Born on Saturday, 4th October – Famous Birthdays

04/10/1997

Rishabh Pant, Indian cricketer

Rishabh Rajendra Pant is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian national team as a wicket-keeper batter. He is currently the vice-captain of the Indian cricket team in the Test format. He captains the Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League and Delhi in domestic cricket.

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Yuju, South Korean singer

Choi Yu-na, better known by her stage name Yuju (유주), is a South Korean singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in 2015 as a member of the South Korean girl group GFriend and became known for her vocals, having participated in various singing competitions. After GFriend's exclusive contract ended, Yuju debuted as a solo artist with the extended play (EP) Rec. in 2022 and took creative control over her works.

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04/10/1996

Ella Balinska, English actress

Ella Balinska is a British actress who starred in the action-comedy film Charlie's Angels (2019) and the Netflix original series Resident Evil (2022).

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04/10/1995

Jeonghan, South Korean singer

Yoon Jeong-han, known mononymously as Jeonghan, is a South Korean singer. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen, its vocal team, and its second subunit, JxW.

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Kenny Clark, American football player

Kenneth Duane Clark Jr. is an American professional football defensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). Playing college football for the UCLA Bruins, he was named a third-team All-American as a junior in 2015, when he also earned his second all-conference selection in the Pac-12. He was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the first round of the 2016 NFL draft, with the 27th overall pick.

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Mikolas Josef, Czech singer and songwriter

Mikolas Josef, also known mononymously as Mikolas, is a Czech singer-songwriter and former model. He represented the Czech Republic in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Lie to Me" and finished in sixth place. This was the highest score for the Czech Republic in Eurovision history.

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04/10/1994

Mike Williams, American football player

Michael K. Williams is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Los Angeles Chargers. He played college football for the Clemson Tigers and was selected by the Chargers with the seventh overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft. He also played for the New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers.

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04/10/1993

Mitchell Swepson, Australian cricketer

Mitchell Joseph Swepson is an Australian cricketer. A leg-spin bowler, he made his international debut for the Australia cricket team in June 2018, and plays for Queensland and the Melbourne Stars in Australian domestic cricket. Swepson was a member of the Australian team that won the 2021 T20 World Cup.

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04/10/1991

Leigh-Anne Pinnock, English singer and songwriter

Leigh-Anne Pinnock is an English singer and actress. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Little Mix, which was formed on, and won, the eighth series of The X Factor UK. As part of the group, she won three Brit Awards and achieved 19 top-ten singles and five number one entries on the UK Singles Chart, before going on hiatus in 2022. In 2023, Pinnock began a solo career, releasing the singles "Don't Say Love" and "My Love" featuring Ayra Starr, both of which reached the top 30 on the UK charts.

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04/10/1990

Signy Aarna, Estonian footballer

Signy Aarna is an Estonian footballer who plays as a forward for Finnish club Åland United and for the Estonia national team. She previously played for Finnish club Pallokissat and FC Lootos of the Estonian Naiste Meistriliiga.

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Saki, Japanese guitarist and songwriter

Saki is a Japanese heavy metal musician and songwriter, best known as guitarist of the band Mary's Blood from 2012 until their hiatus in 2022. She is currently active as a solo artist, as one-half of the duo Amahiru with Frédéric Leclercq, and in the rock band Like-an-Angel. Before making her professional debut as part of the short-lived rock trio Mixx in 2010, Saki was briefly a member of the pioneering all-female metal band Destrose, and was later a member of Nemophila from 2019 to 2024. She has been sponsored by Killer Guitars since she was a teenager, and often uses custom-made Fascist models. In 2021, they released her signature model, the seven-string KG-Fascinator Seven the Empress.

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Sergey Shubenkov, Russian hurdler

Sergey Vladimirovich Shubenkov is a Russian athlete who competes in the 110 metres hurdles. He is the 2015 World Champion, two-time European Champion and 2013 World bronze medalist in men's 110 m hurdles.

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04/10/1989

Dakota Johnson, American actress

Dakota Mayi Johnson is an American actress. Her accolades include a nomination for a British Academy Film Award.

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04/10/1988

Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer

Melissa Marie Benoist is an American actress and singer. Her first major role was as Marley Rose on the Fox musical comedy drama Glee (2012–2014), in which she was a series regular during the fifth season. She rose to widespread prominence for portraying the title character on the superhero series Supergirl (2015–2021).

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Lonnie Chisenhall, American baseball player

Lonnie David Chisenhall is an American former professional baseball third baseman and outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians. He made his MLB debut with the Indians in June 2011 while playing third base. Chisenhall transitioned to right field later in his career.

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Caner Erkin, Turkish footballer

Caner Erkin is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Sakaryaspor.

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Evgeni Krasnopolski, Israeli figure skater

Evgeni Krasnopolski is a Ukrainian-born Israeli retired pair skater. Krasnopolski and Andrea Davidovich were the first pair representing Israel to qualify for Israel at the 2014 Olympics. They finished 15th in Sochi. Krasnopolski competed with Danielle Montalbano from 2009 to 2012. He competed for Israel at the 2018 Winter Olympics with Paige Conners in figure skating in pairs skating and a team event in Pyeongchang, South Korea. He and Hailey Kops competed at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy and qualified to compete for Israel at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

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Derrick Rose, American basketball player

Derrick Martell Rose is an American former professional basketball player. He played one year of college basketball for the Memphis Tigers before being drafted first overall by his hometown Chicago Bulls in the 2008 NBA draft. Nicknamed "D-Rose", and sometimes referred to as "the Windy City Assassin" or "Pooh", he was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2009 and became the youngest player to win the NBA Most Valuable Player Award in 2011 at the age of 22 years and 7 months.

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04/10/1987

Marina Weisband, German politician

Marina Weisband is a German politician. From May 2011 until April 2012 she was a member of the senior leadership of the Pirate Party Germany. In 2018 she joined the Green Party of Germany.

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04/10/1985

Shontelle, Barbadian singer-songwriter

Shontelle Delia Layne, known mononymously as Shontelle, is a Barbadian singer and songwriter. She released her debut album Shontelligence in 2008. Her second album, No Gravity, was released in 2010. Her singles "T-Shirt" and "Impossible" achieved international success. In 2020, Shontelle released "Remember Me".

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Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player

Thorsten Wiedemann is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Heidelberger RK in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.

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04/10/1984

Lena Katina, Russian singer-songwriter

Elena Sergeyevna Katina, better known as Lena Katina, is a Russian singer who gained fame as one half of the pop/electronica duo t.A.T.u. She started her career at the age of eight, joining the Russian children's act Avenue, soon after that joining Neposedy. In 1999, producer Ivan Shapovalov chose Katina and Julia Volkova for his project t.A.T.u. The duo would later become Russia's most successful pop music act. The group produced several hits, including "All the Things She Said", "Not Gonna Get Us", and "All About Us". Their first single, "All the Things She Said", peaked at No. 1 in nineteen countries, including the UK, Russia, and Australia.

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Petri Kontiola, Finnish ice hockey player

Petri Kontiola is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey centre. Kontiola has previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Blackhawks, the organization that drafted him 196th overall in the 2004 NHL entry draft.

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Karolina Tymińska, Polish heptathlete

Karolina Tymińska is a Polish heptathlete. She has represented Poland twice at the Olympic Games and three times at the World Championships in Athletics. She is the bronze medalist in the heptathlon from the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, having originally come fourth in the event before the disqualification, in 2016, of Tatyana Chernova.

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04/10/1983

Vicky Krieps, Luxembourgish actress

Vicky Krieps is a Luxembourgish-German actress. She has appeared in a number of American, Luxembourgish, French, and German productions. Her breakout role was in the London-based period film Phantom Thread (2017), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

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Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player

Kurtis Kiyoshi Suzuki is an American baseball manager and former catcher who is the manager for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Oakland Athletics, Washington Nationals, Minnesota Twins, Atlanta Braves, and Angels.

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04/10/1982

Tony Gwynn Jr., American baseball player

Anthony Keith Gwynn Jr. is an American former professional baseball outfielder. Gwynn played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Philadelphia Phillies. The son of Baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn, he works as a broadcaster for the Padres’ radio network and as an afternoon sports talk host on the Padres' flagship radio station.

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Ilhan Omar, American politician

Ilhan Abdullahi Omar is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district since 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Before her election to Congress, Omar served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019, representing part of Minneapolis. Her congressional district includes all of Minneapolis and some of its first-ring suburbs.

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Jered Weaver, American baseball player

Jered David Weaver is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Angels and San Diego Padres. Weaver was drafted in the first round in the 2004 Major League Baseball draft by the Angels out of Long Beach State. He was a three-time All Star, and twice led the American League in wins. He is the younger brother of former pitcher Jeff Weaver.

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04/10/1981

Justin Williams, Canadian-American ice hockey player

Justin Craig Williams is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Carolina Hurricanes, Los Angeles Kings, and Washington Capitals.

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04/10/1980

Sarah Fisher, American race car driver

Sarah Marie Fisher is an American retired professional race car driver who competed in the Indy Racing League and the Indianapolis 500 intermittently from 1999 to 2010. She also raced in the NASCAR West Series in 2004 and 2005. Fisher took part in 81 IndyCar Series events, achieving a career-best finish of second at the 2001 Infiniti Grand Prix of Miami—the highest placing for a woman in the IRL until Danica Patrick's victory in the 2008 Indy Japan 300. In 2002, Fisher was the first female driver to win a pole position in a major American open-wheel race and competed in the Indianapolis 500 nine times, more than any other woman.

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James Jones, American basketball player

James Andrew Jones is an American professional basketball executive and former player. He is the executive vice president, head of basketball operations for the National Basketball Association (NBA). Jones played 14 seasons in the NBA from 2003 to 2017. He was also the general manager and president of basketball operations for the Phoenix Suns.

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Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer

Tomáš Rosický is a Czech former professional footballer who was the captain of the Czech Republic national team for a ten-year period. He played club football for Sparta Prague, Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal. Currently, he serves as the sports director of Sparta Prague.

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04/10/1979

Caitríona Balfe, Irish actress

Caitríona Mary Balfe is an Irish actress, former model, executive producer and director. She began her career as a fashion model in Paris at age 18, working with fashion houses such as Chanel and Louis Vuitton, before transitioning to acting a decade later. Balfe gained early recognition with roles in The Beauty Inside (2012) and H+: The Digital Series (2012–2013), along with appearances in films like Super 8 (2011), Now You See Me (2013), and Escape Plan (2013). Her breakout role was as Claire Fraser in Outlander (2014–), for which she has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards.

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Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress

Rachael Leigh Cook is an American actress and model. She has starred in the films The Baby-Sitters Club (1995), She's All That (1999), and Josie and the Pussycats (2001), and in the television series Into the West and Perception. She is also the voice behind various characters in Robot Chicken and Tifa Lockhart in the Final Fantasy series, starting with the English version of the film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Since 2016, her television appearances have primarily been made-for-TV movies on the Hallmark Channel.

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Adam Voges, Australian cricketer

Adam Charles Voges is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer who played for the Australian national team at Test, One Day International (ODI), and Twenty20 International (T20I) level, and also captained Western Australia and Perth Scorchers in domestic cricket. Voges' Test match batting average of 61.87 is third among men’s Test cricketers who have played a minimum of 20 innings. Voges was included in the 2016 ICC Test Match Team of the Year. With his country, he won the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy.

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04/10/1978

Dana Davis, American actress and author

Dana Davis is an American actress and novelist known for playing Monica Dawson on the NBC series Heroes (2007), Chastity Church on the ABC Family television series 10 Things I Hate About You (2009–10) and Carmen Phillips on the TNT series Franklin & Bash (2011–2013). She is an accomplished voice actress whose credits include Star vs. the Forces of Evil, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and the role of Kit on Craig of the Creek.

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Kyle Lohse, American baseball player

Kyle Matthew Lohse is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, and Texas Rangers.

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04/10/1977

Richard Reed Parry, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Richard Reed Parry is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, best known as a core member of the Grammy Award-winning indie rock band Arcade Fire, where he plays a wide variety of instruments, often switching between guitar, double bass, drums, celesta, keyboards, and accordion.

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04/10/1976

Mauro Camoranesi, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager

Mauro Germán Camoranesi Serra is an Argentinian-Italian football manager and former player who played as a right midfielder or right winger. Camoranesi is currently manager of Cyprus First Division side Anorthosis Famagusta.

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Alicia Silverstone, American actress, producer, and author

Alicia Silverstone is an American actress. She made her film debut in the thriller The Crush (1993), earning the 1994 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, and gained further prominence as a teen idol when she appeared in the music videos for Aerosmith's songs "Cryin'", "Amazing", and "Crazy". She went on to star as Cher Horowitz in the teen comedy film Clueless (1995), which earned her a multi-million-dollar deal with Columbia Pictures. In 1997, she portrayed Batgirl in the superhero film Batman & Robin.

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Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (died 2017)

Ueli Steck was a Swiss rock climber and alpinist. He set speed records on the North Face trilogy in the Alps. His claim to have climbed Annapurna solo via its South Face is disputed. He won two Piolet d'Or awards, in 2009 and 2014. Steck died after a fall while trying to ascend the north face of Nuptse.

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04/10/1975

Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian footballer and manager

Cristiano Lucarelli is an Italian football manager and a former player who played as a forward.

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04/10/1974

Paco León, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Francisco León Barrios, known as Paco León is a Spanish actor, producer, director, screenwriter and activist.

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04/10/1973

M. Ward, American singer-songwriter

Matthew Stephen "M." Ward is an American singer-songwriter, Grammy nominated producer and guitarist from Glendale, California. Ward's solo work is a mixture of folk and blues-inspired Americana analog recordings. He has released 12 studio albums since 1999, primarily through the independent label Merge Records. In addition to his solo work, he is a member of indie pop duo She & Him and folk-rock supergroup Monsters of Folk, and also participates in recording, producing, and playing with multiple other artists.

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04/10/1971

Darren Middleton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Darren Middleton is an Australian musician, best known as lead guitarist and songwriter for alternative rock band Powderfinger. He was also lead singer/songwriter for Drag.

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04/10/1969

Abraham Benrubi, American actor

Abraham Rubin Hercules Benrubi is an American actor. He is known for his appearances as Jerry Markovic on the long-running medical television drama ER, for his first role as Larry Kubiac on the series Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Dennis in Without a Paddle, and for his voice acting on the Adult Swim claymation series Robot Chicken as well as numerous video games including many in the World of Warcraft series.

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04/10/1968

Richard Hancox, English footballer and manager

Richard Hancox is an English former professional footballer. He has held various roles at Torquay United in his career.

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Tim Wise, American activist and author

Timothy Jacob Wise is an American activist and writer on the topic of race. He is a consultant who provides anti-racism lectures to institutions.

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04/10/1967

Vicky Bullett, American basketball player and coach

Victoria Andrea Bullett is an American former professional basketball player and current women's basketball head coach at West Virginia Wesleyan College. She played for the Charlotte Sting and Washington Mystics in the WNBA, as well as for European and South American professional teams, the U.S. Olympic team, and the University of Maryland Terrapins. Bullett played at various times as a center, small forward, and power forward. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011.

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Nick Green, Australian rower

Nicholas David Green OAM is an Australian former rower, a dual Olympic gold medallist and four time World Champion. From 1990 to 1998 he was a member of Australia's prominent world class crew – the coxless four known as the Oarsome Foursome. Now a sports administrator, since 2014 he has been Chief Executive of Cycling Australia.

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Liev Schreiber, American actor and director

Isaac Liev Schreiber is an American actor. He has received accolades including a Tony Award as well as nominations for nine Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards.

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04/10/1965

Olaf Backasch, German footballer

Olaf Backasch is a retired German footballer.

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Skip Heller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Fred Steven "Skip" Heller is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Although active in many different types of music as a performer, producer, and historian coming out of the Philadelphia jazz scene, and in spite of local critical recognition, he did not make a large mark in his hometown.

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Steve Olin, American baseball player (died 1993)

Steven Robert Olin was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four seasons in the American League with the Cleveland Indians. Olin was a right-handed submarining relief pitcher for the Cleveland Indians from 1988 to 1992. Olin died, along with teammate and fellow reliever Tim Crews, in a 1993 boating accident.

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Micky Ward, American boxer

George Michael Ward Jr., often known by his nickname, "Irish" Micky Ward, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2003. He challenged once for the IBF light welterweight title in 1997, and held the WBU light welterweight title in 2000. Ward is widely known for his trilogy of fights with Arturo Gatti, two of which received Fight of the Year awards by The Ring magazine, as well as his devastating left hook to the body and his relentless pressure fighting style. From 2001 to 2003, Ward featured in three straight Fights of the Year. He was portrayed by Mark Wahlberg in the 2010 film The Fighter, which was based on his early career. After retirement he has become a philanthropist.

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04/10/1964

Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, and actor (died 2009)

Francis Durango Magalona, also known as Francis M, was a Filipino rapper, songwriter, and actor. He is regarded as an influential figure in Pinoy hip hop.

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Yvonne Murray, Scottish runner

Yvonne Carole Grace Murray-Mooney is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. She won a bronze medal in the 3000 metres at the 1988 Olympic Games, and gold medals at this distance at the 1987 European Indoor Championships, the 1993 World Indoor Championships and the 1990 European Championships. She also won a gold medal in the 10,000 metres at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. Her 3000 metres best of 8:29.02 was set in the Olympic Final of 1988.

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04/10/1963

A. C. Green, American basketball player

A.C. Green Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Iron Man", he holds a National Basketball Association (NBA) record for most consecutive regular-season games played with 1,192. Green played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat. He found most success with the Lakers, with whom he won three championships in 1987, 1988 and 2000, and was named an NBA All-Star in 1990.

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Koji Ishikawa, Japanese author and illustrator

Kōji Ishikawa is a Japanese children's book author and illustrator. His work includes advertisements, magazine illustration, web, character design and book design. In recent years he has made children's books. He lives in Tokyo with his wife and two children.

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04/10/1962

Carlos Carsolio, Mexican mountaineer

Carlos Carsolio Larrea is a Mexican mountain climber. Carsolio is known for being the fourth man and the second youngest to climb the world's 14 eight-thousanders, all of them without supplemental oxygen.

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04/10/1961

Philippe Russo, French singer-songwriter and guitarist

Philippe Russo is a French singer-songwriter. He had a hit between 1986 and early 1987 in France with his single "Magie noire", devoted to the discothèques, which peaked at #10 on the SNEP Singles Chart. Then he published several singles until 1991, but they were unsuccessful and failed to reach the chart. Therefore, Russo can be deemed a one-hit wonder. He was the guitar of Marc Lavoine during this one's last concert tour.

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Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter

Juan Francisco Secada Ramírez, better known as Jon Secada, is a Cuban-born American singer. He has won two Grammy Awards and sold 15 million records, making him one of the best-selling Latin music artists. His music fuses funk, soul music, pop, and Latin percussion.

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Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author and illustrator, created Yu-Gi-Oh! (died 2022)

Kazuo Takahashi , known professionally as Kazuki Takahashi , was a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the author of Yu-Gi-Oh!, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1996 to 2004. The manga spawned a trading card game of the same name, which holds the Guinness World Record for the best-selling trading card game of all time.

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04/10/1960

Joe Boever, American baseball player

Joseph Martin Boever is an American former professional baseball right-handed relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1985 to 1996 for the St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros, Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers, and Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Henry Worsley, English colonel and explorer (died 2016)

Lieutenant Colonel Alastair Edward Henry Worsley, was a British explorer and British Army officer. He was part of a 2009 expedition that retraced Ernest Shackleton's footsteps in the Antarctic.

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04/10/1959

Chris Lowe, English singer and keyboard player

Christopher Sean Lowe is an English musician, songwriter, and co-founder of the synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Neil Tennant in 1981. He is primarily the keyboardist and occasionally a vocalist, and he is the co-author of the catalogue of Pet Shop Boys songs with his writing partner, Tennant. Lowe is known for his impassive stage persona, standing still behind a keyboard with his head and eyes covered.

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Tony Meo, English snooker player

Anthony Christian Meo is a retired English snooker player. He won the 1989 British Open by defeating Dean Reynolds 13–6 in the final, and was runner-up to Steve Davis at the 1984 Classic. He won four World Doubles Championship titles, partnering Davis, and the 1983 World Team Classic representing England alongside Davis and Tony Knowles.

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Hitonari Tsuji, Japanese author, composer, and director

Hitonari Tsuji is a Japanese writer, composer, musician, painter and film director. In his film and singing work he uses the art name Jinsei Tsuji, an alternative reading his given name. His novels and essays have been bestsellers in Japan as well as overseas, with his work being translated into 20 languages and selling over ten million copies.

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04/10/1958

Barbara Kooyman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Barbara Kooyman is an American singer-songwriter based in Austin, Texas. In the 1980s, she, her then-husband Pat MacDonald, and a drum machine formed the recording act Timbuk 3 whose 1986 signature song was "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades". The duo did road work with Bob Dylan, Sting, and Jackson Browne. They once appeared on Saturday Night Live and were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1987.

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Wendy Makkena, American actress

Wendy Rosenberg Makkena is an American actress best known for playing Sister Mary Robert in the film Sister Act (1992) and its sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) and numerous other roles in film and television. She has appeared regularly on stage since the 1980s. Her other film credits include Air Bud (1997), State of Play (2009), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019).

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Anneka Rice, Welsh radio and television host

Anne Lucinda Hartley "Anneka" Rice is a British television and radio presenter, journalist and painter.

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04/10/1957

Bill Fagerbakke, American actor

William Fagerbakke is an American actor. He voices Patrick Star in the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise, and played Michael "Dauber" Dybinski on the sitcom Coach. He also appeared in 12 episodes of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother as Marshall Eriksen's father Marvin.

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Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (died 2013)

Yngve Moe was a Norwegian bass guitarist and founding member of the rock band Dance with a Stranger.

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Russell Simmons, American businessman, founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm

Russell Wendell Simmons is an American entrepreneur, writer and record executive. He co-founded the hip-hop label Def Jam Recordings, and created the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and Tantris. He has promoted veganism and a yoga lifestyle, and published books on lifestyle, health, and entrepreneurship. Simmons' net worth was estimated at $340 million in 2011.

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04/10/1956

Lesley Glaister, English author and playwright

Lesley Glaister is a British novelist, poet and playwright. She has written 16 novels, A Particular Man (2024) being the most recent, one play and numerous short stories and radio plays. She is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of St Andrews, and is a regular contributor of book reviews to The Spectator and The Times. She is married to poet Andrew Greig.

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Charlie Leibrandt, American baseball player

Charles Louis Leibrandt Jr. is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1979 to 1993 for the Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves, and Texas Rangers. Leibrandt was a member of the 1985 World Series champion Royals team.

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Sherri Turner, American golfer

Sherri Turner is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1984 and won three LPGA Tour events, including one major championship, during her career.

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Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor

Christoph Waltz is an Austrian and German actor. Waltz gained international recognition for his portrayal of villainous and supporting roles in English-language films. His accolades include two Academy Awards, two BAFTAs, and two Golden Globes, as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.

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04/10/1955

John Rutherford, Scottish rugby player

John Young Rutherford is a former Scotland international rugby union player. His regular playing position was Fly half.

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Jorge Valdano, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager

Jorge Alberto Francisco Valdano Castellanos is an Argentine former football player, coach, and the former general manager of Real Madrid. He is currently working as a commentator for beIN Sports. Nicknamed "The Philosopher of Football", he played as a forward.

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04/10/1953

Gil Moore, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer

Gil Moore is a Canadian musician. Born in Toronto, Moore is the drummer and co-vocalist of the power trio Triumph. Before Moore was in Triumph he was in a band called Sherman & Peabody which also featured Buzz Shearman of Moxy and Greg Godovitz of Goddo.

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Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harp player

Andreas Vollenweider is a Swiss harpist. He is generally categorised as a new-age musician and uses a modified electroacoustic harp of his own design. He has worked with Bobby McFerrin, Carly Simon, Luciano Pavarotti and in 1987 received a Grammy Award for the album Down to the Moon. Vollenweider's style has been described by The New York Times as "swirling atmospheric music, which evokes nature, magic and fairy tales".

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04/10/1952

Anita DeFrantz, American rower and sports administrator

Anita Lucette DeFrantz is an American Olympic rower, member of the International Olympic Committee, and twice vice-president of International Rowing Federation (FISA).

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Jody Stephens, American rock drummer

Jody Stephens is an American musician and producer who has played drums in Big Star and Golden Smog. After the deaths of Chris Bell in 1978, and Alex Chilton and Andy Hummel, both in 2010, Stephens is the last surviving original member of Big Star.

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Zinha Vaz, Bissau-Guinean women's rights activist and politician

Francisca Maria Monteira e Silva Vaz , better known as Zinha Vaz, is a Bissau-Guinean women's rights activist and politician. She has been a member of the National People's Assembly for several terms for the Resistance of Guinea-Bissau-Bafatá Movement, as well as a presidential advisor. In 1999 she served for a brief time as mayor of the capital city Bissau. She was jailed for political reasons for three years during the 1970s and in 2003 again for several days. Recently she was ambassador to Gambia.

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04/10/1951

Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet and author

Bakhytzhan Musakhanuli Kanapyanov is a Kazakh poet, writer, publisher, and translator. Kanapyanov is a member of the Russian and the Kazakh PEN clubs, an honorary professor at the Shakarim University (Semey) and an academician of the Crimean Literary Academy.

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Truck Robinson, American basketball player and coach

Leonard Eugene "Truck" Robinson is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Washington Bullets (1974–1977), Atlanta Hawks (1977), New Orleans Jazz (1977–1979), Phoenix Suns (1979–1982), and New York Knicks (1982–1985).

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04/10/1950

Alan Rosenberg, American actor

Alan Rosenberg is an American actor best known for portraying the character Eli Levinson in both American legal drama series Civil Wars and L.A. Law; as well as, Ira Woodbine on the television sitcom Cybill, Stuart Brickman on Chicago Hope and Professor Youens on Shameless. He also appeared in the films The Wanderers (1979) and Robots (2005). From 2005 to 2009, Rosenberg was president of the Screen Actors Guild.

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04/10/1949

Armand Assante, American actor and producer

Armand Anthony Assante Jr. is an American actor. He played mobster John Gotti in the 1996 HBO television film Gotti, Odysseus in the 1997 miniseries adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey, Nietzsche in When Nietzsche Wept, and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in 1982's I, the Jury. He has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Assante also played 'Dominic Cattano', who was based on the real-life Lucchese family boss Carmine Tramunti, in the 2007 film American Gangster alongside Denzel Washington, Josh Brolin and Russell Crowe, which was nominated for two Oscars at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008.

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Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal is an American film director and poet. He is the father of actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

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04/10/1948

Iain Hewitson, New Zealand-Australian chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality

Iain "Huey" Hewitson, is a New Zealand-born Australian chef, restaurateur, author and television personality who moved to Australia in 1972. He is best known for his television involvement with Network Ten. He was also the face of supermarket chain BI-LO.

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Linda McMahon, American businesswoman and politician

Linda Marie McMahon is an American administrator, business executive and former professional wrestling executive who has served as the 13th United States secretary of education since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served as the 25th administrator of the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019.

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Duke Robillard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Michael John "Duke" Robillard is an American guitarist and singer. He founded the band Roomful of Blues and was a member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Although he is known as a rock and blues guitarist, he also plays jazz and swing.

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04/10/1947

Julien Clerc, French singer-songwriter and pianist

Paul-Alain Auguste Leclerc, better known by his stage name Julien Clerc, is a French singer-songwriter.

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Jim Fielder, American bass player

Jim Fielder is an American bassist, best known for his work as an original member of Blood, Sweat & Tears. Prior to BS&T, he was rhythm guitarist for Frank Zappa's band The Mothers of Invention.

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Ann Widdecombe, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Health

Ann Noreen Widdecombe is a British politician and television personality who has been Reform UK's Immigration and Justice spokesperson since 2023. Originally a member of the Conservative Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone and The Weald, and the former Maidstone constituency, from 1987 to 2010. She was a member of the Brexit Party from 2019 until it was renamed Reform UK in 2021, and served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South West England from 2019 to 2020; she rejoined Reform UK in 2023.

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04/10/1946

Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (died 2013)

Larry R. Clapp was an American lawyer and politician.

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Chuck Hagel, American sergeant and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Defense

Charles Timothy Hagel is an American politician and Army veteran who served as the 24th United States secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015 in the administration of Barack Obama. He previously served as chairman of the president's Intelligence Advisory Board from 2009 to 2013 and as a United States senator representing Nebraska from 1997 to 2009.

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Michael Mullen, American admiral

Michael Glenn "Mike" Mullen is a retired United States Navy admiral who served as the 17th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 2007 to September 2011.

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Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist

Susan Abigail Sarandon is an American actor. With a career spanning over five decades, she has received accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for seven Emmy Awards and ten Golden Globe Awards.

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04/10/1945

Clifton Davis, American singer-songwriter, actor, and minister

Clifton Duncan Davis is an American actor, singer, songwriter, minister, and author.

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04/10/1944

Colin Bundy, South African-English historian and academic

Colin James Bundy is a South African historian, former principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford and former SOAS University of London director. Bundy was an influential member of a generation of historians who substantially revised our understanding of South African history. In particular, he wrote on South Africa's rural past from a predominantly Marxist perspective, but also deploying Africanist and underdevelopment theories. Since the mid-1990s, however, Bundy has held a series of posts in university administration. Bundy is also a trustee of the Canon Collins Educational & Legal Assistance Trust.

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Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (died 2006)

María de los Ángeles de las Heras Ortiz, better known as Rocío Dúrcal, was a Spanish singer and actress. Her career, which spanned more than four decades, began in the 1960s, when she established herself as an actress and singer thanks to the musical films she starred in. Later, she focused exclusively on her musical career, performing canción melódica, boleros, and rancheras, which led her to be considered one of the best Spanish-language singers of all time.

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Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager

Anthony La Russa Jr. is an American former professional baseball infielder and manager. His Major League Baseball (MLB) career has spanned from 1963 to 2022, in several roles. He is the former manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, and Chicago White Sox. In 35 seasons as a manager, La Russa guided his teams to three World Series titles, six league championships, and 13 division titles. His managerial total of 2,884 MLB wins is second only to Connie Mack's.

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John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith, Scottish educator and politician

John Francis McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith,, is a Scottish politician and life peer who served as Lord Speaker, the presiding officer of the House of Lords, from 2021 to 2026. He was a member of Parliament for the Labour and Co-operative Party from 1987 to 2010, first for Dumbarton and then from 2005 for West Dunbartonshire. He also served as Chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Committee. Following his appointment to the House of Lords, McFall served as Senior Deputy Speaker from 2016 to 2021 before succeeding Lord Fowler as Lord Speaker.

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04/10/1943

H. Rap Brown, American activist (died 2025)

Jamil Abdullah al-Amin was an African-American activist who served as the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s. Calling himself H. Rap Brown in that period, he was one of the primary spokesmen for the black power movement.

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Owen Davidson, Australian tennis player (died 2023)

Owen Keir Davidson was an Australian professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Karl-Gustav Kaisla, Finnish ice hockey player and referee (died 2012)

Karl-Gustav Kaisla was a Finnish ice hockey referee. He officiated in three World Championships and in one Olympic Tournament.

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Dietmar Mürdter, German footballer

Dietmar Mürdter is a former professional German footballer.

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Jimy Williams, American baseball player and manager (died 2024)

James Francis Williams was an American professional baseball infielder, coach and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1966 and 1967 and managed the Toronto Blue Jays, Boston Red Sox, and Houston Astros.

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04/10/1942

Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer-songwriter (died 2024)

Bernice Johnson Reagon was an American song leader, composer, professor of American history, curator at the Smithsonian, and social activist. In the early 1960s, she was a founding member of the Freedom Singers, organized by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the Albany Movement for civil rights in Georgia. In 1973, she founded the all-black female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, based in Washington, D.C. She was the founder/the 1st member of Sweet Honey in the Rock from 1973 to 2006. Reagon, along with other members of the SNCC Freedom Singers, realized the power of collective singing to unify the disparate groups who began to work together in the 1964 Freedom Summer protests in the South."After a song", Reagon recalled, "the differences between us were not so great. Somehow, making a song required an expression of that which was common to us all.... This music was like an instrument, like holding a tool in your hand."

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Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (died 1967)

Karl Wendell Richter was an officer in the United States Air Force and an accomplished fighter pilot during the Vietnam War. At the age of 23 he was the youngest pilot in that conflict to shoot down a MiG in air-to-air combat.

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Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic politician, 24th Prime Minister of Iceland

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from 2009 to 2013. She was Iceland's first female prime minister and the first openly LGBTQ head of government in the world.

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Christopher Stone, American actor and screenwriter (died 1995)

Christopher Stone was an American actor.

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04/10/1941

Roy Blount Jr., American humorist and journalist

Roy Alton Blount Jr. is an American writer, speaker, reporter, and humorist.

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Karen Cushman, American author

Karen Cushman is an American writer of historical fiction.

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Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian race car driver

Karl Oppitzhauser is a former racing driver from Austria. He is chiefly known for his optimistic attempt to enter the 1976 Formula One Austrian Grand Prix.

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Anne Rice, American author (died 2021)

Anne Rice was an American author of Gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible fiction. She is best known for writing The Vampire Chronicles. She later adapted the first volume in the series into a commercially successful eponymous film, Interview with the Vampire (1994).

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Frank Stagg (Irish republican), died on hunger strike (died 1976)

Frank Stagg was an Irish militant and Republican activist. He was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker from County Mayo, Ireland who died in 1976 in Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire, England after 62 days on hunger strike. Stagg was one of 22 Irish republicans to die on hunger strike in the twentieth century.

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Robert Wilson, American director and playwright (died 2025)

Robert Wilson was an American director and playwright of experimental theater. He also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer. He is best known for his collaboration with Philip Glass and Lucinda Childs on Einstein on the Beach, and his frequent collaborations with Tom Waits. In 1991, Wilson established The Watermill Center, "a laboratory for performance" on the East End of Long Island, New York, regularly working with opera and theater companies, as well as cultural festivals.

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04/10/1940

Vic Hadfield, Canadian ice hockey player

Victor Edward Hadfield is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played sixteen years in the National Hockey League (NHL), spending thirteen with the New York Rangers and three with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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Silvio Marzolini, Argentinian footballer and manager (died 2020)

Silvio Marzolini was an Argentine footballer who gained recognition during his tenure on Boca Juniors (1960–72). He is widely regarded as the best Argentine left-back of all time, playing that position for the Argentina national team in the 1962 FIFA World Cup and the 1966 FIFA World Cup, where he was elected as the best left back of that tournament. Marzolini played a total of 28 games for Argentina.

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Steve Swallow, American bass player and composer

Steve Swallow is an American jazz bassist and composer, known for his collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton, and Carla Bley. He was one of the first jazz double bassists to switch entirely to electric bass guitar.

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Alberto Vilar, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2021)

Alberto Vilar, a.k.a. Albert Vilar was an American investment manager who became particularly known as a patron of opera companies, performing arts organizations, and educational institutions. Following the collapse of his investment firm, Amerindo Investment Advisors, he was tried and convicted in November 2008 on charges of money laundering, investment advisor fraud, securities fraud, mail and wire fraud. He was sentenced in February 2010 to nine years in prison and released in 2018.

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04/10/1939

Ivan Mauger, New Zealand speedway rider (died 2018)

Ivan Gerald Mauger was a New Zealand motorcycle speedway rider. He won a record six World Championships (Finals), a feat equalled only with the inclusion of the Speedway GP Championships by Bartosz Zmarzlik of Poland and Tony Rickardsson of Sweden. In 2010, Mauger was named an FIM Legend for his motorcycling achievements.

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04/10/1938

Norman D. Wilson, American actor (died 2004)

Norman D. Wilson was an American actor. He appeared in Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), Always Outnumbered (1998) and The Stone Killer (1973). He died on December 9, 2004, in Los Angeles.

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Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist/biophysicist and Nobel Chemistry laureate, known for developing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods for studying biological macromolecules.

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04/10/1937

Jackie Collins, English-American author and actress (died 2015)

Jacqueline Jill Collins was an English romance novelist and actress. She moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and spent most of her career there. She wrote 32 novels, all of which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. Her books have sold more than 500 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages. Eight of her novels have been adapted for the screen, either as films or television miniseries. She was the younger sister of Joan Collins.

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David Crocker, American philosopher and academic

David A. Crocker, is Research Professor in the School of Public Policy, at the University of Maryland, he is also the founder and former president of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA). His work has been cited by the United Nations Human Development Report.

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Gail Gilmore, Canadian-American actress and dancer (died 2014)

Gail Gilmore was a Canadian television and film actress. She was from Edmonton, Alberta. She was sometimes known as Gail Gibson.

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Lloyd Green, American steel guitar player

Lloyd Lamar Green is an American pedal steel guitarist and session musician. Green was a member of the country music studio musician collective known as the Nashville A-Team, and has performed on more than 5,000 recordings, for artists such as Charley Pride, The Byrds, Johnny Cash, The Monkees, Don Williams, Paul McCartney, and Bob Dylan. His playing on The Byrds' 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo influenced generations of steel guitarists. Green was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1988.

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Jim Sillars, Scottish lawyer and politician

James Sillars is a Scottish politician and campaigner for Scottish independence. Sillars served as a Labour Party MP for South Ayrshire from 1970 to 1976. He founded and led the pro-Scottish Home Rule Scottish Labour Party in 1976, continuing as MP for South Ayrshire until he lost the seat in 1979.

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04/10/1936

Charlie Hurley, Irish footballer and manager (died 2024)

Charles John Hurley was an Irish footballer who mainly played in the centre half position. Nicknamed 'King', Hurley was a defender for both Sunderland, where he was named as "Player of the Century" by his fans in 1979, and the Republic of Ireland. He ended his playing career at Bolton Wanderers and was later manager of Reading.

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Giles Radice, Baron Radice, English politician (died 2022)

Giles Heneage Radice, Baron Radice was a British Labour Party politician and author. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1973 to 2001, representing part of County Durham, and then as a life peer in the House of Lords from 2001 until shortly before his death in 2022.

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04/10/1935

Jimmy Orr, American football player (died 2020)

James Edward Orr Jr. was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons, running from 1958 to 1970.

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04/10/1934

Sam Huff, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2021)

Robert Lee "Sam" Huff was an American professional football player whose frequent battles against Cleveland Browns star fullback Jim Brown made him the first member of the defense to gain widespread prominence in the National Football League. He starred for the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins in the pro ranks and the West Virginia Mountaineers in college. The one-time NFL champion, two-time All-Pro and five-time Pro Bowl selection is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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04/10/1933

German Moreno, Filipino television host and actor (died 2016)

German Molina Moreno, also known as Kuya Germs and dubbed as "The Master Showman", was a Filipino television host, presenter, actor, comedian, talent manager, producer, writer, and director.

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Ann Thwaite, English author

Ann Thwaite is a British writer who is the author of five major biographies. AA Milne: His Life was the Whitbread Biography of the Year, 1990. Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape was described by John Carey as "magnificent - one of the finest literary biographies of our time". Glimpses of the Wonderful about the life of Edmund Gosse's father, Philip Henry Gosse, was picked out by D. J. Taylor in The Independent as one of the "Ten Best Biographies" ever. Her biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett was originally published as Waiting for the Party (1974) and reissued in 2020 with the title Beyond the Secret Garden, with a foreword by Jacqueline Wilson. Emily Tennyson, The Poet's Wife (1996) was reissued by Faber Finds for the Tennyson bicentenary in 2009.

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04/10/1932

Felicia Farr, American actress and model

Felicia Farr is an American former actress and model.

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04/10/1931

Terence Conran, English designer and businessman (died 2020)

Sir Terence Orby Conran was a British designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer. He founded the household retailer Habitat in 1964, and the Design Museum in Shad Thames, London in 1989. The British designer Thomas Heatherwick said that Conran "moved Britain forward to make it an influence around the world."

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Basil D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer and footballer (died 2011)

Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE OIS was an England international cricketer of South African Cape Coloured background, whose potential selection by England for the scheduled 1968–69 tour of apartheid-era South Africa caused the D'Oliveira affair.

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Richard Rorty, American philosopher and author (died 2007)

Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher, historian of ideas, and public intellectual. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. Among his most influential books are Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Consequences of Pragmatism (1982), and Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989).

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04/10/1929

Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (died 1968)

Scott Hastings Beckett was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor in the Our Gang shorts and later costarred on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger.

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John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (died 2004)

John Edward Mack was an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor of psychiatry. He served as the head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 2004. In 1977, Mack won the Pulitzer Prize for his book A Prince of Our Disorder on T. E. Lawrence.

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Leroy Van Dyke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Leroy Frank Van Dyke is an American country music and honky-tonk singer and guitarist, best known for his hits "The Auctioneer" (1956) and "Walk on By" (1961).

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04/10/1928

Alvin Toffler, German-American journalist and author (died 2016)

Alvin Eugene Toffler was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide. He is regarded as one of the world's outstanding futurists.

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Torben Ulrich, Danish-American tennis player (died 2023)

Torben Ulrich was a Danish writer, musician, filmmaker, and professional tennis player. He was the father of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.

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04/10/1927

Wolf Kahn, American painter and academic (died 2020)

Wolf Kahn was a German-born American painter.

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04/10/1926

Raymond Watson, American businessman (died 2012)

Raymond "Ray" L. Watson was the former president of the Irvine Company, and served as chief planner during the 1960s and 1970s. He was also chairman of Walt Disney Productions from 1983 to 1984, and served on the Disney board from 1972 until March 2004.

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04/10/1925

Roger Wood, Belgian-American journalist (died 2012)

Roger Wood was the editor of the Daily Express and New York Post.

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04/10/1924

Donald J. Sobol, American soldier and author (died 2012)

Donald J. Sobol was an American author best known for his children's books, especially the Encyclopedia Brown mystery series.

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04/10/1923

Charlton Heston, American actor, director and gun rights activist (died 2008)

Charlton Heston was an American actor. He gained stardom for his leading man roles in numerous Hollywood films including biblical epics, historical drama films, science-fiction films, and action films. He won an Academy Award, a David di Donatello Award, a Laurel Award, a Photoplay Award, a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards. He received numerous honorary accolades including a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star in 1960, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1967, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1971, an honorary Saturn Award in 1975, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Academy Award in 1978, the ShoWest Convention Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003.

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04/10/1922

Malcolm Baldrige Jr., American businessman and politician, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (died 1987)

Howard Malcolm "Mac" Baldrige Jr. was an American businessman. He served as the United States secretary of commerce from 1981 until he died in 1987. He was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1988.

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Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean-Japanese businessman, founded Lotte Group (died 2020)

Shin Kyuk-ho, known in Japan as Takeo Shigemitsu , was a Zainichi Korean businessman known for being the founder of the South Korean-Japanese conglomerate Lotte Corporation (Group), now one of the largest chaebols in South Korea.

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Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach (died 2014)

Donald Eugene Lenhardt was an American outfielder, first baseman, third baseman, scout and coach in Major League Baseball. In his playing days, he stood 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall, weighed 195 pounds (88 kg), and threw and batted right-handed. He was nicknamed "Footsie" by teammates because he often had difficulty finding shoes that fit him properly.

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04/10/1921

Stella Pevsner, American children's author (died 2020)

Stella Pevsner was an American author of children's books and works of young adult literature published since the late 1960s.

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04/10/1918

Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)

Kenichi Fukui was a Japanese chemist. He became the first person of East Asian ancestry to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry when he won the 1981 prize with Roald Hoffmann, for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of chemical reactions. Fukui's prize-winning work focused on the role of frontier orbitals in chemical reactions: specifically that molecules share loosely bonded electrons which occupy the frontier orbitals, that is, the Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital (HOMO) and the Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital (LUMO).

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04/10/1917

Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1967)

Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena, a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music that would extend its sphere of influence outside Chile.

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04/10/1916

Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett for their "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids."

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Jan Murray, American comedian, actor, and game show host (died 2006)

Jan Murray was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and game-show host who originally made his name on the Borscht Belt and later was known for his frequent television appearances over several decades.

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George Sidney, American director and producer (died 2002)

George Sidney was an American film director and producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His work includes cult classics Bye Bye Birdie (1963) and Viva Las Vegas (1964). With an extensive background in acting, stage direction, film editing, and music, Sidney created many of post-war Hollywood's big budget musicals, such as Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Show Boat (1951), Kiss Me Kate (1953), Jupiter's Darling (1955), and Pal Joey (1957). He was also a president of the Screen Directors Guild for 16 years.

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Ken Wood, inventor of the Kenwood Chef food mixer (died 1997)

Kenneth Wood was an English engineer, entrepreneur and businessman. He is best known as the founder of the Kenwood Manufacturing Company and for the development of the eponymous Kenwood Chef food mixer.

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04/10/1914

Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (died 2003)

James Ford Cairns was an Australian politician who was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s, and was briefly Treasurer and the fourth deputy prime minister of Australia, both in the Whitlam government. He is best remembered as a leader of the movement against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War, for his affair with Junie Morosi, and for his later renunciation of conventional politics. He was also an economist, and a prolific writer on economic and social issues. Many of his books were self-published, and self-marketed at stalls he ran across Australia.

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Brendan Gill, American journalist and essayist (died 1997)

Brendan Gill was an American journalist. He wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. Gill also contributed film criticism for Film Comment, wrote about design and architecture for Architectural Digest, and authored fifteen books, including a popular memoir about his time at The New Yorker.

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04/10/1913

Martial Célestin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti (died 2011)

Martial Lavaud Célestin was named Prime Minister of Haïti by President Leslie Manigat in February 1988 under the provisions of the 1987 Constitution, and was approved by the Parliament that formed as a result of the January 17, 1988 elections. He was deposed by the June 20, 1988 coup d'état. He was born in Ganthier and was a lawyer by profession. Célestin died on February 4, 2011, at the age of 97.

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04/10/1911

Mary Two-Axe Earley, Canadian indigenous women's rights activist (died 1996)

Mary Two-Axe Earley was a Canadian Mohawk and Oneida women's rights activist from the reserve of Kahnawake in Quebec. After losing her legal Indian status due to marrying a non-status man, Two-Axe Earley advocated for changes to the Indian Act, which had promoted gender discrimination and stripped First Nations women of the right to participate in the political and cultural life of their home reserves.

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04/10/1910

Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player and coach (died 2002)

Frank Peter Joseph Crosetti, nicknamed "The Crow", was an American baseball player. From 1932 to 1948, he spent his entire seventeen-year Major League Baseball playing career with the New York Yankees at shortstop. After his retirement as a player, he became third base coach with the franchise for an additional twenty seasons. From 1932 to 1968, Crosetti won a combined total of 17 World Series Championships, 8 as a player, and 9 as a coach, the most by any individual. Crosetti is tied with NHL legend Jean Béliveau for the most combined championships in sports.

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Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Turkish poet and author (died 1956)

Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı was a Turkish poet and author from Türkiye. Identified with the poem "Otuz Beş Yaş", Tarancı adhered to the understanding of "art for art's sake". He mostly included the themes of joy of life and death in his poems; He also wrote poems about lost loves, happy loves, loneliness, the bitterness of the bohemian life he lived, and childhood longing. Many of his poems were composed by different composers. In addition to his poetry books Ömrümde Sükût (1933), Otuz Beş Yaş (1946), Düşten Güzel (1952) and after his death "Sonrası"(1957) and Bütün Şiirleri (1983), he wrote various stories, and these stories were published on the 50th anniversary of Tarancı's death. It was published under the title " Gün Eksilmesin Penceremden" (2006). Most of the letters the poet wrote to his family members, friends and close friends, who also translated poems from French literature, were published under the names of Ziya'ya Mektuplar (1957) and Evime ve Nihal'e Mektuplar (1989).

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04/10/1907

Alain Daniélou, French-Swiss historian and academic (died 1994)

Alain Daniélou was a French historian, Indologist, intellectual, musicologist, translator, writer and convert to and scholar of the Shaivite branch of Hinduism.

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04/10/1906

Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician (died 1996)

Mary Celine Fasenmyer, RSM was an American mathematician and Catholic religious sister. She is most noted for her work on hypergeometric functions and linear algebra.

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04/10/1903

Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician (died 1993)

Bona Arsenault, was a Canadian historian, genealogist and a federal and provincial politician.

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John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer (died 1995)

John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer. Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College. Challenges to his claim were resolved in 1973 when the Honeywell v. Sperry Rand lawsuit ruled that Atanasoff was the inventor of the computer. His special-purpose machine has come to be called the Atanasoff–Berry Computer.

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Pierre Garbay, French general (died 1980)

Pierre Garbay was a French Army General.

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Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946)

Ernst Kaltenbrunner was an Austrian high-ranking SS official during the Nazi era, major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal. After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, and a brief period under Heinrich Himmler, Kaltenbrunner was named the third Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), which included the offices of Gestapo, Kripo and SD, serving from January 1943 until the end of World War II in Europe.

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04/10/1900

August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright (died 1987)

August Mälk was an Estonian writer and politician.

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04/10/1896

Dorothy Lawrence, English reporter, who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I (died 1964)

Dorothy Lawrence was an English journalist who posed as a male soldier to report from the front line during World War I. In 1915, she went to France, where she managed to obtain a military uniform and a false identity.

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04/10/1895

Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and producer (died 1966)

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. He is best known for his silent films during the 1920s, in which he performed physical comedy and inventive stunts. He frequently maintained a stoic, deadpan facial expression that became his trademark and earned him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".

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Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy (died 1944)

Richard Gustavovich Sorge was a German-Russian journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. His codename was "Ramsay" (Рамза́й).

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04/10/1892

Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian soldier and politician, 14th Federal Chancellor of Austria (died 1934)

Engelbert Dollfuss was an Austrian politician and dictator who served as chancellor of Austria between 1932 and 1934. Having served as Minister for Forests and Agriculture, he ascended to Federal Chancellor in 1932 in the midst of a crisis for the conservative and nationalist government. This crisis culminated in the self-elimination of the Austrian Parliament, a coup sparked by the resignation of the presiding officers of the National Council. Suppressing the Socialist movement in the Austrian Civil War and later banning the Austrian Nazi Party, he cemented his rule through the First of May Constitution in 1934. Later that year, Dollfuss was assassinated as part of a failed coup attempt by Nazi agents. His successor Kurt Schuschnigg maintained the regime until Adolf Hitler's Anschluss in 1938.

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Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and author (died 1934)

Hermann Glauert, FRS was a British aerodynamicist and Principal Scientific Officer of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough until his death in 1934.

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Robert Lawson, American author and illustrator (died 1957)

Robert Lawson was an American writer and artist, best known for his work as an author and illustrator of children's literature. Lawson won the prestigious Caldecott Medal in 1941 for his illustrations in They Were Strong and Good and the Newbery Medal in 1945 for his work on Rabbit Hill; he is one of the few people to have won both medals. In addition to his work in children's books, Lawson also created etchings, which earned him the John Taylor Arms Prize from the Society of American Etchers in 1931. His artwork, including etchings, prints, works in pen and ink, and pencil on paper, is held in prominent collections such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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04/10/1890

Alan L. Hart, American physician and author (died 1962)

Alan L. Hart was an American physician, radiologist, tuberculosis researcher, writer, and novelist. Hart pioneered the use of X-ray photography in tuberculosis detection; he worked in sanitariums and X-ray clinics in New Mexico, Illinois, Washington, and Idaho. For the last 16 years of his life, he headed mass X-ray programs that screened for tuberculosis in Connecticut. X-rays were not regularly used to screen for tuberculosis prior to Hart's innovation, and are still used today, which has led researchers to believe that he saved countless lives.

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Osman Cemal Kaygılı, Turkish writer and journalist (died 1945)

Osman Cemal Kaygılı was a Turkish writer and journalist.

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04/10/1888

Lucy Tayiah Eads, American tribal chief (died 1961)

Lucy Tayiah Eads or Cha-me (1888–1961) was elected the first female tribal chief of the Kaw Indians in 1922. She was the first chief of the Kaws since 1908.

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Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (died 1954)

Oscar Wilhelm Mathisen was a Norwegian speed skater and celebrity, almost rivalling Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen as symbols for a young nation. He represented Kristiania Skøiteklub.

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04/10/1884

Ramchandra Shukla, Indian historian and author (died 1941)

Ram Chandra Shukla, better known as Acharya Shukla, was an Indian historian of Hindi literature. He is regarded as the first codifier of the history of Hindi literature in a scientific system by using wide, empirical research with scant resources. As an author he is best known for Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihaas (1928–29).

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04/10/1881

Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (died 1948)

Walther Heinrich Alfred Hermann von Brauchitsch was a German Generalfeldmarschall and Commander-in-Chief (Oberbefehlshaber) of the German Army during the first two years of World War II. Born into an aristocratic military family, he entered army service in 1901. During World War I, he served with distinction on the corps-level and division-level staff on the Western Front.

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04/10/1880

Damon Runyon, American newspaperman and short story writer. (died 1946)

Alfred Damon Runyon was an American journalist and short-story writer.

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04/10/1879

Robert Edwards, American artist, musician, and writer (died 1948)

Robert Edwards, also known as Bobby Edwards, was an American artist, musician, and writer, and a prominent figure among New York City's Greenwich Village in the 1920s and '30s. He was editor and publisher of the Greenwich Village Quill, and was known as the "Bard of Bohemia" and the "Village Troubadour" for his many songs he wrote and sang publicly.

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04/10/1877

Razor Smith, English cricketer (died 1946)

William Charles "Razor" Smith was a Surrey slow bowler. Nicknamed "Razor" because of his extreme thinness, Smith was a frail man and prone to serious injury; he could rarely get through a full season's cricket, but when fit and healthy, could command the sharpest off-break among bowlers of his day. He was also able to bowl a somewhat faster ball with a very high flight that turned a little from leg and, with any help from the pitch, would get up almost straight.

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04/10/1876

Florence Eliza Allen, American mathematician and suffrage activist (died 1960)

Florence Eliza Allen (1876–1960) was an American mathematician and women's suffrage activist. In 1907 she became the second woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the fourth Ph.D. overall from that department.

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04/10/1874

John Ellis, English executioner (died 1932)

John Ellis was a British executioner for 23 years, from 1901 to 1924. His other occupations were as a Rochdale hairdresser and newsagent.

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04/10/1868

Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 20th President of Argentina (died 1942)

Máximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear y Pacheco served as president of Argentina from 1922 to 1928.

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04/10/1862

Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, sister-in-law of Vincent van Gogh, who is credited with promoting his posthumous fame (died 1925).

Johanna Gezina van Gogh-Bonger was a Dutch editor who translated the hundreds of letters of her first husband, art dealer Theo van Gogh, and his brother, painter Vincent van Gogh.

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Edward Stratemeyer, American author and publisher (died 1930)

Edward Stratemeyer (; was an American publisher, writer of children's fiction and founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

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04/10/1861

Walter Rauschenbusch, American pastor and theologian (died 1918)

Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) was an American theologian and Baptist pastor who taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary. Rauschenbusch was a key figure in the Social Gospel and single tax movements that flourished in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was also the maternal grandfather of the influential philosopher Richard Rorty and the great-grandfather of Paul Raushenbush.

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Frederic Remington, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 1909)

Frederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in the genre of Western American Art. His works are known for depicting the Western United States in the last quarter of the 19th century and featuring such images as cowboys, Native Americans, and the US Cavalry.

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04/10/1858

Léon Serpollet, French businessman (died 1903)

Léon Serpollet was a French engineer and developer of flash steam boilers and steam automobiles.

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04/10/1843

Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Palestinian nun and Catholic Saint (died 1927)

Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, OP was a Palestinian Catholic nun who founded the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Jerusalem, the first Palestinian religious congregation. She was beatified by Archbishop Angelo Amato on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI in 2009. On 6 December 2014, Pope Francis recognized a miracle that had been attributed to her intercession, a requirement for her canonization. The date of her canonization was announced on 14 February 2015, and she was canonized on 17 May 2015.

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04/10/1841

Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (died 1912)

Prudente José de Morais Barros was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the third president of Brazil from 1894 to 1898. Morais was elected in 1894, being the first civilian president of the country, the first to be elected by direct popular ballot under the permanent provisions of Brazil's 1891 Constitution, and the first to serve his term in its entirety. Before his presidency he served as president (governor) of the state of São Paulo and president of the Senate from 1891 to 1894. He was also president of the Constituent Assembly that drafted and enacted the 1891 Constitution.

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Maria Sophie of Bavaria (died 1925)

Duchess Maria Sophie Amalie in Bavaria was the last Queen of the Two Sicilies as the wife of Francis II of the Two Sicilies. She was one of the ten children of Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria. She was born as Duchess Maria Sophie in Bavaria. She was the younger sister of the better-known Elisabeth of Bavaria ("Sisi") who married Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.

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04/10/1837

Auguste-Réal Angers, Canadian judge and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (died 1919)

Sir Auguste-Réal Angers was a Canadian judge and parliamentarian, holding seats both as a member of the House of Commons of Canada, and as a Senator. He was born in 1837 probably in Quebec City and died in Westmount, Quebec, in 1919.

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04/10/1836

Juliette Adam, French author (died 1936)

Juliette Adam was a French author and feminist.

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04/10/1835

Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American opera singer and educator (died 1921)

Jane Elizabeth Kempton was an American contralto opera solo singer who had an active career spanning over fifty years starting in 1850. She sang in hundreds of performances across the United States and Europe during her long career.

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04/10/1822

Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (died 1893)

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. He served as Cincinnati's city solicitor from 1858 to 1861 and was known as a staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings. At the start of the Civil War, Hayes left a fledgling political career to join the Union army. He was wounded five times, most seriously at the Battle of South Mountain in 1862. Hayes earned a reputation for bravery in combat, rising in the ranks to serve as brevet major general. After the war, he was a prominent member of the "Half-Breed" faction of the Republican Party. Hayes served in Congress from 1865 to 1867 and was elected governor of Ohio, serving two consecutive terms from 1868 to 1872 and half of a third two-year term from 1876 to 1877 before his swearing-in as president.

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04/10/1814

Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (died 1875)

Jean-François Millet was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes. He is known best for his oil paintings but is also noted for his pastels, Conté crayon drawings, and etchings.

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04/10/1807

Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of Canada East (died 1864)

Sir Louis-Hippolyte Ménard dit La Fontaine, 1st Baronet, KCMG was a Canadian politician, jurist and statesman, who served as the first Premier of the United Province of Canada and the first head of a responsible government in Canada along side Robert Baldwin.

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04/10/1793

Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (died 1862)

Charles Pearson was a British lawyer and politician. He was solicitor to the City of London, a reforming campaigner, and – briefly – Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Lambeth. He campaigned against corruption in jury selection, for penal reform, for the abolition of capital punishment, and for universal suffrage.

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04/10/1787

François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (died 1874)

François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics between the Revolution of 1830 and the Revolution of 1848.

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04/10/1768

Francisco José de Caldas, Colombian naturalist, executed by royalists in the war of independence (died 1816)

Francisco José de Caldas was a Neogranadine lawyer, military engineer, self-taught naturalist, mathematician, geographer and inventor, who was executed by orders of General Pablo Morillo during the Spanish American Reconquista for being a forerunner of the fight for the independence of New Granada. Arguably the first Colombian scientist, he is often nicknamed "El Sabio".

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04/10/1759

Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician and academic (died 1803)

Louis François Antoine Arbogast was a French mathematician. He was born at Mutzig in Alsace and died at Strasbourg, where he was professor. He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name: he was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity, introducing systematically the operator notation DF for the derivative of the function F. In 1800, he published a calculus treatise where the first known statement of what is currently known as Faà di Bruno's formula appears, 55 years before the first published paper of Francesco Faà di Bruno on that topic.

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04/10/1723

Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist and author (died 1798)

Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus is best known for his work in the field of entomology in the middle to late 18th-century.

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04/10/1720

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator (died 1778)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an Italian classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons". He was the father of Francesco Piranesi, Laura Piranesi and Pietro Piranesi.

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04/10/1694

Lord George Murray, Scottish Jacobite General (died 1760)

Lord George Murray, sixth son of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, was a Scottish nobleman and soldier who took part in the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1719 and played a senior role in that of 1745.

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04/10/1657

Francesco Solimena, Italian painter and illustrator (died 1747)

Francesco Solimena was a prolific Italian Baroque painter, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. In his early years, influenced above all by Luca Giordano and Mattia Preti, he developed a highly personal and dramatic handling of light and shade, yet his later art reveals a tendency towards a more restrained classicism. Solimena had many pupils, making him one of the strongest influence in Neapolitan painting of the early 18th century.

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04/10/1633

Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (died 1714)

Bernardino Ramazzini was an Italian physician.

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04/10/1626

Richard Cromwell, English academic and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (died 1712)

Richard Cromwell was an English statesman who served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1658 to 1659. He was the son of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.

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04/10/1625

Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (died 1661)

Jacqueline Pascal, sister of Blaise Pascal and Gilberte Périer, was born at Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France.

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04/10/1585

Anna of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empress (died 1618)

Anna of Tyrol was by birth an Archduchess of Austria and member of the Tyrolean branch of the House of Habsburg. By marriage, she was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Bohemia and Queen of Hungary.

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04/10/1579

Guido Bentivoglio, Italian cardinal (died 1644)

Guido Bentivoglio d'Aragona was an Italian cardinal, statesman and historian.

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04/10/1570

Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and philosopher (died 1637)

Péter Pázmány de Panasz, S.J., was a Hungarian Jesuit who was a noted philosopher, theologian, cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman. He was an important figure in the Counter-Reformation in Royal Hungary.

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04/10/1562

Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and author (died 1647)

Christen Sørensen Longomontanus was a Danish astronomer.

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04/10/1550

Charles IX of Sweden (died 1611)

Charles IX, also Carl, reigned as King of Sweden from 1604 until 1611. He was the youngest son of King Gustav I and his second wife, Margaret Leijonhufvud, the brother of King John III and half-brother of King Eric XIV, and the uncle of Sigismund, who became king both of Sweden and of Poland. By his father's will, Charles received, by way of appanage, the Duchy of Södermanland, which included the provinces of Närke and Värmland; but he did not come into actual possession of them till after the fall of Eric and the succession to the throne of John in 1569.

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04/10/1542

Robert Bellarmine, Italian cardinal and saint (died 1621)

Robert Bellarmine was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was canonized a saint in 1930 and named Doctor of the Church, one of only 27 at the time. He was one of the most important figures in the Counter-Reformation.

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04/10/1532

Francisco de Toledo, Catholic cardinal (died 1596)

Francisco de Toledo was a Spanish Jesuit priest and theologian, Biblical exegete and professor at the Roman College. He is the first Jesuit to have been made a cardinal.

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04/10/1524

Francisco Vallés, Spanish physician (died 1592)

Francisco Vallés also known as Divino Vallés Covarrubias, 4 October 1524 – Burgos, 20 September 1592) was a Spanish physician, the best example of the medical Renaissance in Spain.

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04/10/1522

Gabriele Paleotti, Catholic cardinal (died 1597)

Gabriele Paleotti was an Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Bologna. He was a significant figure in, and source about, the later sessions of the Council of Trent, and much later a candidate for the papacy in 1590, and is now mostly remembered for his De sacris et profanis imaginibus (1582), setting out the Counter-Reformation church's views on the proper role and content of art.

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04/10/1515

Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (died 1586)

Lucas Cranach the Younger was a German Renaissance painter and portraitist, the son of Lucas Cranach the Elder and brother of Hans Cranach.

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04/10/1507

Francis Bigod, English noble (died 1537)

Sir Francis Bigod was an English nobleman who was the leader of Bigod's rebellion.

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04/10/1379

Henry III of Castile (died 1406)

Henry III of Castile, called the Suffering due to his ill health, was the son of John I and Eleanor of Aragon. He succeeded his father as King of Castile in 1390.

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04/10/1331

James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician, Lord Justice of Ireland (died 1382)

James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond was a noble in the Peerage of Ireland. He was Lord Justice of Ireland in 1359, 1364, and 1376, and a dominant political leader in Ireland in the 1360s and 1370s.

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04/10/1289

Louis X of France (died 1316)

Louis X, known as the Quarrelsome, was King of France from 1314 and King of Navarre from 1305 until his death. He emancipated serfs who could buy their freedom and readmitted Jews into the kingdom. His short reign in France was marked by tensions with the nobility, due to fiscal and centralisation reforms initiated during the reign of his father by Grand Chamberlain Enguerrand de Marigny.

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04/10/1276

Margaret of Brabant (died 1311)

Margaret of Brabant, was the daughter of John I, Duke of Brabant and Margaret of Flanders. She was the wife of Henry, Count of Luxembourg, and after his election as King of Germany in 1308, she became Queen of Germany.

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04/10/1274

Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (died 1319)

Rudolf I of Bavaria, called "the Stammerer", a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1294 until 1317.

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04/10/1160

Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France (died c. 1220)

Alys of France, Countess of Vexin, known in English as "Alice", was a French princess, initially betrothed to Richard I of England. Her engagement was broken in 1190, through negotiations between Richard and her half-brother Philip Augustus of France. Philip then attempted to betroth her to Richard's brother John but this betrothal was rejected. Alys married William IV, Count of Ponthieu, on 20 August 1195. She died between 1218 and 1220.

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