1778

Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (died 1837)

Gustav IV Adolf or Gustav IV Adolph was King of Sweden from 1792 until he was deposed in a coup in 1809. He was also the last Swedish monarch to be the ruler of Finland.

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01/11/1769

Garlieb Merkel, German author and activist (died 1850)

Garlieb Helwig Merkel was a Baltic German writer and activist and an early Estophile and Lettophile.

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01/11/1762

Spencer Perceval, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1812)

Spencer Perceval was a British statesman and barrister who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1809 until his assassination in May 1812. He is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated, and the only solicitor-general or attorney-general to have become prime minister.

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01/11/1757

Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor and educator (died 1822)

Antonio Canova was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, his sculpture was inspired by the Baroque and the classical revival, and has been characterised as having avoided the melodramatics of the former, and the cold artificiality of the latter.

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01/11/1752

Józef Zajączek, Polish general, politician (died 1826)

Prince Józef Zajączek was a Polish general and politician.

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01/11/1727

Ivan Shuvalov, Russian art collector and philanthropist (died 1797)

Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov was called the Maecenas (patron) of the Russian Enlightenment, the first Russian Minister of Education and Active Privy Councillor (1773). Russia's first theatre, university, and academy of arts were instituted with his active participation. A favorite of Elizaveta Petrovna of Russia and a friend of the scientist M.V. Lomonosov.

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01/11/1720

Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (died 1791)

Lieutenant général des armées navales Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte was a French Navy officer. Over a career spanning 50 years, he served under Louis XV and Louis XVI and took part in 34 military engagements. He fought in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War, earning the ranks of Commandeur in the Order of Saint Louis in 1780, and of Grand Cross in 1784. He died during the French Revolution.

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01/11/1666

James Sherard, English botanist and curator (died 1738)

James Sherard was an English apothecary, botanist, and amateur musician.

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01/11/1661

Florent Carton Dancourt, French actor and playwright (died 1725)

Florent Carton aka Dancourt, French dramatist and actor, was born at Fontainebleau. He belonged to a family of rank, and his parents entrusted his education to Pere de la Rue, a Jesuit, who made earnest efforts to induce him to join the order. But he had no religious vocation and proceeded to study law.

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Louis, Grand Dauphin, heir apparent to the throne of France (died 1711)

Louis, Dauphin of France, commonly known as le Grand Dauphin, was the eldest son of King Louis XIV and his spouse, Maria Theresa of Spain and heir apparent to the French throne. He became known as the Grand Dauphin after the birth of his own son, Louis, Duke of Burgundy, the Petit (little) Dauphin. Both of them died before King Louis XIV and thus never became king. Instead, the Grand Dauphin's grandson became King Louis XV at the death of Louis XIV, and his second son inherited the Spanish throne as Philip V through his grandmother, founding the Spanish Bourbon line.

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01/11/1643

John Strype, English priest, historian, and author (died 1737)

John Strype was an English clergyman, historian and biographer from London. He became a merchant when settling in Petticoat Lane. In his twenties, he became perpetual curate of Theydon Bois, Essex and later became curate of Leyton; this allowed him direct correspondence with several highly notable ecclesiastical figures of his time. He wrote extensively in his later years.

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01/11/1636

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (died 1711)

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was greatly influenced by Horace.

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01/11/1625

Oliver Plunkett, Irish archbishop and saint (died 1681)

Oliver Plunkett was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the Popish Plot. He was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, thus becoming the first new Irish saint in almost seven hundred years.

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01/11/1611

François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-French commander (died 1656)

François-Marie, comte de Broglie and comte de Revel was a prominent soldier and commander in the Thirty Years' War.

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01/11/1609

Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (died 1676)

Sir Matthew Hale was an influential English lawyer, most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown. He occupied various public offices both under the Cromwellian Commonwealth and the Stuart Restoration. From 1671 until his retirement in 1676, he served as Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Hale is widely regarded as one of the key figures in the development of the common law.

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01/11/1607

Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, German poet and translator (died 1658)

Georg Philipp Harsdörffer was a Jurist, Baroque-period German poet and translator.

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01/11/1596

Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter (died 1669)

Pietro da Cortona was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important designer of interior decorations.

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01/11/1585

Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (died 1652)

Jan Brożek or Johannes Broscius was the most prominent Polish mathematician of his era and an early biographer of Copernicus. He held numerous ecclesiastical offices in the Catholic Church and was associated with the Kraków Academy for his entire career.

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01/11/1567

Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish academic and diplomat (died 1626)

Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, referred to simply as Count Gondomar, was a Spanish nobleman and diplomat. He twice served as Spain's ambassador to England and later held an informal but influential role as Spain's leading expert on English affairs, a position he maintained until his death.

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01/11/1550

Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück and Paderborn (died 1585)

Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg was a Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, then Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, then Prince-Bishop of Paderborn.

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01/11/1539

Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (died 1596)

Pierre Pithou was a French lawyer and scholar. He is also known as Petrus Pithoeus.

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01/11/1530

Étienne de La Boétie, French philosopher and judge (died 1563)

Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his friendship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian and civil disobedience thought.

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01/11/1527

William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, English noble and politician (died 1597)

Sir William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, KG, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and a member of parliament for Hythe. Although he was viewed by some as a religious radical during the Somerset Protectorate, he entertained Queen Elizabeth I of England at Cobham Hall in 1559, signalling his acceptance of the moderate regime.

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01/11/1526

Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John III of Sweden (died 1583)

Catherine Jagiellon was a princess of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Queen of Sweden from 1569 as the wife of King John III. Catherine had significant influence over state affairs during the reign of her spouse. She negotiated with the pope to introduce Counter-Reformation in Sweden. She was the mother of Sigismund III Vasa.

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01/11/1522

Andrew Corbet, English landowner and politician (died 1578)

Sir Andrew Corbet was an English Protestant politician of the mid-Tudor and early Elizabethan periods: a member of the powerful Council in the Marches of Wales for a quarter of a century. Drawn from the landed gentry of Shropshire and Buckinghamshire, he was twice a member of the Parliament of England for Shropshire.

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01/11/1499

Rodrigo of Aragon, Italian noble (died 1512)

Rodrigo of Aragon, Duke of Bisceglie and Sermoneta of the House of Trastámara, was the only child of Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, and her second husband Alfonso of Aragon, son of Alfonso II of Naples.

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01/11/1498

Giovanni Ricci, Italian cardinal (died 1574)

Giovanni Ricci was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

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01/11/1419

Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (died 1485)

Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was a Prince of Grubenhagen; he reigned from 1440 until his death in 1485.

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01/11/1351

Leopold III, Duke of Austria (died 1386)

Leopold III, known as the Just, a member of the House of Habsburg, was duke of Austria from 1365. As head and progenitor of the Leopoldian line, he ruled over the Inner Austrian duchies of Carinthia, Styria and Carniola as well as the County of Tyrol and Further Austria from 1379 until his death.

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01/11/1339

Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (died 1365)

Rudolf IV, also called Rudolf the Founder, was a scion of the House of Habsburg who ruled as duke of Austria, Styria and Carinthia from 1358, as well as count of Tyrol from 1363 and as the first duke of Carniola from 1364 until his death. He succeeded his father Albert II, Duke of Austria, who was not included among the seven imperial prince-electors by the Golden Bull of 1356. In order to acquire titles and honors higher than ducal, Rudolf commissioned the "Privilegium Maius", a forged document accompanied by several other forgeries, that were divised in order to elevate Austrian dukes to various titles, rights and privileges. The Emperor Charles IV refused to recognize and confirm the validity of those claims, but in spite of that, Rudolf started to use the archducal title by the middle of 1359, and continued to assert those claims until his death.

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01/11/0846

Louis the Stammerer, Frankish king (died 879)

Louis the Stammerer was the king of Aquitaine and later the king of West Francia. He was the eldest son of Emperor Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans. Louis the Stammerer was physically weak and outlived his father by a year and a half.

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