Born on Wednesday, 15th October – Famous Birthdays

15/10/2005

Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark

Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, is the heir apparent to the Danish throne. He is the eldest child of King Frederik X and Queen Mary. He was born during the reign of his paternal grandmother, Queen Margrethe II. He became Crown Prince of Denmark following his grandmother's abdication and his father's subsequent ascension to the Danish throne in January 2024.

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15/10/2000

Melki Sedek Huang, Indonesian activist and sex offender

Melki Sedek Huang is an Indonesian activist and politician who was the chairman of the student executive council at University of Indonesia (UI) from 21 January 2023 until his dismissal on 18 December on the same year due to sexual assault. In 2024, Huang joined the Indonesian Democractic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and currently serving as it Deputy Chairman in West Kalimantan.

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15/10/1999

Bailee Madison, American-Canadian actress and singer

Bailee Madison is an American actress and singer. Beginning as a child actress and later expanding to mature roles and into the horror genre, her accolades include three Young Artist Awards, with nominations for a Critics' Choice Movie Award and a Saturn Award.

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Ben Woodburn, Welsh footballer

Benjamin Luke Woodburn is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL League Two club Salford City. A versatile player, Woodburn can be deployed as a central midfielder, attacking midfielder, left winger or forward.

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15/10/1998

Teuku Wariza Aris Munandar, Indonesian activist and politician

In December 2023, students from various universities in Aceh, Indonesia, protested and rioted against Rohingya refugees. The protests took place at the Balee Meuseuraya Hall in Banda Aceh.

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15/10/1996

Charly Musonda, Belgian footballer

Charles Musonda is a Belgian former professional footballer. Mainly an attacking midfielder, he also played as a winger.

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Grace Van Dien, American actress

Grace Van Dien is an American actress. She is most notably known for playing Chrissy Cunningham in Stranger Things (2022) and starring in "Roost" which premiered at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival. She has also played Brooke Osmond in the Netflix teen drama series Greenhouse Academy (2017) and Katie Campbell in NBC drama series The Village (2019). She also portrayed Sharon Tate in the Mary Harron–directed film Charlie Says (2018).

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Zelo, South Korean rapper and dancer

Choi Jun-hong, known professionally as Zelo (젤로), is a South Korean rapper and dancer best known as the former member of the South Korean boy group B.A.P. He made his recording debut with the single "Never Give Up" under B.A.P's sub-unit Bang&Zelo in November 2011. He departed TS Entertainment in December 2018.

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15/10/1995

Jack Flaherty, American baseball player

Jack Rafe Flaherty is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Flaherty was selected by the Cardinals in the first round of the 2014 MLB draft and made his MLB debut with them in 2017.

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Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player

Jakob Pöltl is an Austrian professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Utah Utes.

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15/10/1994

Lil' Kleine, Dutch rapper

Jorik Scholten, professionally known as Lil' Kleine, is a Dutch rapper, actor and singer. He collaborated with fellow rapper Ronnie Flex to produce the number-one single "Drank & Drugs" and the number-one album Wop!.

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Babar Azam, Pakistani cricket player

Mohammad Babar Azam is a Pakistani international cricketer and a former captain of the Pakistan national team in all three formats of the game. A right-handed top-order batter, he captains Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League. Azam was a member of the Pakistan team that won the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy.

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15/10/1993

Richaun Holmes, American basketball player

Richaun Diante Holmes is an American professional basketball who last played for Panathinaikos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Bowling Green Falcons where he was named to multiple All-Mid-American Conference teams. Holmes previously played for the Philadelphia 76ers for three seasons before being traded to the Phoenix Suns in the 2018 offseason. He played one season with the Suns before signing with the Sacramento Kings in the 2019 offseason. He has also played for the Dallas Mavericks and the Washington Wizards.

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Roh Tae-hyun, South Korean singer and dancer

Roh Tae-hyun, is a South Korean singer and dancer. He is a former member of Hotshot and JBJ. He released his debut solo extended play, Birthday, on January 24, 2019. He participated as a member of Mbitious in Street Man Fighter.

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15/10/1992

Ncuti Gatwa, Rwandan-Scottish actor

Mizero Ncuti Gatwa is a Rwandan and Scottish actor who is best known for playing Eric Effiong in Sex Education (2019–2023) and the Fifteenth Doctor in Doctor Who (2023–2025).

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Teoscar Hernández, Dominican baseball player

Teoscar José Hernández, nicknamed "Teo", is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Houston Astros, Toronto Blue Jays, and Seattle Mariners. Hernández made his MLB debut in 2016 with the Astros. He has won three Silver Slugger Awards and was an All-Star in 2021 and 2024. With the Dodgers, he won the 2024 and 2025 World Series.

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Vincent Martella, American actor

Vincent Michael Martella is an American actor and singer. He is best known for providing the voice of Phineas Flynn on the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb. Martella is also known for his role as Greg Wuliger on the UPN/CW series Everybody Hates Chris (2005–2009), and for playing Hope Estheim in the 2010 video game Final Fantasy XIII and its sequels Final Fantasy XIII-2 (2011) and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (2013).

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15/10/1991

Brock Nelson, American ice hockey player

Brock Christian Nelson is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nelson was drafted 30th overall in the first round of the 2010 NHL entry draft by the New York Islanders. Prior to playing at professional level, Nelson played for the University of North Dakota. His first experience in professional level was in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Islanders' affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. Once he reached the NHL on a full-time basis, he would go on to play eleven seasons with the Islanders before being traded to the Avalanche. Nelson won a gold medal with Team USA in the 2026 Winter Olympics.

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15/10/1990

Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer

Jeon Ji-yoon, professionally known as Jiyoon or Jenyer, is a South Korean singer, rapper, and songwriter known for her work as a former member of South Korean girl group 4Minute. She debuted as a solo artist on November 2, 2016, under the stage name Jenyer, with the release of her debut digital single, "I Do".

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15/10/1989

Blaine Gabbert, American football player

Blaine Williamson Gabbert is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons. He played college football for the Missouri Tigers, receiving second-team All-Big 12 honors, and was selected 10th overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2011 NFL draft. Gabbert began his career as the Jaguars' starter, but inconsistent play and injuries led to his departure after three seasons. He spent his next three seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, where he saw his last significant playing time. For the remainder of his career, Gabbert served as backup for the Arizona Cardinals, Tennessee Titans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Kansas City Chiefs. As a backup, he won two Super Bowl titles, one with the Buccaneers and one with the Chiefs.

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Anthony Joshua, British professional boxer

Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni "AJ" Joshua is a British professional boxer. He held the unified heavyweight championship twice between 2017 and 2021. He also held the International Boxing Organization (IBO) title during his reigns as champion. At regional level, he held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles from 2015 to 2016.

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15/10/1988

Dominique Jones, American basketball player

Dominique O'Neal Jones is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Changsha Yongsheng of the National Basketball League. A noted scorer in college at the University of South Florida, Jones had the second-highest scoring average in the Big East Conference during the 2009–10 season. Jones has had a long career in the CBA and was named the league's MVP in 2023.

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Mesut Özil, German footballer

Mesut Özil is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Known for his ball control, technical skills, creativity, passing skills, and vision, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders and playmakers of his generation. He could also play as a wide midfielder.

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15/10/1987

Ott Tänak, Estonian racing driver

Ott Tänak is an Estonian rally driver who most recently competed for Hyundai World Rally Team in the World Rally Championship. Tänak was paired with co-driver Martin Järveoja, a partnership that has existed since the 2017 season and lasted until 2025 after Tänak announced his retirement. He is the 2019 World Rally Champion, having sealed his maiden World Rally Championship with Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT in a dominant season that saw him take six victories.

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15/10/1986

Lee Donghae, South Korean singer-songwriter

Lee Dong-hae, referred to as Donghae, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and actor. He became a trainee under SM Entertainment after winning a prize at SM's Youth Best Contest in 2001. After four years of training, Donghae debuted as a member of boy group Super Junior in November 2005. In July 2023, Donghae left SM Entertainment, although he remains as a member of Super Junior. Two months later, Donghae along with Eunhyuk, founded a new label under the name of ODE.en to manage his solo activities as well as D&E's activities. He is the co-founder of the label.

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Carlo Janka, Swiss skier

Carlo Janka is a Swiss former alpine ski racer. Born in Obersaxen, in the canton of Graubünden, he had the winter sports facilities right in front of his home. Janka has won gold medals at both the Winter Olympics and the World Championships, as well as one World Cup overall title, one discipline title and also, one unofficial alpine combined title.

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Nolito, Spanish footballer

Manuel Agudo Durán, known as Nolito, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a winger or a forward.

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15/10/1985

Arron Afflalo, American basketball player

Arron Agustin Afflalo is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. As a junior, he was named a consensus All-American and was voted the player of the year in the Pac-12 Conference. After forgoing his senior year in college, Afflalo was selected in the first round of the 2007 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons with the 27th overall pick.

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15/10/1984

Izale McLeod, English footballer

Izale Michael McLeod is an English retired professional footballer who played as a forward. He has played in The Football League for Derby County, Milton Keynes Dons, Charlton Athletic, Barnet, Portsmouth, Crawley Town, Notts County and Yeovil Town. He also played for England U21.

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Jessie Ware, English singer-songwriter

Jessica Lois Ware is a British singer and songwriter. She came to prominence following the release of her debut album, Devotion (2012), which peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart and produced the single "Wildest Moments". Her second album, Tough Love (2014), reached number nine in the UK and produced the singles "Tough Love" and "Say You Love Me". Her third album, Glasshouse (2017), reached number seven in the UK.

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15/10/1983

Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer

Stephy Tang Lai-yan is a Hong Kong singer and actress. She was formerly the leader of the Cantopop group Cookies. She won the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress in 2017 for her performance in The Empty Hands, and was nominated twice for the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress.

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Bruno Senna, Brazilian ex-F1 Driver

Bruno Senna Lalli is a Brazilian former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 2010 to 2012. In endurance racing, Senna won the 2017 FIA Endurance Trophy in the LMP2 class with Rebellion.

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15/10/1981

Keyshia Cole, American singer-songwriter and producer

Keyshia Myeshia Cole is an American singer, songwriter, television personality, and actress. Born and raised in Oakland, California, she emerged in the mid-2000s as a prominent figure in contemporary R&B, known for her emotionally direct vocal style and autobiographical songwriting, with critics often dubbing her the "Princess of Hip-Hop Soul".

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Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player

Elena Viacheslavovna Dementieva is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 3 in women's singles and world No. 5 in women's doubles by the WTA. Dementieva won 16 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including an Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, adding to a silver medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She was also the runner-up at the 2004 French Open and 2004 US Open, and reached seven other major semifinals. Dementieva was part of the victorious Russian team at the 2005 Fed Cup. In doubles, she won six titles, including the 2002 WTA Championships with Janette Husárová, and was runner-up in two US Open finals.

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15/10/1980

Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist

Tom Boonen is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2002 and 2017 for the U.S. Postal Service and Quick-Step Floors teams and a professional racing driver who currently competes in Belcar, having previously competed in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series. Boonen won the 2005 UCI World Road Race Championships, and was a single-day road specialist with a strong finishing sprint. He won the cycling monuments Paris–Roubaix four times and the Tour of Flanders three times, among many other prestigious victories, such as prevailing five times in the E3 Harelbeke, winning six stages of the Tour de France and winning the overall title of the Tour of Qatar four times.

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15/10/1979

Bohemia, Pakistani-American rapper and producer

Roger David, better known by his stage name Bohemia, is a Pakistani-American singer-songwriter and record producer, mainly associated with Punjabi hip-hop music. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Desi hip hop industry.

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Paul Robinson, English footballer

Paul William Robinson is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Premier League and Football League for Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Blackburn Rovers and Burnley. Robinson is a former England international, earning 41 caps between 2003 and 2007.

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Jaci Velasquez, American singer-songwriter and actress

Jacquelyn Davette "Jaci" Velasquez is an American actress and contemporary Christian and Latin pop singer and songwriter, performing in both English and Spanish.

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Māris Verpakovskis, Latvian footballer

Māris Verpakovskis, is a Latvian retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He played for the Latvia national team at UEFA Euro 2004 and is the only Latvian player to score at the end stage of a major international football tournament.

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15/10/1978

Wes Moore, American politician, author, nonprofit executive, and television producer, 63rd Governor of Maryland

Westley Watende Omari Moore is an American politician, businessman, author, and former U.S. Army officer, serving as the 63rd governor of Maryland since 2023.

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Takeshi Morishima, Japanese wrestler

Takeshi Morishima is a Japanese former professional wrestler.

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15/10/1977

Masato Kawabata, Japanese racing driver

Masato Kawabata is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team TOYO TIRES DRIFT.

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David Trezeguet, French footballer

David Sergio Trezeguet is a French-Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer

Patricio Javier Urrutia Espinoza is an Ecuadorian football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.

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15/10/1976

Elisa Aguilar, Spanish basketball player

Elisa Aguilar López is a former Spanish women's basketball player, member of the Spanish women's basketball team. After four years at George Washington Colonials, she spent most of her senior career in Spanish clubs (Real Canoe NC, Halcón Viajes Salamanca, Caja Rural Canarias, Ros Casares Valencia and Rivas Ecópolis, with just a couple of stints abroad: 2002 at Utah Starzz and 2012-13 at WBC Spartak Moscow Region. She won five Spanish Leagues, eight Spanish Cups and six medals with the Spanish senior team, retiring as European champion in 2013.

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15/10/1975

Chukwudi Iwuji, Nigerian-British actor

Chukwudi Iwuji is a Nigerian-British actor. He is an Associate Artist for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is known for his roles as Clemson Murn / Ik Nobe Lok in the first season of the HBO Max superhero series Peacemaker, as The High Evolutionary in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), and as Osita Halcrow in the Peacock show The Day of the Jackal (2024−present).

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15/10/1974

Bianca Rinaldi, Brazilian actress

Bianca de Carvalho e Silva Rinaldi is a Brazilian actress. She is best known for her roles in telenovelas, especially A Escrava Isaura.

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15/10/1973

Aleksandr Filimonov, Russian footballer

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Filimonov is a former association football goalkeeper from Russia. He won the 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup with the Russia national beach soccer team.

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15/10/1972

Fred Hoiberg, American basketball player and coach

Fredrick Kristian Hoiberg is an American college basketball coach and former player. He has served as the men's head basketball coach at the University of Nebraska since 2019. Hoiberg grew up in Ames, Iowa, and played college basketball at Iowa State University in Ames where he earned the nickname "the Mayor". He was drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) where, over his 10-year career, he played for the Indiana Pacers, Chicago Bulls, and Minnesota Timberwolves. After retiring as a player, he served as vice president for basketball operations for the Minnesota Timberwolves before beginning his coaching career at his alma mater, Iowa State University. He was there from 2010 to 2015 before coaching in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls from 2015 to 2018.

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Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, German-Congolese footballer and manager

Michél Mazingu-Sinda-Dinzey, also known as Michél Dinzey, is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in West Germany, he represented the DR Congo national team. He is the director of sport of KFC Uerdingen 05.

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15/10/1971

Andy Cole, English footballer and coach

Andrew Alexander Cole is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. His professional career lasted from 1988 to 2008, and is mostly remembered for his time with Manchester United, who paid a British record transfer fee to sign him from Newcastle United. Cole spent six years with Manchester United and won nine trophies, including five Premier League titles and the Treble of the Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League in 1999.

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Lauri Pilter, Estonian author and translator

Lauri Pilter is an Estonian writer, translator and literary scientist.

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15/10/1970

Ginuwine, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

Elgin Baylor Lumpkin, better known by his stage name Ginuwine, is an American R&B singer. He began his career as a member of the musical collective Swing Mob in the early 1990s. As a solo act, he signed with Epic Records to release his 1996 debut single, "Pony". The song peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and preceded the release of his debut studio album, Ginuwine...the Bachelor (1996), which received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His second and third albums, 100% Ginuwine (1999) and The Life (2001), both peaked within the top five of the Billboard 200, while the latter spawned the single "Differences", which peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains his highest-charting song.

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Pernilla Wiberg, Swedish skier

Pernilla Wiberg is a Swedish former alpine ski racer and businesswoman. She competed on the World Cup circuit between 1990 and 2002, where she became one of the few all-event winners. Having won two Olympic gold medals, four World Championships and one World Cup overall title, she is one of the most successful alpine ski racers of the 1990s. On club level, she represented Norrköpings SK. She was born in Norrköping.

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15/10/1969

Vítor Baía, Portuguese footballer

Vítor Manuel Martins Baía, OIH is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Dominic West, English actor and director

Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West is an English actor, director, producer, and musician. He is best known for playing Jimmy McNulty in HBO's The Wire (2002–2008); Noah Solloway in Showtime's The Affair (2014–2019), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama; Ebenezer Scrooge's nephew Fred in A Christmas Carol (1999); and Charles, Prince of Wales, in The Crown (2022–2023), for which he was nominated for another Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

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15/10/1968

Didier Deschamps, French footballer and manager

Didier Claude Deschamps, popularly known as Dédé, is a French professional football manager and former player who has been head coach of the France national team since 2012. He played as a defensive midfielder for several clubs, in France, Italy, England and Spain, namely Marseille, Juventus, Chelsea and Valencia, as well as Nantes and Bordeaux. Nicknamed "the water-carrier", Deschamps was an intelligent and hard-working defensive midfielder, who excelled at winning back possession and subsequently starting attacking plays, and also stood out for his leadership throughout his career. As a French international, he was capped on 103 occasions and took part at three UEFA European Championships and one FIFA World Cup, captaining his nation to victories in the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000.

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Vanessa Marcil, American actress

Vanessa Marcil is an American actress. She is best known for her television roles as Brenda Barrett on General Hospital, Gina Kincaid on Beverly Hills, 90210, and Sam Marquez on Las Vegas.

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Rod Wishart, Australian rugby league player

Rod Wishart is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played the 1980s and 1990s. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative goal-kicking winger, he played club football with the Illawarra Steelers and the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the National Rugby League.

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Trent Zimmerman, Australian politician

Trent Moir Zimmerman is an Australian former politician. He was elected to succeed Joe Hockey as the Liberal Party of Australia member of the House of Representatives seat of North Sydney at the 2015 by-election. Zimmerman was one of eight openly LGBTQ current members of the Parliament of Australia and the first openly LGBTI member of the House of Representatives.

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15/10/1967

Dan Forest, American politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina

Daniel James Forest is an American politician who served as the 34th lieutenant governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2021. He is the son of former congresswoman Sue Myrick. An architect by trade, he was the Republican nominee for Governor of North Carolina in the 2020 election, losing to incumbent governor Roy Cooper.

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Götz Otto, German actor and screenwriter

Götz Otto is a German film and television actor who is known internationally for his roles as henchman Richard Stamper in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, as Adolf Hitler's adjutant Otto Günsche in the 2004 World War II film Downfall, and as Nazi commander Klaus Adler in the 2012 comic science fiction film Iron Sky.

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15/10/1966

Eric Benét, American singer-songwriter

Eric Benét Jordan is an American R&B singer-songwriter and musician. He has been nominated for four Grammy Awards.

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Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and manager

Jorge Campos Navarrete is a Mexican professional football coach and player who plays as a goalkeeper for Tercera Federación – Group 7 club México FC.

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Bill Charlap, American pianist and composer

William Morrison Charlap is an American jazz pianist and educator.

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Ilse Huizinga, Dutch singer

Ilse Huizinga is a Dutch jazz singer. She performs throughout Europe.

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Dave Stead, English drummer

David Stead, is a drummer from Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. Stead was the drummer for the alternate pop / rock band, The Beautiful South.

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15/10/1965

Nasser El Sonbaty, German bodybuilder and trainer (died 2013)

Nasser El Sonbaty was an IFBB professional bodybuilder. He represented FR Yugoslavia at competitions. Born in Stuttgart, Sonbaty began bodybuilding in 1983. His first appearance in the Mr. Olympia competition was in 1994, where he placed 7th. His best placing in the Mr. Olympia competition was in 1997, where in a controversial result he placed 2nd behind Dorian Yates. Many bodybuilders, including Jay Cutler and Ronnie Coleman, agree he deserved 1st place in that year's contest. After placing 2nd in the Arnold Classic twice, in 1997 and 1998, he won the title in 1999, defeating Kevin Levrone. He was known for his shoulder development.

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15/10/1964

Roberto Vittori, Italian colonel, pilot, and astronaut

Brigadier Roberto Vittori, OMRI is an Italian Air Force officer and an ESA astronaut. After graduating from the Italian Accademia Aeronautica in 1989, Vittori flew in the Italian Air Force. He then trained as a test pilot in the United States.

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15/10/1963

Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager

Stanley Purl Menzo is a Dutch football manager and former professional player who played as a goalkeeper. He last managed the Suriname national team.

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15/10/1961

Vyacheslav Butusov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Vyacheslav Gennadievich Butusov is a Russian singer-songwriter and composer. He was the lead singer of Nautilus Pompilius and U-Piter. Since 2019, he has been playing in his group "Orden Slavy". He also has a solo career as a singer-songwriter.

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15/10/1959

Emeril Lagasse, American chef and author

Emeril John Lagasse III is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality, cookbook author, and National Best Recipe award winner for his "Turkey and Hot Sausage Chili" recipe in 2003. He is a regional James Beard Award winner, known for his mastery of Creole and Cajun cuisine and his self-developed "New New Orleans" style. He is of Portuguese descent on his mother's side while being of French heritage through his father.

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Alex Paterson, English keyboard player

Alex Paterson is an English musician and co-founder of ambient house group the Orb, in which he has worked since its inception in 1988.

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Sarah Ferguson

Sarah Margaret Ferguson, formerly Sarah, Duchess of York, and commonly known as Fergie, is a British author, spokesperson, and television personality. She is the former wife of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, then Prince Andrew, Duke of York, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the younger brother of King Charles III.

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Todd Solondz, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Todd Solondz is an American filmmaker and playwright known for his style of dark, socially conscious satire. Solondz's work has received critical acclaim for its commentary on the "dark underbelly of middle class American suburbia", a reflection of his own background in New Jersey. His work includes Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Happiness (1998), Storytelling (2001), Palindromes (2004), Life During Wartime (2009), Dark Horse (2011), and Wiener-Dog (2016). He is also a professor at New York University.

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15/10/1958

Stephen Clarke, English-French journalist and author

Stephen Clarke is a British author. He writes mainly about France. He published six novels featuring a British protagonist named Paul West.

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15/10/1957

Michael Caton-Jones, Scottish actor, director, and producer

Michael Caton-Jones is a Scottish director and producer of film and television.

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Mira Nair, Indian-American actress, director, and producer

Mira Nair is an Indian-American filmmaker. She has received two prizes from the Cannes Film Festival and four from the Venice Film Festival, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe, and two César Awards.

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Stacy Peralta, American skateboarder, director, producer, and businessman, co-founded Powell Peralta

Stacy Douglas Peralta is an American film director and entrepreneur. He was previously a professional skateboarder and surfer with the Zephyr Competition Team, also known as the Z-Boys, from Venice, California.

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15/10/1955

Kulbir Bhaura, Indian field hockey player

Kulbir Singh Bhaura is an Indian-born British former field hockey player. He was a member of the gold winning Great Britain squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

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Emma Chichester Clark, English author and illustrator

Emma Chichester Clark is a British children's book illustrator and author. She has published over 60 books and is best known for her series of picture books about a child's toy called Blue Kangaroo.

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Tanya Roberts, American actress (died 2021)

Tanya Roberts was an American actress. Some of her credits include playing Julie Rogers in the final season of the television series Charlie's Angels (1980–1981), Stacey Sutton in the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985), Kiri in The Beastmaster (1982), Sheena in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1984), and Midge Pinciotti on That '70s Show (1998–2004).

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15/10/1954

Peter Bakowski, Australian poet and educator

Peter Bakowski is an Australian poet. His poems often use deceptively simple words and images, reminiscent at times of words in a child's picture book, but with some stylistic similarities to the work of writers such as Charles Simic or Vítězslav Nezval,

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Steve Bracks, Australian politician, 44th Premier of Victoria

Stephen Phillip Bracks is an Australian former politician who served as the 44th Premier of Victoria from 1999 to 2007. He first won the electoral district of Williamstown in 1994 for the Labor Party.

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Jere Burns, American actor

Jere Eugene Burns II is an American actor who has appeared in theatre productions and on television. He played the roles of ladies' man Kirk Morris on the television series Dear John, DIA psychiatrist Anson Fullerton on the television series Burn Notice, Jack on the sitcom Something So Right, and Dixie Mafia middle-man Wynn Duffy on Justified.

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Julia Yeomans, English physicist and academic

Julia Mary Yeomans is a British theoretical physicist active in the fields of soft condensed matter and biological physics. She has served as Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford since 2002.

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15/10/1953

Betsy Clifford, Canadian skier

Elizabeth Clifford is a Canadian retired alpine skier.

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Tito Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)

Toriano Adaryll "Tito" Jackson was an American musician. He was a founding member of the Jackson 5, a group who rose to fame in the late 1960s and 1970s with the Motown label and had continued success on the Epic label in the late 1970s and 1980s.

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Larry Miller, American actor and comedian

Lawrence John Miller is an American comedian, actor, voice actor, podcaster, and columnist. He is primarily regarded as a character actor, with The A.V. Club noting that he "can be counted upon to improve every film or television show he appears in". His better known roles include Lou Bonaparte in Mad About You (1993–1998), Pointy-haired Boss in Dilbert (1999–2000), Edwin Poole in Boston Legal (2004–2008), Mr. Hollister in Pretty Woman (1990), Dean Richmond in The Nutty Professor (1996) and Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000), Walter Stratford in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Principal Elliot T. Jindraike in Max Keeble's Big Move (2001), and Paolo Puttanesca in The Princess Diaries (2001) and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004). He reprised his role as Walter Stratford in the television series 10 Things I Hate About You (2009–2010).

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Peter Phillips, English conductor and musicologist

Peter Phillips is a British choral conductor, musicologist and writer. He is the founder of The Tallis Scholars as well as Gimell Records. He has been the owner of the Musical Times since 1995.

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15/10/1951

Peter Richardson, English actor, director, and screenwriter

Peter Richardson is an English director, screenwriter, actor and comedian. He founded the Comic Strip troupe of performers, which showcased his double act with Nigel Planer and boosted the careers of French and Saunders, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, and Alexei Sayle. Richardson approached Channel 4 to make a series of short, self-contained one-off comedy films with this group, which led to The Comic Strip Presents..., the majority of which featured Richardson in acting, writing and directing roles.

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Roscoe Tanner, American tennis player

Leonard Roscoe Tanner is an American former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 on July 30, 1979.

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Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess player

Rafael Artemovich Vaganian is an Armenian chess player holding the title of grandmaster (GM). He was Soviet champion in 1989.

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15/10/1950

Candida Royalle, American porn actress, director, and producer (died 2015)

Candida Royalle was an American producer and director of couples-oriented pornography, pornographic actress, sex educator, and sex-positive feminist. She was a member of the XRCO and the AVN Halls of Fame.

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15/10/1949

Laurie McBain, American author

Laurie (Lee) McBain is an American writer of seven historical romance novels from 1975 to 1985. Her novels Devil's Desire and Moonstruck Madness each sold over a million copies.

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Prannoy Roy, Indian journalist, economist, and broadcaster, founded NDTV

Prannoy Lal Roy is an Indian economist, chartered accountant, psephologist, journalist and author. He is the former executive co-chairperson of NDTV and one of its co-founders, along with his wife Radhika Roy. Currently works with his new instalment DeKoder

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15/10/1948

Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (died 2016)

Renato Tereso Antonio Coronado Corona was a Filipino judge who served as the 23rd Chief Justice of the Philippines from 2010 until his removal from office in 2012.

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Chris de Burgh, British-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist

Christopher John Davison, known professionally as Chris de Burgh, is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician born in Argentina. He started out as an art rock performer and progressed to writing more pop-oriented material. He has had several top 40 hit singles in the UK and two in the US. He is more popular in other countries, particularly Norway and Brazil. His 1975 "A Spaceman Came Travelling" became a popular Christmas song and his 1986 love song "The Lady in Red" reached number one in several countries. De Burgh has sold over 45 million albums worldwide.

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15/10/1947

Hümeyra, Turkish singer-songwriter and actress

Fatma Hümeyra Akbay is a Turkish actress, singer, composer, and lyricist. In the 1970s she was a noted singer and actress. Her popularity with the new generation rose in the 2000s with the hit sitcom Avrupa Yakası, Yalan Dünya by Gülse Birsel. She played in popular youth series "Melekler Korusun" and "Şahsiyet" which won International Emmy Awards. She played in Çağan Irmak's many films like Babam ve Oğlum, Unutursam Fısılda.

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Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech drummer

Jaroslav Erno Šedivý is a Czech rock drummer. He was member of The Primitives Group, thereafter Flamengo and also Energit. In 1973 he emigrated to the United States, where he worked with a most groups including Jello Biafra's backing band and Invisible Pedestrian. Between 1974-1979 he lived in various towns in California and between 1979-1980 in New York. In 1990s he was member of Life After Life with another Czech emigrant Jim Čert. From 2009 he was member of 2zzex.

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15/10/1946

Victor Banerjee, Indian actor and director

Victor Banerjee is an Indian actor who appears in English, Hindi, Bengali and Assamese language films. He has worked with directors such as Roman Polanski, James Ivory, Sir David Lean, Jerry London, Ronald Neame, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, and Montazur Rahman Akbar. He won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Ghare Baire. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, in 2022 for his contribution to cinema by the Indian Government in the field of art.

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Richard Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and pianist

Richard Lynn Carpenter is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer, who formed half of the sibling duo the Carpenters alongside his younger sister Karen. He had numerous roles in the Carpenters, including record producer, arranger, pianist, keyboardist and songwriter as well as joining with Karen on harmony vocals.

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Palle Danielsson, Swedish bassist and composer

Nils Paul "Palle" Danielsson was a Swedish jazz double bassist born in Stockholm, Sweden. From 1974 to 1979, he was a member of Keith Jarrett's quartet. He was the brother of pianist Monica Dominique. Danielsson died on 18 May 2024, at the age of 77.

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Stewart Stevenson, Scottish engineer and politician, Minister for Environment and Climate Change

James Alexander Stewart Stevenson is a Scottish former politician who served as Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change from 2007 to 2010 and Minister for Environment and Climate Change from 2011 to 2012. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, formerly Banff and Buchan, from 2001 to 2021.

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15/10/1945

Steve Camacho, Guyanese cricketer (died 2015)

George Stephen Camacho was a West Indian international cricketer who played in eleven Test matches from 1968 to 1971 as an opening batsman and occasional leg-spin bowler.

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Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Spanish cardinal

Antonio Cañizares Llovera is a Spanish Catholic cardinal who served as Archbishop of Valencia from 2014 to 2022. He was prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from 2008 to 2014, Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain from 2002 to 2008, and Archbishop of Granada from 1996 to 2002. He was made a cardinal in 2006.

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Neophyte of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch (died 2024)

Patriarch Neophyte was the Patriarch of All Bulgaria, head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church from 24 February 2013 until his death on 13 March 2024. Prior to his election, he was the Metropolitan Bishop of Ruse (2001–2013) and Bishop of Dorostol and Cherven (1994–2001).

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Jim Palmer, American baseball player and sportscaster

James Alvin Palmer is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 19 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles. Palmer was the winningest MLB pitcher in the 1970s, totaling 186 wins. He also won at least 20 games in eight different seasons and won three Cy Young Awards and four Gold Gloves during the decade. His 268 Orioles victories are the most in team history. A six-time American League (AL) All-Star, he was also one of the rare pitchers who never allowed a grand slam in any major league contest.

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15/10/1944

Sali Berisha, Albanian cardiologist and politician, 2nd President of Albania

Sali Berisha is an Albanian conservative politician, a retired cardiologist who served as the President of Albania from 1992 to 1997 and as the 32nd prime minister of Albania from 2005 to 2013. Berisha has served as chairman of the Democratic Party of Albania since 2022. He has previously held the position of chairman from 1990 to 1992 and 1997 to 2013. He is the leader of the opposition in Albania.

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A. Chandranehru, Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician (died 2005)

Ariyanayagam Chandranehru was a Sri Lankan merchant seaman, politician and Member of Parliament.

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Haim Saban, Israeli-American businessman, co-founded Saban Entertainment

Haim Saban is an Israeli and American media proprietor, investor, musical composer and producer of records, film, and television. A businessman with interests in financial services, entertainment, and media, he has an estimated net worth of $3.3 billion. Saban is the founder of Saban Entertainment, producer and distributor of children's television programs in the US such as Power Rangers. He headed up consortiums which purchased the broadcasters ProSiebenSat.1 Media and Univision Communications. He is a major donor to the United States Democratic Party and active in pro-Israel political efforts in the United States. In March 2017, Saban was honored with the 2,605th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in television.

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David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)

William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, was a Northern Irish statesman and politician who was the inaugural First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002 and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1995 to 2005. He was also Member of Parliament (MP) for Upper Bann from 1990 to 2005 and Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann from 1998 to 2007.

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15/10/1943

Stanley Fischer, American and Israeli economist (died 2025)

Stanley Fischer was an American and Israeli economist who served as the 20th vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2017. Fischer previously served as the 8th governor of the Bank of Israel from 2005 to 2013. Born in Northern Rhodesia, he held dual citizenship in Israel and the United States. He previously served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and as Chief Economist of the World Bank. On January 10, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Fischer to the position of Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve. On September 6, 2017, Fischer announced that he was resigning as vice-chair for personal reasons effective October 13, 2017. He was a senior advisor at BlackRock.

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Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer (died 2018)

Carole Penelope Marshall was an American actress, film director, and producer. She starred as Laverne DeFazio on the television sitcom Laverne & Shirley from 1976 to 1983, and received three nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for her portrayal.

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15/10/1942

Hilo Chen, Taiwanese-American painter

Hilo Chen is a Taiwanese-born American painter. He is best known for his photorealistic paintings of the female figure.

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Harold W. Gehman, Jr., American admiral

Harold Webster Gehman Jr. is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral who served as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic (SACLANT), Commander-in-Chief of the United States Joint Forces Command, one of the United States' Unified Combatant Commands, and Vice Chief of Naval Operations. He was also the Co-Chairman of the Commission that investigated the terrorist attack on the USS Cole and was Chairman of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) after the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry in 2003, killing all seven crew members.

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Don Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and drummer

Don Stevenson is the American drummer and a singer and songwriter for Moby Grape, a band which was formed in San Francisco in 1966 and continues to perform occasionally today.

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15/10/1941

Roy Masters, Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author

Roydon John Masters AM is an Australian sports journalist and former rugby league football coach. He is a sports columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald. He was a school teacher with an interest in team psychology who enjoyed some success as a schoolboy coach before embarking on a professional coaching career in the NSWRFL Premiership.

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15/10/1940

Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player and coach

Thomas Bishop is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1970s and 1980s. He played for Blackpool Borough, Barrow and St Helens in the English Championship, and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the New South Wales Rugby League competition in Australia. He also represented Great Britain on several occasions during his career, captaining them on two occasions, his position of choice was as a scrum-half.

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Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate

Peter Charles Doherty is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate.

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15/10/1938

Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1993)

Marvin Earl Johnson was an American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist. He was influential in the development of the Motown style of music, primarily for the song "Come to Me," which was the first record issued by Tamla Records, the precursor to the famous label.

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Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and activist (died 1997)

Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì was a Nigerian musician and political activist. He is regarded as the principal innovator of Afrobeat, a Nigerian music genre that combines West African music with American funk and jazz. At the height of his popularity, he was referred to as one of Africa's most "challenging and charismatic music performers". AllMusic described him as "a musical and sociopolitical voice" of international significance.

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Brice Marden, American painter (died 2023)

Nicholas Brice Marden Jr. was an American artist generally described as minimalist, although his work has roots in abstract expressionism, color field painting, and lyrical abstraction. He lived and worked in New York City; Tivoli, New York; Hydra, Greece; and Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania.

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Robert Ward, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2008)

Robert June Ward Sr. was an American blues and soul guitarist. He was known for founding the Ohio Untouchables, the band that later would become the Ohio Players. He played the guitar with a unique tone soaked in vibrato coming from a Magnatone amplifier.

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15/10/1937

Linda Lavin, American actress and singer (died 2024)

Linda Lavin was an American actress and singer. Known for her roles on stage and screen, she received several awards including three Drama Desk Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Obie Awards, and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010.

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15/10/1936

Michel Aumont, French actor (died 2019)

Michel Henri Aumont was a French theatre, film, and television actor. Throughout his career, he gained four Molière Awards and nominations for three César Awards. In 2015, he was made Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit.

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Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, South African-English businessman (died 2019)

Robert Crause Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell was the elder son of Carine Boardman and Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell, and a grandson of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, and Olave Baden-Powell.

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15/10/1935

Barry McGuire, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Barry McGuire is an American singer-songwriter primarily known for his 1965 hit "Eve of Destruction". He was later a singer and songwriter of contemporary Christian music.

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Dick McTaggart, Scottish boxer (died 2025)

Richard McTaggart, MBE was a Scottish amateur boxer who was Olympic lightweight champion in 1956. In 1960, he won bronze in the same category. In 1956, he received the Val Barker Trophy for best boxing style at the Olympics. At the 1964 Olympics, McTaggart moved to the light-welterweight category but lost in the third bout to the eventual winner Jerzy Kulej. McTaggart won the British ABA title in 1956, 1958, 1960, 1963 and 1965, and retired with a record of 610 wins out of 634 bouts.

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Bobby Morrow, American sprinter (died 2020)

Bobby Joe Morrow was an American sprinter who won three gold medals at the 1956 Olympics. He has been called "the dominant sprinter of the 1950s" and "the most relaxed sprinter of all time, even more so than his hero Jesse Owens".

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Willie O'Ree, Canadian ice hockey player, first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL)

William Eldon O'Ree is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player from Fredericton, New Brunswick. He is widely recognized for being the first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL), playing as a winger for the Boston Bruins. His accomplishment of breaking the colour barrier in the NHL has led him to sometimes be referred to as the "Jackie Robinson of hockey," whom he had the chance to meet when he was younger. In 2018, O'Ree was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, and starting that year the NHL has introduced the annual Willie O'Ree Community Hero Award in his honour.

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15/10/1934

Alan Elsdon, English trumpet player (died 2016)

Alan Elsdon was an English jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist.

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N. Ramani, Indian flute player (died 2015)

Natesan Ramani, commonly known as N. Ramani or N. Flute Ramani, was an Indian Carnatic flautist. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1996. Ramani is also credited with introducing the long flute into Carnatic music.

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15/10/1933

Nicky Barnes, American drug lord (died 2012)

Leroy Nicholas Barnes was an American crime boss, active in New York City during the 1970s.

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15/10/1932

Jaan Rääts, Estonian guitarist and composer (died 2020)

Jaan Rääts was a Soviet and Estonian composer who worked extensively on Estonian film scores of the 1960s and 1970s.

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15/10/1931

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India (died 2015)

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the president of India from 2002 to 2007.

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Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, English academic and politician

Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark is an educator, educationist, academic, and activist. She is a Conservative politician and was for 25 years a working member of the British House of Lords. In 1981 she became Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England. In 1986 she became Vice-Chancellor of South Bank Polytechnic, and serving during its transition to a university, became the first woman in history to run a British university.

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15/10/1930

FM-2030, Belgian-Iranian basketball player, philosopher and diplomat (died 2000)

FM-2030 was a Belgian-born Iranian-American author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist, consultant, and Olympic athlete.

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Ned McWherter, American politician, 46th Governor of Tennessee (died 2011)

Ned Ray McWherter was an American businessman and politician who served as the 46th governor of Tennessee, from 1987 to 1995. Prior to that, he served as the speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1973 to 1987, the longest tenure as Speaker up to that time. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

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15/10/1929

Will Insley, American painter and architect (died 2011)

Will Insley was an American painter, architect, and planner of utopian urban models. As a painter of geometric abstraction, he is known for his large-area geometrical picture elements.

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15/10/1927

B. S. Abdur Rahman, Indian businessman and philanthropist (died 2015)

Buhari Syed Abdur Rahman was an Indian entrepreneur, philanthropist and educationist. He had a range of business interests in the UAE and India including maritime shipping, real estate, insurance etc. He founded numerous schools, colleges, hospitals and universities. He was one of the 24 Indians to feature in The 500 Most Influential Muslims, an annual publication which ranks the most influential Muslims in the world.

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15/10/1926

James E. Akins, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (died 2010)

James Elmer Akins was the U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from September, 1973 to February, 1976, just in time to serve during the 1973 Oil Crisis of October, 1973 to March, 1974. Akins was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the advisory council of the Iran Policy Committee (IPC). Akins has been involved with the pro-Palestine organization If Americans Knew.

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Agustín García Calvo, Spanish philosopher and poet (died 2012)

Agustín García Calvo was a Spanish philologist, philosopher, poet, and playwright.

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Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (died 1984)

Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power, knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limits on himself. His thought has influenced academics within a large number of contrasting areas of study, with this especially including those working in anthropology, communication studies, criminology, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, psychology, and sociology. His efforts against homophobia and racial prejudice as well as against other ideological doctrines have also shaped research into critical theory and Marxism–Leninism alongside other topics.

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Ed McBain, American author and screenwriter (died 2005)

Evan Hunter was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of the 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of the police procedural genre.

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Jean Peters, American actress (died 2000)

Elizabeth Jean Peters was an American film actress. She was known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early '50s, and as the second wife of Howard Hughes. Although possibly best remembered for her siren role in Pickup on South Street (1953), Peters was known for her resistance to being turned into a sex symbol. She preferred to play unglamorous, down-to-earth women.

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Karl Richter, German organist and conductor (died 1981)

Karl Richter was a German conductor, choirmaster, organist, and harpsichordist.

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15/10/1925

Mickey Baker, American-French guitarist (died 2012)

MacHouston "Mickey" Baker was an American musician, best known for his work as a studio musician and as part of the recording duo Mickey & Sylvia.

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Aurora Bautista, Spanish actress (died 2012)

Aurora Bautista Zúmel was a Spanish film actress.

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Tony Hart, English painter and television host (died 2009)

Norman Antony Hart was an English artist best known for his work in educating children in art through his role as a children's television presenter.

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15/10/1924

Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian author and educator (died 2022)

Marguerite Andersen was a German-born Canadian francophone writer and educator writer, who was based in Toronto, Ontario, where she was a teacher at the Toronto Linden School.

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Lee Iacocca, American businessman and author (died 2019)

Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca was an American author, engineer, and executive who developed the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and then revived the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. He was president of Chrysler from 1978 to 1991 and chairman and CEO from 1979 until his retirement at the end of 1992. He was one of the few executives to preside over the operations of two of the United States' Big Three automakers.

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Warren Miller, American director and screenwriter (died 2018)

Warren A. Miller was an American ski and snowboarding filmmaker. He was the founder of Warren Miller Entertainment and produced, directed and narrated films until 1988. His published works include over 750 sports films, several books and hundreds of non-fiction articles.

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15/10/1923

Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (died 1985)

Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).

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Antonio Fontán, Spanish journalist and politician (died 2010)

Antonio Fontán Pérez, 1st Marquess of Guadalcanal was a Spanish journalist recognized for his work in promoting press freedom in his country. He was also a well-known Catholic and a member of Opus Dei.

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Eugene Patterson, American journalist and activist (died 2013)

Eugene Corbett Patterson, sometimes known as Gene Patterson, was an American journalist and civil rights activist. He was awarded the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.

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Lindsay Thompson, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Victoria (died 2008)

Lindsay Hamilton Simpson Thompson AO, CMG was an Australian politician and army officer who served as the 40th premier of Victoria from 1981 to 1982. He previously served as the 19th deputy premier of Victoria from 1972 to 1981.

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15/10/1922

Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese author (died 2019)

Agustina Bessa-Luís, GOSE was a Portuguese writer. From 1986 and 1987, she was director of the daily O Primeiro de Janeiro (Porto). From 1990 to 1993, she was director of the D. Maria II National Theatre (Lisbon). Her novels have been adapted for the screen by director Manoel de Oliveira: Fanny Owen ("Francisca"), Abraham's Valley, and The Lands of Risk , in addition to the Party. Director João Botelho directed A Corte do Norte based on Agustina's homonymous novel.

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Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (died 1969)

Thomas Jefferson Edwards was an American singer and songwriter. His most successful record was the multi-million-selling song "It's All in the Game", becoming the first African-American to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Preben Munthe, Norwegian economist and politician, State Conciliator of Norway (died 2013)

Preben Hempel Munthe was a Norwegian economist.

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15/10/1921

Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian-Israeli table tennis player (died 2006)

Angelica Rozeanu was a Romanian table tennis player of Jewish origin, the most successful female table tennis player in the history of the sport, winning the women's world singles title 6 years in succession.

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15/10/1920

Chris Economaki, American sportscaster and actor (died 2012)

Christopher Constantine Economaki was a pioneering American motorsports journalist, publisher, reporter, and commentator known as "The Dean of American Motorsports Journalism." Working for, and later owning, National Speed Sport News, Economaki helped encourage the growth of American motorsports from a niche endeavor to a mainstream pursuit.

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Patricia Jessel, Hong Kong-English actress (died 1968)

Patricia Helen Mary Jessel was an English actress of stage, film and television.

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Peter Koch, American industrial engineer and wood scientist (died 1998)

Peter Koch was an American engineer and wood scientist who was considered an expert in the field of wood technology by his peers. From 1963 to 1982, Koch led a team of US Forest Service scientists in forest products utilization research specific to forests of the southeastern US. Accomplishments by Koch and his research team included eight US patents plus hundreds of research publications.

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Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter (died 1999)

Mario Francis Puzo was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film and its 1980 sequel. His final novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001.

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Henri Verneuil, Turkish-French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)

Henri Verneuil was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who made a successful career in France. He was nominated for Oscar and Palme d'Or awards, and won Locarno International Film Festival, Edgar Allan Poe Awards, French Legion of Honor, Golden Globe Award, French National Academy of Cinema and Honorary Cesar awards.

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15/10/1919

Malcolm Ross, American captain, balloonist, and physicist (died 1985)

Malcolm David Ross was a captain in the United States Naval Reserve (USNR), an atmospheric scientist, and a balloonist who set several records for altitude and scientific inquiry, with more than 100 hours flight time in gas balloons by 1961. Along with Lieutenant Commander Victor A. Prather (USN), he set the altitude record for a manned balloon flight.

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Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (died 1995)

Charles Joseph Stevenson was an American racing driver who competed in various disciplines of motorsport. He is best known for winning the AAA National Championship in 1952. Stevenson also had two class victories in the Carrera Panamericana and won a NASCAR Grand National event.

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15/10/1917

Jan Miner, American actress (died 2004)

Janice Miner was an American actress best known as the character Madge the manicurist in Palmolive dish-washing detergent television commercials from the 1960s to the 1990s.

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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian and critic (died 2007)

Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a specialist in American history, much of Schlesinger's work explored the history of 20th-century American liberalism. In particular, his work focused on leaders such as Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the 1952 and 1956 presidential campaigns, he was a primary speechwriter and adviser to the Democratic presidential nominee, Adlai Stevenson II. Schlesinger served as special assistant and "court historian" to President Kennedy from 1961 to 1963. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration, from the 1960 presidential campaign to the president's state funeral, titled A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, which won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

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Paul Tanner, American trombonist and educator (died 2013)

Paul Tanner was an American musician and a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. He developed and played the Electro-Theremin, a theremin soundalike instrument that is best known for its use on the Beach Boys 1966 songs "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times," "Good Vibrations," and "Wild Honey".

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15/10/1916

Al Killian, American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1950)

Albert Killian was an American jazz trumpeter and occasional bandleader during the big band era.

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George Turner, Australian author and critic (died 1997)

George Reginald Turner was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. His first science fiction story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties. By this point, however, he had already achieved success as a mainstream novelist, including a Miles Franklin Award, and as a literary critic.

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15/10/1914

Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (died 2007)

Mohammad Zahir Shah was the last king of Afghanistan, reigning from 8 November 1933 until he was deposed on 17 July 1973. Ruling for almost 40 years, Zahir Shah was the longest-serving ruler of Afghanistan since the foundation of the Durrani Empire in the 18th century.

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15/10/1913

Wolfgang Lüth, German U-boat captain (died 1945)

Wolfgang Lüth was a German U-boat captain of World War II who was credited with the sinking of 46 merchant ships plus the French submarine Doris sunk during 15 war patrols, for a total tonnage of 225,204 gross register tons (GRT).

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15/10/1912

Nellie Lutcher, American singer and pianist (died 2007)

Nellie Rose Lutcher was an American R&B and jazz singer and pianist, who gained prominence in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Lutcher was most recognizable for her diction and exaggerated pronunciation and was credited as an influence by Nina Simone among others.

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15/10/1910

Edwin O. Reischauer, Japanese-American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (died 1990)

Edwin Oldfather Reischauer was an American diplomat, educator, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Tokyo to American educational missionaries, he became a leading scholar of the history and culture of Japan and East Asia. Together with George M. McCune, a scholar of Korea and several Korean linguists, in 1939 he developed the McCune–Reischauer romanization of the Korean language.

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15/10/1909

Jesse L. Greenstein, American astronomer and academic (died 2002)

Jesse Leonard Greenstein was an American astronomer. His parents were Maurice G. and Leah Feingold.

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Robert Trout, American journalist (died 2000)

Robert Trout was an American broadcast news reporter who worked on radio before and during World War II for CBS News. He was regarded by some as the "Iron Man of Radio" for his ability to ad lib while on the air, as well as for his stamina, composure, and elocution.

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15/10/1908

Herman Chittison, American pianist (died 1967)

Herman "Ivory" Chittison was an American jazz pianist.

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John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, 7th United States Ambassador to India (died 2006)

John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. He served as the deputy director of the powerful Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II in charge of stabilizing all prices, wages and rents in the American economy, to combat the threat of inflation and hoarding during a time of shortages and rationing, a task which was successfully accomplished.

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15/10/1907

Varian Fry, American journalist and author (died 1967)

Varian Mackey Fry was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France from August 1940 to September 1941 that helped 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees, mostly artists and intellectuals, escape from persecution by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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15/10/1906

Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician (died 2004)

Hiram Leong Fong was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician from Hawaii. Born to a Cantonese immigrant sugar plantation worker, Fong was one of the first two senators for Hawaii after it became the 50th US state in 1959. He was the first Chinese American and first Asian American United States Senator, serving from 1959 to 1977, and to date he remains the only Republican U.S. senator from Hawaii.

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Alicia Patterson, American journalist and publisher, co-founded Newsday (died 1963)

Alicia Patterson was an American journalist, and cofounder and editor of Newsday. With Neysa McMein, she created the Deathless Deer comic strip in 1943.

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Victoria Spivey, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1976)

Victoria Regina Spivey, sometimes known as Queen Victoria, was an American blues singer, songwriter, and record company founder. During a recording career that spanned 40 years, from 1926 to the mid-1960s, she worked with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Clarence Williams, Luis Russell, Lonnie Johnson, and Bob Dylan. She also performed in vaudeville and clubs, sometimes with her sisters Addie "Sweet Peas" Spivey and Elton Island Spivey. Among her compositions are "Black Snake Blues" (1926), "Dope Head Blues" (1927), and "Organ Grinder Blues" (1928). In 1961, she co-founded Spivey Records with one of her husbands, Len Kunstadt. Her recordings are considered important examples of classic female blues, and scholars note that her music reflected the themes and performance styles that were common among major women blues artists of the 1920s and 1930s.

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15/10/1905

C. P. Snow, English chemist and author (died 1980)

Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers and Brothers, and for "The Two Cultures", a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and "literary intellectuals".

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15/10/1901

Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Spanish playwright and novelist (died 1952)

Enrique Jardiel Poncela was a Spanish playwright and novelist who wrote mostly humorous works.

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15/10/1900

Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (died 1987)

Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer. During the 1930s, he was one of the two great practitioners of economical and effective film directing at Warner Brothers studios, the other being his colleague Michael Curtiz. LeRoy's most acclaimed films of his tenure at Warners include Little Caesar (1931), I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Anthony Adverse (1936), and They Won't Forget (1937). LeRoy left Warners and moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in 1939 to serve as both director and producer. He is best known for producing the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, as well as for directing the 1951 Oscar-nominated film Quo Vadis.

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15/10/1899

Adolf Brudes, Polish-German racing driver (died 1986)

Adolf Brudes von Breslau was a Formula One driver from Germany and a member of German nobility. He started racing motorcycles in 1919. As an owner of a BMW and Auto Union dealership in Breslau, he had the opportunities to go racing, which he did from 1928 onwards, initially in hillclimbs. After World War II wiped out his business, he moved to Berlin and for a while became a mechanic, wherever he could find jobs. However he soon was back racing, and he continued until 1968, in hillclimbs. He participated in one World Championship Grand Prix, the 1952 Großer Preis von Deutschland, but scored no championship points. He also participated in several non-Championship Formula One races.

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15/10/1897

Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 1960)

Johannes Sikkar was the first head of the Estonian government in exile as Acting Prime Minister.

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15/10/1894

Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (died 1965)

Moshe Sharett was an Israeli politician who was Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1948 to 1956. He signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence and was a principal negotiator in the cease-fire agreements that concluded the 1948 Palestine war. Beginning in 1933, he headed the political department of the Jewish Agency. He also founded the Jewish Brigade, which fought with the British Army during World War II.

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15/10/1893

Carol II of Romania, King of Romania (died 1953)

Carol II was King of Romania from 8 June 1930 following a coup that deposed his son until his forced abdication on 6 September 1940. As the eldest son of King Ferdinand I, he was crown prince from the death of his granduncle, King Carol I, in 1914 until he was forced to renounce his right to the throne in 1925.

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15/10/1890

Álvaro de Campos, Portuguese poet and engineer (died 1935)

Álvaro de Campos was one of the poet Fernando Pessoa's various heteronyms, with a reputation for a powerful and angry style of writing. This alter ego is recounted to have been born in Tavira, Portugal.

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15/10/1888

S. S. Van Dine, American author and critic (died 1939)

S. S. Van Dine is the pen name used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when he wrote detective novels. Wright was active in avant-garde cultural circles in pre–World War I New York, and under the pen name he created the fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and aesthete who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then in films and on the radio.

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15/10/1887

Frederick Fleet, English sailor and lookout on the Titanic (died 1965)

Frederick Fleet was a British sailor, crewman, and Titanic survivor. He served as a lookout on board the RMS Titanic and was the first to sight the iceberg that the ship struck on 14 April 1912, ringing the warning bell and reporting "Iceberg, right ahead!" to the bridge. Fleet survived the sinking and later told both the American and British inquiries that he and his fellow lookout would have seen the iceberg sooner had they been supplied with binoculars.

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15/10/1884

Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (died 1910)

Archibald Hoxsey was an American aviator who worked for the Wright brothers.

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15/10/1882

Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach (died 1941)

Charles Timothy O'Leary was an American professional baseball shortstop who played eleven seasons with the Detroit Tigers (1904–1912), St. Louis Cardinals (1913), and St. Louis Browns (1934) of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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15/10/1881

P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (died 1975)

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and Mr. Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls.

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15/10/1879

Jane Darwell, American actress (died 1967)

Jane Darwell was an American actress of stage, film, and television. With appearances in more than 100 major movies spanning half a century, Darwell is perhaps best remembered for her poignant portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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15/10/1878

Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (died 1966)

Paul Reynaud was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his economic liberalism and vocal opposition to Nazi Germany.

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15/10/1874

Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1899)

Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was the son and heir apparent of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He died aged 24 under circumstances still not entirely clear. He was a first cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, King George V of the United Kingdom and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

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15/10/1872

Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian educator and politician, 3rd President of Austria (died 1956)

Wilhelm Miklas was an Austrian politician who served as the president of Austria from 1928 until the Anschluss to Nazi Germany in 1938.

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August Nilsson, Swedish pole vaulter, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (died 1921)

August Nilsson was a Swedish track and field athlete and tug of war competitor who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

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15/10/1865

Charles W. Clark, American singer and educator (died 1925)

Charles William Clark was an American baritone singer and vocalist teacher. He is generally regarded as the first American baritone singer to be famous in Europe, and as one of the greatest baritone singers of all time. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and America, appearing in a wide variety of roles from the Italian, French and German repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic.

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15/10/1858

John L. Sullivan, American boxer, actor, and journalist (died 1918)

John Lawrence Sullivan was an American professional boxer. Nicknamed the "Boston Strong Boy" and known as John L. among his admirers, he is recognized as the first heavyweight champion of gloved boxing, de facto reigning from 7 February 1882 to 7 September 1892. He is also generally recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under the London Prize Ring Rules, being a cultural icon of the late 19th century America, arguably the first boxing superstar and one of the world's highest-paid athletes of his era.

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15/10/1844

Friedrich Nietzsche, German composer, poet, and philosopher (died 1900)

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a mental breakdown and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia, living his remaining 11 years under the care of his family until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.

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15/10/1840

Honoré Mercier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (died 1894)

Honoré Mercier was a Canadian lawyer, journalist and politician in Quebec. He was the ninth premier of Quebec from January 27, 1887, to December 21, 1891, as leader of the Parti National or Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ). He rose to power by mobilizing the Francophone opposition to the execution of Louis Riel, denouncing it as a betrayal by John A. Macdonald's Conservative government.

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15/10/1836

James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (died 1902)

Jacques Joseph Tissot, better known as James Tissot, was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. He was born to a drapery merchant and a milliner and decided to pursue a career in art at a young age, coming to incorporate elements of realism, early Impressionism, and academic art into his work. He is best known for a variety of genre paintings of contemporary European high society produced during the peak of his career, which focused on the people and women's fashion of the Belle Époque and Victorian England, but he would also explore many medieval, biblical, and Japoniste subjects throughout his life. His career included work as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair under the pseudonym of Coïdé.

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15/10/1833

John Alexander MacPherson, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Victoria (died 1894)

John Alexander MacPherson, Australian colonial politician, was the 7th Premier of Victoria.

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15/10/1829

Asaph Hall, American astronomer and academic (died 1907)

Asaph Hall III was an American astronomer who is best known for having discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double stars, the rotation of Saturn, and the mass of Mars.

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15/10/1825

Marie of Prussia, Queen of Bavaria (died 1889)

Marie of Prussia was Queen of Bavaria by marriage to Maximilian II of Bavaria, and the mother of Kings Ludwig II and Otto of Bavaria.

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15/10/1818

Alexander Dreyschock, Czech pianist and composer (died 1869)

Alexander Dreyschock was a Czech pianist and composer. He was the brother of Raimund Dreyschock and the uncle of Felix Dreyschock.

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15/10/1816

John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (died 1891)

Sir John Robertson was a London-born Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales on five occasions. Robertson is best remembered for land reform and in particular the Robertson Land Acts of 1861, which sought to open up the selection of Crown land and break the monopoly of the squatters.

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15/10/1814

Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, poet, and painter (died 1841)

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. His influence on Russian literature is felt in modern times, through his poetry, but also his prose, which founded the tradition of the Russian psychological novel.

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15/10/1802

Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, head of state of France in 1848 (died 1857)

Louis-Eugène Cavaignac was a French general and politician who served as head of the executive power of France from June to December 1848, during the French Second Republic.

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15/10/1789

William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (died 1847)

William Christopher Zeise was a Danish organic chemist. He is best known for synthesising one of the first organometallic compounds, named Zeise's salt in his honour. He also performed pioneering studies in organosulfur chemistry, discovering the xanthates in 1823.

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15/10/1785

José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and politician (died 1821)

José Miguel Carrera Verdugo was a Chilean general, formerly Spanish military, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Carrera was the most important leader of the Chilean War of Independence during the period of the Patria Vieja. After the Spanish "Reconquista de Chile" ("Reconquest"), he continued campaigning from exile after defeat. His opposition to the leaders of independent Argentina and Chile, San Martín and O'Higgins respectively, made him live in exile in Montevideo. From Montevideo Carrera traveled to Argentina where he joined the struggle against the unitarians. Carreras' small army was eventually left isolated in the Province of Buenos Aires from the other federalist forces. In this difficult situation Carrera decided to cross to native-controlled lands all the way to Chile to once and for all overthrow Chilean Supreme Director O'Higgins. His passage to Chile, which was his ultimate goal, was opposed by Argentine politicians and he engaged together with indigenous tribes, among them the Ranquel, in a campaign against the southern provinces of Argentina. After the downfall of Carrera's ally, the Republic of Entre Ríos, and several victories against the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, Carrera's men were finally defeated by numerically superior forces near Mendoza. Carrera was then betrayed by one of his Argentine helpers, leading to his capture and execution in that city.

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15/10/1784

Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician, Governor-General of Algeria (died 1849)

Thomas Robert Bugeaud, marquis de la Piconnerie, duc d'Isly was a Marshal of France and Governor-General of Algeria during the French colonization. Born an aristocrat, he has a complex legacy, serving as a soldier during the Napoleonic wars, focusing on agriculture during Bourbon rule, then serving the July monarchy in Algeria during which he achieved undoubted military success, also utilised extreme violence and caused outrage at the time.

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15/10/1775

Bernhard Crusell, Finnish composer (died 1838)

Bernhard Henrik Crusell was a Finland-Swedish clarinetist, composer and translator, "the most significant and internationally best-known Finnish-born classical composer and indeed, – the outstanding Finnish composer before Sibelius".

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15/10/1767

Gabriel Richard, French-born American Roman Catholic priest, missionary, educator, and politician (died 1832)

Gabriel Richard was a French Catholic priest and a professed member of the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice. He ministered to the French Catholics in the parish of Sainte-Anne-de-Détroit, as well as Protestants and Native Americans living in Southeast Michigan. The calls for him to be named as a saint began in 2020.

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15/10/1765

Sir George Pocock, 1st Baronet, English politician and peer (died 1840)

Sir George Pocock, 1st Baronet was an English politician and peer who served as MP for Bridgwater from 1796 till 1806 and 1807 till 1820.

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15/10/1762

Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator (died 1820)

Samuel Adams Holyoke was an American composer and teacher of vocal and instrumental music.

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15/10/1711

Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Queen of Sardinia (died 1741)

Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine was Queen of Sardinia as the third wife of King Charles Emmanuel III. She was born a Princess of Lorraine as the daughter of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine and Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans. She became the coadjutor bishop of Remiremont Abbey in 1734, before her marriage to Charles Emmanuel III. She died of puerperal fever, following the birth of her only surviving child, prince Benedetto.

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15/10/1701

Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns (died 1771)

Marguerite d'Youville, SGM was a French Canadian widow who founded the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, commonly known as the "Grey Nuns". She was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1990, becoming the first native-born Canadian to be declared a saint.

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15/10/1686

Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright (died 1758)

Allan Ramsay was a Scottish poet, playwright, publisher, librarian and impresario of early Enlightenment Edinburgh. Ramsay's influence extended to England, foreshadowing the reaction that followed the publication of Percy's Reliques. He was on close terms with the leading men of letters in Scotland and England. He corresponded with William Hamilton of Bangour, William Somervile, John Gay and Alexander Pope.

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15/10/1622

Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (died 1686)

Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie was a Swedish statesman and military man. He became a member of the Swedish Privy Council in 1647 and came to be the holder of three of the five offices counted as the Great Officers of the Realm, namely Lord High Treasurer, Lord High Chancellor and Lord High Steward. He also served as Governor-General in the Swedish dominion of Livonia.

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15/10/1608

Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (died 1647)

Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Benedetto Castelli. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles. The torr is named after him.

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15/10/1599

Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam (died 1664)

Cornelis de Graeff, often named Polsbroek or de heer van (lord) Polsbroek during his lifetime, was an influential regent and Burgemeester of Amsterdam, statesman and diplomat of Holland and the Republic of the United Netherlands at the height of the Dutch Golden Age.

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15/10/1564

Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1613)

Henry Julius, a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1589 until his death. He also served as administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt from 1566 and of the Prince-Bishopric of Minden between 1582 and 1585.

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15/10/1561

Richard Field, English cathedral dean (died 1616)

Richard Field (1561–1616) was an English ecclesiological theologian associated with the work of Richard Hooker. Whereas Hooker, eight years Field's senior, had written his Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity to defend conformity against non-conformity, Field's major work, Of the Church (1606/10), was a defence of the Protestant Church of England under its Elizabethan settlement against the charge of Romanist opponents that it was no church at all.

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15/10/1542

Akbar, Mughal emperor (died 1605)

Akbar, also known as Akbar the Great, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expand and consolidate Mughal domains in the Indian subcontinent. He is generally considered one of the greatest emperors in Indian history and led a successful campaign to unify the various kingdoms of Hindūstān or India proper.

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15/10/1471

Konrad Mutian, German epigrammatist and academic (died 1526)

Konrad Mutian was a German Renaissance humanist.

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15/10/1440

Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, German noble (died 1483)

Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, called "the Rich" was the second son of Louis I of Hesse and his wife Anna of Saxony.

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15/10/1265

Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (died 1307)

Öljeyitü Khan, born Temür, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Chengzong of Yuan, was the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty of China, ruling from 10 May 1294 to 10 February 1307. Apart from being the Emperor of China, he is considered as the sixth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, although it was only nominal due to the division of the empire. He was an able ruler of the Yuan dynasty, and his reign established the patterns of power for the next few decades.

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01/01/1970

Virgil, Roman poet (died 19 BC)

Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. Some minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars regard these as spurious, with the possible exception of some short pieces.

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