15th November — World Recycling Day & Clean Air Day

On this day, 224 notable people were born on 15th November — spanning from 459 to 2001. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

15/11/2001

TyTy Washington Jr., American basketball player

Tyrone Lewis "TyTy" Washington Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the San Diego Clippers of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. He was a consensus five-star recruit and one of the top point guards in the 2021 class.

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15/11/1997

Paula Badosa, Spanish tennis player

Paula Badosa Gibert is a Spanish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles by the WTA and No. 124 in doubles, achieved on 25 April 2022. She has won four WTA Tour singles titles, including a WTA 1000 event in Indian Wells, and is a Grand Slam semifinalist at the 2025 Australian Open.

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15/11/1996

Kim Min-jae, South Korean footballer

Kim Min-jae is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the South Korea national team.

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15/11/1995

Blake Pieroni, American swimmer

Blake John Pieroni is a three-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming. He is a two time Olympian and gold medalist in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay at both the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics. On the relay in 2016, he swam in the prelims of the race, on the 2020 Olympics 4×100-meter freestyle relay he swam in both the prelims and the final. He also won a gold medal in the 4x100-meter medley relay at the 2020 Olympic Games, swimming the freestyle leg of the relay in the prelims.

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Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player

Karl-Anthony Towns Jr., also known by his initials KAT, is an American and Dominican professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named to the Dominican Republic national team as a 16-year-old and played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. He was selected with the first overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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15/11/1994

Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russian tennis player

Ekaterina Evgenyevna Alexandrova is a Russian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 10, achieved on 13 October 2025 and a best doubles ranking of No. 41, reached on 8 September 2025.

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Emma Dumont, American actress and model

Nick Dumont, known professionally as Emma Dumont, is an American actor, model, and dancer. They are known for their roles as Melanie Segal in the ABC Family series Bunheads, Emma Karn in the NBC series Aquarius, Lorna Dane/Polaris in the FOX series The Gifted, and Jackie Oppenheimer in the Christopher Nolan biographical thriller Oppenheimer (2023).

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Bryce Cartwright, Australian rugby league player

Bryce Cartwright is an Australian semi-professional rugby league footballer who plays for St Marys Saints in the Ron Massey Cup.

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15/11/1993

Arik Armstead, American football player

Arik Armstead is an American professional football defensive end for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks and was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the first round of the 2015 NFL draft.

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Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer

Paulo Exequiel Dybala is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Roma and the Argentina national team. He is nicknamed "La Joya".

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Saaya Irie, Japanese actress and singer

Saaya Irie is a Japanese gravure model, actress, television personality and former singer. Her stage name is simply her given name, Saaya.

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Melitina Staniouta, Belarusian rhythmic gymnast

Melitina Dmitryevna Staniouta is a Belarusian retired individual rhythmic gymnast. She is a three-time World all-around bronze medalist, the 2015 European Games all-around bronze medalist, the 2014 European Championships all-around silver medalist, and 2009 Grand Prix Final all-around bronze medalist.

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15/11/1992

Dylan Bundy, American baseball player

Dylan Matthew Bundy is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Angels and Minnesota Twins.

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Sofia Goggia, Italian skier

Sofia Goggia is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer who competes in all disciplines and specialises in the speed events of downhill and super-G. She is a three-time Olympic downhill medalist – gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the first one for an Italian woman – and four-time World Cup downhill title winner.

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Minami Minegishi, Japanese singer

Minami Minegishi is a Japanese singer and actress best known for her affiliation with the idol girl group AKB48 and its subunit no3b. Nicknamed Mii-chan (みぃちゃん), she has the longest tenure among AKB48's original members, lasting 16 years from 2005 to 2021.

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Daniela Seguel, Chilean tennis player

Daniela Valeska Seguel Carvajal is an inactive Chilean tennis player. She has won 16 singles titles and 28 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 28 May 2018, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 162, weeks after reaching quarterfinals on the Copa Colsanitas, her best result on a WTA Tour tournament yet. Seguel's first-round win over Nicole Gibbs was the first professional match won by a Chilean female tennis player since 1980. On 7 July 2014, she peaked at No. 110 in the WTA doubles rankings.

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Trevor Story, American baseball player

Trevor John Story is an American professional baseball shortstop and second baseman for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Colorado Rockies.

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Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer

Kevin Wimmer is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Slovan Bratislava.

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15/11/1991

Maxime Colin, French footballer

Maxime Jean-Yves Colin is a French professional footballer who plays as a full back for Ligue 2 club Metz. He previously played for Boulogne, Troyes, Anderlecht, Brentford and Birmingham City. He won seven caps for France at under-20 level.

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Shailene Woodley, American actress

Shailene Diann Woodley is an American actress. Woodley's breakthrough role came as Amy Juergens in the ABC Family teen drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013). She then starred in the films The Descendants (2011), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination, and The Spectacular Now (2013).

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15/11/1989

Jona Viray, Filipino singer

Jonalyn Roxas Viray, known mononymously as Jona, is a Filipino singer and songwriter. She gained recognition after winning Pinoy Pop Superstar. She was previously the lead singer of trio girl-group La Diva. Following the group's disbandment, she released her single "Help Me Get Over" which was awarded the Song of the Year Award at the 6th PMPC Star Awards for Music. In February 2016 she changed her screen name to Jona. She has won several awards, both solo and as member of La Diva. She is known for her belting technique, melismatic singing style, and her ability to sing operatic arias.

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15/11/1988

B.o.B, American rapper, songwriter, and producer

Bobby Ray Simmons Jr., known professionally as B.o.B, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Quanitra Hollingsworth, American-Turkish basketball player

Quanitra Hollingsworth is an American-Turkish professional basketball player for Galatasaray.

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Morgan Parra, French rugby player

Morgan Parra is a former French rugby union player who played as a scrum-half and occasionally fly-half. He played most of his career with Clermont Auvergne after signing for them from Bourgoin. He is of Portuguese origin through his father, Antonio.

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Billy Twelvetrees, English rugby player

William Wesley Twelvetrees is a rugby union footballer who plays centre or fly-half for Worcester Warriors. He formerly played as inside centre for the England national team.

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15/11/1987

Sergio Llull, Spanish basketball player

Sergio Llull Melià is a Spanish professional basketball player and the team captain for Real Madrid of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. He is a 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) combo guard.

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15/11/1986

Winston Duke, Tobagonian-American actor

Winston Duke is a Tobagonian actor. Duke was born in Tobago and moved to Brooklyn, New York, United States, at age nine.

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Coye Francies, American football player

Coye Glenn Francies is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon State Beavers and San Jose State Spartans. In the 2009 NFL draft, the Cleveland Browns selected Francies in the sixth round.

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Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player

Sania Mirza is an Indian former professional tennis player. A former doubles world No. 1, she won six major titles – three in women's doubles and three in mixed doubles. From 2003 until her retirement from singles in 2013, she was ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as the No. 1 Indian in singles. Throughout her career, Mirza has established herself as one of the most known, highest-paid, and influential athletes in India.

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Jerry Roush, American singer-songwriter

Gerald Allen "Jerry" Roush is an American musician, best known as the former vocalist for Sky Eats Airplane, Of Mice & Men, and Glass Cloud. He has also served as a substitute vocalist for American Me during their Japan tour.

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15/11/1985

Lily Aldridge, American model

Lily Maud Aldridge is an American model. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2010 to 2018. She also appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, alongside Chrissy Teigen and Nina Agdal, for the 50th anniversary cover in 2014.

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Charron Fisher, American basketball player

Charron Fisher is an American former professional basketball player.

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Simon Spender, Welsh footballer

Simon Spender is a Welsh football coach and former professional footballer who is an academy coach at The New Saints.

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15/11/1984

Asia Kate Dillon, American actor and producer

Asia Kate Dillon is an American actor. They are known for their roles as Brandy Epps in Orange Is the New Black and Taylor Mason in Billions. Dillon identifies as non-binary and uses singular they pronouns. Their role on Billions is the first non-binary main character on North American television, and earned them a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. They also played the Adjudicator in the action film John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019).

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15/11/1983

Dominic Carroll, Gibraltarian runner

Dominic Carroll is a retired Gibraltarian track athlete.

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Sophia Di Martino, English actress

Sophia Di Martino is an English actress known for portraying Sylvie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Loki (2021–2023), which earned her two MTV Movie & TV Awards and a nomination for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She has also had starring roles in the television shows Casualty (2009–2011) and Flowers (2016–2018).

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Aleksandar Pavlović, Serbian basketball player

Aleksandar "Saša" Pavlović is a Serbian-Montenegrin basketball executive and former professional player who spent ten seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), playing for the Utah Jazz, Cleveland Cavaliers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Dallas Mavericks, New Orleans Pelicans, Boston Celtics and the Portland Trail Blazers. He also represented the national basketball team of Serbia and Montenegro internationally. Standing at 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), he played the small forward and shooting guard positions.

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Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player

Fernando Verdasco Carmona is a Spanish tennis coach and a former professional player. He was ranked world No. 7 in men's singles by the ATP, achieved in April 2009, and world No. 8 in men's doubles, achieved in November 2013. Verdasco won seven singles titles on the ATP Tour, and reached a major singles semifinal at the 2009 Australian Open. He also won eight doubles titles, including the 2013 ATP World Tour Finals partnering David Marrero.

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John Heitinga, Dutch footballer and coach

John Gijsbert Alan Heitinga is a Dutch football coach and former player, most recently an assistant coach at Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur.

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15/11/1982

D. J. Fitzpatrick, American football player

Daniel Joseph Fitzpatrick is an American former professional football punter and placekicker. He was signed by the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL) as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Fitzpatrick was also a member of the Berlin Thunder, Buffalo Bills, and Montreal Alouettes.

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Rio Hirai, Japanese actress

Rio Hirai is a Japanese TV actress and announcer who is represented by the talent agency DeJaneiro.

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Joe Kowalewski, American football player

Joe Kowalewski is an American former professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Syracuse Orange and was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2006.

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Benjamin Krause, German rugby player

Benjamin Krause is a German international rugby union player, playing for the DSV 78 Hannover in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.

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Giaan Rooney, Australian swimmer

Giaan Leigh Rooney, OAM is an Australian former competitive swimmer and television personality. As a member of the Australian team in women's 4×100-metre medley relay, she won an Olympic gold medal and broke a world record at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Rooney is currently an Australian television presenter.

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Lofa Tatupu, American football player

Mosiula Mea'alofa "Lofa" Tatupu is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for six seasons with the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans. Tatupu was selected by Seahawks in the second round of the 2005 NFL draft. After his playing career, he was an assistant linebackers coach with the Seahawks.

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Kalu Uche, Nigerian footballer

Kalu Uche is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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15/11/1981

Drew Hodgdon, American football player

Lincoln Andrew Hodgdon is an American former professional football player who was an offensive lineman for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils.

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Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer

Lorena Ochoa Reyes is a Mexican former professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010. She was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for 158 consecutive and total weeks, from 23 April 2007 to her retirement on 2 May 2010, at the age of 28 years old. As the first Mexican golfer of either gender to be ranked number one in the world, because of her record, she is considered the best Mexican female golfer of all time. Ochoa was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017.

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15/11/1980

Ace Young, American singer-songwriter and actor

Brett "Ace" Young is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He gained national recognition while appearing on the fifth season of American Idol. Young is married to American Idol season-three runner-up Diana DeGarmo.

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15/11/1979

Brooks Bollinger, American football player and coach

Brooks Michael Bollinger is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Jets, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions. He was also a member of the Florida Tuskers in the United Football League (UFL). He played college football for the Wisconsin Badgers.

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Josemi, Spanish footballer

José Miguel González Rey, known as Josemi, is a Spanish former footballer. Mainly a right back, he also played as a central defender.

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Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist

Brett Lancaster is an Australian former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2003 and 2016. Born in Shepparton, Victoria, Lancaster started cycle racing at the age of 14 in 1993. He spent four years riding for Ceramiche Panaria–Fiordo before moving to Team Milram in July 2006. In 2009 and 2010 he rode for Cervélo TestTeam, and rode for Garmin–Cervélo in 2011.

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15/11/1978

Floyd Womack, American football player

Floyd Seneca Womack, nicknamed "Pork Chop", is an American former professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth round of the 2001 NFL draft. He played college football for the Mississippi State Bulldogs.

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15/11/1977

Richard Lintner, Slovak ice hockey player

Richard Lintner is a Slovak former professional ice hockey defenceman who last played for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League and current television presenter. He previously played in the National Hockey League for the Nashville Predators, New York Rangers and the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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Steven Miles, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Queensland

Steven John Miles is an Australian politician who served as the 40th premier of Queensland from 2023 to 2024. He has been the leader of the Queensland Labor Party since 2023 and previously served as deputy premier from 2020 to 2023.

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Sean Murray, American actor

Sean Harland Murray is an American actor known for his role as Special Agent Timothy McGee on the American TV drama NCIS, Thackery Binx in Disney's Halloween film Hocus Pocus and Danny Walden in the military drama series JAG.

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Peter Phillips, English businessman

Peter Mark Andrew Phillips is a British businessman and member of the British royal family. He is the son of Anne, Princess Royal, and Mark Phillips, and a nephew of King Charles III. At his birth, during the reign of his maternal grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, Phillips was fifth in the line of succession to the British throne; as of 2026, he is 19th.

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Robaire Smith, American football player

Robaire Fredrick Smith is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans.

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15/11/1976

Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian, actor, and stuntman

Brandon DiCamillo is an American former television personality. A founding member of the CKY crew, he appeared in the CKY video series as well as MTV's Jackass, Viva La Bam, and Bam's Unholy Union series.

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Virginie Ledoyen, French actress

Virginie Fernández, known by her stage name Virginie Ledoyen, is a French actress. She has appeared in French, English and American films.

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Sule, Indonesian comedian and actor

Sutisna, more commonly known as Sule, is an Indonesian comedian and actor. He became well-known after winning the Indonesian comedian audition show API with Ogi Suwarna and Obin Wahyudin in the group SOS in 2005.

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15/11/1975

Scott Henshall, English fashion designer

Scott Henshall is a British fashion designer, philanthropist, TV personality and occasional fashion journalist.

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Yannick Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player

Yannick Tremblay is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Atlanta Thrashers and Vancouver Canucks.

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Boris Živković, Croatian footballer

Boris Živković is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a full-back and centre-back.

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15/11/1974

Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Chad Robert Kroeger is a Canadian musician who is best known for being the lead singer, lead guitarist, primary songwriter, and founding member of the rock band Nickelback. In addition to his work with Nickelback, Kroeger has been involved with a variety of collaborations, appearing as a guest musician in several songs and has contributed in both production and songwriting. He has co-written several songs for other artists and films.

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15/11/1973

Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress

Sydney Tamiia Poitier is an American-Canadian television and film actress.

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Alamgir Sheriyar, English cricketer

Alamgir Sheriyar is a former English first-class cricketer. His last professional club was Leicestershire.

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15/11/1972

Jonny Lee Miller, English-American actor

Jonathan Lee Miller is an English actor. He achieved early success for his portrayal of Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson in the dark comedy-drama film Trainspotting (1996) and as Dade Murphy in Hackers (1995), then earning further critical recognition for his performances in Afterglow (1997), Mansfield Park (1999), Mindhunters (2004), The Flying Scotsman (2006), Endgame (2009), and T2 Trainspotting (2017). For The Flying Scotsman he received a London Film Critics' Circle nomination for Actor of the Year. He was also part of the principal cast in the films Melinda and Melinda (2004), Dark Shadows (2012), and Byzantium (2013). He has appeared in several theatrical productions, most notably After Miss Julie and Frankenstein, the latter of which earned him an Olivier Award for Best Actor.

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15/11/1971

Jay Harrington, American actor

James H. Harrington III, professionally known as Jay Harrington, is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as the title character in the ABC sitcom Better Off Ted (2009–2010), and as Sgt. David "Deacon" Kay in S.W.A.T. from 2017 to 2025.

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Martin Pieckenhagen, German footballer

Martin Pieckenhagen is a German former professional footballer. He is the sporting director of Hansa Rostock.

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15/11/1970

Ilija Aračić, Croatian footballer and coach

Ilija Aračić is a Croatian football coach and a former player who played as a striker.

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Jack Ingram, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Jack Owen Ingram is an American country music artist formerly signed to Big Machine Records, an independent record label. He has released eleven studio albums, one extended play, six live albums, and 19 singles. Although active since 1992, Ingram did not reach the U.S. Country Top 40 until the release of his single "Wherever You Are" late-2005. A number one hit on the Billboard country charts, that song was also his first release for Big Machine and that label's first Number One hit. Ingram has sent six other songs into the country Top 40 with "Love You", "Lips of an Angel", "Measure of a Man", "Maybe She'll Get Lonely", "That's a Man", and "Barefoot and Crazy".

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Alexander Kvitashvili, Georgian-Ukrainian academic and politician, 19th Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare

Alexander "Sandro" Merabovich Kvitashvili is a Georgian and Ukrainian health manager and government official. He is a former Minister of Healthcare of Ukraine appointed on 2 December 2014 and was granted Ukrainian citizenship the same day. On 14 April 2016 he was relieved of his post. Kvitashvili was Minister of Health of Georgia from 2008 to 2010 and rector of Tbilisi State University (TSU) from 2010 to 2013.

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Patrick M'Boma, Cameroonian footballer

Henri Patrick Mboma Dem is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the fourth all-time top goal-scorer for the Cameroon national team.

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15/11/1968

Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper and producer (died 2004)

Russell Tyrone Jones, known professionally as Ol' Dirty Bastard, was an American rapper who was one of the founding members of the New York rap group Wu-Tang Clan, formed in 1992. Jones also released music as a solo artist beginning with Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (1995). He was noted for his "outrageously profane, free-associative rhymes delivered in a distinctive half-rapped, half-sung style".

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Fausto Brizzi, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter

Fausto Brizzi is an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.

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Teodoro Casiño, Filipino journalist and politician

Teodoro "Teddy" Acevedo Casiño is a Filipino activist, writer, and journalist. He was a member of the House of Representatives for Bayan Muna. He is currently the chairperson of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan).

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Jennifer Charles, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Jennifer Asher Charles is an American singer and songwriter. Along with Oren Bloedow, she co-founded the New York band Elysian Fields. Her work is known for its emotional intensity, with her writing exploring nature, love, loss, death, myth, and identity, often with philosophical and literary influences. She has a contralto voice.

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Uwe Rösler, German footballer and manager

Uwe Rösler is a German football manager and former player who is the manager of 2. Bundesliga club VfL Bochum.

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15/11/1967

Greg Anthony, American basketball player and sportscaster

Gregory Carlton Anthony is an American former professional basketball player who is a television analyst for NBA TV and Turner Sports. He played 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Anthony also contributes to Yahoo! Sports as a college basketball analyst and serves as a co-host/analyst on SiriusXM NBA Radio. His son, Cole Anthony, last played for the Milwaukee Bucks.

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Cynthia Breazeal, American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic

Cynthia Breazeal is an American AI and robotics scientist and entrepreneur. She is a pioneer of social robotics and human-robot interaction. She is the former chief scientist and chief experience officer of Jibo, a company she co-founded in 2012 that developed companion robots for the family at home. Currently, she is a professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, dean for digital learning at MIT Open Learning, and director of the MIT RAISE Initiative. Her work has explored the theme of living everyday life in the presence of AI and, in recent years, has been a leader in AI literacy for youth.

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E-40, American rapper and actor

Earl Tywone Stevens, better known by his stage name E-40, is an American rapper. Stevens is a founding member of the rap group the Click and the founder of Sick Wid It Records. He has released 27 studio albums to date, appeared on numerous movie soundtracks, and has also done guest appearances on a host of other rap albums. Initially an underground artist, his 1995 solo album In a Major Way opened him up to a wider audience. Beginning in 1998, he began collaborating with mainstream rappers outside the San Francisco Bay Area. He rose to higher mainstream popularity in 2006 with his single "Tell Me When to Go", which was produced by Lil Jon.

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Wayne Harrison, English footballer (died 2013)

Wayne Harrison was an English professional footballer who played as a striker.

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François Ozon, French director, producer, and screenwriter

François Ozon is a French film director and screenwriter.

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Gus Poyet, Uruguayan footballer and manager

Gustavo Augusto Poyet Domínguez is a Uruguayan professional football manager and former footballer. He last served as the head coach of Saudi Pro League club Al-Khaleej.

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Jon Preston, New Zealand rugby player

Jon Paul Preston is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A halfback and first five-eighth, Preston represented Canterbury and Wellington at a provincial level and the Hurricanes in Super Rugby. He was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1991 to 1997, playing 27 matches for the team, including 10 internationals.

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15/11/1966

Rachel True, American actress

Rachel India True is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in such films as The Craft (1996), Nowhere (1997), and Half Baked (1998). True is also known for her role as Mona Thorne on the UPN sitcom Half & Half, which ran from 2002 to 2006.

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15/11/1965

Nigel Bond, English snooker player

Nigel Bond is an English former professional snooker player.

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Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer

Stefan Pfeiffer is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles he won the bronze medal in the 1500 m freestyle event. Four years later at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Pfeiffer earned another medal, this time silver, in the same event.

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15/11/1964

Stelios Aposporis, Greek footballer and manager

Stelios Aposporis is a former Greek footballer who played as a midfielder. He played during the 80's in many famous Greek teams such as Panionios (1982–1990), OFI (1990–1993) and Doxa Virona (1993–1996) and in 1996 decided to retire from professional football. In 2004, he was appointed from Hellenic Football Federation as Greece Under 21 manager. He was replaced in September 2007 by Nikos Nioplias.

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Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2011)

Mikhail Anatolyevich Rusyayev was a Russian professional footballer who played as a striker.

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Tiit Sokk, Estonian basketball player and coach

Tiit Sokk is a retired Estonian professional basketball player and current coach. Often cited as one of the very best European point guards of his generation, he is widely recognized as the greatest Estonian basketball player in history. Elected to the Hall of fame of Estonian basketball in 2010.

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15/11/1963

Andrew Castle, English tennis player and television host

Andrew Nicholas Castle is a British broadcaster and former tennis player. Castle was Great Britain's number 1 in singles tennis in 1986, reaching World No. 80 in June 1988, and No. 45 in doubles in December 1988, with Tim Wilkison of the United States.

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Benny Elias, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

Ben Elias is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played primarily as a hooker for Balmain in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. He was one of the leading hookers from the mid-1980s until his retirement at the end of the 1994 season. Along with Wayne Pearce, Paul Sironen and Steve Roach, Elias and his Balmain teammates formed one of the best forward packs in the modern era during the late 1980s.

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Kevin J. O'Connor, American actor

Kevin James O'Connor is an American character actor known for roles in films such as Lord of Illusions, The Mummy, Van Helsing, and There Will Be Blood. He is a favorite of director Stephen Sommers.

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15/11/1962

Mark Acres, American basketball player and educator

Mark Richard Acres is an American former professional basketball player who spent most of his career in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a 6'11", 220 lb (100 kg) power forward/center.

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Judy Gold, American comedian, actress, and producer

Judy Gold is an American stand-up comedian, actor, podcaster, television writer, author, producer, and activist. She won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work as a writer and producer on The Rosie O'Donnell Show. Gold hosts the podcast It's Judy's Show with Judy Gold. Her collection of essays, "Yes I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble," was published in 2020. In 2023, she turned her book into a solo show, "Yes, I Can Say That!" directed by BD Wong.

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15/11/1961

Hugh McGahan, New Zealand rugby league player

Hugh Joseph McGahan is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer, and coach who represented New Zealand. He retired as the New Zealand national team's all-time top try scorer, with 16. Since retirement McGahan has worked as a rugby league newspaper columnist and a football manager.

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15/11/1960

Dawn Airey, English broadcaster

Dawn Elizabeth Airey is a British media executive, sports administrator and independent company director.

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15/11/1959

Tibor Fischer, English author

Tibor Fischer is a British novelist and short-story writer. In 1993, he was selected by the literary magazine Granta as one of the 20 best young British writers, while his novel Under the Frog was featured on the Booker Prize shortlist.

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15/11/1958

Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Australian actor and director

Lewis Fitz-Gerald is an Australian actor, screenwriter and television director.

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Gu Kailai, Chinese lawyer and businesswoman

Gu Kailai is a Chinese former lawyer and businesswoman. She is the second wife of former Politburo member Bo Xilai, one of China's most influential politicians until he was stripped of his offices in 2012. In August 2012, Gu was convicted of murdering British businessman Neil Heywood and was given a suspended death sentence, later commuted to life imprisonment in December 2015.

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Lesley Laird, British politician

Lesley Margaret Laird is a Scottish politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2017 to 2019. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath from 2017 to 2019, and Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland during the same period. Laird was a Member of Fife Council from 2012 to 2018 and served as the Deputy Leader of the Council.

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15/11/1957

Gerry Connolly, Australian comedian and actor

Gerald William Connolly is an Australian comedian, actor, impressionist and pianist. He is best known for his satirical caricatures of public figures such as former Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II, King Charles III, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Neville Wran, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard, Bill Collins and Dame Joan Sutherland, among many others.

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Kevin Eubanks, American guitarist and composer

Kevin Tyrone Eubanks is an American jazz and fusion guitarist and composer. He was the leader of The Tonight Show Band with host Jay Leno from 1995 to its original conclusion in 2009, and briefly again from March to May 2010 when the program was revived. He also led The Primetime Band on the short-lived The Jay Leno Show from September 2009 to February 2010.

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Harold Marcuse, American historian and educator

Harold Marcuse is an American professor of modern and contemporary German history and public history. He teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the grandson of philosopher Herbert Marcuse.

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Michael Woythe, German footballer and manager

Michael Woythe is a German football manager and former player.

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15/11/1956

Michael Hampton, American guitarist and producer

Michael Hampton is an American funk/rock guitarist. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.

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15/11/1955

Joe Leeway, English pop singer-songwriter and percussionist

Joseph Martin Leeway is a British musician and songwriter, who is best known as being a member of the pop band Thompson Twins, joining the band in 1981 after being one of their roadies.

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15/11/1954

Kevin S. Bright, American director and producer

Kevin S. Bright is an American television executive producer and director. He is best known as the showrunner of the sitcoms Dream On and Friends.

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Emma Dent Coad, British politician

Emma Dent Coad is a British architectural historian and politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kensington from 2017 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, she was first elected a member of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council for Golborne ward in 2006. She resigned her Labour membership on 27 April 2023, but remained on the local council as an independent until 2026.

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Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Poland

Aleksander Kwaśniewski is a Polish politician and journalist who served as the 3rd president of Poland from 1995 to 2005.

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Randy Thomas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Randy Thomas is an American Christian rock musician best known for being a member of the Sweet Comfort Band and Allies and co-writing "Butterfly Kisses".

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Tony Thompson, American R&B, disco, and rock drummer (died 2003)

Anthony Theodore Thompson was an American session drummer best known as the drummer of the Power Station and a member of Chic.

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15/11/1953

Alexander O'Neal, American R&B singer-songwriter and arranger

Alexander O'Neal is an American retired R&B singer, songwriter and arranger who rose to prominence in the mid-1980s as a solo artist, with eleven top 40 singles on the US R&B chart, three of which also reached the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. However, he enjoyed more mainstream success in the United Kingdom, achieving fourteen top 40 singles on the UK singles chart between 1985 and 1996, along with three top ten albums on the UK Albums Chart.

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James Widdoes, American actor, director, and producer

James Landauer Widdoes, sometimes billed as Jamie Widdoes, is an American actor and television director.

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15/11/1952

Rick Atkinson, American journalist, historian, and author

Lawrence Rush "Rick" Atkinson IV is an American author and journalist.

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Randy Savage, American wrestler (died 2011)

Randy Mario Poffo, better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler, rapper, and professional baseball player. He is best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

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15/11/1951

Beverly D'Angelo, American actress, singer, and producer

Beverly Heather D'Angelo is an American actress who starred as Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon's Vacation films (1983–2015) and musician. She has appeared in over 60 films and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role as Patsy Cline in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), and for an Emmy Award for her role as Stella Kowalski in the TV film A Streetcar Named Desire (1984). D'Angelo's other film roles include Sheila Franklin in Hair (1979) and Doris Vinyard in American History X (1998).

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15/11/1950

Egon Vaupel, German lawyer and politician, 16th Mayor of Marburg

Egon Vaupel is a German politician, member of the SPD, and the mayor of Marburg 2005 - 2015.

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15/11/1948

Jimmy Choo, Malaysian fashion designer[page needed]

Jimmy Choo Yeang Keat is a Malaysian fashion designer based in the United Kingdom. He co-founded Jimmy Choo Ltd, which became known for its handmade women's shoes.

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Teodoro Locsin, Jr., Filipino journalist, lawyer, politician and diplomat

Teodoro "Teddy Boy" Lopez Locsin Jr. is a Filipino politician, diplomat, lawyer, and former journalist who is currently serving as the Philippine Ambassador to the United Kingdom since August 30, 2022. He previously served as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs under the Duterte administration from 2018 to 2022. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 2001 to 2010, representing the 1st district of Makati and later served as the Philippine ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2018. He was the host of the editorial segment titled "Teditorial" for ANC's nightly newscast The World Tonight.

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15/11/1947

Bob Dandridge, American basketball player

Robert L. Dandridge Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "the Greyhound", Dandridge was a four-time NBA All-Star and two-time NBA champion, who scored 15,530 points in his career. He was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021.

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Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2023)

William Blaine Richardson III was an American politician, author, and diplomat who served as the 30th governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. He was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary in the Clinton administration, a U.S. congressman, chair of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and chair of the Democratic Governors Association (DGA).

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Ken Sutcliffe, Australian journalist and sportscaster

Ken Sutcliffe is an Australian retired sporting journalist and radio and television personality, known for his association with the Nine Network.

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15/11/1946

Vassilis Goumas, Greek basketball player

Vassilis Goumas was a Greek professional basketball player. During his playing career, he was nicknamed The Emperor. At the club level, Goumas was a member of the FIBA European Selection team in 1974. While at the national team level, he was the MVP of the 1973 FIBA EuroBasket Qualification Tournament, while representing the senior Greek national team. In June 1987, after Goumas had announced that the upcoming 1987–88 season would be the final season of his basketball playing career, he was honored by FIBA with a retirement farewell celebration FIBA Europe All-Star Game.

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15/11/1945

Roger Donaldson, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter

Roger Lindsey Donaldson is an Australian and New Zealand film director, screenwriter, and producer. His 1977 debut film, Sleeping Dogs, is considered a landmark work of New Zealand cinema, as one of the country’s first films to attract large-scale critical and commercial success. He has subsequently directed 17 feature films, working in Hollywood and the United Kingdom, as well as his native country.

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Bob Gunton, American actor and singer

Robert Patrick Gunton Jr. is an American character actor of stage and screen. He is known for playing strict authoritarian characters, including Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison drama The Shawshank Redemption, Chief George Earle in 1993's Demolition Man, Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in Patch Adams, and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in Argo. He also played Leland Owlsley in the Daredevil television series, Secretary of Defense Ethan Kanin in 24, and Noah Taylor in Desperate Housewives.

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Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian-Swedish singer

Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad, also known simply as Frida, is a Norwegian-born Swedish singer who is best known as one of the founding members and lead singers of the pop band ABBA. Born in Bjørkåsen, Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father, she grew up in Torshälla, Sweden.

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15/11/1942

Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor

Daniel Moses Barenboim is an Argentinian-born classical pianist and conductor with Spanish, Israeli and Palestinian citizenship. From 1992 until January 2023, Barenboim was the general music director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeister" of its orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin.

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15/11/1940

Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer (died 2024)

Roberto Cavalli was an Italian fashion designer and inventor. He was known for exotic prints and for creating the sand-blasted look for jeans. The Roberto Cavalli fashion house sells luxury clothing, perfume, and leather accessories.

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Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor and screenwriter

Ulf Pilgaard was a Danish actor.

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Sam Waterston, American actor

Samuel Atkinson Waterston is an American actor. Waterston is known for his work in theater, television, and film. He has received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and two BAFTA Awards. His acting career has spanned over five decades acting on stage and screen. Waterston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2012.

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15/11/1939

Yaphet Kotto, American actor and screenwriter (died 2021)

Yaphet Frederick Kotto was an American actor for film and television. His films include the neo-noir action thriller Across 110th Street (1972), the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973), the science-fiction horror film Alien (1979), the science-fiction action film The Running Man (1987), and the action comedy Midnight Run (1988). He also starred in the NBC television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) as Lieutenant Al Giardello.

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Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (died 2015)

Rauni-Leena Tellervo Luukanen-Kilde was a Finnish physician who wrote and lectured on parapsychology, ufology, and mind control.

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Enzo Staiola, Italian child actor (died 2025)

Enzo Staiola was an Italian actor, best known for playing, at the age of eight, the role of Bruno Ricci in Vittorio De Sica's neorealist 1948 film Bicycle Thieves. He appeared in several other films including, in 1954, the American-produced The Barefoot Contessa with Humphrey Bogart. As an adult he became a mathematics teacher and later also worked as a land registry clerk.

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15/11/1937

Little Willie John, American singer-songwriter (died 1968)

William Edward "Little Willie" John was an American R&B singer who performed in the 1950s and early 1960s. He is best known for his successes on the record charts, with songs such as "All Around the World" (1955), "Need Your Love So Bad" (1956), "Talk to Me, Talk to Me" (1958), "Leave My Kitten Alone" (1960), "Sleep" (1960), and his number-one R&B hit "Fever" (1956).

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15/11/1936

Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and guitarist

Karl Wolf Biermann is a German singer-songwriter, poet, and former East German dissident. He is perhaps best known for the 1968 song "Ermutigung" and his expatriation from East Germany in 1976.

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Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (died 1998)

Tara Singh Hayer was an Indian-Canadian newspaper publisher and editor who was murdered after his outspoken criticism of fundamentalist violence and terrorism. In particular, he was a key witness in the trial of the Air India Flight 182 bombing.

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15/11/1935

Nera White, American basketball player (died 2016)

Nera D. White was an American basketball player. White played in the AAU national tournaments for the Nashville Business College team while completing her education at George Peabody College for Teachers, which did not field a team. Later, she led the United States national women's basketball team to their victory in the 1957 FIBA World Championship. Throughout her career, she was awarded numerous accolades, including her induction to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Playing at a time when there were no major professional women's basketball leagues in the U.S., White distinguished herself, receiving many accolades as one of the greatest female players in history. Talented in multiple sports, she also was distinguished as an All-World player by the Amateur Softball Association.

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Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian politician

Mahmoud Abbas, also known by the kunya Abu Mazen, is a Palestinian politician who has been serving as the second president of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) since 2005. He has also been the fourth chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 2004. Abbas is also a member of the Fatah party and was elected the party's chairman in 2009.

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15/11/1934

Joanna Barnes, American actress and author (died 2022)

Joanna Barnes was an American actress and writer.

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15/11/1933

Gloria Foster, American actress (died 2001)

Gloria Foster was an American actress. She had acclaimed roles in plays such as In White America and Having Our Say, winning three Obie Awards during her career. Foster played the Oracle in The Matrix (1999) and its first sequel, The Matrix Reloaded (2003). She played the role of the mother of Yusef Bell in the miniseries The Atlanta Child Murders which aired in 1985.

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Theodore Roszak, American scholar and author (died 2011)

Theodore Roszak was an American academic and novelist who concluded his academic career as Professor Emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay. He is best known for his 1969 text The Making of a Counter Culture.

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15/11/1932

Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter and actress

Sally "Petula" Clark is a British singer, actress, and songwriter. She started her professional career as a child performer and is still active more than 80 years later.

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Clyde McPhatter, American singer (died 1972)

Clyde Lensley McPhatter was an American rhythm and blues, soul, and rock and roll singer. He was one of the most widely imitated R&B singers of the 1950s and early 1960s and was a key figure in the shaping of doo-wop and R&B.

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Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher, author, and academic

Alvin Carl Plantinga is an American analytic philosopher and theologian who is a leading figure in the Reformed epistemology movement. He is the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and a professor emeritus of philosophy at Calvin University.

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15/11/1931

Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya (died 2022)

Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki was a Kenyan politician who served as the third President of Kenya from December 2002 until April 2013. He served in various leadership positions in Kenya's government including being the longest serving Member of Parliament (MP) in Kenya from 1963 to 2013. He was the fourth Vice-President of Kenya for ten years from 1978 to 1988 under President Daniel arap Moi. He also held cabinet ministerial positions in the Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi governments, including as minister for Finance (1969–1981) under Kenyatta, and Minister for Home Affairs (1982–1988) and Minister for Health (1988–1991) under Moi. Kibaki served as an opposition Member of Parliament from 1992 to 2002. He unsuccessfully vied for the presidency in 1992 and 1997. He served as the Leader of the Official Opposition in Parliament from 1998 to 2002. Following the 2002 presidential election, he was elected as the President of Kenya. As president of Kenya, Kibaki presided over a period of significant economic growth, infrastructural development, and institutional reforms. His administration introduced free primary education in 2003, expanded access to schooling for numerous Kenyan children. Under his leadership, Kenya experienced improvements in road networks, telecommunications, and public service delivery, while the country also adopted a new constitution in 2010 that introduced far reaching political and governance reforms. However, his presidency was also marked by the disputed 2007 presidential election and the post election violence that followed, resulting in the deaths and displacement of thousands of people. Despite these challenges, Kibaki is widely regarded as one of kenya's most influential leaders due to his contributions to economic recovery, constitutional transformation, and national development.

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Pascal Lissouba, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (died 2020)

Pascal Lissouba was a Congolese politician who was the first democratically elected President of the Republic of the Congo and served from 31 August 1992 until 25 October 1997. He was overthrown by his predecessor and current president Denis Sassou Nguesso in the 1997 civil war.

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15/11/1930

J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 2009)

James Graham Ballard was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard first became associated with New Wave science fiction for post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). He later courted controversy with the short-story collection The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which includes the 1968 story "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan", and later the novel Crash (1973), a story about car-crash fetishists.

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Olene Walker, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah (died 2015)

Olene Walker was an American politician who served as the 15th governor of Utah from 2003 to 2005, succeeding the governorship after Mike Leavitt's resignation.

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15/11/1929

Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer (died 2021)

Eddie Asner was an American actor. He is most notable for portraying Lou Grant on the sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977) and drama Lou Grant (1977–1982), making him one of the few television actors to portray the same character in both a comedy and a drama.

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Joe Hinton, American singer (died 1968)

Joseph Hinton was an American soul singer.

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15/11/1927

Bill Rowling, New Zealand politician, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1995)

Sir Wallace Edward Rowling was a New Zealand politician who was the 30th prime minister of New Zealand from 1974 to 1975. He held office as the leader of the Labour Party.

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15/11/1926

Thomas Williams, American author and academic (died 1990)

Thomas Williams was an American novelist. He won one U.S. National Book Award for Fiction—The Hair of Harold Roux split the 1975 award with Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers—and his last published novel, The Moon Pinnace (1986), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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15/11/1925

Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (died 2014)

Howard Henry Baker Jr. was an American politician, diplomat and photographer who served as a United States senator from Tennessee from 1967 to 1985. During his tenure, he rose to the rank of Senate minority leader and then Senate majority leader. A member of the Republican Party, Baker was the first Republican to be elected to the U.S. Senate in Tennessee since the Reconstruction era.

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15/11/1924

Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer and conductor (died 2013)

Gianni Ferrio was an Italian composer, conductor and music arranger.

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15/11/1923

Văn Cao, Vietnamese composer, poet, and painter (died 1995)

Văn Cao was a Vietnamese composer whose works include Tiến Quân Ca, which became the national anthem of Vietnam. He, along with Phạm Duy and Trịnh Công Sơn, is widely considered one of the three most salient figures of 20th-century (non-classical) Vietnamese music.

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Samuel Klein, Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia (died 2014)

Samuel Klein was a Polish-Brazilian business magnate and philanthropist who founded the Casas Bahia chain of department stores in Brazil, building them into the top retailer in the country, and making him known in the 1990s as the "Sam Walton of Brazil". In 2013, Forbes ranked him 78th richest person in Brazil with a personal net worth of $835 million, while his son, Michael, was ranked 87th with $723 million.

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15/11/1922

Francis Brunn, German juggler (died 2004)

Francis Brunn was a German juggler.

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David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist and academic (died 2019)

David Sidney Feingold was an American biochemist.

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Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2015)

Francesco Rosi was an Italian film director and screenwriter. His film The Mattei Affair won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to have political messages, while the topics of his later films became less politically oriented and more angled toward literature. He made his debut with his first self-directed film in 1958 and continued to direct until 1997, his last film being the adaptation of Primo Levi's book, The Truce.

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15/11/1920

Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1999)

Vasilis Diamantopoulos was a Greek actor. He was one of the founders of the Modern Theater and was the first actor to appear live on Greek television in the single act play Him and his pants by Iakovos Kambanellis in 1966. His most characteristic role was that of the austere professor in Giannis Dalianidis' movie Law 4000 and later in shorts including Ekmek Ice Cream in private TV.

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15/11/1919

Carol Bruce, American singer and actress (died 2007)

Carol Bruce was an American band singer, Broadway star, and film and television actress. She had the recurring part of Mama Lillian Carlson on TV's WKRP in Cincinnati.

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Joseph Wapner, American judge and television personality (died 2017)

Joseph Albert Wapner was an American judge and television personality. He is best known as the first presiding judge of the reality court show The People's Court. The show's first run in syndication, with Judge Wapner presiding as judge, ran from 1981 to 1993, for 12 seasons and 2,340 episodes. Although the show's second run was presided over by multiple judges, Wapner was the sole judge to preside during the show's first incarnation. His tenure on the program made him the first jurist of arbitration-based reality court shows, which evolved into the most popular trend in the judicial genre and continues to be to the present.

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15/11/1916

Nita Barrow, Barbadian nurse and politician, 7th Governor-General of Barbados (died 1995)

Dame Ruth Nita Barrow was the first female governor-general of Barbados. Barrow was a nurse and a public health servant from Barbados. She served as the fifth governor-general of Barbados from 6 June 1990 until her death on 19 December 1995. She was the older sister of Errol Barrow, the first prime minister of Barbados.

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Bill Melendez, Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer (died 2008)

José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Melendez was a Mexican-American animator, director, producer, and voice actor. Melendez was known for working on the Peanuts animated specials, as well as providing the voices of Snoopy and Woodstock. Before Peanuts, he previously worked as an animator for Walt Disney Productions, Warner Bros. Cartoons, and UPA.

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15/11/1914

V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge (died 2014)

Justice Vaidyanathapuram Rama Iyer Krishna Iyer was an Indian judge who became a pioneer of judicial activism. He pioneered the legal-aid movement in the country. Before that, he was a state minister and politician.

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15/11/1913

Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach (died 2003)

John Raymond Dyer Sr. OAM, nicknamed Captain Blood, was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1931 and 1949. One of the game's most prominent players, he was one of 12 inaugural "Legends" inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. He later turned to coaching and work in the media as a popular broadcaster and journalist.

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Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (died 2005)

Baron Arthur Haulot was a Belgian journalist, humanist and poet who served, during World War II as an active member of the Belgian resistance. As president of the Jeunes Socialistes, he was made prisoner and taken to the Dachau concentration camp.

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15/11/1912

Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (died 2010)

Harald Keres was an Estonian physicist considered to be the father of the Estonian school of relativistic gravitation theory. In 1961 Keres became a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences in the field of theoretical physics. In 1996 Keres was awarded the Order of the National Coat of Arms, Class III.

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Yi Wu, Japanese-Korean colonel (died 1945)

Colonel Prince Yi U was a member of the imperial family of Korea as a prince, the 4th head of Unhyeon Palace, and a lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He was killed during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

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15/11/1908

Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth (died 1979)

Carlo Abarth, born Karl Albert Abarth, was an Italian automobile designer.

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15/11/1907

Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel (died 1944)

Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was a German army officer who is best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair, part of Operation Valkyrie.

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15/11/1906

Curtis LeMay, American general and politician (died 1990)

Curtis Emerson LeMay was a US Air Force general who was a key American military commander during World War II and the Cold War, including the Korean War. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1961 to 1965.

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15/11/1905

Mantovani, Italian conductor and composer (died 1980)

Annunzio Paolo Mantovani was an Italian British conductor, composer and light orchestra–styled entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature.

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15/11/1903

Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach (died 1974)

Charles Stewart Dempster was a New Zealand Test cricketer and coach. As well as representing New Zealand, he also played for Wellington, Scotland, Leicestershire and Warwickshire.

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15/11/1899

Avdy Andresson, Estonian-American soldier and diplomat, Estonian Minister of War (died 1990)

Avdy Andresson was the Estonian Minister of War in exile from April 3, 1973, until two months before his death on June 20, 1990, and disputed Commander of Armed Forces from 14 October 1975.

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15/11/1897

Aneurin Bevan, Welsh journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Health (died 1960)

Aneurin "Nye" Bevan was a Welsh Labour Party politician, noted for spearheading the creation of the British National Health Service during his tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Attlee's government. He is also known for his wider contribution to the founding of the British welfare state. He was first elected as MP for Ebbw Vale in 1929, and used his Parliamentary platform to make a number of influential criticisms of Winston Churchill and his government during the Second World War. Before entering Parliament, Bevan was involved in miners' union politics and was a leading figure in the 1926 general strike. Bevan is widely regarded as one of the most influential left-wing politicians in British history.

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Sacheverell Sitwell, English author and critic (died 1988)

Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet, was an English writer, particularly on baroque architecture, and an art and music critic. Sitwell produced some 50 volumes of poetry and some 50 works on art, music, architecture, and travel.

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15/11/1896

Leonard Lord, English businessman (died 1967)

Leonard Percy Lord, 1st Baron Lambury KBE was a captain of the British motor industry.

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15/11/1895

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1918)

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia was the eldest child and daughter of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, and his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

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Antoni Słonimski, Polish journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1976)

Antoni Słonimski was a Polish poet, artist, journalist, playwright and prose writer, president of the Union of Polish Writers in 1956–1959 during the Polish October, known for his devotion to social justice.

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15/11/1892

Naomi Childers, American actress (died 1964)

Naomi Weston Childers, was an American silent film actress whose career lasted until the mid-20th century.

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15/11/1891

W. Averell Harriman, American businessman and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (died 1986)

William Averell Harriman was an American politician, businessman, and scion of the wealthy Harriman family. He was a founder of Harriman & Co. which merged with the older Brown Brothers to form the Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. investment bank, served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman, and was the 48th governor of New York. He unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for president in 1952 and 1956. Throughout his career, he was a key foreign policy advisor to Democratic presidents.

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Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (died 1944)

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel, known as The Desert Fox, was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. He served in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany, as well as in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and Imperial German Army of the German Empire.

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15/11/1890

Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (died 1969)

Richmal Crompton Lamburn was a popular English writer, best known for her Just William series of books, humorous short stories, and to a lesser extent adult fiction books.

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15/11/1888

Artie Matthews, American pianist and composer (died 1958)

Artie Matthews was an American songwriter, pianist, and ragtime composer.

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15/11/1887

Marianne Moore, American poet, critic, and translator (died 1972)

Marianne Craig Moore was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for its formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.

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Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator (died 1986)

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers, hills and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived. Although she was a figure associated with interpretations regarding feminism, she did not want to be seen as a "woman artist", she wanted to be seen as an artist.

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15/11/1886

René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (died 1951)

René Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon, also known as Abdalwahid Yahia, was a French-Egyptian intellectual who wrote on topics ranging from esotericism, "sacred science" and "traditional studies" to symbolism and initiation.

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15/11/1882

Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (died 1965)

Felix Frankfurter was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 until 1962, advocating judicial restraint.

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15/11/1881

Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author (died 1960)

Franklin Pierce Adams was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F.P.A. Famed for his wit, he is best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. A prolific writer of light verse, he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and '30s.

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15/11/1879

Lewis Stone, American actor (died 1953)

Lewis Shepard Stone was an American film actor, best known for his 29 years as a contract player at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and for his portrayal of Judge James Hardy in the studio's popular Andy Hardy film series. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, in 1929, for his performance as Russian Count Pahlen in The Patriot (1928). Stone was also cast in seven films with Greta Garbo, including Grand Hotel (1932) in which he portrayed Doctor Otternschlag.

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15/11/1874

Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner (died 1941)

Dimitrios P. Golemis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.

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August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)

Schack August Steenberg Krogh was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing Krogh's principle.

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15/11/1873

Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic (died 1945)

Sara Josephine Baker was an American physician notable for making contributions to public health, especially in the immigrant communities of New York City. Her fight against the damage that widespread urban poverty and ignorance caused to children, especially newborns, is perhaps her most lasting legacy. In 1917, she noted that babies born in the United States faced a higher mortality rate than soldiers fighting in World War I, drawing a great deal of attention to her cause. She also is known for (twice) tracking down Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary.

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15/11/1868

Emil Racoviță, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer (died 1947)

Emil Gheorghe Racoviță was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, and Antarctic explorer.

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15/11/1867

Emil Krebs, German polyglot (died 1930)

Emil Krebs was a German polyglot and sinologist. He was reportedly able to speak and write 68 languages and studied 120 other languages.

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15/11/1866

Cornelia Sorabji, Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer (died 1954)

Cornelia Sorabji was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University. Returning to India after her studies at Oxford, Sorabji became involved in social and advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins, women who were forbidden to communicate with the outside male world, but she was unable to defend them in court since, as a woman, she did not hold professional standing in the Indian legal system. Hoping to remedy this, Sorabji presented herself for the LLB examination of Bombay University in 1897 and the pleader's examination of Allahabad High Court in 1899. She became the first female advocate in India but would not be recognised as a barrister until the law which barred women from practising was changed in 1923.

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15/11/1865

John Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania (died 1932)

John Earle was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Tasmania from 1914 to 1916 and also for one week in October 1909. He later served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1917 to 1923. Prior to entering politics, he worked as a miner and prospector. He began his career in the Australian Labor Party (ALP), helping to establish a local branch of the party, and was Tasmania's first ALP premier. However, he was expelled from the party during the 1916 split and joined the Nationalists, whom he represented in the Senate.

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15/11/1862

Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1946)

Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.

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15/11/1859

Christopher Hornsrud, Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Norway (died 1960)

Christopher Andersen Hornsrud was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He served as leader of the Labour Party from 1903 to 1906 and became a member of the Storting in 1912. In 1928, he became the first Norwegian prime minister from the Labour Party and served as the 18th prime minister of Norway, but the cabinet had a weak parliamentary basis and was only in office for three weeks from January to February. He combined the post of prime minister with that of minister of Finance. After resigning he became vice-president of the Storting, a position he held until 1934.

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15/11/1852

Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (died 1892)

Mohamed Tewfik Pasha, also known as Tawfiq of Egypt, was khedive of Egypt and the Sudan between 1879 and 1892 and the sixth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty. He inherited a state suffering under the financial and political mismanagement of his predecessor Isma'il. Disaffection in the Egyptian army as well as Anglo-French control of the state in the 1880s culminated in the anti-foreign Urabi revolt. Tewfik also took interest in matters concerning irrigation, education and justice; as well as selling his father's female slaves and closing the court's harem quarters.

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15/11/1849

Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and educator (died 1934)

Mary Emma Byrd was an American astronomer and educator. She is considered a pioneer astronomy teacher at college level. She was also an astronomer in her own right, determining cometary positions by photography.

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15/11/1793

Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (died 1880)

Michel Floréal Chasles was a French mathematician.

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15/11/1791

Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (died 1869)

Friedrich Ernst Scheller was a German jurist and politician. He served as a member of the Frankfurt Parliament.

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15/11/1784

Jérôme Bonaparte, French husband of Catharina of Württemberg (died 1860)

Jérôme Bonaparte was the youngest brother of Napoleon I who reigned as Jérôme Napoleon I, King of Westphalia, between 1807 and 1813.

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15/11/1776

José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican journalist and author (died 1827)

José Joaquín Eugenio Fernández de Lizardi Gutiérrez, commonly known as José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, was a Mexican writer, journalist, and political thinker known for his pioneering role in Latin American literature and early journalism in the 19th century. He is widely recognized as one of the first novelists in the Americas, particularly for his novel El Periquillo Sarniento, which began publication in 1816 and is considered the first novel written and published in Latin America. The work blends satire, moral commentary, and social criticism in a narrative influenced by the Enlightenment ideals of reason and reform. Lizardi lived through the final years of New Spain and the early stages of Mexican independence. A proponent of liberalism and freedom of the press, he used literature and journalism as vehicles for advocating educational reform, denouncing corruption, and challenging authoritarianism and social inequality. In 1812, taking advantage of press freedoms briefly granted under the Constitution of Cádiz. Through this outlet, he published critiques of colonial administration and clericalism, which led to repeated episodes of censorship and even imprisonment. Despite political pressures, Fernández de Lizardi remained committed to intellectual freedom, using his writing as a tool for public engagement and reform. His legacy endures in Mexican literature and political thought as a forerunner of critical journalism and liberal values in early 19th-century Mexico.

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15/11/1757

Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (died 1830)

Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher was a Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen. Schumacher carried out significant research work in malacology, in other words on molluscs, and described several taxa.

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15/11/1746

Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer (died 1809)

Joseph Quesnel was a French Canadian composer, poet and playwright. Among his works were two operas, Colas et Colinette and Lucas et Cécile; the former is considered to be the first Canadian opera and probably of North America.

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15/11/1741

Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet and physiognomist (died 1801)

Johann Kaspar Lavater was a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and Reformed theologian.

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15/11/1738

William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (died 1822)

Frederick William Herschel was a German–British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel. Born in the Electorate of Hanover, he followed his father into the military band of Hanover, before emigrating to Britain in 1757 at the age of 19.

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15/11/1708

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1778)

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768. Historians call him "Chatham" or "Pitt the Elder" to distinguish him from his son William Pitt the Younger, who also served as prime minister. Pitt was also known as "the Great Commoner" because of his long-standing refusal to accept a title until 1766.

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15/11/1692

Eusebius Amort, German poet and theologian (died 1775)

Eusebius Amort was a German Roman Catholic theologian.

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15/11/1661

Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss-American settler and author (died 1743)

Christoph von Graffenried, 1st Baron of Bernberg was a Swiss nobleman and explorer who was one of the founders of New Bern, North Carolina. Born in Worb Castle in the Canton of Bern, he played a major role in the colonisation of North America by German and Swiss settlers. In c. 1716, von Graffenried published a memoir entitled Relation of My American Project, which recounted his life in both Switzerland and North America.

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15/11/1660

Hermann von der Hardt, German historian and orientalist (died 1746)

Hermann von der Hardt was a German historian and orientalist.

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15/11/1607

Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (died 1701)

Madeleine de Scudéry, often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry, was a French writer.

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15/11/1556

Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal (died 1618)

Jacques Davy Duperron was a French politician and Roman Catholic cardinal.

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15/11/1511

Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet and author (died 1536)

Johannes Secundus was a Neo-Latin poet of Dutch nationality.

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15/11/1498

Eleanor of Austria, queen of Portugal and France (died 1558)

Eleanor of Austria, also called Eleanor of Castile, was Queen of Portugal from 1518 to 1521 as the wife of King Manuel I and Queen of France from 1530 to 1547 as the wife of King Francis I. She also held the Duchy of Touraine (1547–1558) in dower. She is called "Leonor" in Spanish and Portuguese and "Éléonore" or "Aliénor" in French. She was the eldest child of Duke Philip of Burgundy and Queen Joanna of Castile, and the elder sister of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and her life was dominated by her role in the international dynastic politics of the period.

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15/11/1397

Nicholas V, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1455)

Pope Nicholas V, born Tommaso Parentucelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 March 1447 until his death in March 1455. Pope Eugene IV made him a cardinal in 1446 after successful trips to Italy and Germany, and when Eugene died the next year, Parentucelli was elected in his place. He took his name Nicholas in memory of his obligations to Niccolò Albergati. He remains the most recent pope to take the pontifical name "Nicholas".

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15/11/1316

John I, king of France and Navarre (died 1316)

John I, called the Posthumous, was the King of France and Navarre, as the posthumous son and successor of Louis X, for the four days he lived in 1316. He is the youngest person to be king of France, the only one to have been king from birth, and the only one to hold the title for his entire life. His reign is the shortest of any undisputed French king. Although considered as a king today, his status was not recognized until chroniclers and historians in later centuries began numbering John II, thereby acknowledging John I's brief reign.

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15/11/0459

Bʼutz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king (died 501)

Bʼutz Aj Sak Chiik, also known as Manik,, was an ajaw of the Maya city of Palenque. He took the throne on July 28, 487, reigning until 501. He was likely the brother of Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I.

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