Tuesday, 4th November 2025 in Lisbon

On this day, 219 notable people were born on 4th November — spanning from 1448 to 2006. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

04/11/2006

Darja Varfolomeev, Russian-German rhythmic gymnast

Darja Varfolomeev is a Russian-born German rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2024 Olympic all-around champion, a two-time consecutive World all-around champion and the 2026 European all-around champion. She is also the 2022 World all-around silver medalist and a two-time European all-around bronze medalist.

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04/11/2000

Tyrese Maxey, American basketball player

Tyrese Kendrid Maxey is an American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the best point guards in the world, he is known for his elite speed, dribbling, and shot-making. He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats.

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Sun Yingsha, Chinese table tennis player

Sun Yingsha is a Chinese professional table tennis player, Olympic champion, and World Champion. She is the current world No. 1 in women's singles.

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04/11/1998

Achraf Hakimi, Moroccan footballer

Achraf Hakimi Mouh is a professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and captains the Morocco national team. Known for his attacking prowess and strong defensive contribution, he is widely regarded as one of the best right-backs in the world.

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04/11/1996

Kaitlin Hawayek, American ice dancer

Kaitlin Hawayek is an American ice dancer. With her skating partner, Jean-Luc Baker, she is the 2018 Four Continents champion, the 2018 NHK Trophy champion, and a four-time U.S. national bronze medalist (2019–22).

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Michael Christian Martinez, Filipino figure skater

Michael Christian "Mikee" Martinez is a Filipino Olympic figure skater. He is the 2015 Asian Figure Skating Trophy champion, a two-time Triglav Trophy champion and has won one ISU Challenger Series medal, silver at the 2014 Warsaw Cup. Martinez is the first skater from Southeast Asia and from a tropical country to qualify for the Olympics, was the only athlete to represent the Philippines at the 2014 Winter Olympics, and was one of only two to represent the Philippines at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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John Olive, Australian rugby league player

John Olive is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Newtown Jets in the NSW Cup as a centre and on the wing.

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Eric Paschall, American basketball player

Eric Luther Paschall is an American professional basketball player for Hubei Wenlv of the National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for the Fordham Rams and the Villanova Wildcats. He was selected with the 41st overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors and named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2020.

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04/11/1994

Billy Stanlake, Australian cricketer

Billy James Stanlake is an Australian cricketer. He is a fast bowler who represented Australia in the 2014 Under-19 Cricket World Cup and played One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket for the full national team. He plays domestic cricket for the Tasmania cricket team and the Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League. Stanlake is the tallest person to ever represent Australia in international cricket, standing at 204 cm.

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04/11/1993

Ce'Aira Brown, American middle-distance runner

Ce'Aira Brown is an American middle-distance runner. Representing the United States at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, she placed 8th in the final of the women's 800 metres. Brown placed third in the 800 meters at 2019 The Match Europe v USA. In 2023 Brown was inducted into the MEAC Hall of Fame.

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Elisabeth Seitz, German gymnast

Elisabeth Seitz is a German retired artistic gymnast. She is the 2022 European champion and the 2018 World bronze medalist on the uneven bars. She is one of the only female gymnasts in history to compete the Def release, and her eponymous skill, a full-twisting Maloney. Seitz has also had success in the individual all-around event, where she is the 2011 European silver medalist and an eight-time German national champion. She is a three-time Olympian, representing Germany at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she led her team to a sixth-place finish and placed fourth in the uneven bars final, and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In 2022, she was part of the first German team to ever win a European team medal.

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Taylor Tomlinson, American stand-up comedian

Taylor Elyse Tomlinson is an American stand-up comedian. She has released four Netflix stand-up specials: Quarter-Life Crisis (2020), Look At You (2022), Have It All (2024) and Prodigal Daughter (2026). She hosted the CBS late-night show After Midnight, which ran from January 2024 through June 2025.

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04/11/1992

Yurii Bieliaiev, Belarusian ice dancer

Yurii Bieliaiev is a Belarusian former competitive ice dancer. With partner Viktoria Kavaliova, he has won two medals on the ISU Challenger Series and two national titles. They have competed in the final segment at four ISU Championships – 2012 Junior Worlds in Minsk, Belarus; 2014 Junior Worlds in Sofia, Bulgaria; 2016 Europeans in Bratislava, Slovakia; and 2017 Europeans in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

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Hiroki Nakada, Japanese footballer

This is a list of J.League designated special players, picked by J.League clubs from universities and high schools all over Japan.

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Julian Wießmeier, German footballer

Julian Wießmeier is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Austrian club Dornbirn. Wießmeier has previously played for Austrian Bundesliga club SV Ried.

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04/11/1991

Alon Day, Israeli race car driver

Alon Day is an Israeli professional stock car racing driver. Day is a record four-time European Champion in the NASCAR Euro Series. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, competing in the No. 24 Toyota GR Supra for Sam Hunt Racing, and part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 25 Toyota Camry for Venturini Motorsports, and part-time in the ARCA Menards Series West, driving the same car for the same team. Day is the first Israeli driver to compete in an IndyCar-sanctioned series and is also the first Israeli to compete in one of NASCAR's top three touring series.

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Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove, Dutch tennis player

Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands.

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04/11/1990

Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Canadian actor

Jean-Luc Bilodeau is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Ben Wheeler in the ABC Family channel program Baby Daddy. Bilodeau has also appeared in films and television series such as Ill Fated, Trick 'r Treat, 16 Wishes, Kyle XY, No Ordinary Family and Best Player. He was also in Emmalyn Estrada's music video "Don't Make Me Let You Go", and plays Jeremy in the film LOL.

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04/11/1988

Dez Bryant, American football player

Desmond Demond Bryant is an American former professional football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons, primarily with the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football for the Oklahoma State Cowboys, earning consensus All-American honors as a sophomore in 2008. Bryant missed most of his junior season due to violating an NCAA bylaw.

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David Mead, Papua New Guinean rugby league player

David Mead is a Papua New Guinean former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a winger, centre or fullback for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League (NRL) and Papua New Guinea at international level.

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Nathan Ross, Australian rugby league player

Nathan Ross, nicknamed "White Lightning" or "Ross Dog", is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a wing, fullback and centre.

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04/11/1987

Tim Breukers, Dutch footballer

Tim Gerard Johan Breukers is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a right back.

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Laura Geitz, Australian netball player

Laura Geitz is an Australian former netball player and former captain of the Australian national team. Geitz was selected for the 2008 Australian national team, and has won a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, a gold medal at the 2011 World Netball Championships and a gold medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as captain. In domestic netball, Geitz played for the Queensland Firebirds in the ANZ Championship. She previously captained the AIS Canberra Darters in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy.

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Artur Jędrzejczyk, Polish footballer

Artur Marcin Jędrzejczyk is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a defender.

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04/11/1986

Suhas Gopinath, Indian businessman

Suhas Gopinath is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of Globals Inc., a multinational IT company. He became CEO at the age of 17, three years after founding the company. In 2017, he founded the start-up ShopsUp.

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Alexz Johnson, Canadian actress and singer-songwriter

Alexzandra Spencer Johnson is a Canadian musician and actress. Known for her distinctive sound since her debut in 2010, her first album, Voodoo, was independently released with her brother, Brendan Johnson. Over the years, she has released several albums and EPs, including: The Basement Recordings series (2011–2013), Skipping Stone (2012) and her sophomore album Let 'Em Eat Cake (2014). She continued to evolve with subsequent albums A Stranger Time (2017), Still Alive (2020) and Seasons (2023).

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Szymon Pawłowski, Polish footballer

Szymon Pawłowski is a Polish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or winger. He is currently in charge of Klasa A club GES Sport Academy Poznań.

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Adrian Zaugg, South African race car driver

Adrian Zaugg is a South African former race car driver of Dutch descent. He was the champion of the 2018 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup in the Silver class.

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04/11/1985

Marcell Jansen, German footballer

Marcell Jansen is a German former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He was well known for his accurate crossing and pace, despite his tall stature. A versatile player, Jansen primarily played as a full back or wing back on the left flank, but could also play as a left-winger.

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Miki Miyamura, Japanese tennis player

Miki Miyamura is a Japanese former tennis player.

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04/11/1984

Dustin Brown, American ice hockey player

Dustin James Brown is an American former professional ice hockey player. Brown played as a right winger and spent his entire NHL career with the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL), who drafted him 13th overall in the 2003 NHL entry draft. He served as team captain from 2008 to 2016; during this time he led the Kings to two Stanley Cup championships in 2012 and 2014, becoming the first Kings captain and second American captain to win the Stanley Cup. During the 2012–13 NHL lockout, he played for ZSC Lions in the Swiss National League A (NLA).

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Ayila Yussuf, Nigerian footballer

Atanda Ayila Yussuf is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a central defender or defensive midfielder. A former Nigerian youth international player, he moved to Ukrainian Premier League Dynamo Kyiv from Nigerian side Union Bank in 2003. Despite injuries, Yussuf became a regular for both Dynamo Kyiv and the Nigeria national team. He joined Metalist Kharkiv on loan in 2014.

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04/11/1983

Anton Buslov, Russian astrophysicist and journalist (died 2014)

Anton Sergeevich Buslov was an astrophysicist, top Russian blogger, columnist at The New Times magazine, and expert on transportation systems. He is also known as a founder of non-governmental organization "Voronezh Citizens for Trams Committee" and both co-chair and co-founder of inter-regional non-governmental organization "City and Transportation". Anton Buslov was highly involved in social activity and acted as a transport expert for urbanist organization "City 4 People".

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04/11/1982

Devin Hester, American football player

Devin Devorris Hester Sr. is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL). As the only primary return specialist to be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Hester is widely considered to be the greatest return specialist in NFL history.

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Kamila Skolimowska, Polish hammer thrower (died 2009)

Kamila Skolimowska was a Polish hammer thrower. She is best known for her gold medal in the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, which made her the youngest Olympic hammer champion, as well as for her two medals from the European Championships. Her personal best throw, and former Polish record, was 76.83 metres, achieved in May 2007 in Doha. She died on 18 February 2009 in Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal at the Polish national team training camp.

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04/11/1981

Guy Martin, English motorcycle racer

Guy Martin is a British former motorcycle racer, heavy vehicle mechanic and television presenter. He retired from motorcycle racing in July 2017.

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Vince Wilfork, American football player

Vincent Lamar Wilfork is an American former professional football defensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons, primarily with the New England Patriots. He is regarded as one of the greatest defensive tackles of all time.

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04/11/1980

Jerry Collins, Samoan-New Zealand rugby player (died 2015)

Jerry Collins was a professional rugby union player. Although he was born in Apia, Samoa, he grew up in New Zealand and played for the New Zealand national team, earning 48 caps. At club level, he played for the Hurricanes Super Rugby franchise in New Zealand, Toulon and Narbonne in the Rugby Pro D2, Ospreys in Wales, and Yamaha Júbilo in Japan. He played as a flanker and number eight, and was considered to be one of the hardest tacklers in the sport.

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Richard Owens, American football player and coach

Richard Owens is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). The Minnesota Vikings acquired him as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football for the Louisville Cardinals.

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Emme Rylan, American actress

Emme Marcy Rylan is an American actress. From 2005 until 2013, she was credited as Marcy Rylan. She is recognized for her portrayals on the CBS soap operas Guiding Light as Lizzie Spaulding and The Young and the Restless as Abby Newman. From 2013 to 2020, she portrayed the role of Lulu Spencer on ABC's General Hospital.

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Dan Stoenescu, Romanian career diplomat, political scientist, journalist, and essayist

Dan Stoenescu is a Romanian career diplomat, political scientist and ambassador. He was a minister in the technocratic government of Prime Minister Dacian Cioloș. He is a specialist in international relations, the Arab World and migration. He is interested in the protection of the rights of the Romanian diaspora and in the preservation of the language and culture of ethnic Romanians abroad.

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04/11/1978

John Grabow, American baseball player

John William Grabow, nicknamed "Grabes" is an American former professional baseball left-handed relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs from 2003 to 2011.

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04/11/1977

Larry Bigbie, American baseball player

Larry Robert Bigbie is an American former professional baseball first baseman and outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball from 2001 through 2006 for the Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies, and St. Louis Cardinals.

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04/11/1976

Daniel Bahr, German banker and politician, German Federal Minister of Health

Daniel Bahr is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as Federal Minister of Health from 2011 to 2013. His party failed to get a seat in Bundestag at the 2013 federal elections, and he started to work for Allianz insurance group. Due to his previous position as Minister of Health, his move to a private sector healthcare player has been heavily criticized by the public.

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Bruno Junqueira, Brazilian race car driver

Bruno Furtado Junqueira is a Brazilian professional racing driver who most recently competed in the IRL IndyCar Series. He is a former Formula 3000 champion and three-time runner-up in the Champ Car World Series.

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Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer

Mario Dino Patrick Melchiot is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a defender. He played both as a right-back and as a centre-back, and also occasionally played in midfield. He represented the Netherlands national football team at UEFA Euro 2008, and mostly played abroad for football clubs in England, France and Qatar.

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Kenji Osawa, Japanese mixed martial artist

Kenji Osawa Japanese: 大沢ケンジ is a retired Japanese mixed martial artist from Tokyo. He debuted in MMA over a decade ago, and trains and fights out of Wajitsu Keishukai, where he teaches once a week.

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James Dale Ritchie, American serial killer (died 2016)

James Dale Ritchie was an American serial killer who, throughout 2016, murdered five individuals in and around Anchorage, Alaska, most of whom were in parks or along bike paths. He always committed his murders at night, often around midnight or a short time after. Ritchie was killed during a shootout with police officers in downtown Anchorage on November 12, 2016. Following his death, a Colt Python handgun on his person connected him to the string of murders he committed over the course of two months.

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Makoto Tamada, Japanese motorcycle racer

Makoto Tamada (玉田誠) is a former Japanese professional motorcycle racer currently working as a rider instructor at Suzuka Racing School. He is one of the few riders to win races in both MotoGP and Superbike World Championship.

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Peter Van Houdt, Belgian footballer

Peter Van Houdt is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a forward and manager.

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04/11/1975

Éric Fichaud, Canadian ice hockey player

Éric Joseph Fichaud is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played 95 games in the National Hockey League with four teams between 1996 and 2000. He was selected in the first round of the 1994 NHL entry draft, 16th overall, by the Toronto Maple Leafs.

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Eduard Koksharov, Russian handball player (died 2026)

Eduard Aleksandrovich Koksharov was a Russian handball player and coach.

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Mikki Moore, American basketball player

Clinton Renard "Mikki" Moore is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

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Orlando Pace, American football player

Orlando Lamar Pace is an American former professional football offensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons, primarily with the St. Louis Rams. He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, winning the Lombardi Award in 1995 after blocking for Eddie George during his Heisman campaign. The following season, Pace won the Outland Trophy, his second Lombardi Award, the Jim Parker Trophy, and UPI Lineman of the Year. Pace was selected first overall in the 1997 NFL draft by the Rams, where he spent all but one season of his professional career. This included being a member of the Greatest Show on Turf. In his final season, he was a member of the Chicago Bears.

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Heather Tom, American actress and director

Heather Tom is an American actress and director. She is best known for her roles as Victoria Newman on The Young and the Restless, Kelly Cramer on One Life to Live and All My Children, and Katie Logan on The Bold and the Beautiful. On The Bold and the Beautiful she has earned four Daytime Emmy Awards and a total of six in her career, tying her for the most wins by a soap actress. In addition to her acting work, she has directed episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless, Dynasty, and Good Trouble.

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Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player (died 2010)

Lorenzen Vern-Gagne Wright was an American professional basketball player for thirteen seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted seventh overall in the 1996 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Clippers and also played for the Atlanta Hawks, Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings and Cleveland Cavaliers.

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04/11/1973

Steven Ogg, Canadian actor

Steven Ogg is a Canadian actor. Ogg is best known for portraying Trevor Philips in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V and its online component Grand Theft Auto Online (2015), Simon in The Walking Dead (2016–2018) and its spin-off The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023), and being a spokesman for the American brand of male grooming products Old Spice.

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04/11/1972

Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer and sportscaster

Luís Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a winger for Sporting CP, Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Inter Milan. He won 127 caps for the Portugal national team, a one-time record. Figo is widely regarded as one of the best players of his generation and one of the greatest wingers in the history of the sport. He ranks second for the all-time Portuguese top assist providers in the UEFA Champions League (15).

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04/11/1971

Gregory Porter, American jazz singer-songwriter and actor

Gregory Porter is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He has twice won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album: first in 2014 for Liquid Spirit and then again in 2017 for Take Me to the Alley.

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Tabu, Indian actress

Tabassum Fatima Hashmi, professionally known as Tabu, is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. Widely regarded as one of Hindi cinema's most accomplished actresses, she is known for portraying complex, often troubled women, in both mainstream and independent films. She has received numerous accolades, including two National Film Awards, seven Filmfare Awards, and two Filmfare Awards South. In 2011, she was honoured with the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award.

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04/11/1970

Tim DeBoom, American triathlete

Tim DeBoom, is a retired professional triathlete from Boulder, Colorado, from 1995 to 2012. During that tenure, DeBoom participated in hundreds of triathlons around the world, winning both short course and long course triathlons. After a 10th place finish in the Hawaii Ironman in 1995, DeBoom focused on long distance racing, eventually winning the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii twice.

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Malena Ernman, Swedish soprano

Sara Magdalena Ernman, known professionally as Malena Ernman, is a Swedish mezzo-soprano opera singer. Besides operas and operettas, she has also performed chansons, cabaret, jazz, and appeared in musicals. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Ernman represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "La Voix", finishing in 21st place.

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Anthony Ruivivar, American actor

Anthony Ruivivar is an American actor. He is known for playing Carlos Nieto on Third Watch and Alex Longshadow on Banshee. He also voiced Batman on Beware the Batman.

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Tony Sly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2012)

Anthony James Sly was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the lead singer and lead guitarist of the punk rock band No Use for a Name. In his later years he also gained attention for his acoustic solo work, with two acoustic split albums he released with Lagwagon front man Joey Cape and two solo albums.

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04/11/1969

Sean Combs, American rapper, producer, and actor

Sean John Combs, also known professionally as Diddy, is an American former rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor. He is credited with the discovery and development of musical artists such as the Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, and Usher, among others.

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Matthew McConaughey, American actor and producer

Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor. He achieved his breakthrough with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993). After a number of supporting roles, his first success as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill (1996). His career progressed with lead roles in the science fiction film Contact (1997), the historical drama Amistad (1997), the war film U-571 (2000), and the epic science fiction film Interstellar (2014).

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Samantha Smith, American actress

Samantha A. Smith is an American actress. She is known for her role as Mary Winchester on Supernatural.

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04/11/1968

Matthew Tobin Anderson, American author, critic, and educator

Matthew Tobin Anderson is an American writer of children's books that range from picture books to young adult novels. He won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2006 for The Pox Party, the first of two "Octavian Nothing" books, which are historical novels set in Revolution-era Boston. Anderson is known for using wit and sarcasm in his stories, as well as advocating that young adults are capable of mature comprehension.

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Carlos Baerga, Puerto Rican baseball player and coach

Carlos Obed Ortiz Baerga is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball player. Baerga was known for his superb hitting abilities during his first stint with the Cleveland Indians in the early-to-mid-1990s, accumulating impressive batting statistics, earning three All-Star appearances, two Silver Slugger Awards, and making key contributions to the Indians' 1995 postseason run. He was considered one of Major League Baseball's hardest-hitting middle infielders by 1995 with his superb bat speed and switch-hitting power. After spending most of his career as a second baseman, he was used at various positions late in his career. Baerga was elected into the Indians Hall of Fame in 2013.

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Lee Germon, New Zealand cricketer

Lee Kenneth Germon is a sporting body administrator and former New Zealand cricketer, wicket-keeper and former captain. He played for the provinces of Canterbury and Otago and is the most successful Canterbury cricket captain of the modern era. He was made captain of the New Zealand Cricket team on his Test match debut. He holds the unofficial record for the most runs (70), from a single over in first-class cricket.

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04/11/1967

Daisuke Asakura, Japanese songwriter and producer

Daisuke Asakura is a Japanese musician, songwriter and producer who is known for his compositional work and skill at keyboards.

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Yılmaz Erdoğan, Turkish actor, director, and screenwriter

Yılmaz Erdoğan is a Turkish filmmaker, actor and poet who is most famous for his box-office record-breaking debut comedy film Vizontele (2001) and the television series Bir Demet Tiyatro (1995–2002/2006–2007). He founded BKM Theatre and Film Production. He was awarded the Best Supporting Actor at 4th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards for his performance in The Water Diviner (2014).

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Karin Greiner, Austrian politician

Karin Greiner is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she has represented Styria since October 2019. She had previously represented Styria Centre, the Federal List and Greater Graz in the National Council.

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Eric Karros, American baseball player and sportscaster

Eric Peter Karros is an American former professional baseball first baseman who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was the National League Rookie of the Year in 1992 and won a Silver Slugger Award in 1995. Karros currently works as a sportscaster, covering the Dodgers on Spectrum SportsNet LA.

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Asif Mujtaba, Pakistani cricketer

Mohammad Asif Mujtaba is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer who played in 25 Test matches and 66 One Day Internationals from 1986 to 1997. During the, 1994–95 period he briefly served as the deputy captain to Saleem Malik in the Pakistan national team.

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04/11/1965

Wayne Static, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)

Wayne Richard Wells, known professionally as Wayne Static, was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, and primary lyricist for the industrial metal band Static-X, of which he was the only constant member until his death in 2014. He also released a solo album, Pighammer, in 2011. Static was recognizable for his unusual hairstyle; his hair was held up in a vertical position, a process that took about 25–45 minutes to complete. He was also known for his signature "chintail" beard.

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04/11/1964

Yūko Mizutani, Japanese voice actress and singer (died 2016)

Yūko Mizutani was a Japanese actress, voice actress, narrator and singer from Ama District, Aichi. Throughout her career, she worked with Production Baobab, and was working with Aoni Production at the time of her death. Mizutani was best known for her anime voice roles of Sakiko Sakura in Chibi Maruko-chan, Mihoshi Kuramitsu in Tenchi Muyo! and Pinoko in Black Jack. She also portrayed Excellen Browning in Super Robot Wars, Sora Takenouchi in Digimon Adventure, Leina Stol in Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos, and Sarah Zabiarov and Cheimin Noa in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. Mizutani was the official Japanese voice actress for Minnie Mouse, and voiced her in the Kingdom Hearts franchise.

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04/11/1963

Marc Déry, Canadian singer and guitarist

Marc Déry a French Canadian singer and guitarist from Quebec. He was a member of the band Zébulon. and also released four albums as a solo artist.

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Michel Therrien, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Michel Therrien is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach. (NHL). Therrien was the head coach of the Montreal Canadiens (twice), and the Pittsburgh Penguins, and was an assistant coach for the Philadelphia Flyers.

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Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer and television host (died 1999)

Lena Hilda Zavaroni was a Scottish singer. At the age of 10, with her debut album Ma! , she was the youngest person to have had an album in the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart. Later, she starred in her own television series, made numerous TV guest-star appearances, and appeared on stage.

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04/11/1962

Arvo Volmer, Estonian conductor

Arvo Volmer is an Estonian conductor.

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04/11/1961

Daron Hagen, American pianist, composer, and conductor

Daron Aric Hagen is an American composer, writer, and filmmaker.

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Edward Knight, American composer and academic

Edward Knight is an American composer. His work eschews easy classification, moving freely between jazz, theatrical and concert worlds.

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Ralph Macchio, American actor

Ralph George Macchio Jr. is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Daniel LaRusso in four Karate Kid films (1984–2025) and in Cobra Kai (2018–2025), a sequel television series. For his work in the latter, Macchio was nominated for two Critics' Choice Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. He is also known for portraying Johnny Cade in Francis Ford Coppola's ensemble 1983 film, The Outsiders, and Bill Gambini in Joe Pesci's 1992 film My Cousin Vinny. Additional notable performances were in Eight Is Enough (1980–1981), Crossroads (1986), Ugly Betty (2008–2009), and The Deuce (2017–2019). He has also worked as a director and has produced two short films. Macchio received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2024.

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Jeff Probst, American television host and producer

Jeff Probst is an American television presenter, producer, actor and young adult fiction writer. He is best known as the Emmy Award–winning host of the American version of the reality television show Survivor since 2000. He was also the host of The Jeff Probst Show, a syndicated daytime talk show produced by CBS Television Distribution from September 2012 to May 2013.

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Steve Rotheram, English politician, Lord Mayor of Liverpool

Steven Philip Rotheram is a British politician serving as the strategic authority mayor for the Liverpool City Region since 2017. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Walton from 2010 to 2017.

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Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer and manager

Nigel Worthington is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who was most recently the manager of York City.

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04/11/1960

Marc Awodey, American painter and poet (died 2012)

Marc Awodey was an American contemporary artist and poet.

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Kathy Griffin, American comedian and actress

Kathleen Mary Griffin is an American comedian and actress who has starred in television series, comedy specials and has released multiple comedy albums. In 2007 and 2008, Griffin won Primetime Emmy Awards for her reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List. She has also appeared in supporting roles in films.

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Igor Liba, Slovak ice hockey player

Igor Liba is a Slovak former professional ice hockey player. He played 37 games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings during the 1988–89 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1979 to 2003, was mainly spent in the Czechoslovak Extraliga and in other European leagues. Internationally Liba played for the Czechslovak national team in several tournaments, including the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the latter. In 2005 Liba was inducted into the Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the player category of the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2024.

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04/11/1959

Ken Kirzinger, Canadian actor and stuntman

Kenneth Kirzinger is a Canadian actor and stuntman best known for his portrayals of Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs. Jason (2003), Pa in Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007), and Rusty Nail in Joy Ride 3: Roadkill (2014).

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04/11/1958

Lee Jasper, English activist and politician

Lee Jasper is a British politician and activist. He served as Senior Policy Advisor on Equalities to the then Mayor of London Ken Livingstone until he resigned on 4 March 2008. More recently, Jasper stood as the Respect Party candidate for the Croydon North by-election in November 2012, and is a race relations activist.

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Anne Sweeney, American businesswoman

Anne Marie Sweeney is an American businesswoman. As of 2015 she serves as a member of the board of directors at Netflix. She was formerly the co-chair of Disney Media Networks and President of the Disney–ABC Television Group, and the President of Disney Channel from 1996 to 2014.

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04/11/1957

Tony Abbott, English-Australian scholar and politician, 28th Prime Minister of Australia

Anthony John Abbott is an Australian politician who served as the 28th prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015, holding office as the leader of the Liberal Party. He was the member of Parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Warringah from 1994 to 2019 and is the current president of the Liberal Party.

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Richard Harrington, English businessman and politician

Richard Irwin Harrington, Baron Harrington of Watford is a non-affiliated member of the House of Lords and businessman. From 2010 until 2019, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Watford. He was the Minister for Business and Industry from June 2017 to March 2019. Harrington had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019, but on 29 October he was one of ten MPs to have it restored.

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Aleksandr Tkachyov, Russian gymnast and coach

Aleksandr Vasilyevich Tkachyov is a former Soviet/Russian gymnast and two times Olympic Champion. He trained in Dynamo, Voronezh. His trainer was USSR national Pyotr Fyodorovich Korchagin. Tkachyov was one of the world's strongest gymnasts between 1977 and 1981. In 1977 Tkachyov performed for the first time a Horizontal Bar element that was later named Tkachev after him and that has become one of the most popular and impressive elements, frequently used on international gymnastics competitions. In 2005–2006, he coached Girls' Compulsory Program at Peninsula Gymnastics in San Mateo, California.

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04/11/1956

Tom Greenhalgh, Swedish singer-songwriter

Thomas Charles Greenhalgh is a singer, songwriter and multimedia artist best known as a foundational member with the post-punk band the Mekons. While primarily credited as a guitarist in the early Mekons recordings, Greenhalgh's role as a lead singer and songwriter came to the forefront during the 1980s.

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James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (died 1982)

James Honeyman-Scott was an English guitarist, songwriter and founding member of the rock band the Pretenders.

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Jordan Rudess, American keyboard player and songwriter

Jordan Rudess is an American keyboardist, composer, and software developer, best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater and the supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment.

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04/11/1955

Alhaj Moulana Ghousavi Shah, Indian author, poet, and scholar

Moulana Ghousavi Shah is a Muslim Mystic Teacher, Writer and Columnist who is famous as a great humanist in south India. He is from Jami-us-Salasil.

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Matti Vanhanen, Finnish journalist and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Finland

Matti Taneli Vanhanen is a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2003 to 2010 and then as the Speaker of Parliament from 2022 to 2023. He was also Chairman of the Centre Party from 2006 until 2010 and the party's presidential candidate in 2006 and 2018. Outside of that, he has served under multiple ministerial positions throughout his 27 years as a member of the Finnish parliament, with those being Finance Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister.

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04/11/1954

Chris Difford, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Christopher Henry Difford is an English musician. He is a founding member and songwriter of the rock group Squeeze.

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04/11/1953

Mick Buckley, English footballer (died 2013)

Mick Buckley was an English footballer who played for Everton, Sunderland, Hartlepool United, Carlisle United and Middlesbrough as a midfielder.

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P. J. Carey, American baseball player and manager (died 2012)

Paul Jerome "P. J." Carey was an American professional baseball player, manager, instructor, and farm system official.

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Carlos Gutierrez, Cuban-American businessman and politician, 35th United States Secretary of Commerce

Carlos Miguel Gutierrez is an American former CEO and former United States Secretary of Commerce. He is currently a co-founder and executive chairman of EmPath. Gutierrez is a former chairman of the board and CEO of the Kellogg Company. He served as the 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2005 to 2009.

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Peter Lord, English animator, director, and producer, co-founded Aardman Animations

Sir Peter Duncan Fraser Lord is a British animator, director, producer and co-founder of the Academy Award and BAFTA Award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay-animated films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine team Wallace & Gromit. He also directed Chicken Run along with Nick Park from DreamWorks Animation, and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! from Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards.

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Van Stephenson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2001)

Van Wesley Stephenson was an American singer-songwriter. He scored three US Billboard Hot 100 hits in the 1980s as a solo artist, and later became tenor vocalist in the country music band BlackHawk in the 1990s. In addition, Van co-wrote several singles for other artists, such as Restless Heart. Stephenson died of melanoma in 2001.

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Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver

Jacques-Joseph Villeneuve is a Canadian racing driver. He is the younger brother of the late Gilles Villeneuve, and uncle to Jacques Villeneuve, the 1997 Formula One World Champion. He is sometimes called "Uncle Jacques" to differentiate him from his nephew, and is also known by the nickname "Jacquo". Villeneuve had a varied motorsport career, taking in Formula Atlantic, CART, Can-Am, snowmobile racing and Formula One, and remains a revered figure in Canadian motorsport circles. Villeneuve was the first three-time winner of the World Championship Snowmobile Derby.

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04/11/1952

Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

Pope Tawadros II is the 118th and current Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, succeeding the late Pope Shenouda III as leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. He took office on 18 November 2012, two weeks after being selected.

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04/11/1951

Traian Băsescu, Romanian captain and politician, 4th President of Romania

Traian Băsescu is a Romanian politician who served as the president of Romania from 2004 to 2014. Prior to his presidency, Băsescu served as Romanian minister of transport on multiple occasions between 1991 and 2000, and as Mayor of Bucharest from 2000 to 2004. Additionally, he was elected as leader of the Democratic Party (PD) in 2001.

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04/11/1950

Charles Frazier, American novelist

Charles Frazier is an American novelist. He won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction for Cold Mountain.

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Markie Post, American actress (died 2021)

Marjorie Armstrong Post, known professionally as Markie Post, was an American actress. Her best known roles include bail bondswoman Terri Michaels in The Fall Guy on ABC from 1982 to 1985; public defender Christine Sullivan on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1985 to 1992; Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire from 1992 to 1995; and Barbara ‘Bunny’ Fletcher, the mother of Detective Erin Lindsay, on the NBC drama series Chicago P.D. from 2014 to 2017.

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Nik Powell, English businessman, co-founded Virgin Group (died 2019)

Nikolas Mark Powell was a British businessman and one of the co-founders of Virgin Records with Richard Branson. After operating a mail-order company, a small record shop, and a recording studio, the partners established the label in 1972. It became one of the UK's major recording labels until its sale to EMI in 1992.

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04/11/1949

Garo Aida, Japanese photographer and author

Garo Aida is a Japanese photographer known widely for his erotic work. He has also worked in advertising, contributing his photographs to various Japanese companies' commercial ads, such as those by Fujitsu and Nippon Oil.

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04/11/1948

Alexis Hunter, New Zealand-English painter and photographer (died 2014)

Alexis Jan Atthill Hunter was a New Zealand painter and photographer, who used feminist theory in her work. She lived and worked in London UK, and Beaurainville France. Hunter was also a member of the Stuckism collective. Her archive and artistic legacy is now administered by the Alexis Hunter Trust.

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Amadou Toumani Touré, Malian soldier and politician, President of Mali (died 2020)

Amadou Toumani Touré, also popularly known by his initials ATT, was a Malian politician and military officer who served as Mali's head of state twice, from 1991 to 1992 as acting president and again as a democratically elected president from 2002 until he was deposed in a coup in 2012.

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04/11/1947

Ivonne Coll, Puerto Rican actress

Ivonne Coll Mendoza is a Puerto Rican actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned Miss Puerto Rico 1967 and competed in the Miss Universe 1967 pageant but did not place. She later became an actress, appearing in films such as The Godfather Part II and Lean on Me and television series including Switched at Birth, Glee, and Teen Wolf. From 2014 to 2019, Coll starred as Alba Villanueva in the CW comedy-drama series Jane the Virgin.

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Jerry Fleck, American actor, director, and production manager (died 2003)

Gerald R. Fleck was an American assistant director best known for his work on the Star Trek franchise across eleven years.

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Rod Marsh, Australian cricketer and coach (died 2022)

Rodney William Marsh was an Australian professional cricketer who played as a wicketkeeper for the Australian national team. He was a part of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup.

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Ali Özgentürk, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2025)

Ali Özgentürk was a Turkish film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Alexei Ulanov, Russian figure skater

Alexei Nikolaevich Ulanov is a retired pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With Irina Rodnina, he is the 1972 Olympic champion and a four-time (1969–1972) world champion. With his then-wife Lyudmila Smirnova, he is a two-time world silver medalist.

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Ludmila Velikova, Russian figure skater and coach

Ludmila Georgiyevna Velikova is a Russian pair skating coach and former competitor.

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04/11/1946

Laura Bush, American educator and librarian, 45th First Lady of the United States

Laura Lane Welch Bush is an American educator who was the first lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009 as the wife of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States. Bush was also the first lady of Texas from 1995 to 2000 when her husband was governor.

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Frederick Elmes, American cinematographer

Frederick Elmes, ASC is an American cinematographer, known for his association with the independent film movement, having worked mostly with directors David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch.

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Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (died 1989)

Robert Michael Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images. His most controversial works documented and examined the gay male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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04/11/1943

Clark Graebner, American tennis player

Clark Edward Graebner is an American former professional tennis player.

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Bob Wollek, French race car driver and skier (died 2001)

Robert Jean "Bob" Wollek, nicknamed "Brilliant Bob", was a race car driver from Strasbourg, France. He won a total of 76 races in his career, 71 in Porsche cars, including four editions of the 24 Hours of Daytona and one edition of the 12 Hours of Sebring. He died in a road accident in Florida while riding a bicycle back to his accommodation after the day's practice sessions for the following day's race, the 12 Hours of Sebring.

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04/11/1942

Patricia Bath, American ophthalmologist and academic (died 2019)

Patricia Era Bath was an African American ophthalmologist and humanitarian, known for championing a community-focused approach to eye care and for innovations in cataract surgery. She became the first woman to lead a postgraduate training program in ophthalmology, and the first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center. Bath was the first African-American to serve as a resident in ophthalmology at New York University. She was also the first African-American woman to serve on staff as a surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center.

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04/11/1941

Kafi Benz, American conservationist, environmentalist, historic preservationist, author, artist, community leader

Kafi Benz is an American author and artist who began participation in social entrepreneurship through environmental preservation and regional planning in 1959 as a member of the Jersey Jetport Site Association, which opposed plans by the New York Port Authority to found a new airport in the Great Swamp, the central feature of a massive 55-square-mile watershed in New Jersey bounded to the south and east by the Watchung Mountains, 30 miles west of Manhattan.

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Lyndall Gordon, South African-English author and academic

Lyndall Gordon is a British-based biographical and former academic writer, known for her literary biographies. She is a senior research fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

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04/11/1940

Sally Baldwin, Scottish social sciences professor (died 2003)

Sally Baldwin was a University of York social sciences professor and author.

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Marlène Jobert, French actress, singer, and author

Marlène Jobert is a French actress and author.

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Delbert McClinton, American singer-songwriter

Delbert McClinton is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist.

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04/11/1939

Gail E. Haley, American author and illustrator

Gail E. Haley is an American writer and illustrator. She has won the annual awards for children's book illustration from both the American and British librarians, for two different picture books. She won the 1971 Caldecott Medal for A Story a Story, which she retold from an African folktale, and the 1976 Kate Greenaway Medal for The Post Office Cat, her own historical fiction about a London post office.

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Michael Meacher, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (died 2015)

Michael Hugh Meacher was a British politician who served as a government minister under Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Tony Blair. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Oldham West and Royton, previously Oldham West, from 1970 until his death in 2015.

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04/11/1937

Loretta Swit, American actress and singer (died 2025)

Loretta Swit was an American stage and television actress. She was widely known for her character roles, especially her role as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on M*A*S*H, for which she was nominated for Emmy Awards in each season of the long-running show, and won two, in 1980 and 1982.

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Michael Wilson, Canadian academic and politician, 31st Canadian Minister of Finance (died 2019)

Michael Holcombe Wilson was a Canadian businessman, politician and diplomat who served as minister of finance from 1984 to 1991 and minister of international trade from 1991 to 1993 under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

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04/11/1936

C. K. Williams, American poet, critic, and translator (died 2015)

Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams was an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won many poetry awards. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repair (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the 2003 National Book Award and Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2005. The 2012 film The Color of Time relates aspects of Williams' life using his poetry.

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04/11/1935

Barry Crocker, Australian singer, actor, and television host

Barry Hugh Crocker is an Australian Gold Logie-winning character actor, television personality, singer, and variety entertainer with a crooning vocal style.

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Elgar Howarth, English conductor and composer (died 2025)

Elgar Howarth was an English conductor, composer and trumpeter. Grove noted that "his performances are marked by powerful concentration and a clear communication of sometimes complex scores".

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04/11/1933

Tito Francona, American baseball player (died 2018)

John Patsy Francona was an American Major League Baseball player, an outfielder and first baseman for nine teams. As a child, he was nicknamed "Tito" by his father.

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Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)

Sir Charles Kuen Kao was a Hong Kong electrical engineer who contributed to the development and use of fibre optics in telecommunications. In the 1960s, Kao created various methods to combine glass fibres with lasers in order to transmit digital data, which laid the groundwork for the evolution of the Internet and the eventual creation of the World Wide Web.

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C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian colonel and politician, President of Biafra (died 2011)

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu also known as Ikemba, was a Nigerian military officer and political figure who served as President of Biafra from 1967 to 1970. As the military governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, which he declared as the independent state of Biafra, Ojukwu led the Biafran forces during the Nigerian Civil War against the Nigerian government forces.

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04/11/1932

Thomas Klestil, Austrian politician and diplomat, 10th President of Austria (died 2004)

Thomas Klestil was an Austrian diplomat and politician who served as the president of Austria from 1992 until his death in 2004. He was elected in 1992 and re-elected in 1998.

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Tommy Makem, Irish singer-songwriter (died 2007)

Thomas Makem was an Irish folk musician, artist, poet and storyteller. He was best known as a member of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. He played the long-necked 5-string banjo, tin whistle, low whistle, guitar, bodhrán and bagpipes, and sang in a distinctive baritone. He was sometimes known as "The Bard of Armagh" and "The Godfather of Irish Music".

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04/11/1931

Bernard Francis Law, Mexican-American cardinal (died 2017)

Bernard Francis Law was a Mexican-born American prelate of the Catholic Church who, among other offices, served as Archbishop of Boston from 1984 to 2002. Originally considered an influential voice among American Catholic hierarchy and the wider Boston society as a supporter of church orthodoxy and social justice, along with his work in ecumenism and civil rights, his image was dramatically changed after the 2002 exposé of his involvement in covering up the serial rape of children by Catholic priests, which led to his resignation as Archbishop of Boston in December of that year. Prior to that office, Law served as Bishop of Springfield–Cape Girardeau from 1973 to 1984. He also served as Cardinal Priest of Santa Susanna from 1985 to his death in 2017, and as archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore from 2004 to 2011, these being largely ceremonial roles.

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04/11/1930

James E. Brewton, American painter (died 1967)

James Edward Brewton was an American painter and printmaker who synthesized expressionism, graffiti and Pataphysics. At the time of his death, Brewton was beginning to distinguish himself as one of Philadelphia's premier painters and printmakers.

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Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (died 2015)

Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, was an Indian clinical pharmacologist, medical academic and health planner, who headed the National Committee for formulating the policy and guidelines on drugs and clinical trials in India. He was the chairman of the joint programme of World Health Organization and Government of India on Rational Use of Drugs in India. He was the founder president of the Delhi Medical Council and the president of the Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs.

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Dick Groat, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2023)

Richard Morrow Groat was an American professional baseball and basketball player, who was an eight-time All-Star shortstop and two-time World Series champion in Major League Baseball. He rates as one of the most accomplished two-sport athletes in American sports history, a college All-America in baseball and basketball as well as one of only 13 to play both at the professional level.

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Frank J. Prial, American journalist and author (died 2012)

Frank J. Prial was a journalist and author, and the wine columnist for The New York Times for 25 years, writing the weekly "Wine Talk" column largely since 1972 until his retirement in 2004.

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04/11/1929

Anastasios of Albania, Greek-Albanian archbishop (died 2025)

Archbishop Anastasios, was the Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania and as such the primate and Head of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania. He was elected in June 1992. He was Professor Emeritus of the National University of Athens and an honorary member of the Academy of Athens. Anastasios was one of the presidents of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. He was also the honorary president of the World Conference of Religions for Peace.

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Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician and astrologer (died 2013)

Shakuntala Devi was an Indian mental calculator, astrologer, and writer, popularly known as the "Human Computer". Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records. However, the certificate for the record was given posthumously on 30 July 2020, despite Devi achieving her world record on 18 June 1980 at Imperial College, London. Devi was a precocious child, and she demonstrated her arithmetic abilities at the University of Mysore without any formal education.

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04/11/1928

Larry Bunker, American drummer and vibraphone player (died 2005)

Lawrence Benjamin Bunker was an American jazz drummer, vibraphonist, and percussionist. A member of the Bill Evans Trio in the mid-1960s, he also played timpani with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.

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Eugenio Lopez Jr., Filipino businessman and chairman of the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation (died 1999)

Eugenio "Geny" Moreno López Jr. was the chairman emeritus of ABS-CBN Corporation from 1997 to 1999. He was known within the López Group of Companies as "Kapitán". His great-grandfather Eugenio J. López (1839–1906) was also known as "Kapitán Eugenio" during his time.

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Hannah Weiner, American poet and author (died 1997)

Hannah Adelle Weiner was an American poet who is often grouped with the Language poets because of the prominent place she assumed in the poetics of that group.

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04/11/1926

Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Cuban-American conga player and composer (died 2007)

Carlos Valdés Galán, better known as Patato, was a Cuban conga player. In 1954, he emigrated from La Habana to New York City where he continued his prolific career as a sideman for several jazz and Latin music ensembles, and occasionally as a bandleader. He contributed to the development of the tunable conga drum which revolutionized the use of the instrument in the US. His experimental descarga albums recorded for Latin Percussion are considered the counterpart to the commercial salsa boom of the 1970s. Tito Puente once called him "the greatest conguero alive today".

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04/11/1925

Gamani Corea, Sri Lankan economist and diplomat (died 2013)

Deshamanya Gamani Corea was a Sri Lankan economist, civil servant and diplomat. He was also the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1974 to 1984, Ceylon's Ambassador to the EEC, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs of Ceylon and the Senior Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon.

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Doris Roberts, American actress (died 2016)

Doris May Roberts was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned seven decades of television and film. She received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award during her acting career, which began in 1948.

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04/11/1923

Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (died 2002)

Alfred Henry Heineken was a Dutch businessman for Heineken International, the brewing company created in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam. He served as chairman of the board of directors and CEO from 1971 until 1989. After his retirement as chairman and CEO, Heineken continued to sit on the board of directors until his death and served as chairman of the supervisory board from 1989 to 1995. At the time of his death, Heineken was one of the richest people in the Netherlands, with a net worth of 9.5 billion guilders.

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Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and politician (died 2020)

Howard William Meeker was a Canadian professional hockey player in the National Hockey League, youth coach and educator in ice hockey, and a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament. He became best known to Canadians as an excitable and enthusiastic television colour commentator for Hockey Night in Canada, breaking down strategy in between periods of games with early use of the telestrator. In the 1970s, he ran hockey camps and created numerous books and a television series promoting youth education in the sport.

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Eugene Sledge, American soldier, author, and academic (died 2001)

Eugene Bondurant Sledge was a United States Marine, university professor, and author. His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa chronicled his combat experiences during World War II and was used as source material for the Ken Burns PBS documentary The War (2007), as well as the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), in which he is portrayed by Joseph Mazzello.

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04/11/1922

Benno Besson, Swiss-German actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2006)

Benno Besson was a Swiss Theatre Director.

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04/11/1921

Mary Sherman Morgan, American scientist and engineer (died 2004)

Mary Sherman Morgan was an American rocket fuel scientist credited with the invention of the liquid fuel Hydyne in 1957, which powered the Jupiter-C rocket that boosted the United States' first satellite, Explorer 1.

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04/11/1919

Martin Balsam, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1996)

Martin Henry Balsam was an American actor. He had a prolific career in character roles in film, in theatre, and on television. An early member of the Actors Studio, he began his career on the New York stage, winning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running (1968). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in A Thousand Clowns (1965).

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Eric Thompson, English race car driver and businessman (died 2015)

Eric David Thompson was a British racing driver, book dealer and insurance broker. He participated in sports car racing between 1949 and 1955 taking his greatest success by finishing third in the 1951 Les 24 Heures du Mans and took part in the 1952 RAC British Grand Prix.

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04/11/1918

Art Carney, American actor (died 2003)

Arthur William Matthew Carney was an American actor and comedian. A recipient of an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and six Primetime Emmy Awards, he was best known for his role as Ed Norton on the sitcom The Honeymooners (1955–1956).

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Cameron Mitchell, American actor (died 1994)

Cameron Mitchell was an American actor whose career spanned 55 years across film, stage, and television. Mitchell began his career on Broadway before entering films in the 1950s, appearing in several major features. Later in his career, he became known for his roles in numerous exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s.

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04/11/1916

John Basilone, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1945)

John Basilone was a United States Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Battle for Henderson Field in the Guadalcanal campaign, and the Navy Cross posthumously for extraordinary heroism during the Battle of Iwo Jima. He was the only enlisted Marine to receive both of these decorations in World War II.

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Walter Cronkite, American journalist, voice actor, and producer (died 2009)

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. Cronkite received numerous honors including two Peabody Awards, a George Polk Award, an Emmy Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, created Barbie (died 2002)

Ruth Marianna Handler was an American business magnate and inventor. She is best known for inventing the Barbie doll in 1959 and being co-founder of toy manufacturer Mattel with her husband Elliot, as well as serving as the company's first president from 1945 to 1975.

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04/11/1915

Marguerite Patten, English economist and author (died 2015)

Hilda Elsie Marguerite Patten,, was a British home economist, food writer and broadcaster. She was one of the earliest celebrity chefs who became known during World War II thanks to her programme on BBC Radio, where she shared recipes that could work within the limits imposed by war rationing. After the war, she was responsible for popularising the use of pressure cookers and her 170 published books have sold over 17 million copies.

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Ismail Abdul Rahman, Malaysian politician (died 1973)

Ismail bin Abdul Rahman was a Malaysian politician who served as the second Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia from September 1970 to his death in August 1973. A member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), he previously held several ministerial posts.

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04/11/1914

Carlos Castillo Armas, Authoritarian ruler of Guatemala (died 1957)

Carlos Castillo Armas was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who was the 28th president of Guatemala, serving from 1954 to 1957 after taking power in a coup d'état. A member of the far-right National Liberation Movement (MLN) party, his authoritarian government was closely allied with the United States.

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04/11/1913

Gig Young, American actor (died 1978)

Gig Young was an American actor. He was active in film, television, and theatre from the late 1930's through the 1970's, and was initially known for his portrayals of characters with "light-hearted sophistication." He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), with two previous nominations for Come Fill the Cup (1952) and Teacher's Pet (1959).

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04/11/1912

Botong Francisco, Filipino painter (died 1969)

Carlos Modesto "Botong" Villaluz Francisco was a Filipino muralist from Angono, Rizal.

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Vadim Salmanov, Russian pianist and composer (died 1978)

Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov was a Soviet composer and pedagogue.

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Giff Vivian, New Zealand cricketer (died 1983)

Henry Gifford Vivian was a New Zealand cricketer who played in seven Test matches between 1931 and 1937.

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04/11/1911

Dixie Lee, American actress and singer (died 1952)

Dixie Lee was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She was the first wife of singer Bing Crosby.

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04/11/1909

Evelyn Bryan Johnson, American colonel and pilot (died 2012)

Evelyn Stone Bryan Johnson, nicknamed "Mama Bird", was the world's oldest flight instructor, and—at one point—the pilot with the highest number of flying hours in the world, of any living pilot. She was a colonel in the Civil Air Patrol and a founding member of the Morristown, Tennessee Civil Air Patrol squadron.

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Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (died 1974)

Bertrand "Bert" Arthur Patenaude was an American soccer player who played as a forward. Although it was formerly disputed, he is officially credited by FIFA as the scorer of the first hat-trick in World Cup history. He is a member of the United States Soccer Hall of Fame.

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Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager (died 1986)

James Laverne "Skeeter" Webb was an American professional baseball infielder in Major League Baseball from 1932 to 1949. He played 12 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, and Philadelphia Athletics.

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04/11/1908

Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer and photographer (died 1997)

Stanley Cortez, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer. He worked on over 100 films between 1929 and 1980, and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. His most notable credits included Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955), Nunnally Johnson's The Three Faces of Eve (1957), and Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor (1963) and The Naked Kiss (1964). He served as President of the American Society of Cinematographers from 1985 to 1986.

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Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)

Sir Joseph Rotblat was a Polish and British physicist. During World War II he worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory on grounds of conscience after it became clear to him in 1944 that Germany had ceased development of an atomic bomb.

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04/11/1906

Sterling North, American author and critic (died 1974)

Thomas Sterling North was an American writer. He is best known for the children's book Rascal, a bestseller in 1963.

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04/11/1905

Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet and translator (died 2007)

Dragutin Tadijanović was a Croatian poet, and in his native Croatia he is referred to as a "Bard."

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04/11/1904

Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish engineer, technician, and academic (died 1967)

Tadeusz Żyliński was a Polish technician, textilist and mechanical engineer. He was a professor of Technical University of Łódź, creator of Polish school of textile metrology. Author of Metrologia włókiennicza and Nauka o włóknie.

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04/11/1901

Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist, author, and academic (died 1974)

Spyridon Marinatos was a Greek archaeologist who specialised in the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations of the Aegean Bronze Age. He is best known for the excavation of the Minoan site of Akrotiri on Thera, which he conducted between 1967 and 1974. He received many honours in Greece and abroad, and was considered one of the most important Greek archaeologists of his day.

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04/11/1900

Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Romanian sociologist and activist (died 1954)

Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu was a Romanian communist politician and leading member of the Communist Party of Romania (PCR), also noted for his activities as a lawyer, sociologist and economist. For a while, he was a professor at the University of Bucharest. Pătrășcanu rose to a government position before the end of World War II and, after having disagreed with Stalinist tenets on several occasions, eventually came into conflict with the Romanian Communist government of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. He became a political prisoner and was ultimately executed. Fourteen years after Pătrășcanu's death, Romania's new communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, endorsed his rehabilitation as part of a change in policy.

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04/11/1897

Dolly Stark, American baseball player and umpire (died 1968)

Albert D. "Dolly" Stark was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the National League from 1928 to 1935 and from 1937 to 1940. Stark was the first Jewish umpire in modern baseball.

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04/11/1896

Carlos P. Garcia, Filipino lawyer and politician, 8th President of the Philippines (died 1971)

Carlos Polestico García, often referred to by his initials CPG, was the eighth president of the Philippines, serving from 1957 to 1961. He served as the fourth vice president of the Philippines from 1953 to 1957.

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04/11/1890

Klabund, German author and poet (died 1928)

Alfred Henschke, better known by his pseudonym Klabund, was a German writer.

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04/11/1889

Alton Adams, American composer and bandleader (died 1987)

Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. was an American from the US Virgin Islands who is remembered primarily as the first black bandmaster in the United States Navy. His music was performed by the bands of John Philip Sousa and Edwin Franko Goldman and his march "The Governor's Own" (1921) appears as the first selection on the bicentennial album Pride of America, released by New World Records.

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04/11/1887

Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist and philanthropist (died 1975)

Alfred Lee Loomis was an American attorney, investment banker, philanthropist, scientist, physicist, inventor of the LORAN Long Range Navigation System and a lifelong patron of scientific research. He established the Loomis Laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, and his role in the development of radar and the atomic bomb contributed to the Allied victory in World War II. He invented the Aberdeen Chronograph for measuring muzzle velocities, contributed significantly to the development of a ground-controlled approach technology for aircraft, and participated in preliminary meetings of the Manhattan Project.

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04/11/1884

Harry Ferguson, Irish engineer, invented the tractor (died 1960)

Henry George Ferguson was a British mechanic and inventor who is noted for his role in the development of the modern agricultural tractor and its three-point linkage system, for being the first person in Ireland to build and fly his own aeroplane, and for developing the first four-wheel drive Formula One car, the Ferguson P99.

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04/11/1883

Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician 135th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1953)

Nikolaos Plastiras was a Greek general and politician, who served three times as Prime Minister of Greece. A distinguished soldier known for his personal bravery, he became famous as "The Black Rider" during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, where he commanded the 5/42 Evzone Regiment. Due to his fame, he retained his position despite the military reshuffle that commenced after the 1920 elections. After the Greek defeat in the war, along with other Venizelist officers he launched the 11 September 1922 Revolution that deposed King Constantine I of Greece and his government. The military-led government ruled until January 1924, when power was handed over to an elected National Assembly, which later declared the Second Hellenic Republic. In the interwar period, Plastiras remained a devoted Venizelist and republican. Trying to avert the rise of the royalist People's Party and the restoration of the monarchy, he led two coup attempts in 1933 and 1935, both of which failed, hastening the collapse of the Second Republic and forcing Plastiras to exile in France.

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04/11/1879

Will Rogers, American actor and screenwriter (died 1935)

William Penn Adair Rogers was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma, and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films, and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was hugely popular in the United States for his leading political wit and was one of the higher paid Hollywood film stars. He died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post when their small airplane crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Utqiaġvik, Alaska, in northern Alaska.

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04/11/1874

Charles Despiau, French sculptor (died 1946)

Charles Despiau was a French sculptor and teacher. He also worked as a draftsman, graphic artist and book illustrator.

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04/11/1873

Kyōka Izumi, Japanese author, poet, and playwright (died 1939)

Kyōtarō Izumi , known by his pen name Izumi Kyōka , was a Japanese novelist, writer and kabuki playwright who was active during the prewar period.

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04/11/1868

La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer, and dancer (died 1965)

Agustina del Carmen Otero Iglesias, better known as Carolina Otero or La Belle Otero, was a Spanish actress, dancer and courtesan. She had a reputation for great beauty and was famous for her numerous lovers.

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04/11/1862

Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian actor and director (died 1932)

Rasmus Rasmussen was a Norwegian actor, folk singer and theatre director.

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04/11/1861

Alice Gossage, American journalist (died 1929)

Rhoda Alice Gossage was an American newspaper editor, journalist, and activist. Often referred to as the "Mother of Rapid City", she was inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1934 and the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 1978. She was one of, if not the, first newspaperwomen in South Dakota.

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04/11/1853

Anna Bayerová, Czech physician (died 1924)

Anna Bayerová was a Czech medical doctor. She is known as the second Czech female medical doctor. Both of them were prevented from practicing as medical doctors in their own country so Kecková became a Czech midwife, whereas Bayerová had a medical practise in Bern.

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04/11/1840

William Giblin, Australian politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (died 1887)

William Robert Giblin was Premier of Tasmania (Australia) from 5 March 1878 until 20 December 1878 and from 1879 until 1884.

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04/11/1836

Henry J. Lutcher, American businessman (died 1912)

Henry Jacob Lutcher was a sawmiller and business partner of the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company. His business ventures would help establish Orange, Texas, as the timber-processing capital of the South in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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04/11/1821

Thomas Keefer, Canadian engineer and businessman (died 1915)

Thomas Coltrin Keefer CMG was a Canadian civil engineer.

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04/11/1816

Stephen Johnson Field, American lawyer and jurist, 5th Chief Justice of California (died 1899)

Stephen Johnson Field was an American jurist. He was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1863 to 1897, and prior to that, he was the fifth Chief Justice of California. He had the third-longest tenure of any justice and is the only justice who served contemporaneously with one of their relatives, his nephew, David J. Brewer.

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04/11/1809

Benjamin Robbins Curtis, American lawyer and jurist (died 1874)

Benjamin Robbins Curtis was an American lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1851 to 1857. Curtis was the only Whig justice of the Supreme Court, and he was the first Supreme Court justice to have a formal law degree. He is often remembered as one of the two dissenters in the Supreme Court's infamous 1857 decision Dred Scott v. Sandford.

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04/11/1787

Edmund Kean, British Shakespearean stage actor (died 1833)

Edmund Kean was a British Shakespearean actor, who performed, among other places, in London, Belfast, New York, Quebec, and Paris. He was known for his short stature, tumultuous personal life, and controversial divorce.

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04/11/1765

Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (died 1836)

Pierre-Simon Girard was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on fluid mechanics.

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04/11/1740

Augustus Toplady, English cleric and hymn writer (died 1778)

Augustus Montague Toplady was an English Anglican cleric and hymn writer. He was a major Calvinist opponent of John Wesley. He is best remembered as the author of the hymn "Rock of Ages". Three of his other hymns – "A Debtor to Mercy Alone", "Deathless Principle, Arise" and "Object of My First Desire" – are still occasionally sung today.

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04/11/1661

Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine, German son of Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (died 1742)

Charles III Philip was Elector Palatine, Count of Palatinate-Neuburg, and Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1716 to 1742. Until 1728 he was also Count of Megen.

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04/11/1649

Samuel Carpenter, Deputy Governor of colonial Pennsylvania (died 1714)

Samuel Carpenter was a Deputy Governor of colonial Pennsylvania. He signed the historic document "The Declaration of Fealty, Christian Belief and Test" dated 10 September 1695; the original is in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Carpenter was also called the "First Treasurer" of Pennsylvania, and was a partner and friend of proprietor William Penn.

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04/11/1640

Carlo Mannelli, Italian violinist and composer (died 1697)

Carlo Mannelli was an Italian violinist, castrato and composer.

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04/11/1631

Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (died 1660)

Mary, Princess Royal, was a British princess, a member of the House of Stuart, and by marriage Princess of Orange and Countess of Nassau. She acted as regent for her minor son from 1651 to 1660. She was the first holder of the title Princess Royal.

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04/11/1592

Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter (died 1656)

Gerard "Gerrit" van Honthorst was a Dutch Golden Age painter who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, eventually receiving the Italian nickname Gherardo delle Notti. Early in his career he visited Rome, where he had great success painting in a style influenced by Caravaggio. Following his return to the Netherlands he became a leading portrait painter. Van Honthorst's contemporaries included Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen and Dirck van Baburen.

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04/11/1575

Guido Reni, Italian painter and illustrator (died 1642)

Guido Reni was an Italian Baroque painter, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious works, but also mythological and allegorical subjects. Active in Rome, Naples, and his native Bologna, he became the dominant figure in the Bolognese School that emerged under the influence of the Carracci.

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04/11/1553

Roger Wilbraham, Solicitor-General for Ireland (died 1616)

Sir Roger Wilbraham was a prominent English lawyer who served as Solicitor-General for Ireland, under Elizabeth I and was judged one of her few really competent Law Officers. He held a number of positions at court under James I, including Master of Requests and surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries. He bought an estate at Dorfold in the parish of Acton, near his birthplace of Nantwich in Cheshire. He was active in charitable works locally, including founding two sets of almshouses for impoverished men. He also founded almshouses in Monken Hadley, Middlesex, where he is buried.

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04/11/1512

Hu Zongxian, Chinese general (died 1565)

Hu Zongxian, courtesy name Ruzhen (汝貞) and art name Meilin (梅林), was a Chinese general and politician of the Ming dynasty who presided over the government's response to the wokou pirate raids during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor. As supreme commander, he was able to defeat Xu Hai's substantial raid in 1556 and capture the pirate lord Wang Zhi the next year through ruses. Despite his accomplishments, Hu Zongxian's reputation had been tarnished by his association with the clique of Yan Song and Zhao Wenhua, traditionally reviled figures in Ming historiography. He was rehabilitated decades after his death and was given the posthumous name Xiangmao (襄懋) by the emperor in 1595.

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04/11/1448

Alfonso II of Naples (died 1495)

Alfonso II was Duke of Calabria and ruled as King of Naples from 25 January 1494 to 23 January 1495. He was a soldier and a patron of Renaissance architecture and the arts.

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