Born on Sunday, 2nd November – Famous Birthdays

02/11/2001

Moisés Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer

Moisés Isaac Caicedo Corozo is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Chelsea and the Ecuador national team. Often considered one of the best defensive midfielders in the world, Caicedo is known for his passing and interceptions.

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02/11/1999

Park Woo-jin, South Korean singer

Park Woo-jin, also known mononymously as Woojin, is a South Korean rapper, singer and songwriter. He placed sixth in the second season of Produce 101, becoming a member of the project group Wanna One. He is a member of the boy group AB6IX.

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02/11/1998

Jordan Love, American football player

Jordan Alexander Love is an American professional football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). Love, who was born and raised in Bakersfield, California, attended Liberty High School, where he began playing for the school's football team. After graduating high school, Love received an athletic scholarship from Utah State University to play college football for the Utah State Aggies. While with the Aggies, he was named to the second-team All-MWC in 2018 and was selected as the most valuable player of the 2018 New Mexico Bowl.

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02/11/1997

Filip Hronek, Czech ice hockey player

Filip Hronek is a Czech professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman and alternate captain for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Hronek previously played in the NHL for the Detroit Red Wings. He was drafted 53rd overall by the Red Wings in the 2016 NHL entry draft.

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Davis Keillor-Dunn, English footballer

Davis James Marshall Keillor-Dunn is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for EFL Championship club Wrexham.

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02/11/1995

Hanna Öberg, Swedish biathlete

Hanna Linnea Öberg is a Swedish biathlete who is a double Olympic champion and a three-time world champion. She is the elder sister of fellow biathlete Elvira Öberg.

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02/11/1994

Shaq Coulthirst, English footballer

Shaquile Tyshan Coulthirst is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for National League North club Peterborough Sports.

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02/11/1991

Jimmy Garoppolo, American football player

James Garoppolo, nicknamed "Jimmy G", is an American professional football quarterback. He played college football for the Eastern Illinois Panthers, setting school records for career passing yards and passing touchdowns and winning the Walter Payton Award as a senior. Garoppolo was selected in the second round of the 2014 NFL draft by the New England Patriots, where he spent his first four seasons as Tom Brady's backup and was a member of two Super Bowl-winning teams.

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02/11/1990

Christopher Dibon, Austrian footballer

Christopher Dibon is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Austrian Regionalliga club Rapid Wien II.

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Kendall Schmidt, American singer, songwriter, and actor

Kendall Francis Schmidt is an American singer, songwriter, music producer and actor. He played Kendall Knight in Big Time Rush, participated in a boy band with the same name, and has had small roles on TV shows such as ER, Without a Trace, Phil of the Future, Ghost Whisperer, Gilmore Girls, and Frasier.

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02/11/1989

Tibor Pleiß, German basketball player

Tibor Pleiß is a German professional basketball player for Rasta Vechta of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). Standing 7 feet 3 inches (2.21 m), he plays at the center position. He is also a regular member of the German national team.

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Natalie Pluskota, American tennis player

Natalie Ann Pluskota is an American former tennis player.

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Luke Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player

Luke Schenn is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). Schenn played junior hockey with the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League (WHL). In his final WHL season, Schenn was named to the League's Second All-Star Team. He was a highly touted prospect heading into the 2008 NHL entry draft, where he was selected in the first round, fifth overall, by the Toronto Maple Leafs.

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02/11/1988

Lisa Bowman, Irish netball player

Lisa Bowman is a Northern Ireland netball international. She plays as a goal shooter. She plays for Team Northumbria in the Netball Superleague.

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Julia Görges, German tennis player

Julia Görges is a German former professional tennis player. A former top-ten singles player, she was ranked as high as No. 9 in the world on 20 August 2018, and was ranked inside the top 15 in doubles, peaking at world No. 12 on 22 August 2016. She won seven singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as six singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

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02/11/1987

Danny Cipriani, English rugby player

Danny Cipriani is an English former professional rugby union player. He most recently played for Premiership Rugby side Bath and previously played for Gloucester, Sale Sharks and Wasps in the Premiership and Melbourne Rebels in Super Rugby. He plays fly-half and fullback. He has also played for England. Since starting in the Wasps academy in 2003, Cipriani has been capped for England 16 times.

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02/11/1986

Andy Rautins, American-Canadian basketball player

Andrew Jay Rautins is an American-born Canadian professional basketball executive and former player. He played college basketball for the Syracuse Orange and was drafted by the NBA's New York Knicks in 2010, with the eighth pick of the second round.

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02/11/1985

Danny Amendola, American football player

Daniel James Amendola is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Tech Red Raiders and was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2008.

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02/11/1983

Ebonette Deigaeruk, Nauruan weightlifter

Ebonette Deigaeruk is a Nauruan weightlifter.

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Darren Young, American wrestler

Frederick Douglas Rosser III is an American professional wrestler and trainer. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where primarily performs on the Strong brand. He is also a trainer at the NJPW Academy and a former Strong Openweight Champion. He is best known for his time with WWE under the ring name Darren Young.

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02/11/1982

Yunel Escobar, Cuban-American baseball player

Yunel Escobar Almenares is a Cuban-born American former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Toronto Blue Jays, Tampa Bay Rays, Washington Nationals, and Los Angeles Angels. While he primarily played shortstop during his career, Escobar later transitioned to third base.

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Charles Itandje, French footballer

Charles Hubert Itandje is a retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Born in France, Itandje represented the Cameroon national team.

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02/11/1981

Monica Iozzi, Brazilian actress

Monica Iozzi de Castro is a Brazilian actress and reporter.

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Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress

Katharine Isobel Murray, known professionally as Katharine Isabelle, is a Canadian actress. She has been described as a scream queen due to her roles in various horror films. She started her acting career in 1989, playing a small role in the television series MacGyver. She gained fame for the role of Ginger Fitzgerald in the films Ginger Snaps, Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed, and Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning.

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Mitchell Johnson, Australian cricketer

Mitchell Guy Johnson is an Australian former cricketer, who played all forms of the game for his national team. He is a left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman. He represented Australia in international cricket from 2005 to 2015. Johnson is considered to be one of the greatest fast bowlers of his era. With his time representing Australia, Johnson won multiple ICC titles with the team: the 2007 Cricket World Cup, the 2015 Cricket World Cup, the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy, and the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy.

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Rafael Márquez Lugo, Mexican footballer

Rafael Márquez Lugo is a Mexican sports analyst and former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Miryo, South Korean rapper

Jo Mi-hye, better known by her stage name Miryo (Korean: 미료), is a South Korean rapper and songwriter. She is currently the rapper of girl group Brown Eyed Girls, and is a former member of rap group Honey Family. Miryo debuted as a soloist in 2012, after appearing as a producer in the first season of Show Me the Money.

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Roddy White, American football player

Sharod Lamor "Roddy" White is an American former professional football player who spent his entire career as a wide receiver with the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the UAB Blazers, and was selected by the Falcons in the first round of the 2005 NFL draft.

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Esha Deol is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films.

Esha Deol is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Hindi films. The daughter of actors Dharmendra and Hema Malini, Deol made her acting debut in the romantic thriller Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe (2002), which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.

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02/11/1980

Diego Lugano, Uruguayan footballer

Diego Alfredo Lugano Morena is a Uruguayan former professional footballer who played as a central defender.

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Amos Roberts, Australian rugby player

Amos Roberts is an Indigenous Australian former professional rugby league footballer. A Country New South Wales representative prolific try-scoring back, he played in Australia's National Rugby League for the St. George Illawarra Dragons, Penrith Panthers and Sydney Roosters clubs and in the Super League for the Wigan Warriors.

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02/11/1979

Simone Puleo, Italian footballer

Simone Paolo Puleo is an Italian former footballer who played as a defender.

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02/11/1978

Carmen Cali, American baseball player

Carmen Salvatore Cali is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher.

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02/11/1977

Rodney Buford, American basketball player

Rodney Alan "The Sheriff" Buford is an American former professional basketball player who last played for the London Lightning of the National Basketball League of Canada. He played college basketball for the Creighton Bluejays.

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Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player

Konstantinos Economidis is a retired professional Greek tennis player and a former Greek No. 1. In 2007, he qualified for the French Open and defeated Australian Chris Guccione in the first round before losing to Tommy Robredo in the second round. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 112 in February 2007 and has won 5 Challenger titles.

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Reshma Shetty, British-American actress

Reshma Shetty is a British-born American actress who is best known for her role as Divya Katdare on the USA Network TV series Royal Pains.

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Leon Taylor, English diver and sportscaster

Leon Roy Taylor is a former British competitive diver. During his diving career he won medals at all major international events including a silver at the Athens Olympics. Following his retirement from competition, Taylor transitioned to a portfolio of projects. He now speaks about mental wellness, supports the SportsAid charity, teaches yoga and mental wellness, works for an executive performance business and commentates for the BBC.

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02/11/1976

Matt Cullen, American ice hockey player

Matthew David Cullen is an American former professional ice hockey center who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). Cullen won the Stanley Cup three times during his career, with the Carolina Hurricanes in 2006 and the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2016 and 2017, and won a bronze medal at the 2004 World Championship with the United States.

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Thierry Omeyer, French handball goalkeeper

Thierry Omeyer is a retired French handball goalkeeper.

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Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player

Sidney Alton Ponson is an Aruban former Major League Baseball pitcher. As a player, Ponson stood at 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) tall and weighed 260 lb (120 kg). He threw right-handed with a fastball that clocked out at 95 mph. When he made his major league debut for the Baltimore Orioles in 1998, he became the third player from Aruba to play in the major leagues. In 2003, he was decorated as a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau, along with fellow Aruban former Baltimore Orioles players Eugene Kingsale and Calvin Maduro.

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02/11/1975

Danny Cooksey, American actor and musician

Daniel Ray Allen Cooksey Jr. is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his roles in television shows, such as Diff'rent Strokes, The Cavanaughs, and Salute Your Shorts, his role as a friend to the young John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and as the voice of Montana "Monty" Max in Tiny Toon Adventures, as well as voice roles in projects such as Xiaolin Showdown, Dave the Barbarian, and the DC Animated Universe series Static Shock.

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Stéphane Sarrazin, French race car driver

Stéphane Jean-Marc Sarrazin is a French racing and rally driver. He has won races across a number of single-seater, sportscar and rallying disciplines and competitions, was French Formula Renault champion in 1994, and Le Mans Series champion in both 2007 and 2010. Although he has never won the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, he has finished on the podium six times, including four outright second positions. He participated in one Formula One Grand Prix, the 1999 Brazilian Grand Prix, for Minardi as a replacement for Luca Badoer, who had injured his wrist. He suffered a big spin in the race coming up to the start-finish straight on lap 31 and scored no championship points. He also carried out testing duties for the Prost Grand Prix team during the 1999–2001 Formula One seasons and for Toyota Racing in their first season in 2002.

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Chris Walla, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Christopher Ryan Walla is an American musician, record producer, and film music composer, best known for being a former guitarist and songwriter for the band Death Cab for Cutie.

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02/11/1974

Orlando Cabrera, Colombian-American baseball player

Orlando Luis Cabrera Ramírez, nicknamed "O-Cab" and "the OC", is a Colombian-American former baseball infielder.

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Nelly, American rapper

Cornell Iral Haynes Jr., better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, and actor. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and embarked on his musical career in 1993 as a member of the Midwestern hip-hop group St. Lunatics. He signed with Universal Records as a solo act in 1999 to release his debut studio album, Country Grammar (2000). Its two lead singles, "Country Grammar " and "Ride wit Me", both entered the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100. The album peaked atop the Billboard 200 and received diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His second album, Nellyville (2002), spawned two consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles: "Hot in Herre" and "Dilemma", along with the top-five single, "Air Force Ones".

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Prodigy, American rapper (died 2017)

Albert Johnson, known professionally as Prodigy, was an American rapper and record producer. He was best known for being one half of the rap duo Mobb Deep along with Havoc, yet Prodigy still had a solo career, regularly collaborating with producer The Alchemist. Prodigy released eight albums during his career in Mobb Deep, as well as six solo studio albums and one posthumous album.

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Ruslan Salei, Belarusian ice hockey player (died 2011)

Ruslan Albertovich Salei was a Belarusian professional ice hockey player. Salei played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, the latter of which selected him ninth overall in the 1996 NHL entry draft.

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02/11/1973

Ben Graham, Australian footballer

Benjamin James Graham is a former professional Australian rules footballer turned professional American football punter of the National Football League (NFL).

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Marisol Nichols, American actress

Marisol Nichols is an American actress and former volunteer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, known for her roles as Principal Ramirez on the Nickelodeon animated series The Loud House as well as Nadia Yassir on the Fox series 24 and Hermione Lodge on the CW drama series Riverdale.

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02/11/1972

Marion Posch, Italian snowboarder

Marion Posch is an Italian snowboarder.

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Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer and coach

Darío Debray Silva Pereira is a Uruguayan retired professional footballer who played as a striker.

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Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player and coach

Vladimir Anatolievich Vorobiev is a Russian former professional ice hockey player. He was selected in the tenth round of the 1992 NHL Entry Draft, 240th overall, by the New York Rangers, and played 33 games in the National Hockey League with the Rangers and Edmonton Oilers between 1997 and 1999. The vast majority of his career, which lasted from 1989 to 2011, was spent in the Russian Super League and its successor, the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Internationally Vorobiev played for the Russian national team at the 1995 and 1996 World Championships. After his retirement Vorobiev has worked in coaching roles in the KHL, and currently is an assistant coach with Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg.

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Samantha Womack, British actress, singer and director

Samantha Zoe Womack is an English actress, singer, model and director who has worked in film, television and stage. Womack initially planned a career in singing and she represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991. Her song for the contest, "A Message to Your Heart", was released as her only single in April 1991 and reached number 30 in the UK singles chart.

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02/11/1971

Meta Golding, Haitian-American actress

Meta Golding is an actress.

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02/11/1969

Reginald Arvizu, American rock musician

Reginald Quincy Arvizu, also known as Fieldy, is an American musician, best known as the former bassist for nu metal band Korn from 1993 to 2021. He is also the guitarist/bassist for rock band StillWell.

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02/11/1968

Neal Casal, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and photographer (died 2019)

Neal Graeme Casal was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and photographer. First rising to prominence as lead guitar with Rickey Medlocke's Blackfoot from 1988 to 1993, he was also known as a member of Ryan Adams' backing band the Cardinals from 2005 until 2009, with whom he recorded three studio albums. He played in several groups, including the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Hard Working Americans, Beachwood Sparks, The Skiffle Players, GospelbeacH and Circles Around the Sun– and released twelve albums as a solo artist.

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Keith Jennings, American basketball player and coach

Keith Russell "Mister" Jennings is an American basketball coach, who formerly played professional in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and overseas in European leagues.

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02/11/1967

Kurt Elling, American singer-songwriter

Kurt Elling is an American jazz singer and songwriter.

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Scott Walker, American politician, 45th Governor of Wisconsin

Scott Kevin Walker is an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as Milwaukee County executive from 2002 to 2010. He is the most recent Republican to have served as governor of Wisconsin.

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02/11/1966

David Schwimmer, American actor

David Lawrence Schwimmer is an American actor, director, comedian and producer. He gained worldwide recognition for portraying Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends (1994–2004), for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1995. While on Friends, his first leading film role was in The Pallbearer (1996), followed by roles in Kissing a Fool, Six Days, Seven Nights, Apt Pupil and Picking Up the Pieces (2000). Schwimmer was also in the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) as Herbert Sobel.

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02/11/1965

Nick Boles, English businessman and politician

Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham and Stamford from 2010 to 2019. He was a member of the Conservative Party until 2019.

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Shah Rukh Khan, Indian film actor, producer and television host

Shah Rukh Khan, popularly known by the initials SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer renowned for his work in Hindi cinema. Referred to in the media as the "Baadshah of Bollywood" and "King Khan", he has appeared in more than 100 films and earned numerous accolades, including a National Film Award and 15 Filmfare Awards. He has been awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India, as well as the Order of Arts and Letters and Legion of Honour by the Government of France. Khan has a significant following in Asia and among the Indian diaspora worldwide. In terms of audience size and income, several media outlets have described him as one of the most successful film stars in the world. Many of his films thematise Indian national identity and connections with diaspora communities, or gender, racial, social and religious differences and grievances.

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02/11/1964

Alan Tait, English-Scottish rugby player and coach

Alan Victor Tait is a Scottish former rugby union and rugby league footballer, and now rugby union coach. He is a defence coach at the Super 6 side Southern Knights. He was previously head coach at Newcastle Falcons.

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Lauren Vélez, American actress

Luna Lauren Vélez is an American actress. Her most notable television roles are as María LaGuerta on Showtime's Dexter, Detective Nina Moreno on Fox's New York Undercover, Dr. Gloria Nathan on HBO's prison drama Oz, and Elena on ABC's comedy-drama Ugly Betty. She also starred as Rio Morales in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).

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02/11/1963

Bobby Dall, American bass player

Poison is an American rock band formed in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania in 1983. The most successful incarnation of the band consists of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Bret Michaels, drummer Rikki Rockett, bassist Bobby Dall and lead guitarist C.C. DeVille. The band achieved huge commercial success in the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s and sold over 65 million records and DVDs worldwide. In 2012, VH1 ranked them at No. 1 on their list of the "Top 5 Hair Bands of the '80s".

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Brian Kemp, American politician, 83rd Governor of Georgia

Brian Porter Kemp is an American politician serving as the 83rd governor of Georgia since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Kemp served as the state's 27th Secretary of State from 2010 to 2018, and as a member of the Georgia State Senate from 2003 to 2007. He is the first Republican since Reconstruction to be elected governor of Georgia who was not a former Democrat.

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Borut Pahor, Slovenian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Slovenia

Borut Pahor is a Slovenian politician who served as President of Slovenia from 2012 to 2022. He previously served as Prime Minister of Slovenia from 2008 to 2012.

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02/11/1962

Mireille Delunsch, French operatic soprano

Mireille Delunsch is a French soprano. She was born in Mulhouse, and studied musicology and voice at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. Her debut was at the Opéra national du Rhin in Mulhouse, in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.

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Derek Mountfield, English footballer and manager

Derek Mountfield is an English former footballer who played as a centre-back.

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02/11/1961

k.d. lang, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

Kathryn Dawn Lang, known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Lang has won Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances. Her hits include the songs "Constant Craving" and "Miss Chatelaine".

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Jeff Tedford, American football player and coach

Jeffrey Raye Tedford is an American football coach and former player. From 2002 to 2012, Tedford was the head football coach for the California Golden Bears, where he was twice named Pac-10 Coach of the Year and holds the California program records for most wins, games coached, and bowl game victories. He also coached at Fresno State from 2017 to 2019 and from 2022 to 2023, leading the team to a school record 12 wins in 2018.

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02/11/1960

Rosalyn Fairbank, South African tennis player

Rosalyn Doris Fairbank-Nideffer is a retired professional tennis player from South Africa. She played her first grand slam in 1979, with her last appearance in 1997. She won a WTA Tour singles event in Richmond in 1983 and numerous doubles titles, with the highlight being her Grand Slam titles at the 1981 French Open with Tanya Harford and 1983 with Candy Reynolds. She won 317 singles and 472 doubles matches on the tour during her career. Later on in her career she married her American sports-psychologist Bob Nideffer, and changed her nationality to compete for the United States.

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02/11/1959

Peter Mullan, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter

Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. His credits include Riff-Raff (1991), Shallow Grave (1994), Braveheart (1995), Trainspotting (1996), My Name Is Joe (1998), The Claim (2000), Neds (2010), War Horse (2011), The Fixer (2008), Top of the Lake (2013), Mum (2016–2019), Ozark (2017–2018), Westworld (2018–2020), Cursed (2020), The North Water (2021), The Underground Railroad (2021), The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022–2024), After the Party (2023), Baghead (2023) and I Swear (2025).

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02/11/1958

Willie McGee, American baseball player and manager

Willie Dean McGee is an American professional baseball adviser and former outfielder who is a special assistant to the president of baseball operations for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played 18 seasons in MLB for the Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants, and Boston Red Sox from 1982 to 1999. He won two batting titles and was named Major League Baseball's 1985 National League MVP. McGee primarily played center field and right field, winning three Gold Glove Awards for defensive excellence. He spent the majority of his career playing for the Cardinals, helping them win the 1982 World Series with his outstanding performance in Game 3. A four-time All-Star, McGee accumulated 2,254 hits during his career.

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02/11/1957

Carter Beauford, American drummer and composer

Carter Anthony Beauford is an American drummer, percussionist, and founding member of Dave Matthews Band. He is known for his ability to adapt to a variety of genres, and both his ambidextrous and his open-handed drumming styles. He plays the drums and sings backing vocals in the band. Beauford was ranked number 10 by a Rolling Stone magazine reader's poll in 2010 for the greatest drummers of all time.

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02/11/1956

Dale Brown, American author and pilot

Dale Brown is an American writer and aviator known for aviation techno-thriller novels. At least thirteen of his novels have been New York Times Best Sellers.

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02/11/1955

Thomas Grunenberg, German footballer and manager

Thomas Grunenberg is a German football manager and former player.

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02/11/1952

Ron Lee, American basketball player

Ronald Henry Lee is an American former professional basketball player who played six seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the University of Oregon, and epitomized the "Kamikaze Kids" under coach Dick Harter with his all-out, fearless hustle and relentless desire to win. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Lee played four seasons for the Ducks between 1972 and 1976. The Phoenix Suns made him the tenth selection in the NBA draft in 1976. Despite not playing football in high school and college, the NFL's San Diego Chargers also made him a 12th round selection in the 1976 NFL draft. In the NBA, Lee was named to the 1977 NBA All-Rookie Team and led the NBA in steals the following season.

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Maxine Nightingale, English R&B/soul singer

Maxine Nightingale is a British R&B and soul music singer. She is best known for singing hits in the 1970s, with the million seller "Right Back Where We Started From", "Love Hit Me" (1977), and "Lead Me On" (1979).

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02/11/1951

Thomas Mallon, American novelist, essayist, and critic

Thomas Mallon is an American novelist, essayist, and critic. His novels are known for their attention to historical detail and context and for the author's crisp wit and interest in the "bystanders" to larger historical events. He is the author of ten books of fiction, including Henry and Clara, Two Moons, Dewey Defeats Truman, Aurora 7, Bandbox, Fellow Travelers, Watergate, Finale, Landfall, and most recently Up With the Sun. He has also published nonfiction on plagiarism, diaries, letters and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, as well as two volumes of essays.

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Lindy Morrison, Australian rock drummer

Belinda "Lindy" Morrison is an Australian musician, activist and social worker originally from Brisbane, Queensland. After starting her career working for a new Queensland branch of the Aboriginal Legal Service in 1972, and starting to play drums at about the same time, she became the drummer for female-led punk band Zero in 1978 and then joined Robert Forster and Grant McLennan to become the third member of the Go-Betweens in 1980.

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02/11/1949

Lois McMaster Bujold, American author

Lois McMaster Bujold is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record. Bujold is best known for her Vorkosigan Saga, a series of science fiction novels featuring Miles Vorkosigan, a physically impaired interstellar spy and mercenary admiral from the planet Barrayar, set approximately 1000 years in the future. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named her its 36th SFWA Grand Master in 2019.

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Grace Y. Sam, Palauan politician

Grace Y. Sam is a Palauan politician who served as a member of the Koror State Legislature.

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02/11/1947

Dave Pegg, English bass player and producer

Dave Pegg is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, primarily a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of folk and rock groups including the Ian Campbell Folk Group and Jethro Tull.

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Kate Linder, American actress

Kate Linder is an American actress, best known for her role as Esther Valentine on The Young and the Restless, which she has played since 1982. After appearing in the soap opera for more than 40 years, she is one of the longest serving actors on an American soap opera. Linder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008, and was honored at The Hollywood Museum in 2022.

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02/11/1946

Alan Jones, Australian race car driver and sportscaster

Alan Stanley Jones is an Australian former racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One between 1975 and 1986. Jones won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1980 with Williams, and won 12 Grands Prix across ten seasons.

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Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (died 2001)

Giuseppe Sinopoli was an Italian conductor and composer.

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02/11/1945

Giorgos Kolokithas, Greek basketball player (died 2013)

Giorgos Kolokithas was a Greek professional basketball player. He is considered to have been one of the best scorers and players in Greek basketball history, and as a player, he had the nickname of "Basket Machine". He was a member of the FIBA European Selection team in 1970. Kolokithas was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991.

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Larry Little, American football player

Larry Chatmon Little is an American former professional football player who was a guard in the American Football League (AFL) and the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Bethune–Cookman Wildcats. He signed with the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 1967. After two years in San Diego, he was then traded to the Miami Dolphins where he played for the rest of his career, establishing himself as one of the best guards in the NFL.

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JD Souther, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2024)

John David Souther was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was "a principal architect of the Southern California sound and a major influence on a generation of songwriters". Souther wrote and co-wrote songs recorded by Linda Ronstadt and some of the Eagles' biggest hits, including "Best of My Love", "Victim of Love", "Heartache Tonight" and "New Kid in Town". "How Long", which appeared on the Eagles' Long Road Out of Eden, came from Souther's first solo album. He recorded two hit songs in his solo career: "You're Only Lonely" (1979) and "Her Town Too" (1981), a duet with James Taylor. He had a brief acting career and appeared on TV and in movies. He played with the Eagles on their 2008 farewell tour.

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02/11/1944

Patrice Chéreau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)

Patrice Chéreau was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer. In France he is best known for his work for the theatre, internationally for his films La Reine Margot and Intimacy, and for his staging of the Jahrhundertring, the centenary Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976. Winner of almost twenty movie awards, including the Cannes Jury Prize and the Golden Berlin Bear, Chéreau served as president of the jury at the 2003 Cannes festival.

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Keith Emerson, English pianist, keyboard player, and composer (died 2016)

Keith Noel Emerson was an English keyboardist, songwriter, composer and record producer. He played keyboards in a number of bands before finding his first commercial success with the Nice in the late 1960s. He became internationally famous for his work with the Nice, which included writing rock arrangements of classical music. After leaving the Nice in 1970, he was a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early progressive rock supergroups.

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02/11/1943

Oldřich Pelčák, Czech cosmonaut and engineer (died 2023)

Oldřich Pelčák was a Czech cosmonaut and engineer. He graduated from Gagarin Air Force Academy. In 1976, Pelčák was selected as backup for fellow Czech Vladimír Remek for the Soyuz 28 mission. Remek was the first man in space who was neither American nor Soviet. Pelčák, who did not fly in space, died on 7 October 2023, at the age of 79.

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02/11/1942

Shere Hite, German sexologist, author, and educator (died 2020)

Shere Hite was an American-born German sex educator and feminist. Her sexological work focused primarily on female sexuality. Hite built upon biological studies of sex by Masters and Johnson and by Alfred Kinsey. She was the author of 'the groundbreaking The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality (1976), which became a bestseller. She also referenced theoretical, political and psychological works associated with the feminist movement of the 1970s, such as Anne Koedt's essay "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm". She renounced her United States citizenship in 1995 to become German.

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Stefanie Powers, American actress

Stefanie Powers is an American actress best known for her role as Jennifer Hart on the mystery television series Hart to Hart, for which she received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards.

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02/11/1941

Arun Shourie, Indian journalist, economist, and politician, Indian Minister of Communications

Arun Shourie is an Indian economist, investigative journalist, newspaper editor, author and politician. He has worked as an economist with the World Bank, a consultant to the Planning Commission of India, editor of the Indian Express and The Times of India and a Minister of Communications and Information Technology in the Vajpayee Ministry (1998–2004). During the Emergency period, through his investigative reporting, he wrote extensively against the Indira Gandhi Government, exposing censorship, corruption and human rights violations; later when Ramnath Goenka made him the editor of The Indian Express he wrote extensively exposing corruption, this won him the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982, and the Padma Bhushan in 1990. He was awarded the prestigious International Editor of the Year Award in 1982, given by World Press Review, New York.

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Dave Stockton, American golfer

David Knapp Stockton is an American retired professional golfer who has won tournaments on both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour.

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Bruce Welch, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Bruce Welch is an English guitarist, songwriter, producer, singer and businessman best known as a founding member of the Shadows.

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02/11/1940

Jim Bakken, American football player

James LeRoy Bakken is an American former professional football player who was a kicker in the National Football League (NFL) for the St. Louis Cardinals, playing occasionally as a punter as well. He was a four-time Pro Bowl selection and was named to the NFL 1960s and 1970s All-Decade Team. Bakken is one of 29 individuals to be named to two All-Decade teams.

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Phil Minton, English singer and trumpet player

Phil Minton is a British avant-garde jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter.

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02/11/1939

Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones, English broadcaster and politician, Minister for Security

Lilian Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones is a British politician and former civil servant who served as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) from 1993 to 1994. A member of the Conservative Party, she served on the National Security Council and was Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism at the Home Office from 2010 to 2011.

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Richard Serra, American sculptor and academic (died 2024)

Richard Serra was an American artist known for his large-scale abstract sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings, and whose work has been primarily associated with postminimalism. Described as "one of his era's greatest sculptors", Serra became notable for emphasizing the material qualities of his works and exploration of the relationship between the viewer, the work, and the site.

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02/11/1938

Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician

Patrick Joseph Buchanan is an American author, political commentator, and politician. He was an assistant and special consultant to U.S. presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. He is an influential figure in the modern paleoconservative movement in the United States.

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David Eden Lane, American white supremacist (died 2007)

David Eden Lane was an American neo-Nazi and a co-founder of the white supremacist organization The Order. For his actions as part of The Order, Lane was convicted and sentenced to 190 years in prison for racketeering, conspiracy, and the violation of the civil rights of Alan Berg, a Jewish radio talk show host, who prosecutors claimed was murdered by a member of the group via a drive-by shooting with Lane acting as driver, though they were unsuccessful in getting murder convictions. He died while incarcerated at the FCI Terre Haute in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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Queen Sofía of Spain

Sofía is a member of the Spanish royal family who was Queen of Spain as the wife of King Juan Carlos I from 1975 until his abdication in 2014. She is the eldest and last surviving child of King Paul and Queen Frederica of Greece. She is also the last surviving grandchild of King Constantine I and Queen Sophia of Greece.

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Josse Goffin, Belgian artist and graphic novelist (died 2024)

Josse Goffin was a Belgian artist and graphic novelist.

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02/11/1937

Earl Carroll, American singer (died 2012)

Earl "Speedo" Carroll was the lead vocalist of the doo-wop group The Cadillacs. The group's biggest hit was "Speedoo", which with a minor spelling change became Carroll's subsequent nickname. It was released in 1955. He joined The Coasters in 1961, leaving the group in the early 1980s to permanently reform The Cadillacs.

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02/11/1936

Rose Bird, American lawyer and judge, 25th Chief Justice of California (died 1999)

Rose Elizabeth Bird was the 25th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. She was the first female law clerk of the Nevada Supreme Court, the first female deputy public defender in Santa Clara County, the first woman to serve in the California State Cabinet, and the first female Chief Justice of California.

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02/11/1935

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Indian author

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay is a Bengali author from India. He has written stories for both adults and children. He is known for creating the relatively new fictional sleuths Barodacharan and Shabor Dasgupta.

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02/11/1934

Joseph E. Brennan, American politician, 70th Governor of Maine (died 2024)

Joseph Edward Brennan was an American lawyer and politician from Maine. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 70th governor of Maine from 1979 to 1987 and in the United States House of Representatives for Maine's 1st congressional district from 1987 to 1991. Brennan was a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission during the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama administrations.

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Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player

Kenneth Robert Rosewall is an Australian former world No. 1 professional tennis player. Rosewall won 147 singles titles, including 23 majors: a record 15 Pro Majors and eight Grand Slam tournaments. He also won 15 Pro Majors in doubles and nine Grand Slam doubles titles. Rosewall achieved a Pro Slam in singles in 1963 by winning the three Pro Majors in one year, and completed the career Grand Slam in doubles.

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02/11/1933

Clarence D. Rappleyea Jr., American lawyer and politician (died 2016)

Clarence D. Rappleyea Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

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02/11/1931

Phil Woods, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (died 2015)

Philip Wells Woods was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, and composer.

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02/11/1929

Amar Bose, American engineer and businessman, founded the Bose Corporation (died 2013)

Amar Gopal Bose was an American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation.

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Robert Gover, American journalist and author (died 2015)

Robert Gover was an American journalist who became a best-selling novelist at age 30. His first novel, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, a satire on American racism, remains a cult classic that helped break down America's fear of four-letter words and sexually explicit scenes, as well as sensitizing Americans to sanctimonious hypocrisy. Gover worked with writers for three decades. On the Run with Dick and Jane was his ninth novel. His previous book, Time and Money, explores economic and planetary cyclical correlations. In 2015, the Eric Hoffer Prose Award was renamed the Gover Story Prize in his honor.

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Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Pakistani judge and politician, 9th President of Pakistan (died 2022)

Muhammad Rafiq Tarar was a Pakistani politician and jurist who served as the ninth president of Pakistan from 1998 until his resignation in 2001 following the military coup by Pervez Musharraf. He also served as a senator from Punjab in 1997; and, before entering politics, as a senior justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1992 to 1994 and as the chief justice of the Lahore High Court from 1989 to 1991.

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Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)

Richard Edward Taylor, was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics."

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02/11/1928

Gerry Alexander, Jamaican cricketer and veterinarian (died 2011)

Franz Copeland Murray Alexander OD, known as Gerry Alexander, was a Jamaican cricketer who played 25 Test matches for the West Indies. He was a wicket-keeper who had 90 dismissals in his 25 Test appearances and, though his batting average was around 30 in both Test and first class cricket, his only first-class century came in a Test on the 1960–61 tour of Australia.

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Paul Johnson, English journalist, historian, and author (died 2023)

Paul Bede Johnson was a British journalist, popular historian, speechwriter and author. Although associated with the political left in his early career, he became a popular conservative historian.

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James Luisi, American basketball player and actor (died 2002)

James Anthony Luisi was an American professional basketball player and actor. Luisi is perhaps best known for his role as Lt. Doug Chapman, the apoplectic foil to detective Jim Rockford, in a total of 23 episodes during Seasons 3 through 6 of the television series The Rockford Files.

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Shulamith Shahar, Latvian-born Israeli historian (died 2025)

Shulamith Shahar was an Israeli historian. Shahar's 1981 study Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages was the first to specifically examine the role of women in the medieval period. The book is used as a text for gender studies and medieval history classes. This, and her subsequent books, have been published in both Hebrew and English. She wrote historical articles in these languages as well as French and translated three books from Latin to Hebrew.

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02/11/1927

Steve Ditko, American author and illustrator (died 2018)

Stephen John Ditko was an American comic book artist best known for being the co-creator of Marvel superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. He also made notable contributions to the character of Iron Man, introducing the character's signature red and yellow design.

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John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, English businessman and politician (died 2022)

John Davan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover was a British businessman and politician. He served as the President of Sainsbury's, and sat in the House of Lords as a life peer and member of the Conservative Party.

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02/11/1926

Myer Skoog, American basketball player (died 2019)

Myer Upton "Whitey" Skoog was an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Minneapolis Lakers. He was born in Duluth, Minnesota.

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Charlie Walker, American country music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and DJ (died 2008)

Charles Levi Walker was an American country musician. His biggest success was with the song, "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down".

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02/11/1924

David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1988)

David William Bauer was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach, educator and Catholic priest. He was a member of the Basilians, and established a program to develop players for the Canada men's national ice hockey team.

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Rudy Van Gelder, American record producer and engineer (died 2016)

Rudolph Van Gelder was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz. Over more than half a century, he recorded several thousand sessions, with musicians including Booker Ervin, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Jimmy Smith, Art Blakey, Bud Powell, Lee Morgan, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green, and George Benson. Van Gelder worked with many different record companies, and recorded almost every session on Blue Note Records from 1953 to 1967.

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02/11/1923

Tibor Rosenbaum, Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman (died 1980)

Pinchas Tibor Rosenbaum was a Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman. One of the heads of the Jewish community in Switzerland, he saved hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust. After the war, he was involved in extensive businesses relating to the economy of Israel. He was also instrumental in helping the new State of Israel with security issues and worked for the Mossad on intelligence matters.

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02/11/1922

Michael Loewe, British historian, Sinologist and writer (died 2025)

Michael Arthur Nathan Loewe was a British historian, Sinologist, and writer who authored dozens of books, articles, and other publications in the fields of Classical Chinese as well as the history of ancient and early Imperial China. He was a professor of Chinese and a fellow at the University of Cambridge for nearly 60 years.

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02/11/1921

Shepard Menken, American actor (died 1999)

Shepard Menken was an American character and voice actor.

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Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1994)

William Mosienko was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a right winger for 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Black Hawks from 1942 to 1955. He is best noted for recording the fastest hat trick in NHL history. In a 1952 game against the New York Rangers, Mosienko scored three goals in 21 seconds.

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02/11/1920

Bill Mazer, Ukrainian-American journalist and sportscaster (died 2013)

Bill Mazer was an American television and radio personality. He won numerous awards and citations, including three National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association's Sportscaster of the Year awards for New York from 1964 to 1966. Considered a New York institution in sports reporting, Mazer was inducted into the hall of fame for the Buffalo Broadcasters Association (1999), Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame (2000) and the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum (1997). He is also recognized as the host of the first sports talk radio show in history that launched in March 1964 on WNBC (AM).

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02/11/1919

Warren Stevens, American actor (died 2012)

Warren Albert Stevens was an American stage, screen, and television actor.

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02/11/1918

Alexander Vraciu, American commander and pilot of Romanian descent (died 2015)

Alexander Vraciu was a United States Navy fighter ace, Navy Cross recipient, and Medal of Honor nominee during World War II. At the end of the war, Vraciu ranked fourth among the U.S. Navy's flying aces, with 19 enemy planes downed during flight and 21 destroyed on the ground. After the war, he served as a test pilot and was instrumental in forming the post-war Naval and Marine Air Reserve program. From 1956 to 1958 Vraciu led his own fighter squadron, VF-51, for twenty-two months. He retired from the U.S. Navy with the rank of commander on December 31, 1963. Vraciu later moved to Danville, California, and worked for Wells Fargo.

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02/11/1917

Ann Rutherford, American actress (died 2012)

Therese Ann Rutherford was a Canadian-born American actress in film, radio and television. She had a long career starring and co-starring in films, playing Polly Benedict in 12 of the 16 MGM "Andy Hardy" films between 1937 and 1942, and appearing as one of Scarlett O'Hara's sisters, Carreen O'Hara in the film Gone with the Wind (1939).

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02/11/1915

Sidney Luft, American film producer (died 2005)

Michael Sidney Luft was an American producer and businessman, the second husband of actress Lynn Bari, and later the third husband of actress and singer Judy Garland.

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02/11/1914

Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (died 1997)

John Samuel Vander Meer was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher, most prominently as a member of the Cincinnati Reds, where he became the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to throw two consecutive no-hitters, an accomplishment which has long been considered to be impossible to replicate. He was a member of the 1940 World Series winning team. After the impressive start to his major league career, he experienced problems controlling the accuracy of his pitching, and his later career was marked by inconsistent performances. During his career he was nicknamed "The Dutch Master" and "Double No-Hit".

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Ray Walston, American actor (died 2001)

Herman Ray Walston was an American actor. He started his career on Broadway earning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees (1956).

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02/11/1913

Burt Lancaster, American actor (died 1994)

Burton Stephen Lancaster was an American actor. Initially known for playing tough characters with tender hearts, he went on to achieve success with more complex and challenging roles over a 45-year career in films and television series. Lancaster was a four-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and he also won two BAFTA Awards, one Golden Globe Award for Best Lead Actor, one Silver Bear, one Volpi Cup and two David di Donatello awards. The American Film Institute ranks Lancaster as #19 of the greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema.

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02/11/1911

Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)

Odysseas Elytis was a Greek poet, man of letters, essayist and translator, regarded as the definitive exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. He is one of the most praised poets of the second half of the twentieth century, with his Axion Esti "regarded as a monument of contemporary poetry". In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, philosopher, and theorist (died 1995)

Raphael Mitchel Robinson was an American mathematician.

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02/11/1910

Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian lawyer and politician, Egyptian Minister of Interior (died 1999)

Fouad Pasha Serageddin was an Egyptian liberal politician and leader of Egypt's old Wafd Party and new Wafd party. He was the grandfather of the Egyptian writer Samia Serageldin.

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02/11/1908

Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (died 1983)

Alfred Harry "Fred" Bakewell was an English cricketer. Playing for Northamptonshire and England, he was an opening batsman who was renowned as one of the most exciting players of his time, largely owing to his unorthodox methods, which allowed him to play some of the most brilliant innings in county cricket, despite the fact that his county, Northamptonshire, was exceptionally weak throughout his career: he was always the only class batsman in the team in the years before his career was ended by a serious car accident in 1936.

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Bunny Berigan, American trumpet player (died 1942)

Roland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader who rose to fame during the swing era. Although he composed some jazz instrumentals such as "Chicken and Waffles" and "Blues", Berigan was best known for his virtuoso jazz trumpeting. His 1937 classic recording "I Can't Get Started" on RCA Victor was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1975. His career and influence were shortened by alcoholism which ended with his early death at the age of 33 from cirrhosis. His recordings of "I Can't Get Started" on Vocalion and "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" were re-released in 1976 as part of the Columbia Records Hall of Fame series.

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02/11/1906

Daniil Andreyev, Russian poet and mystic (died 1959)

Daniil Leonidovich Andreyev was a Russian writer, poet, and Christian mystic.

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Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (died 1976)

Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter. He was one of the fathers of cinematic neorealism but later moved towards luxurious, sweeping epics dealing with themes of beauty, decadence, death, and European history, especially the decay of the nobility and the bourgeoisie. Critic Jonathan Jones wrote that "no one did as much to shape Italian cinema as Luchino Visconti.”

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02/11/1905

Isobel Andrews, New Zealand writer (died 1990)

Isabella Smith Andrews, known professionally as Isobel Andrews, was a New Zealand playwright, novelist, short-story writer and poet. She wrote over sixty plays, many of which were published, and was associated with the New Zealand branch of the British Drama League. She won the League's annual playwrighting competition four times. Her plays, particularly The Willing Horse, have continued to be performed into the 21st century.

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Georges Schehadé, Lebanese poet and playwright (died 1989)

Georges Schehadé was a Lebanese playwright and poet writing in French.

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02/11/1903

Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1987)

Travis Calvin Jackson was an American baseball shortstop. In Major League Baseball (MLB), Jackson played for the New York Giants from 1922 through 1936, winning the 1933 World Series, and representing the Giants in the MLB All-Star Game in 1934. After his retirement as a player, Jackson managed in minor league baseball through to the 1960 season.

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02/11/1901

James Dunn, American actor (died 1967)

James Howard Dunn, billed as Jimmy Dunn in his early career, was an American actor and vaudeville performer. The son of a New York stockbroker, he initially worked in his father's firm but was more interested in theater. He landed jobs as an extra in short films produced by Paramount Pictures in its Long Island studio, and also performed with several stock theater companies, culminating with playing the male lead in the 1929 Broadway musical Sweet Adeline. This performance attracted the attention of film studio executives, and in 1931, Fox Film signed him to a Hollywood contract.

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02/11/1894

Alexander Lippisch, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer (died 1976)

Alexander Martin Lippisch was a German aeronautical engineer, a pioneer of aerodynamics who made important contributions to the understanding of tailless aircraft, delta wings and the ground effect, and also worked in the U.S. Within the Opel-RAK program, he was the designer of the world's first rocket-powered glider.

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02/11/1893

Battista Farina, Italian businessman, founded the Pininfarina Company (died 1966)

Giovanni Battista Pininfarina was an Italian automobile designer and the founder of the Carrozzeria Pininfarina coachbuilding company, a name associated with many well known postwar cars.

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02/11/1892

Alice Brady, American actress (died 1939)

Alice Brady was an American actress of stage and film. She began her career in the theatre in 1911, and her first important success came on Broadway in 1912 when she created the role of Meg March in the original production of Marian de Forest's Little Women. As a screen actress she first appeared in silent films and was one of the few actresses to survive the transition into talkies. She worked until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. Her films include My Man Godfrey (1936), in which she plays the flighty mother of Carole Lombard's character, and In Old Chicago (1938), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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02/11/1890

Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30th Yokozuna (died 1933)

Nishinoumi Kajirō III was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 30th yokozuna.

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Moa Martinson, Swedish author (died 1964)

Moa Martinson was one of Sweden's most noted authors of proletarian literature. Her ambition was to change society with her authorship and to portray the conditions of the working class, and also the personal development of women. Her works were about motherhood, love, poverty, politics, religion, urbanization and the hard living conditions of the working-class woman.

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02/11/1886

Dhirendranath Datta, Pakistani lawyer and politician (died 1971)

Dhirendranath Datta was a Bengali lawyer and politician from East Bengal who was a member of the 1st Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. He is best known for proposing Bengali for the national language of Pakistan in the Assembly. He was also active in the politics of undivided Bengal in pre-partition India.

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02/11/1885

Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (died 1972)

Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer, who served as head of the Harvard College Observatory from 1921–1952, and political activist during the New Deal and Fair Deal.

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02/11/1883

Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal (died 1947)

Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve was a Canadian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1931 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1933.

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02/11/1879

Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player and violinist (died 1965)

Marion Jones Farquhar was an American tennis player. She won the women's singles titles at the 1899 and 1902 U.S. Championships. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006.

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02/11/1878

Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (died 1930)

Ōkido Moriemon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 23rd yokozuna. He was the second yokozuna to be recognised from Osaka sumo, and the only yokozuna who spent his whole active career in this city.

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02/11/1877

Joseph De Piro, Maltese priest and missionary (died 1933)

Giuseppe De Piro or Joseph De Piro, was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary. He founded the Missionary Society of St Paul (MSSP) in June 1910 with a charism to form missionaries following the example of St Paul. A Servant of God, he is a candidate for beatification.

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Aga Khan III, Indian 48th Shia Imam (died 1957)

Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, known as Aga Khan III, was the 48th imam of the Nizari Ism'aili branch of Shia Islam. He is considered one of the founding fathers of Pakistan, and also served as the first permanent president of the All-India Muslim League (AIML).

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Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (died 1915)

Victor Thomas Trumper was an Australian professional cricketer. A right-handed batter and a right arm medium pace bowler, Trumper is generally regarded as one of the greatest batters in cricket history. He played for New South Wales from 1894/95 to 1913/14, and represented Australia in 48 Test matches.

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02/11/1865

Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (died 1923)

Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular presidents at the time of his death. After that, a number of scandals were exposed that greatly damaged his reputation.

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02/11/1855

Henrik Schück, Swedish historian, author, and academic (died 1947)

Henrik Schück was a Swedish literary historian, university professor and author.

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02/11/1847

Georges Sorel, French philosopher and author (died 1922)

Georges Eugène Sorel was a French social thinker, political theorist, historian, and later journalist. He has inspired theories and movements grouped under the name of Sorelianism. His social and political philosophy owed much to his reading of Proudhon, Karl Marx, Giambattista Vico, Henri Bergson, and later William James. His notion of the power of myth in collective agency inspired socialists, anarchists, Marxists, and fascists. Together with his defense of violence, the power of myth is the contribution for which he is most often remembered.

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02/11/1844

Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan (died 1918)

Mehmed V Reşâd was the penultimate sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a constitutional monarch. He had little influence over government affairs and the Ottoman constitution was held with little regard by his ministries. The first half of his reign was marked by increasingly polarizing politics, and the second half by war and domination of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and the Three Pashas.

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John J. Loud, American inventor (died 1916)

John Jacob Loud was an American inventor known for designing the first ballpoint pen.

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02/11/1837

Émile Bayard, French illustrator and painter (died 1891)

Émile-Antoine Bayard was a French illustrator born in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Seine-et-Marne. A student of Léon Cogniet, he is known for illustrating Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.

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02/11/1821

George Bowen, Irish-English diplomat, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1899)

Sir George Ferguson Bowen was an Anglo-Irish author and colonial administrator who served as a governor of Queensland, New Zealand, Victoria, Mauritius and Hong Kong and as chief secretary of Ionian Islands.

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02/11/1815

George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (died 1864)

George Boole was an English autodidact, mathematician, philosopher and logician who served as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854), which contains Boolean algebra. Boolean logic, essential to computer programming, is credited with helping to lay the foundations for the Information Age.

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02/11/1808

Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French author and critic (died 1889)

Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was a French novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural. He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Henry James, Léon Bloy, Marcel Proust and Carmelo Bene.

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02/11/1799

John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (died 1885)

John Light Atlee was an American physician and surgeon. He was one of the organizers of the American Medical Association, also serving as its president.

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02/11/1795

James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (died 1849)

James Knox Polk was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. A protégé of Andrew Jackson and a member of the Democratic Party, he was an advocate of American expansionism and Jacksonian democracy. Polk saw Texas join the Union in his first year in office, one of the precipitating causes that soon led the U.S. into the Mexican–American War. The settlement of that war expanded American territory to the Pacific Ocean. During his term, the dispute over the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom was resolved as well, creating the present U.S.-Canadian boundary.

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02/11/1777

Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor and translator (died 1822)

Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Ziółkowski, was a Polish actor, comedist, adaptor, translator, editor of humour magazines, and head of a Polish theatrical family. He was born near Nowogródek. He performed at Teatr Narodowy. He was the father of Alojzy Gonzaga Jazon Żółkowski and Nepomucena Kostecka.

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02/11/1755

Marie Antoinette, Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France (died 1793)

Marie Antoinette was Queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI from 10 May 1774 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1792. She was beheaded during the Reign of Terror, a period of political violence in the French Revolution.

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02/11/1734

Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (died 1820)

Daniel Boone was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. In 1775, Boone founded the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky, in the face of resistance from Native Americans. He founded Boonesborough, one of the first English-speaking settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. By the end of the 18th century, more than 200,000 people had entered Kentucky by following the route marked by Boone.

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02/11/1709

Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (died 1759)

Anne, Princess Royal was the second child and eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain and his consort Caroline of Ansbach. She was the wife of William IV, Prince of Orange, the first hereditary stadtholder of all seven provinces of the Dutch Republic. She was Regent of the Netherlands from 1751 until her death in 1759, exercising extensive powers on behalf of her son William V. She was known as an Anglophile, due to her English upbringing and family connections, but was unable to convince the Dutch Republic to enter the Seven Years' War on the side of the British. Princess Anne was the second daughter of a British sovereign to hold the title Princess Royal. In the Netherlands she was styled Anna van Hannover.

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02/11/1699

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter and educator (died 1779)

Jean Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work.

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02/11/1696

Conrad Weiser, American soldier, monk, and judge (died 1760)

Conrad Weiser, born Johann Conrad Weiser, Jr., was a Pennsylvania German pioneer who served as an interpreter and diplomat between the Pennsylvania Colony and Native American nations. Primarily a farmer, he also worked as a tanner, and later served as a soldier and judge. He lived part of the time for six years at Ephrata Cloister, a Protestant monastic community in Lancaster County.

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02/11/1649

Esmé Stewart, 2nd Duke of Richmond (died 1660)

Esmé Stuart, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 5th Duke of Lennox was the son and heir of James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox (1612–1655), of Cobham Hall in Kent, by his wife Mary Villiers (1622–1685), only daughter of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

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02/11/1636

Edward Colston, English merchant and politician (died 1721)

Edward Colston was an English merchant, slave trader, philanthropist and Tory Member of Parliament.

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02/11/1549

Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (died 1580)

Anna of Austria was Queen of Spain by marriage to her uncle, King Philip II of Spain. During her last days of life she was also briefly Queen of Portugal.

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02/11/1475

Anne of York, seventh child of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville (died 1511)

Anne of York was the fifth daughter of King Edward IV of England and his queen consort Elizabeth Woodville.

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02/11/1470

Edward V of England (died 1483)

Edward V was King of England from 9 April to 25 June 1483. He succeeded his father, Edward IV, upon the latter's death. Edward V was never crowned, and his brief reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle and Lord Protector, the Duke of Gloucester, who deposed him to reign as King Richard III; this was confirmed by the Titulus Regius, an act of Parliament which denounced any further claims through Edward IV's heirs by delegitimising Edward V and all of his siblings. This act was later repealed by parliament under Henry VII, who married Elizabeth of York, Edward V's eldest sister.

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02/11/1428

Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine (died 1483)

Yolande was Duchess of Lorraine (1473) and Bar (1480). She was the daughter of Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine, and René of Anjou. Though she was nominally in control of major territories, she ceded her power and titles to her husband and her son. In addition, her younger sister was Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England.

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02/11/1418

Gaspare Nadi, Italian builder and writer (died 1504)

Gaspare Nadi or Guasparo di Nadi was an Italian builder famous for his diary (diario). He was mistaken by later historians for an architect. He built, but did not design, the library of the Basilica of San Domenico.

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02/11/0971

Mahmud of Ghazni (died 1030)

Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Sabuktigin, usually known as Mahmud of Ghazni or Mahmud Ghaznavi, was Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire, ruling from 998 to 1030. Widely reputed to be undefeated throughout his entire career, Mahmud was known by his honorific title Yamin al-Dawla. At the time of his death, his kingdom had been transformed into an extensive military empire, which extended from present-day northwestern Iran proper to the Punjab in the Indian subcontinent, Khwarazm in Transoxiana.

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