Born on Thursday, 16th October – Famous Birthdays

16/10/2003

Scott Ogden, British motorcycle racer

Scott Ogden is an English Grand Prix motorcycle racer, competing from 2025 in the Moto3 World Championship with CIP Green Power on a KTM.

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16/10/2001

Willian Pacho, Ecuadorian footballer

Willian Joel Pacho Tenorio is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Ecuador national team.

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16/10/1999

Aaron Nesmith, American basketball player

Aaron Joshua Nesmith is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Vanderbilt Commodores before being drafted 14th overall in the 2020 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics. He was part of the roster that reached the 2022 NBA Finals before he was traded to the Pacers in a package surrounding Malcolm Brogdon.

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Nicolò Bulega, Italian motorcycle racer

Nicolò Jarod Bulega is an Italian motorcycle racer, competing in the Superbike World Championship for the Ducati factory team, having won the 2023 Supersport World Championship with Aruba.it Racing WorldSSP Team by Feel Racing. He has also been a competitor in the CEV Moto3 Championship in 2014 and 2015, becoming Moto3 Junior World Champion in 2015. Prior to competing in the CEV, Bulega won the Italian and European MiniGP 50 championships, and was Italian champion in the PreGP 125 and PreGP 250 classes.

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16/10/1997

Aliou Dieng, Malian footballer

Aliou Dieng is a Malian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Egyptian Premier League club Al Ahly and the Mali national team.

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Charles Leclerc, Monégasque racing driver

Charles Marc Hervé Perceval Leclerc is a Monégasque racing driver who competes in Formula One for Ferrari. Leclerc was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2022 with Ferrari, and has won eight Grands Prix across nine seasons.

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Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player

Naomi Osaka is a Japanese professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the WTA for 25 weeks starting in January 2019, the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. Osaka has won seven career singles titles, including four majors: two each at the Australian Open and the US Open. She is the first Japanese player to win a major singles title.

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16/10/1996

Toprak Razgatlıoğlu, Turkish motorcycle racer

Toprak Razgatlıoğlu is a Turkish motorcycle road racer who currently races for Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP in the MotoGP World Championship. Razgatlıoğlu currently has three Superbike World Championship titles: 2021 with the Yamaha factory Superbike team, ending Jonathan Rea's six-year reign, 2024 and 2025 with the BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team, the manufacturer's first two titles. He is the first Turkish Superbike World Champion and the rider with the most wins for both Yamaha and BMW in the championship, with 37 and 39 total victories, respectively.

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Andrea Locatelli, Italian motorcycle racer

Andrea Locatelli is an Italian motorcycle racer competing in the Superbike World Championship for Yamaha. He was the 2020 Supersport world champion.

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16/10/1994

Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player

Adam Elliott is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a lock and second-row forward for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL.

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Halimah Nakaayi, Ugandan middle-distance runner

Halimah Nakaayi is a Ugandan middle-distance runner who specialises in the 800 metres. She is the 2019 World Champion at the event and won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. Nakaayi is the current Ugandan record holder for the 800 m both outdoors and indoors, and also for the 1000 metres.

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16/10/1993

Jovit Baldivino, Filipino singer and actor (died 2022)

Jovit Lasin Baldivino was a Filipino singer and actor. He was the first winner of the reality talent competition show Pilipinas Got Talent in 2010.

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Caroline Garcia, French tennis player

Caroline Garcia is a French former professional tennis player and current podcaster and YouTuber. She had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 by the WTA, achieved on 10 September 2018 and a best doubles ranking of No. 2, reached on 24 October 2016. She has won a total of nineteen WTA Tour titles, eleven as a singles player and eight in doubles.

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16/10/1992

Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer

Kostas Fortounis is a Greek professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for the Saudi side Al-Khaleej. He was born in Trikala, Thessaly but comes from the nearby village of Sarakina, close to the town of Kalabaka.

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Viktorija Golubic, Swiss tennis player

Viktorija Golubic is a Swiss professional tennis player. On 28 February 2022, she reached her career-high singles WTA ranking of No. 35. On 17 April 2023, she peaked at No. 61 in the doubles rankings. She is the current No. 2 Swiss player.

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Bryce Harper, American baseball player

Bryce Aron Max Harper is an American professional baseball right fielder and first baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Washington Nationals.

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16/10/1991

Jonathan Schoop, Curaçaoan baseball player

Jonathan Rufino Jezus Schoop is a Curaçaoan professional baseball second baseman for the Dorados de Chihuahua of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, and Detroit Tigers. He was an All-Star in 2017.

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Shardul Thakur, Indian cricketer

Shardul Narendra Thakur is an Indian cricketer who plays for Mumbai in domestic cricket and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League. He bats right-handed and bowls right arm medium pace. Thakur was part of the Indian squad which won the 2018 and 2023 Asia Cup.

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16/10/1989

Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player

Daniel Biggar is a Welsh former professional rugby union player and current director at United Rugby Championship club Scarlets. A Wales international, Biggar played fly half and was twice selected to tour with the British and Irish Lions.

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16/10/1988

Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer

Zoltán Stieber is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder. Having spent time in a number of Hungarian youth sides Stieber spent four years with the academy of Premier League side Aston Villa before moving to Germany where he worked his way up the league system. He became a regular international player for the Hungary national team including in their Euro 2016 finals squad.

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16/10/1986

Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer

Nicholas William Adams is an English retired professional footballer who played as a winger and wing back. Although he was born in England, he has represented Wales under-21 at international level.

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Franco Armani, Argentine footballer

Franco Armani is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Argentine Primera División club River Plate, which he is captain. He was a member of the Argentina team that won the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

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Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer

Derk Boerrigter is a Dutch former footballer who played as a winger. He began his professional career with Ajax, but did not make any first team appearances and was eventually loaned to Haarlem. He then played for FC Zwolle and RKC Waalwijk before rejoining Ajax. In 2013, he moved abroad to sign for Celtic, playing there until retiring following the 2015–16 season.

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Inna, Romanian singer

Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu, known professionally as Inna, is a Romanian singer and songwriter. Born in Mangalia and raised in Neptun, she studied political science at Ovidius University before meeting the Romanian trio Play & Win and pursuing a music career. She adopted the stage name "Alessandra" and a pop-rock style in 2008; later that year, she changed her stage name to "Inna" and began releasing EDM, house and popcorn music. "Hot" (2008), her debut single, was a commercial success worldwide and topped the Romanian and Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart, among others. Her debut studio album of the same name followed in August 2009 and was certified Gold and Platinum. It featured several other successful singles in Europe, including "Amazing" (2009), the singer's second number-one single in Romania.

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16/10/1985

Jay Beagle, Canadian ice hockey player

Jay Beagle is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who last played for the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL). As an undrafted free agent, Beagle joined the Washington Capitals' organization for the 2007–08 season. He eventually made his NHL debut on February 11, 2009, and joined the team full time during their 2010–11 season. He concluded his tenure with the Capitals after winning his first Stanley Cup, where he became the first player to win the Kelly Cup (ECHL), Calder Cup (AHL), and the Stanley Cup (NHL). Following his Stanley Cup win, Beagle left the Capitals organization and joined the Vancouver Canucks. In July 2021, Beagle was acquired by the Coyotes in a multi-player trade.

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Alexis Hornbuckle, American basketball player

Alexis Kay'ree Hornbuckle is an American former professional basketball player who played several seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association. She is the only player to win an NCAA title and WNBA title in the same year.

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Verena Sailer, German sprinter

Verena Sailer is a retired German sprinter, who specialised in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.02 seconds, achieved in August 2013. She won the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona. During her sporting career she was a member of MTG Mannheim.

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Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer

Casey Joel Stoner is an Australian retired professional motorcycle racer, and a two-time MotoGP World Champion, in 2007 and 2011. During his MotoGP career, Stoner raced for the Ducati and Honda factory teams, winning a title for each team.

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Peter Wallace, Australian rugby league player

Peter James Wallace is a retired Australian footballer who played for the Penrith Panthers, the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL and represented Scotland in international rugby league.

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16/10/1984

François Pervis, French track cyclist

François "Franck" Pervis is a French track cyclist. He is a former junior world champion in the team sprint and twice European under 23 champion, as well as a seven-time world champion and a holder of two world records. In 2014 he became the first track cyclist to win three individual world titles at one championship, in the keirin, 1 km and sprint.

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Rachel Reilly, American talk show host and actress

Rachel Eileen Reilly Villegas is an American television personality and actress. After appearing as a houseguest on the twelfth season of the American edition of the reality series Big Brother in 2010, she returned for the thirteenth season in 2011, which she went on to win. She later returned as a houseguest on the twenty-seventh season in 2025.

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16/10/1983

Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player

Philipp Eberhard Hermann Kohlschreiber is a German former professional tennis player. The right-hander won eight singles and seven doubles titles on the ATP World Tour and made the quarterfinals at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 16 in July 2012.

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Loreen, Swedish singer

Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui, known professionally as Loreen, is a Swedish singer. Representing Sweden, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 and 2023 with the songs "Euphoria" and "Tattoo" respectively. She is the second performer, after Johnny Logan, to win the contest twice, and the first woman to do so.

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Kenny Omega, Canadian wrestler

Tyson Smith, better known by his ring name Kenny Omega , is a Canadian-born professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the leader of The Elite stable. He also serves as both an active talent and an executive vice president. Known for his in-ring ability and technical prowess, he is regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time.

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16/10/1982

Alan Anderson, American basketball player

Alan Jeffery Anderson is an American former professional basketball player. He played for eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Charlotte Bobcats, Toronto Raptors, Brooklyn Nets, Washington Wizards and Los Angeles Clippers. Anderson also played internationally in Italy, Russia, Croatia, Israel, Spain and China.

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Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player

Frédéric Michalak is a French former rugby union player. His early career was spent playing for his hometown team, Toulouse, in the Top 14 and in the Heineken Cup. He moved to South Africa to play for the Sharks in the Super 14 after the 2007 Rugby World Cup, but after just one year with the Sharks he moved back to Toulouse. He played 77 tests for France, and was the country's leading Test point scorer between 2015 and 2025. Michalak originally played scrum-half but has also played mainly at fly-half. He has appeared in advertisements for companies such as Nike and Levi's.

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Cristian Riveros, Paraguayan footballer

Cristian Miguel Riveros Núñez is a Paraguayan former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

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Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor, singer, and producer

Prithviraj Sukumaran is an Indian actor, producer, director, and playback singer who primarily works in Malayalam language and Tamil language films. Having appeared in more than 100 films, Prithviraj is among the highest paid Malayalam actors. His accolades include a National Film Award, four Kerala State Film Awards, a Tamil Nadu State Film Award and two Filmfare Award South.

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16/10/1981

Brea Grant, American actress and writer

Brea Grant is an American actress, writer, and director. She played the character of Daphne Millbrook in the NBC television series Heroes.

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Martin Halle, Danish footballer

Martin Halle is a Danish retired football player in the defender position. He played for a number of Danish clubs, including FC Midtjylland, AC Horsens, and SønderjyskE in the Danish Superliga championship.

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Boyd Melson, American boxer

Boyd "Rainmaker" Melson is a retired American light middleweight boxer.

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Anthony Reyes, American baseball player

Anthony Loza Reyes is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He pitched primarily as a starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Cleveland Indians. Reyes attended the University of Southern California (USC), before the Cardinals selected him in the 15th round of the 2003 MLB draft, and made his major league debut on August 9, 2005. During his playing career, Reyes threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall, and weighed 230 pounds (100 kg).

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16/10/1980

Sue Bird, Israeli-American basketball player

Suzanne Brigit Bird is an American former professional basketball player who played her entire career with the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Bird was drafted first overall pick by the Storm in the 2002 WNBA draft and is considered one of the greatest players in WNBA history. As of 2024, Bird is the only WNBA player to win titles in three different decades. She also held a front office position for the NBA's Denver Nuggets as their Basketball Operations Associate. In 2025 Bird was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. She was inducted into the NYC Basketball Hall of Fame on February 24, 2026 in New York City and the FIBA Hall of Fame on April 21 in Berlin, Germany.

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Jeremy Jackson, American actor and singer

Jeremy Dunn Jackson is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Hobie Buchannon on the television show Baywatch.

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Caterina Scorsone, Canadian-American actress

Caterina Scorsone is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her portrayal of neurosurgeon Dr. Amelia Shepherd on the ABC primetime medical drama Grey's Anatomy (2010–present) and its spin-offs Private Practice (2010–2013) and Station 19 (2020–2024). Prior to this, she made her debut as a child actor on the Canadian children's program Mr. Dressup. She also appeared in a number of films, notably Edge of Darkness (2010), and The November Man (2014). Other television credits include Michelle Parker on Power Play, Jess Mastriani on Missing, Callie Wilkinson on Crash, and Alice Hamilton on Alice.

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Timana Tahu, Australian rugby league player

Timana James Aporo Tahu is an Australian former professional rugby league and rugby union footballer. He last played for Denver Stampede in the US PRO Rugby competition. A dual-code international representative three-quarter back for Australia's Kangaroos and then the Wallabies, he could also play second-row and played for New South Wales in State of Origin. Tahu started his career in the National Rugby League for the Newcastle Knights, with whom he won the 2001 NRL Premiership before moving to the Parramatta Eels. He then played for the New South Wales Waratahs in the Super Rugby competition. Tahu returned to the NRL with the Eels and then the Penrith Panthers before finishing his NRL career where it started with the Newcastle Knights.

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16/10/1977

John Mayer, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

John Clayton Mayer is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, but he left for Atlanta in 1997 with fellow guitarist Clay Cook, with whom he formed the short-lived rock duo Lo-Fi Masters. After their split, Mayer continued to play at local clubs, refining his skills and gaining a minor following. He performed at the 2000 South by Southwest festival, and was subsequently signed by Aware Records, an imprint of Columbia Records through which he released his debut extended play (EP), Inside Wants Out (1999). His first two studio albums—Room for Squares (2001) and Heavier Things (2003)—were both met with critical and commercial success; the former spawning the single "Your Body Is a Wonderland", which won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards, while the latter peaked atop the Billboard 200.

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Björn Yttling, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, producer and member of Peter, Bjorn and John

Björn Daniel Arne Yttling is a Swedish music producer, songwriter, and musician. His production and songwriting credits include Lykke Li, Chrissie Hynde, Primal Scream, Franz Ferdinand, Sahara Hotnights, Anna Ternheim. Yttling is the bassist of the indie rock trio Peter Bjorn and John. He is also a co-founder of the label and artist collective INGRID and a member of the band LIV.

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16/10/1975

Ernesto Noel Aquino, Honduran footballer

Ernesto Noel Aquino Pérez is a former Honduran footballer.

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Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer

Brynjar Björn Gunnarsson is an Icelandic former footballer who last played for KR as a midfielder. Brynjar had previously played for Nottingham Forest, Stoke City, Watford and Reading in England, as well as Vålerenga and Moss in Norway and Örgryte in Sweden. Gunnarsson is the current manager of HK in the Premier Division of Icelandic football, after helping them to a promotion in his first season with the team.

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Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer

Jacques Henry Kallis OIS is a South African cricket coach and former professional cricketer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time and as one of the greatest all-rounders ever to play the game, he was a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium swing bowler. As of 2025, Kallis is the only cricketer in the history of the game to score more than 10,000 runs and take over 250 wickets in both ODI and Test match cricket. He has also taken 131 ODI catches. He scored 13,289 runs in his Test match career, took 292 wickets, and 200 catches. Kallis scored 45 Test match centuries and is the fourth highest test match run scorer in history. Kallis won 23 Man-of-the-Match awards, the most by any player in Test history.

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Kellie Martin, American actress, director, and producer

Kellie Noelle Martin is an American actress. Her roles have included Lolly in Potato Head Kids, Daphne Blake in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Emily Coleman in Troop Beverly Hills, Becca Thatcher in Life Goes On, Molly Tazmanian Devil in Taz-Mania, Sherry in Matinee, Christy Huddleston in Christy, Sadira in Aladdin, Roxanne in A Goofy Movie, Lucy Knight in ER, Samantha Kinsey in the Mystery Woman TV film series, and as Hailey Dean in the Hailey Dean Mysteries.

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16/10/1974

Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer

Aurela Gaçe is an Albanian singer-songwriter, actress and television personality. Her music career made her to be called as the diva of South Albania.

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Paul Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player

Paul Tetsuhiko Kariya is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who was a winger for 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). Known as a speedy and intelligent offensive force with exceptional vision, he played in the NHL for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Colorado Avalanche, Nashville Predators, and St. Louis Blues between 1995 and 2010.

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16/10/1973

Justin Credible, American wrestler

Peter Joseph Polaco is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring name Justin Credible.

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David Unsworth, English footballer and manager

David Gerald Unsworth is an English football coach and former professional footballer who was most recently the manager of Oldham Athletic. Prior to this, he was academy director and under-23s head coach at Premier League side Everton.

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16/10/1972

Adrianne Frost, American comedian, actress, and author

Adrianne Frost is an American comedian, author, and actress. She is best known for her work on Comedy Central's The Daily Show and VH1's Best Week Ever.

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Darius Kasparaitis, Lithuanian-American ice hockey player and coach

Darius Kasparaitis is a Lithuanian-American former professional ice hockey player. He played as a defenceman in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Islanders, Pittsburgh Penguins, Colorado Avalanche, and New York Rangers. He is a four-time Olympian and three-time medalist, winning one gold medal, one silver medal, and one bronze medal. He received the title of Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1992 and was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 2016. His 28 career Winter Olympic games is a record among Russian national team players.

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Kordell Stewart, American football player and radio host

Kordell Stewart is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Nicknamed "Slash", he played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes and achieved recognition in 1994 for the "Miracle at Michigan", a Hail Mary pass he completed to defeat the Michigan Wolverines. He was selected by the Steelers in the second round of the 1995 NFL draft.

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16/10/1971

Frank Cuesta, Spanish television presenter

Francisco Javier Cuesta Ramos, also known as Frank Cuesta, is a Spanish adventurer, television presenter, tennis coach, and YouTuber.

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Chad Gray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Chad Gray is an American singer, best known as the lead vocalist of heavy metal bands Mudvayne and Hellyeah.

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Paul Sparks, American actor

Paul Sparks is an American actor. He is known for his roles as gangster Mickey Doyle in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire, writer Thomas Yates in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards, mall owner John Breem in the Apple TV+ comedy-drama series Physical, attorney David Tellis in the Starz anthology drama series The Girlfriend Experience, and a recurring role in the limited series The Night Of. Sparks has also starred in the films Deception (2008), Afterschool (2008), The Missing Person (2008), Mud (2012), Parkland (2013), Stealing Cars (2015), Thoroughbreds (2017), and The Greatest Showman (2017).

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16/10/1970

Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist

Kazuyuki Fujita is a Japanese professional wrestler, former mixed martial artist and freestyle wrestler, currently signed to Pro Wrestling Noah, where he is a one-time GHC Heavyweight Champion. He has most recently fought in Road FC, but is also known for his work in the PRIDE Fighting Championships, K-1, Rizin Fighting Federation, and World Victory Road.

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Mehmet Scholl, German footballer and manager

Mehmet Tobias Scholl is a German football manager and former player.

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16/10/1969

Roy Hargrove, American trumpet player and composer (died 2018)

Roy Anthony Hargrove was an American jazz musician and composer whose principal instruments were the trumpet and flugelhorn. He achieved critical acclaim after winning two Grammy Awards for differing styles of jazz in 1998 and 2002. Hargrove primarily played in the hard bop style for the majority of his albums but also had a penchant for genre-crossing exploration and collaboration with a variety of hip-hop, neo soul, R&B, and alternative rock artists. As Hargrove told one reporter, "I've been around all kinds of musicians, and if a cat can play, a cat can play. If it's gospel, funk, R&B, jazz or hip-hop, if it's something that gets in your ear and it's good, that's what matters."

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Takao Omori, Japanese wrestler

Takao Omori is a Japanese professional wrestler, working for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he is a one-time Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion and seven-time World Tag Team Champion. He is also part of the All Japan Board of Directors. He has worked in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah) and Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1).

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Terri J. Vaughn, American actress and producer

Terri Juanita Vaughn-Riley is an American actress, director and producer. She is best known for her role as high school secretary Lovita Alizay Jenkins-Robinson in The WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show (1997–2002), for which she received three NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She later co-starred in the UPN/The CW sitcom All of Us (2003–2005), and TBS sitcom Meet the Browns (2009–2011).

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Wendy Wilson, American singer-songwriter

Wendy Wilson is an American singer and television personality who is a member of the pop trio Wilson Phillips. She co-founded Wilson Phillips with her older sister, Carnie, and childhood friend Chynna Phillips in 1989. Wilson Phillips released two albums in 1990 and 1992 before splitting up. Wendy and Carnie released a Christmas album together in 1993, and an album called The Wilsons in 1997, with their formerly estranged father, Brian.

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16/10/1968

Randall Batinkoff, American actor and producer

Randall Matthew Batinkoff is an American actor. He began his career in commercials at the age of eight before transitioning to film and television. He gained recognition for his role opposite Molly Ringwald in the 1988 drama For Keeps. Throughout the 1990s, he appeared in notable films such as The Player, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, School Ties, The Peacemaker, and As Good as It Gets. On television, he starred as Reverend David Grantland in the CBS series Christy.

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Mark Lee, Singaporean actor and singer

Mark Lee Kok Huang is a Singaporean comedian, actor, presenter, radio DJ and entrepreneur.

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Francesco Libetta, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor

Francesco Libetta is an Italian pianist, composer, writer and conductor.

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Todd Stashwick, American actor and writer

Todd Stashwick is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Dale Malloy on The Riches (2007–2008) and Theodore Deacon on 12 Monkeys (2015–2018). He played Captain Liam Shaw in the third season of Star Trek: Picard (2023).

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Elsa Zylberstein, French actress

Elsa Zylberstein is a French actress. After studying drama, she began her film career in 1989, and has appeared in more than 60 films. She won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for I've Loved You So Long (2008).

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16/10/1967

Michael Laffy, Australian footballer

Michael Laffy is a former Australian rules footballer with the Richmond Football Club, and was also a contestant on the second season of the Australian version of The Mole where he was revealed as The Mole.

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Davina McCall, English television host and actress

Davina Lucy Pascale McCall is an English television presenter. She rose to prominence as the host of Channel 4's Big Brother from 2000 to 2010 and Celebrity Big Brother from 2001 to 2010. She has also presented programmes including Streetmate, The Million Pound Drop, The Biggest Loser, Long Lost Family, This Time Next Year, The Jump, and My Mum, Your Dad. Since 2020, she has been a judge on The Masked Singer UK.

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16/10/1966

Olof Lundh, Swedish journalist

Karl Olof Lundh is a Swedish sports journalist focusing on reporting on football for TV4.

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Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress, singer, and director

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is an American actress, singer, and voice director. She is known for her work in the Ghost in the Shell series, voicing Motoko Kusanagi and working as an ADR director on several entries. She is also known for her involvement in music production in multiple games from the Silent Hill series, and her extensive English-language dubbing of various anime, animated films, and video games, including the English adaptation of the television series Cowboy Bebop.

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16/10/1965

Kang Kyung-ok, South Korean illustrator

Kang Kyung-ok is a manhwa artist whose work It's Two People was adapted into the film Someone Behind You. She also has had work published by Netcomics.

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German Titov, Russian ice hockey player and coach

German Mikhailovich Titov is a Russian former professional ice hockey forward.

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Tom Tolbert, American basketball player and sportscaster

Thomas Byron Tolbert Jr. is an American sports broadcaster and former professional basketball player. He played a total of seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After retiring from basketball, Tolbert became a radio show co-host on KNBR in San Francisco and NBA commentator for the television networks NBC, ABC and NBA on ESPN.

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16/10/1964

Shawn Little, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2012)

Shawn William Little was a political consultant and Ottawa City Councillor in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, for the urban Kitchissippi Ward, consisting of neighbourhoods west of the City Centre. He was born in Ottawa and raised in its Westboro neighbourhood, where he attended Woodroffe Avenue and Broadview Public elementary schools followed by Nepean High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in history and political science from Carleton University, and a diploma in health sciences from Humber College. He wrote articles for the Newswest community paper in its early days. He died in November 2012 while vacationing in Cuba.

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James Thompson, American-Finnish author (died 2014)

James Thompson was an American-Finnish crime writer based in Helsinki. He had a master's degree in English philology from The University of Helsinki, where he also studied Finnish, in which he was fluent. He studied six languages. He published four crime novels with the Finnish inspector Kari Vaara as the protagonist.

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16/10/1963

Brendan Kibble, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Brendan Kibble aka "Wig" is an Australian singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his work with Australian bands The Bam Balams and Navahodads and the American bands The Texreys and The Go Wows.

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Timothy Leighton, English physicist and academic

Timothy Grant Leighton is a British scientist. He is the Executive General Director and Inventor-in-Chief of Sloan Water Technology Ltd.,. This followed a career in academia, in which he still holds positions. Magdalene College, Cambridge University, elected him to an Honorary Fellowship. University College London elected him to an Honorary Professorship. The University of Southampton elected him to be Emeritus Professor of Ultrasonics and Underwater Acoustics after 10 years at Cambridge University and over 30 years at Southampton University. Three national academies made him an Academician. Trained in physics and theoretical physics, he works across physical, medical, biological, social and ocean sciences, fluid dynamics and engineering. He completed the monograph The Acoustic Bubble in 1992 at the age of 28, and was awarded a personal chair at the age of 35. He has authored over 600 publications. The recipient of 8 international medals, he was awarded a doctorate (PhD) in 1988, and a higher doctorate (ScD) in 2019, from the University of Cambridge. In 2025 the University of Southampton awarded him a Higher Doctorate (DSc).

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16/10/1962

Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (died 2010)

Manute Bol was a Sudanese-American professional basketball player and political activist. Listed at 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) or 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) tall, Bol was one of the two tallest players in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Flea, Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor

Michael Peter Balzary, known professionally as Flea, is an Australian and American musician and actor. He is a founding member and bassist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Flea and vocalist Anthony Kiedis are the only two continuous members of the band and the only ones to appear on every album. Flea has also been a member of the supergroups Atoms for Peace, Antemasque, Pigface, and Rocket Juice & the Moon, and has played with acts including the Circle Jerks, the Mars Volta, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Alanis Morissette, Young MC, Nirvana, What Is This, Fear, and Jane's Addiction.

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Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer (died 2017)

Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky was a Russian operatic baritone.

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Nico Lazaridis, German footballer

Nico Lazaridis is a former professional German footballer.

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Tamara McKinney, American skier

Tamara McKinney is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. She won four World Cup season titles, most notably the 1983 overall, the first American woman title holder for a quarter century. McKinney's other three season titles were in giant slalom and slalom (1984). She was a world champion in the combined event in 1989, her final year of competition.

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16/10/1961

Chris Doleman, American football player (died 2020)

Christopher John Doleman was an American professional football defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL). He spent the majority of his career with the Minnesota Vikings, and also played for the Atlanta Falcons and the San Francisco 49ers. Doleman was an eight-time Pro Bowl selection and three-time first-team All-Pro, recording 150.5 career sacks. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2012.

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Marc Levy, French author

Marc Levy is a French novelist.

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Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (died 1998)

Scott O'Hara was an American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher. He rose to prominence during the mid-1980s for his work in such gay adult films as Winner Takes All, Below The Belt and In Your Wildest Dreams. O'Hara wrote four books: SeXplorers: The Guide to Doing It on the Road, Do It Yourself Piston Polishing , Autopornography: A Memoir of Life in the Lust Lane, and Rarely Pure and Never Simple: Selected Essays of Scott O'Hara, and edited and published the quarterly men's sex journal Steam and the cultural magazine Wilde.

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Randy Vasquez, American actor, director, and producer

Randall J. Vasquez is an American actor, martial artist, and director.

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16/10/1960

Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboard player and songwriter (died 2015)

Guy LeBlanc was a Canadian keyboardist and composer. He led his own progressive-rock band - Nathan Mahl, and was a member of the British progressive band Camel from 2000 to 2015. He produced and released his own solo, as well as Nathan Mahl's discs, and had appeared as guest keyboardist on several other releases.

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Bob Mould, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Robert Arthur Mould is an American musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for alternative rock bands Hüsker Dü in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s.

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16/10/1959

Kevin Brennan, Welsh journalist and politician

Kevin Denis Brennan, Baron Brennan of Canton, is a Welsh politician. A member of the Labour Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff West from 2001 to 2024. He served as a minister of state at both the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Children, Schools and Families from 2009 to 2010.

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Brian Harper, American baseball player

Brian David Harper is an American former catcher in Major League Baseball. He played for seven teams, with his most consistent tenure being with the Minnesota Twins, where he for played six seasons in his sixteen season career. He was the starting catcher when the Twins won the 1991 World Series; Harper batted .381, the best among all regular Minnesota batters. He most recently served as the hitting coach of the Double-A Erie SeaWolves.

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Gary Kemp, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

Gary James Kemp is an English songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and principal songwriter for the new wave band Spandau Ballet.

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Philip Maini, Northern Irish mathematician at the University of Oxford

Philip Kumar Maini is a Northern Irish mathematician. Since 1998, he has been the Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford and is the director of the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology in the Mathematical Institute.

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Tessa Munt, English lawyer and politician

Tessa Jane Munt (née Vasey) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She is the Member of Parliament for Wells and Mendip Hills in Somerset, having previously been elected as the MP for Wells from 2010 to 2015 and serving as the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Vince Cable. As a councillor on Somerset Council, she was the executive member for Children, Families and Education from 2022 until 2023.

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Jamie Salmon, English-New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster

James Lionel Broome Salmon is a former rugby union player. Born in Hong Kong, he played international rugby for both New Zealand, winning three caps, and England, winning 12 caps. He is the only man to have played for both countries' senior national teams.

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Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian flute player and composer

Erkki-Sven Tüür is an Estonian composer.

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John Whittingdale, English politician

Sir John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Maldon since 1992 and Shadow Minister for Health and Social Care since July 2024. He previously served as Culture Secretary from 2015 to 2016. Whittingdale was most recently Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries and Minister of State for Data and Digital Infrastructure from May to December 2023, during the maternity leave of Julia Lopez.

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16/10/1958

Roy McDonough, English footballer and manager

Roy McDonough is an English former professional football player and manager in the English Football League.

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Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Timothy Francis Robbins is an American actor, director, producer, and writer. Known for his leading roles in film and television, his accolades include an Academy Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Award and a Grammy Award.

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16/10/1957

Priidu Beier, Estonian poet and educator

Priidu Beier is an Estonian poet and teacher. He has edited several publications and is also a member of the Estonian Writers' Union and Estonian Literary Society. Between 1984 and 1990 he was the Head of the Pedagogical arts sector of Tartu Art Museum. In 2007 he presented a poetry collection in Tartu with Kerti Tergem. He has taught art history at the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in Tartu.

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16/10/1956

Marin Alsop, American violinist and conductor

Marin Alsop is an American conductor. She is the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting and the first conductor to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She is music director laureate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and chief conductor of the Ravinia Festival and of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2020.

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John Chavis, American football player and coach

Johnny Chavis, nicknamed "the Chief", is an American college football coach who was most recently the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the Birmingham Stallions of the United Football League (UFL). He previously served as defensive coordinator for the Arkansas Razorbacks football team and former defensive coordinator, linebacker coach, and associate head coach at the Tennessee Volunteers football, LSU Tigers football, and Texas A&M Aggies football programs.

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Meg Rosoff, American-English author

Meg Rosoff is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom. She is best known for the novel How I Live Now, which won the Guardian Prize, the Printz Award, the Branford Boase Award and made the Whitbread Awards shortlist. Her second novel, Just in Case, won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians recognising the year's best children's book published in the UK.

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Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (died 1992)

Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah was a Bangladeshi poet noted for his revolutionary and romantic poetry. He is considered one of the leading Bengali poets of the 1970s. He received Munir Chaudhury Memorial Award in 1980 and Ekushey Padak in 2024

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16/10/1955

Kieran Doherty, Irish Republican hunger striker and politician (died 1981)

Kieran Doherty was an Irish republican hunger striker and politician who served as a TD for Cavan–Monaghan from June 1981 to August 1981. He was a volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).

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Ellen Dolan, American actress

Ellen Dolan is an American actress.

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16/10/1954

Lorenzo Carcaterra, American author and blogger

Lorenzo Carcaterra is an American writer of Italian descent. Hell’s Kitchen is the setting for his most famous book, Sleepers, which was adapted as a 1996 film of the same name. In April 2009, he joined True/Slant as a blogger. True/Slant ceased operations on July 31, 2010, after only being open for a little less than a year total.

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Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland

Michael Bruce Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, is a British financier and politician, who has held the office of Lord Speaker, the presiding officer of the House of Lords, since February 2026. He was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Stirling from 1983 to 1997 and served in the cabinet of John Major as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1995 to 1997.

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Serafino Ghizzoni, Italian rugby player

Serafino Ghizzoni is a former Italian international rugby union footballer, who played the 1st Rugby World Cup in 1987.

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Corinna Harfouch, German actress

Corinna Harfouch is a German actress.

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16/10/1953

Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer

Anthony Lawrence Carey is an American musician, composer, producer, and singer/songwriter. In his early career he was a keyboardist for Rainbow. After his departure in 1977, he began a solo career, releasing albums under his own name as well under the pseudonym Planet P Project, and producing for and performing with other artists.

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Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer and manager

Paulo Roberto Falcão, usually known as simply Falcão, is a Brazilian former footballer and football manager. He is universally considered one of the greatest Brazilian players of all time and one of the greatest midfielders in football history, and one of the best players in the world in his position at his peak in the 1980s.

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K. S. Kugathasan, Sri Lankan politician

Kathiravelu Shanmugam Kugathasan is a Sri Lankan Tamil social activist, politician and Member of Parliament. A member of the Tamil National Alliance, he has represented Trincomalee District since July 2024.

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Brinsley Forde, British singer and actor

Brinsley Forde MBE is a British singer and actor of Guyanese parentage who is best known as the founder member of the reggae band Aswad and as a child actor in the children's television series Here Come the Double Deckers! (1970–71).

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16/10/1952

Christopher Cox, American lawyer and politician

Charles Christopher Cox is an American attorney and politician who served as chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a 17-year Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, and member of the White House staff in the Reagan Administration. Prior to his Washington service he was a practicing attorney, teacher, and entrepreneur. Following his retirement from government in 2009, he returned to law practice and currently serves as a director, trustee, and advisor to several for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

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Cordell Mosson, American bass player (died 2013)

Cordell "Boogie" Mosson was an American bassist who was a member of Parliament-Funkadelic. He was given a Lifetime Achievement Award Grammy in 2019.

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Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright (died 2019)

Mohan Rangachari known professionally as Crazy Mohan, was an Indian actor, comedian, screenwriter and playwright. An engineer by profession, Mohan started writing plays and established his own drama troupe called "Crazy Creations" in 1979. In addition to dramas and tele-serials, Mohan worked as a dialogue writer on a number of comedy films. Mohan had written over 30 plays, worked on over 40 films, having cameo roles in each film, and written 100 short stories. The Tamil Nadu state government in the year 2004, awarded him the Kalaimamani title for excellence in the field of arts and literature.

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Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, English politician

Dorothea Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, known as Glenys Thornton, is a British politician serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 1998. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, she was a Government Whip and Health Minister between 2008 and 2010.

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16/10/1950

Angry Grandpa, American internet personality (died 2017)

Charles Marvin Green Jr., better known online as Angry Grandpa, was an American YouTuber. His videos have been featured on HLN's Dr. Drew, TruTV's Most Shocking, Rude Tube, and MTV's Pranked. Green's YouTube channel TheAngryGrandpaShow has amassed a total of 4.84 million subscribers and 1.87 billion views.

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Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (died 2015)

Károly Horváth was a Romanian-born composer and musician. He spent most of his professional life in Hungarian theatre.

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16/10/1948

Alison Chitty, English production designer and costume designer

Alison Chitty is an Olivier Award winning production designer and set and costume designer, known for her collaborations with Mike Leigh, Francesca Zambello, Peter Gill and Sir Peter Hall. She is also the Director of the Motley Theatre Design Course, a successor to Motley Theatre Design Group. Both organisations included Margaret Harris as one of their founders.

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Bruce Fleisher, American golfer (died 2021)

Bruce Lee Fleisher was an American professional golfer.

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Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, and politician

Hema Malini Dharmendra Deol is an Indian actress, director, producer, and politician who is currently serving as a member of the Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), representing Mathura constituency since 2014. She was a member of the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka from 2011 to 2012, subsequent to her nomination to that chamber from 2003 to 2009 as a member of the BJP. Primarily known for her work in Hindi films, she has starred in both comic and dramatic roles, and is one of the most popular and successful leading actresses of mainstream Hindi cinema.

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Leo Mazzone, American baseball player and coach

Leo David Mazzone is an American former pitcher in minor league baseball and pitching coach in Major League Baseball. He worked with the Atlanta Braves' organization from 1979 to 2005 and was the pitching coach for the Baltimore Orioles from 2006 to 2007. He last served as the Special Pitching Advisor for the Furman University baseball program before it was shut down in 2020.

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16/10/1947

Nicholas Day, English actor

Nicholas Patrick Day is an English actor, who is currently the narrator on the Netflix series Myths & Monsters and also starred as Anthony Fox in ITV soap Emmerdale.

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Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player and coach (died 2024)

Terence Martin Griffiths was a Welsh professional snooker player, coach, and commentator. He won several amateur championships, including the Welsh Amateur Championship in 1975 and consecutive English Amateur Championship titles in 1977 and 1978, before turning professional in 1978 at the age of 30.

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Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2026)

Robert Hall Weir was an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, he performed with the Other Ones, later known as the Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead. Weir also founded and played in several other bands during and after his career with the Grateful Dead, including Kingfish, the Bob Weir Band, Bobby and the Midnites, Scaring the Children, RatDog, and Furthur, which he co-led with former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. In 2015, Weir, along with former Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined with singer/guitarist John Mayer, bassist Oteil Burbridge, and keyboardist Jeff Chimenti to form the band Dead & Company.

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David Zucker, American director, producer, and screenwriter

David Samuel Zucker is an American filmmaker. Associated mostly with parody comedies, Zucker is recognized for collaborating with Jim Abrahams and his brother Jerry as part of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, with whom he wrote and directed the 1980 film Airplane! and created The Naked Gun franchise. As a solo filmmaker, Zucker has also directed Scary Movie 3 (2003) and Scary Movie 4 (2006).

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16/10/1946

Geoff Barnett, English footballer (died 2021)

Geoffrey Colin Barnett was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Suzanne Somers, American actress and producer (died 2023)

Suzanne Marie Somers was an American actress, author, and businesswoman. She played the television roles of Chrissy Snow on Three's Company (1977–1981) and Carol Foster Lambert on Step by Step (1991–1998).

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16/10/1945

Stefan Buczacki, English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host

Stefan T. Buczacki is a British horticulturist, botanist, biographer, novelist and broadcaster.

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Roger Hawkins, American session drummer (died 2021)

Roger G. Hawkins was an American drummer best known for playing as part of the studio backing band known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section of Alabama. Rolling Stone ranked Hawkins number 31 on its list of greatest drummers.

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Paul Monette, American author and poet (died 1995)

Paul Landry Monette was an American author, poet, and activist best known for his books about gay relationships. In 1992, he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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16/10/1944

Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager

Kaizer Motaung is a former South African association football player and founder of Kaizer Chiefs FC, of which he is chairman and managing director. He was nicknamed "Chincha Guluva".

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Elizabeth Loftus, American psychologist

Elizabeth F. Loftus is an American psychologist who is best known in relation to the misinformation effect, false memory and criticism of recovered memory therapies.

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16/10/1943

Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player

Charles Frederick Turner is a Canadian rock bassist, vocalist and songwriter known as a founder and only constant member of the 1970s rock band Bachman–Turner Overdrive, though he only makes select appearances in concert since their reformation in 2023.

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16/10/1941

Mel Counts, American basketball player

Mel Grant Counts is an American former basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1964 to 1976. He was on the United States Olympic basketball team that won the gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He played college basketball for the Oregon State Beavers and was selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1964 NBA draft. The Celtics won the NBA Championship in 1965 and 1966 with Counts on the team as Bill Russell's backup, but he was traded for the 1967 season to the Baltimore Bullets. Halfway through that season he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, who made it to the playoffs that year.

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Tim McCarver, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2023)

James Timothy McCarver was an American professional baseball catcher and television sports commentator. He played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Montreal Expos, and Boston Red Sox from 1959 to 1980.

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Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, English computer programmer and politician

Emma Harriet Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne is a British politician, who has been a life peer since 1997. She was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Torridge and West Devon in 1987, before switching to the Liberal Democrats in 1995. She was also a Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 to 2009. In 2016, she announced she was rejoining the Conservative Party "with tremendous pleasure". In 2017, Baroness Nicholson was appointed as the Prime Minister's Trade Envoy for Kazakhstan.

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16/10/1940

Barry Corbin, American actor and producer

Leonard Barrie Corbin is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Maurice Minnifield on the television series Northern Exposure (1990–1995), which earned him two consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

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Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach (died 2003)

David Albert DeBusschere was an American professional basketball player and coach, and professional baseball player. He played for the Chicago White Sox of MLB in 1962 and 1963 and in the NBA for the Detroit Pistons from 1962 through 1968 and for the New York Knicks from 1968 to 1974. He was also the head coach for the Pistons from 1964 through 1967.

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Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (died 2009)

Ivan Della Mea was an Italian novelist, journalist, singer-songwriter and political activist.

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16/10/1938

Carl Gunter, Jr., American politician (died 1999)

Carl Newton Gunter Jr., was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 1992.

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Nico, German singer-songwriter, model, and actress (died 1988)

Christa Päffgen, known by her stage name Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, actress and model.

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16/10/1937

Emile Ford, Saint Lucia-born British singer and first Black British musician to sell over one million copies of a single (died 2016)

Michael Emile Telford Miller, known professionally as Emile Ford, was a musician and singer born in Saint Lucia, British Windward Islands. He was popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the leader of Emile Ford & the Checkmates, who had a number one hit in late 1959 with "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?", which was the Christmas number one that year. He was also a pioneering sound engineer.

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16/10/1936

Peter Bowles, English actor and screenwriter (died 2022)

Peter John Bowles was an English screen and stage actor, best known for playing Richard DeVere in To the Manor Born, as well as Guthrie Featherstone in Rumpole of the Bailey and Archie Glover in Only When I Laugh.

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Andrei Chikatilo, Ukrainian-Russian serial killer (died 1994)

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer nicknamed "the Butcher of Rostov", "the Rostov Ripper", and "the Red Ripper" who sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the Uzbek SSR.

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Mladen Koščak, Croatian footballer (died 1997)

Mladen Košćak was a Croatian and Yugoslav footballer.

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Akira Machida, Japanese lawyer and judge, 15th Chief Justice of Japan (died 2015)

Akira Machida was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan from 2002 to 2006.

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16/10/1934

Peter Ashdown, English race car driver

Peter Hawthorn Ashdown is a former motor racing driver. He drove in a single Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, racing a Cooper.

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16/10/1933

Nobuyo Ōyama, Japanese voice actress (died 2024)

Nobuyo Yamashita , known professionally as Nobuyo Ōyama , was a Japanese actress, voice actress, screenwriter, singer, essayist, and television personality last affiliated with Actors Seven. Her husband was the actor and television personality Keisuke Sagawa. She is best known for voicing Doraemon, the titular character of the Doraemon franchise in the Doraemon television anime series, the yearly annual Doraemon feature films, the Doraemon video games, Doraemon merchandise, stageshows, and Doraemon commercials from 1979 to 2005 and Monokuma, the main villain of the Danganronpa franchise in the first three video games, the Danganronpa stageshows, Danganronpa commercials, and the television anime series adaptation Danganronpa: The Animation from 2010 to 2016.

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16/10/1932

John Grant, English journalist and politician (died 2000)

John Douglas Grant was a British politician who served as an MP of the United Kingdom parliament from 1970 to 1983. He was as a member of the Labour Party until he left in 1981 to join the new Social Democratic Party (SDP). He represented Islington East from 1970 to 1974 and Islington Central from 1974 to 1983.

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Henry Lewis, American bassist and conductor (died 1996)

Henry Jay Lewis was an American double-bassist and orchestral conductor whose career extended over four decades. A child prodigy, he joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic at age 16, becoming the first African-American instrumentalist in a major symphony orchestra and, later, the first African-American symphony orchestra conductor in the United States. As musical director of the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra, he supported America's cultural diplomacy initiatives in Europe after World War II.

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Lucien Paiement, Canadian physician and politician (died 2013)

Lucien Paiement was a doctor, municipal politician and owner of racehorses in the Canadian province of Quebec.

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16/10/1931

Charles Colson, American lawyer and politician (died 2012)

Charles Wendell Colson, generally referred to as Chuck Colson, was an American attorney and political advisor who served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970. Once known as President Nixon's "hatchet man", Colson gained notoriety at the height of the Watergate scandal, for being named as one of the Watergate Seven and also for pleading guilty to obstruction of justice for attempting to defame Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg. In 1974, Colson served seven months in the federal Maxwell Prison in Alabama, as the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges.

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Valery Klimov, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (died 2022)

Valery Aleksandrovich Klimov was a Soviet violinist.

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P. W. Underwood, American football player and coach (died 2013)

Phillip Wayne "Bear" Underwood, known as P. W. Underwood, was an American gridiron football player and coach. He was the head coach of the Southern Miss Golden Eagles from 1969 to 1974.

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16/10/1930

John Polkinghorne, English physicist, theologian and priest (died 2021)

John Charlton Polkinghorne was a Cornish theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent and leading voice explaining the relationship between science and religion, he was professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1979, when he resigned his chair to study for the priesthood, becoming an ordained Anglican priest in 1982. He served as the president of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1988 until 1996.

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Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress (died 2023)

María del Carmen García Galisteo, known professionally as Carmen Sevilla, was a Spanish actress, singer, and dancer. She began her career in the 1940s and became one of the most popular and highest paid stars of Spanish cinema until the 1970s. In 1991, at the age of sixty, she began her career as a television presenter, working for the three major Spanish networks until her retirement in 2010.

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16/10/1929

Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress

Arlette Pinheiro Monteiro Torres, known by her stage name Fernanda Montenegro, is a Brazilian actress. Considered by many as the greatest Brazilian actress of all time, she is often referred to as the grande dame of Brazilian theater, cinema, and performing arts. For her work in Central Station (1998), she became the first Brazilian and first Latin American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as the first actress nominated for an Academy Award for a performance in a Portuguese language film. Her daughter, actress Fernanda Torres, was also nominated in 2025. Additionally, she became the first Brazilian to win the Emmy Award for Best Actress, for her performance in Sweet Mother (2014).

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16/10/1928

Mary Daly, American philosopher and theologian (died 2010)

Mary Daly was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Roman Catholic, she had disavowed Christianity by the early 1970s. Daly was fired from Boston College in 1999, after violating university policy by refusing to allow male students in her advanced women's studies classes.

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Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (died 2016)

Ann Morgan Guilbert, sometimes credited as Ann Guilbert, was an American television and film actress and comedian who portrayed a number of roles from the 1950s on, most notably as Millie Helper in 61 episodes of the early 1960s sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, and later Yetta Rosenberg, Fran Fine's doddering grandmother, in 56 episodes of the 1990s sitcom The Nanny.

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16/10/1927

Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)

Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress

Florence Lansang Danon-Gayda was a Filipino actress and humanitarian. She began her career as an actress in the late 1940s and remained active throughout the Golden Age of Philippine cinema, noted for her roles in Anak Dalita (1956), Badjao (1957), and Biyaya ng Lupa (1959). She ventured into television in the late 1960s as a presenter of public service shows and appeared in several drama series until 2005. Rosal was appointed a member of Philippine Red Cross board of governors in 1965 and pioneered mass blood-donation campaigns in the Philippines. Her accolades include a Ramon Magsaysay Award, the Order of the Golden Heart, two FAMAS Awards, and a Gawad Urian. Reader's Digest Asia named her the most trusted Filipino personality in 2010.

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16/10/1926

Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO (died 2024)

Charles Francis Dolan was an American billionaire businessman and media mogul, best known as founder of Cablevision and HBO. Today, the Dolan family controls Madison Square Garden Sports, MSG Networks, Madison Square Garden Entertainment, Madison Square Garden, the Sphere, Radio City Music Hall, BBC America, and AMC Networks. As of December 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$5.4 billion.

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Ed Valigursky, American illustrator (died 2009)

Edward Ignatius Valigursky was an American illustrator known for his portrayals of technology, and for his work in science fiction.

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16/10/1925

Daniel J. Evans, American politician, 16th Governor of Washington (died 2024)

Daniel Jackson "Dan" Evans Sr. was an American politician from Washington. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a member of the Washington House of Representatives representing Washington's 43rd legislative district from 1957 to 1965, the 16th Governor of Washington from 1965 to 1977, and later served in the United States Senate from 1983 to 1989. He was also the second president of Evergreen State College in Olympia from 1977 to 1983 before being in the U.S. Senate.

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Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer (died 2022)

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury was a British-American-Irish actress and singer. In a career spanning 80 years, she played various roles across film, stage, and television. Although based for much of her life in the United States, her work attracted international attention.

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16/10/1924

Gerard Parkes, Irish-Canadian actor (died 2014)

Gerard Parkes was an Irish-Canadian actor. He was born in Dublin and moved to Toronto in 1956. Parkes is known for playing Doc on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television series Fraggle Rock and the bartender in the film The Boondock Saints and its sequel The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day.

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16/10/1923

Linda Darnell, American actress (died 1965)

Linda Darnell was an American actress. Darnell progressed from modelling as a child to acting in theatre and film. At the encouragement of her mother, she made her first film in 1939, and appeared in both lead and supporting roles in big-budget films for 20th Century Fox throughout the 1940s. She co-starred with Tyrone Power in four films, including the classic The Mark of Zorro (1940). Her biggest commercial success was the controversial Forever Amber (1947), an adaptation of the best-selling novel of the 1940s and Fox's biggest hit of 1947. She won critical acclaim for her work in Summer Storm (1944), Hangover Square (1945), Fallen Angel (1945), Unfaithfully Yours (1948), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), and No Way Out (1950).

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Bert Kaempfert, German conductor and composer (died 1980)

Bert Kaempfert was a German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger, and composer. He made easy listening and jazz-orientated records and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, including "Strangers in the Night", "Danke Schoen", "Moon Over Naples" and "A Swingin' Safari". In 1961, Kaempfert was the first to produce professional music recordings by the Beatles.

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Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (died 2010)

William Pollock McLaren was a Scottish rugby union commentator, teacher, journalist and one time rugby player. Known as "the voice of rugby", he retired from commentating in 2002. Renowned throughout the sport, his enthusiasm and memorable turn of phrase endeared him to many.

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16/10/1922

Max Bygraves, English-Australian actor and singer (died 2012)

Walter William "Max" Bygraves was an English comedian, singer, actor and variety performer. He appeared on his own television shows, sometimes performing comedy sketches between songs.

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Leon Sullivan, American minister and activist (died 2001)

Leon Howard Sullivan was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African Americans, a longtime General Motors Board Member, and an anti-Apartheid activist. Sullivan died of leukemia in a Scottsdale, Arizona hospital at the age of 78.

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16/10/1921

Matt Batts, American baseball player and coach (died 2013)

Matthew Daniel Batts was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher from 1947 through 1956 for the Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds. A slap hitter, Batts played mostly backup roles over the course of his career; during parts of ten MLB seasons, he appeared in 546 games with a .269 batting average, 26 home runs, and 219 runs batted in.

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Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and writer (died 2003)

Sita Ram Goel was an Indian Hindu nationalist writer, and publisher known for his literature pertaining to Hinduism and Hindu nationalism in the late twentieth century. He was one of the founders of Voice of India.

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MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (died 2010)

MacKenzie "Mack" Todd Miller was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and owner/breeder. During his forty-six-year career, he conditioned seventy-two stakes winners, including four Eclipse Award champions.

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16/10/1920

Paddy Finucane, Irish fighter pilot and flying ace (died 1942)

Wing Commander Brendan Eamonn Fergus Finucane,, known as Paddy Finucane among his colleagues, was an Irish Second World War Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace—defined as an aviator credited with five or more enemy aircraft destroyed in aerial combat.

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16/10/1919

Kathleen Winsor, American journalist and author (died 2003)

Kathleen Winsor was an American author. She is best known for her first work, the 1944 historical novel Forever Amber. The novel, racy for its time, became a runaway bestseller even as it drew criticism from some authorities for its depictions of sexuality. She wrote seven other novels, none of which matched the success of her debut.

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16/10/1918

Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (died 1990)

Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became professor of philosophy.

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Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (died 2013)

Abraham Nemeth was an American mathematician. He was professor of mathematics at the University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, Michigan. Nemeth was blind and is known for developing Nemeth Braille, a system for blind people to read and write mathematics.

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Tony Rolt, English race car driver and engineer (died 2008)

Major Anthony Peter Roylance Rolt, MC & Bar, was a British racing driver, soldier and engineer. A war hero, Rolt maintained a long connection with the sport, albeit behind the scenes. The Ferguson 4WD project he was involved in paid off with spectacular results, and he was involved in other engineering projects.

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16/10/1912

Clifford Hansen, American rancher and politician, 26th Governor of Wyoming (died 2009)

Clifford Peter Hansen was an American politician from the state of Wyoming. A Republican, he served as the 26th governor of Wyoming from 1963 to 1967 and subsequently as a United States senator from 1967 to 1978. He served as a member of the board of trustees from 1946–1966 to his alma mater, the University of Wyoming located in Laramie. He was also a county commissioner in Jackson, the seat of Teton County in northwestern Wyoming. Before his death on October 20, 2009, he was the oldest living former U.S. senator as well as the third oldest living former U.S. governor.

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16/10/1911

Otto von Bülow, German commander (died 2006)

Otto von Bülow was a German U-boat commander in World War II, and a captain in the Bundesmarine. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.

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16/10/1908

Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and educator (died 2006)

Margaret Olivia Ensor Coolidge was a British-born American writer and educator. She published 27 books, many for young adults, including The Greek Myths (1949), her debut; The Trojan War (1952); Legends of the North (1951); Makers of the Red Revolution (1963); Men of Athens, one runner-up for the 1963 Newbery Medal; Lives of Famous Romans (1965); and biographies of Eugene O'Neill, Winston Churchill, Edith Wharton, Gandhi, and Tom Paine. Olivia Coolidge was born in London to Sir Robert Ensor, a journalist and historian. She earned a degree in Classics and Philosophy at Somerville College, Oxford, in 1931 and a Master's degree in 1940. In Germany, England and the U.S. she taught Greek, Latin, and English. In 1946 she married Archibald C. Coolidge of Connecticut, who had four children.

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Enver Hoxha, Albanian general and politician, Prime Minister of Albania (died 1985)

Enver Halil Hoxha was an Albanian communist revolutionary, statesman, and political theorist who was the leader of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1941 until his death, a member of its Politburo, chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania, and commander-in-chief of the Albanian People's Army. He was the twenty-second prime minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and at various times served as his own foreign minister and defence minister.

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16/10/1907

Richard Titmuss, English sociologist and academic (died 1973)

Richard Morris Titmuss was a British social researcher and teacher. He founded the academic discipline of social administration and held the founding chair in the subject at the London School of Economics (LSE).

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16/10/1906

León Klimovsky, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1996)

León Klimovsky Dulfán was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer notable for his work during the classical era of Argentine cinema. He was known mainly for his work in Spanish cinema during the 1960s and '70s.

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16/10/1905

Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer and manager (died 1990)

Ernst Kuzorra was a German footballer of the pre-war era. During his entire career, he played for Schalke 04, whom he led to six national championships and one national cup. He is commonly regarded as the greatest Schalke player of all time alongside Fritz Szepan. A highly athletic, technical and prolific forward, Kuzorra is also commonly regarded as one of the greatest German forwards.

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16/10/1904

Björn Berglund, Swedish actor (died 1968)

Björn Berglund was a Swedish stage and film and television actor.

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16/10/1903

Cecile de Brunhoff, French author and pianist (died 2003)

Cécile de Brunhoff was a French storyteller and the creator of the original Babar story. She was also a classically trained pianist.

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Big Joe Williams, American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1982)

Joseph Lee Williams was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar. Performing over five decades, he recorded the songs "Baby, Please Don't Go", "Crawlin' King Snake", and "Peach Orchard Mama", among many others, for various record labels. He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame on October 4, 1992.

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16/10/1900

Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (died 1979)

Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone,, who sometimes signed his work "DIZ", was a British painter, printmaker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children. For Tim All Alone, which he wrote and illustrated, Ardizzone won the inaugural Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal in 2005, the book was named one of the top ten winning titles, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for public election of an all-time favourite.

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Primo Conti, Italian painter and poet (died 1988)

Primo Conti was an Italian futurist artist.

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Goose Goslin, American baseball player and manager (died 1971)

Leon Allen "Goose" Goslin was an American professional baseball left fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns, and Detroit Tigers, from 1921 until 1938.

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16/10/1898

William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist (died 1980)

William Orville Douglas was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1975. Douglas was known for his strong progressive and civil libertarian views and is often cited as the most liberal justice in the U.S. Supreme Court’s history. Nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, Douglas was confirmed at the age of 40, becoming one of the youngest justices appointed to the court. He is the longest-serving justice in history, having served for 36 years and 209 days.

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16/10/1897

Louis de Cazenave, French soldier (died 2008)

Louis de Cazenave was, at the time of his death, the oldest surviving French veteran of World War I.

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16/10/1890

Michael Collins, Irish general and politician, 2nd Irish Minister for Finance (died 1922)

Michael Collins was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th century struggle for Irish independence. During the War of Independence he was Director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). He served in the government of the self-declared Irish Republic as the Minister for Home Affairs and later as the Minister for Finance. He was Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State from January 1922 and commander-in-chief of the National Army from July until he died in an ambush in August 1922, during the Civil War.

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Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (died 1902)

Maria Teresa Goretti was an Italian virgin martyr of the Catholic Church, and one of the youngest saints to be canonized. She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she was nine, and the family had to share a house with another family, the Serenellis. She took over household duties while her mother and siblings worked in the fields.

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Paul Strand, American photographer and director (died 1975)

Paul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. In 1936, he helped found the Photo League, a cooperative of photographers who banded together around a range of common social and creative causes. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

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16/10/1888

Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1953)

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Sr. was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists of the finest American plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. He was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature. O'Neill is also the only playwright to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.

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Paul Popenoe, American founder of relationship counseling (died 1979)

Paul Bowman Popenoe was an American marriage counselor, eugenicist and agricultural explorer. He was an influential advocate of the compulsory sterilization of mentally ill people and people with mental disabilities, and the father of marriage counseling in the United States.

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16/10/1886

David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (died 1973)

David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later president of the Jewish Agency Executive, he was the de facto leader of the Jewish community in Palestine, and largely led the movement for an independent Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine.

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16/10/1884

Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (died 1916)

Rembrandt Bugatti was an Italian sculptor, known primarily for his bronze sculptures of wildlife subjects. During World War I, he volunteered for paramedical work at a military hospital in Antwerp, an experience that triggered in Bugatti the onset of depression, aggravated by financial problems, which eventually caused him to commit suicide on 8 January 1916 in Paris, France when he was 31 years old.

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16/10/1881

William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (died 1955)

William Robert Orthwein was an American sportsman, attorney, business executive and political activist. He was an Olympic bronze medalist in both water polo and the 4x50 freestyle swimming relay at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics.

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16/10/1876

Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer and rugby player (died 1913)

James Hugh Sinclair was a South African cricketer who played in 25 Test matches from 1896 to 1911. He scored South Africa's first three Test centuries and was the first person from any country to score a century and take five wickets in an innings in the same Test. He is one of the fastest-scoring Test batsmen of all time.

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16/10/1873

Juho Kekkonen, Finnish forestry manager and tenant farmer (died 1928)

Juho Kekkonen was Finnish head of forestry, logging caretaker and tenant farmer. He was also known as the father of Urho Kekkonen, the 8th President of Finland.

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16/10/1872

Walter Buckmaster, English polo player and businessman, co-founded Buckmaster & Moore (died 1942)

Walter Selby Buckmaster was a British polo player in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

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16/10/1869

Claude H. Van Tyne, American historian and author (died 1930)

Claude Halstead Van Tyne was an American historian. He was a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 1902. He taught history at the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1930 and wrote several books on the American Revolution. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The War of Independence in 1930.

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16/10/1867

Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa (died 1963)

Mario dei Principi Ruspoli was an Italian prince, son of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa and first wife Princess Caterina Vogoride-Conachi. He was the 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.

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16/10/1863

Austen Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937)

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain was a British statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 45 years, as Chancellor of the Exchequer (twice) and was briefly Conservative Party leader before serving as Foreign Secretary.

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16/10/1861

J. B. Bury, Irish historian and scholar (died 1927)

John Bagnell Bury was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire. He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin (1893–1902), before being Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of King's College, Cambridge from 1902 until his death.

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Richard Sears, American tennis player (died 1943)

Richard Dudley Sears was an American tennis player, who won the US National Championships singles in its first seven years, from 1881 to 1887, and the doubles for six years from 1882 to 1887, after which he retired from tennis.

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16/10/1855

Samad bey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani general and politician, 3rd Azerbaijani Minister of Defense (died 1931)

Samad bey Sadykh bey oghlu Mehmandarov was an Azerbaijani General of the Artillery in the Russian Imperial Army, a member of the Independence faction of the Parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the Minister of Defense of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and a military figure of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and the Soviet Union.

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16/10/1854

Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian (died 1938)

Karl Johann Kautsky was an Austrian-born Marxist theorist. One of the most authoritative promulgators of orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895, he was for decades the leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Second International. His influence was so pervasive that he was often called the "Pope of Marxism", with his views remaining dominant until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. His influence extended beyond Germany, shaping the development of Marxism in the Russian Empire, where he was seen by figures like Vladimir Lenin as the leading authority on Marxist theory.

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Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (died 1900)

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is regarded by many as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.

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16/10/1852

Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein (died 1913)

Carl Josef Anton von In der Maur auf Strelburg und zu Freifeld was an Austrian aristocrat and statesman who twice served in the court of Johann II as the Governor of Liechtenstein from 1884 until 1892 and again from 1897 until 1913.

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16/10/1847

Maria Pia of Savoy (died 1911)

Dona Maria Pia was by birth an Italian princess of the House of Savoy and by marriage Queen of Portugal as the wife of King Luís I of Portugal. On the day of her baptism, Pope Pius IX, her godfather, gave her a Golden Rose. Maria Pia was married to Luís on 6 October 1862 in Lisbon. She was the grand mistress of the Order of Saint Isabel. She was the third queen of the House of Savoy on the Portuguese throne after Mafalda and Marie-Françoise of Savoy-Nemours.

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16/10/1841

Itō Hirobumi, Japanese lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (died 1909)

Prince Itō Hirobumi was a Japanese statesman who served as the first prime minister of Japan from 1885 to 1888. Itō held office again as prime minister three times between 1892 and 1901. He was also a member of the genrō, a group of senior statesmen who effectively dictated policy for the Empire of Japan during the Meiji era. A key figure in the making of modern Japan, Itō played a central role in the drafting of the 1889 Meiji Constitution as well as the establishment of the National Diet and Japanese cabinet system.

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16/10/1840

Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (died 1900)

Count Kuroda Kiyotaka was a Japanese politician and general who served as prime minister of Japan from 1888 to 1889. He was one of the genrō, or senior statesman of the Meiji era. Born in the Satsuma Domain to a samurai family, Kuroda was involved in the colonization of Hokkaido, the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876, and the suppression of the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877. After his tenure as prime minister, which ended due to his inability to revise the unequal treaties imposed on Japan, Kuroda also served as Minister of Communications and President of the Privy Council.

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16/10/1832

Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexican liberal intellectual, novelist (died 1896)

Vicente Florencio Carlos Riva Palacio Guerrero better known as Vicente Riva Palacio was a Mexican liberal politician, novelist, journalist, intellectual, historian, and military leader.

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16/10/1831

Lucy Stanton, American activist (died 1910)

Lucy Stanton Day Sessions was an American abolitionist and feminist figure, notable for being the first African-American woman to complete a four-year course of a study at a college or university. She completed a Ladies Literary Course from Oberlin College in 1850.

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16/10/1827

Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (died 1901)

Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss Symbolist painter. His five versions of the Isle of the Dead inspired works by several late Romantic composers.

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16/10/1819

Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (died 1886)

Austin Franklin Pike was a United States representative and senator from New Hampshire. Born in Hebron, New Hampshire, he pursued an academic course, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Merrimack County in 1845. He was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1850 to 1852 and in 1865–1866, and served as speaker during the last two years. He was a member of the New Hampshire Senate in 1857–1858, serving as president the last year.

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16/10/1818

William Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New South Wales (died 1882)

William Forster was a pastoral squatter, colonial British politician, Premier of New South Wales from 27 October 1859 to 9 March 1860, and poet.

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16/10/1815

Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th Governor of Texas (died 1905)

Francis Richard Lubbock was a businessman, slaveholder, and politician from the American South who played a significant role in Texas history. A South Carolina native, he was a key player in Texas politics, serving as the 6th lieutenant governor of Texas and later the 9th governor of Texas during the Civil War. As Governor, Lubbock was a fervent supporter of the Confederacy and instrumental in Texas' secession from the Union. After the war, he continued in public service as the Texas State Treasurer. He was the brother of Thomas Saltus Lubbock, for whom both Lubbock County and the city of Lubbock are named.

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16/10/1806

William P. Fessenden, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1869)

William Pitt Fessenden was a politician from Maine, United States. He was a Whig and member of the Fessenden political family. He served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate before becoming Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. Fessenden then re-entered the Senate, where he died in office in 1869.

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16/10/1804

Benjamin Russell, American painter and educator (died 1885)

Benjamin Russell was an American artist best known for his accurate watercolors of whaling ships working in New England. Born to a wealthy family in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Russell started drawing and painting in his late 30s, after a few years spent working as a cooper aboard a whaling ship.

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16/10/1803

Robert Stephenson, English railway and civil engineer (died 1859)

Robert Stephenson, DCL was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father.

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16/10/1802

Isaac Murphy, American educator and politician, 8th Governor of Arkansas (died 1882)

Isaac Murphy was a native of Pennsylvania, a teacher and lawyer who moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas with his wife and child in 1834. He continued to teach and also became active in politics. Murphy is best known as the only delegate to have repeatedly voted against secession at the second Arkansas Secession Convention in 1861.

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16/10/1795

William Buell Sprague, American minister, historian, and author (died 1876)

William Buell Sprague was an American Congregational and Presbyterian clergyman and compiler of Annals of the American Pulpit, a comprehensive biographical dictionary of the leading American Protestant Christian ministers who died before 1850.

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16/10/1789

William Burton, American physician and politician, 39th Governor of Delaware (died 1866)

William Burton was an American physician and politician from Milford, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served as Governor of Delaware.

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16/10/1762

Paul Hamilton, American soldier and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1816)

Paul Hamilton was an American politician, military officer, planter, slave owner, and merchant as well as the 3rd United States Secretary of the Navy, from 1809 to 1813. In his time as Secretary, he oversaw the United States entry into the War of 1812. He was also responsible for The Naval Hospitals Act of 1811, an act that saved many lives by creating hospital ships and federal funding to help wounded sailors. He was also close childhood friends with Charles Pinckney (governor). The two of them grew up attending the same schools and also grew up as neighbors.

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16/10/1758

Noah Webster, American lexicographer (died 1843)

Noah Webster was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education". He authored a large number of "Blue-Back Speller" books which were used to teach American children how to spell and read. He is also the author for the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.

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16/10/1754

Morgan Lewis, American general, lawyer, and politician, 3rd Governor of New York (died 1844)

Morgan Lewis was an American lawyer, politician, and military commander. The second son of Francis Lewis, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Lewis fought in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. He served in the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate (1811–1814) and was New York State Attorney General (1791–1801) and the third governor of New York (1804–1807).

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16/10/1752

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (died 1827)

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn was a German Protestant theologian of the Enlightenment and an early orientalist. He was a member of the Göttingen school of history.

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16/10/1729

Pierre van Maldere, Belgian violinist and composer (died 1768)

Pieter van Maldere, known also as Pierre van Maldere was a Flemish violinist and composer. He was a violinist of the Royal Chapel, the court orchestra in Brussels of the governor-general of the Austrian Netherlands, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine. After an international career which brought him to Dublin, Paris and Vienna, he returned to Brussels where he became a director of the Brussels opera house. He was the leading composer of the Austrian Netherlands in the mid-18th century. His symphonies, exemplary for the galant style, merged French stylistic elements with Viennese and Italian influences.

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16/10/1726

Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-German painter and educator (died 1801)

Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki was a German painter and printmaker of Huguenot and Polish ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his life in Berlin, and became the director of the Berlin Academy of Art.

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16/10/1714

Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist and academic (died 1795)

Giovanni Arduino was an Italian geologist who is known as the "Father of Italian Geology". Arduino proposed the division of the earth's crust into four general and successive orders: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary, a classification regarded as the starting point for modern stratigraphy.

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16/10/1710

András Hadik, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (died 1790)

Count András Hadik de Futak was a Hungarian nobleman and Field Marshal of the Imperial Army. He was Governor of Galicia and Lodomeria from January 1774 to June 1774, and is the father of Karl Joseph Hadik von Futak. He is famous for capturing the Prussian capital Berlin during the Seven Years' War.

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16/10/1679

Jan Dismas Zelenka, Czech viol player and composer (died 1745)

Jan Dismas Zelenka was a Czech composer and musician of the Baroque period. His music is admired for its harmonic inventiveness and mastery of counterpoint.

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16/10/1678

Anna Waser, Swiss painter (died 1714)

Anna Waser was a Swiss painter.

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16/10/1620

Pierre Paul Puget, French painter and sculptor (died 1694)

Pierre Paul Puget was a French Baroque painter, sculptor, architect and engineer. His sculpture expressed emotion, pathos and drama, setting it apart from the more classical and academic sculpture of the Style Louis XIV.

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16/10/1605

Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, French writer and composer (died 1677)

Charles Coypeau was a French musician and burlesque poet. In the mid-1630s, he began using the nom de plume D'Assouci or Dassoucy.

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16/10/1588

Luke Wadding, Irish Franciscan friar and historian (died 1657)

Luke Wadding, was an Irish Franciscan friar, theologian, and historian.

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16/10/1535

Niwa Nagahide, Japanese samurai (died 1585)

Niwa Nagahide , also known as Gorōzaemon (五郎左衛門), his other legal alias was Hashiba Echizen no Kami (羽柴越前守), was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku through Azuchi-Momoyama periods of the 16th century. He served as senior retainer to the Oda clan, and was eventually a daimyō in his own right. Going on to fight in the Oda clan's major campaigns, including Mino Campaign 1567, Omi Campaign 1568, the Honganji Campaign from 1570 to 1580, and Iga Campaign 1581, he was named one of the administrators of Kyoto after Nobunaga entered that city in 1568.

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16/10/1483

Gasparo Contarini, Italian cardinal and diplomat (died 1542)

Gasparo Contarini was an Italian diplomat, cardinal, and Bishop of Belluno. He advocated for dialogue with Protestants during the Reformation. Born in Venice, he served as the Republic's ambassador to Charles V during its war with him. He was the first to explain the time discrepancy in the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation due to Earth's rotation. He participated in diplomatic efforts and reconciliations, and became a cardinal, even though he was initially a layman. Contarini was a leader in the reform movement within the Roman Catholic Church. He played a role in the papal approval of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). He was also involved in attempts to restore religious unity in Germany.

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16/10/1430

James II of Scotland (died 1460)

James II was King of Scots from 1437 until his death in 1460. The eldest surviving son of James I of Scotland, he succeeded to the Scottish throne at the age of six, following the assassination of his father. The first Scottish monarch not to be crowned at Scone, James II's coronation took place at Holyrood Abbey in March 1437. After a reign characterised by struggles to maintain control of his kingdom, he was killed by an exploding cannon at Roxburgh Castle in 1460.

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16/10/1396

William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English admiral (died 1450)

William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, nicknamed Jackanapes, was an English magnate, statesman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He became a favourite of Henry VI of England, and consequently a leading figure in the English government where he became associated with many of the royal government's failures of the time, particularly on the war in France. Suffolk also appears prominently in Shakespeare's Henry VI, parts 1 and 2.

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16/10/1351

Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (died 1402)

Gian Galeazzo Visconti, was the first duke of Milan (1395) and ruled that late-medieval city just before the dawn of the Renaissance. He also ruled Lombardy jointly with his uncle Bernabò. He was the founding patron of the Certosa di Pavia, completing the Visconti Castle at Pavia begun by his father and furthering work on the Duomo of Milan. He conquered a large area in the Po Valley of northern Italy. He threatened war with France in relation to the transfer of Genoa to French control as well as issues with his beloved daughter Valentina. When he died of fever in the Castello of Melegnano, his children fought with each other and fragmented the territories that he had ruled.

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