Born on Monday, 6th October – Famous Birthdays

06/10/2004

Bronny James, American basketball player

LeBron Raymone "Bronny" James Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A consensus four-star recruit, James was named a McDonald's All-American as a senior in high school in 2023. He played one season of college basketball for the USC Trojans before being selected by the Lakers in the second round of the 2024 NBA draft. He is the eldest child of professional basketball player LeBron James Sr. and is his teammate, making them the first active father–son duo in NBA history.

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Hanni, Australian singer

Hanni Pham, known mononymously as Hanni is an Australian singer based in South Korea. In July 2022, she made her debut as a member of the South Korean girl group NewJeans, under the record label ADOR.

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06/10/2002

Jonathan Kuminga, Congolese basketball player

Jonathan Malangu Kuminga is a Congolese professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A consensus five-star recruit and the top small forward in the 2021 class, he chose to forgo his college eligibility and reclassify to the 2020 class to join the NBA G League Ignite. Kuminga finished his high school career at The Patrick School in Hillside, New Jersey.

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06/10/2001

Hitomi Honda, Japanese singer based in South Korea

Hitomi Honda is a Japanese singer and actress based in South Korea. She is the leader of the South Korean girl group Say My Name, and former member of South Korean–Japanese project girl group Iz*One and Japanese girl group AKB48.

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06/10/2000

Jazz Jennings, American internet personality

Jazz Jennings is an American YouTube personality, spokesmodel, television personality, and LGBT rights activist. Jennings is one of the youngest publicly documented people to be identified as transgender. Jennings received national attention in 2007 when an interview with Barbara Walters aired on 20/20, which led to other high-profile interviews and appearances. Christine Connelly, a member of the board of directors for the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth, stated, "She was the first young person who picked up the national spotlight, went on TV and was able to articulate her perspective and point of view with such innocence." Her parents noted that Jennings was clear on being female as soon as she could speak.

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Kyle Pitts, American football player

Kyle Anthony Pitts Sr. is an American professional football tight end for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida Gators, where he was named a unanimous All-American and won the John Mackey Award in 2020.

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Addison Rae, American social media personality, dancer, and singer

Addison Rae Easterling is an American singer, dancer, actress and social media personality. She joined TikTok in 2019, becoming one of the platform's most-followed creators. Rae went on to expand her career into music and acting. She appeared in films including He's All That (2021) and Thanksgiving (2023).

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06/10/1999

Trevor Lawrence, American football player

William Trevor Lawrence is an American professional football quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). Considered among the highest-touted college football prospects, he won the 2019 National Championship Game as a freshman with the Clemson Tigers and set the school's record for quarterback wins. Lawrence was selected first overall by the Jaguars in the 2021 NFL draft. In his second season, Lawrence led the Jaguars to their first division title since 2017 and earned Pro Bowl honors. He led the team to another division title in 2025.

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06/10/1997

Kasper Dolberg, Danish footballer

Kasper Dolberg Rasmussen is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Eredivisie club Ajax and the Denmark national team.

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06/10/1996

Kevin Diks, Indonesian footballer

Kevin Diks Bakarbessy is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach. Born in the Netherlands, he plays for the Indonesia national team.

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06/10/1994

Jake Guentzel, American ice hockey player

Jake Allen Guentzel is an American professional ice hockey player who is a left winger for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the third round, 77th overall, by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2013 NHL entry draft, and won the Stanley Cup with the Penguins in 2017. Guentzel has also previously played for the Carolina Hurricanes.

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Lee Joo-heon, South Korean rapper and songwriter

Lee Joo-heon, better known by the stage name Joohoney and formerly mononymously known as Jooheon, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is a member of the South Korean boy group Monsta X under Starship Entertainment. He made his solo debut with the EP Lights in 2023.

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06/10/1993

Adam Gemili, English sprinter

Adam Ahmed Gemili is a British retired sprinter who was active from 2010 to 2026, and competing at the elite level between 2012 and 2023. He is the 2014 European champion at 200 metres, three-time European champion in the 4 × 100 metres relay, and part of the Great Britain team that won gold at the 2017 World Championships in the same event. individually, at global level he finished fourth in the 200 m at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, and fourth and fifth in separate editions of the World Championships in the same event. A former professional player who played as a defender, Gemili announced his return to football as a coach after his retirement from elite athletics in 2026. He is a sprint coach at Chelsea's academy.

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Jourdan Miller, American fashion model

Jourdan Miller is an American fashion model, best known for winning the twentieth cycle of America's Next Top Model. She is also the only female model to have won a cycle that included male models; the other two cycles that followed were both won by men.

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Nail Yakupov, Russian ice hockey player

Nail Railovich Yakupov is a Russian professional ice hockey forward for Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was selected first overall by the Edmonton Oilers at the 2012 NHL entry draft, and also played with the St. Louis Blues and Colorado Avalanche. Due to his relatively poor performance, short NHL career and low point totals, Yakupov is widely regarded as one of the biggest draft busts in NHL history.

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06/10/1992

Josh Archibald, Canadian-American ice hockey player

Joshua Archibald is a Canadian-born American former professional ice hockey right winger. Archibald was selected by the Penguins in the sixth round of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.

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Taylor Paris, Canadian rugby player

Taylor Flavio Paris is a Canadian rugby union player. He is currently signed with the Castres Olympique and also regularly plays for the Canadian Men's 15's and 7's teams. Previously Paris had played with Markham Irish Canadians, James Bay Athletic Association, Ontario Blues, Glasgow Warriors, Agen and also had a brief stint with Northampton Saints Academy.

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06/10/1990

Scarlett Byrne, English actress

Scarlett Hannah Hefner is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Slytherin student Pansy Parkinson in the Harry Potter series, and as Nora Hildegard in The Vampire Diaries.

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Marcus Johansson, Swedish ice hockey player

Marcus Lars Johansson is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League. He was selected by the Washington Capitals in the first round, 24th overall, of the 2009 NHL entry draft.

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Nazem Kadri, Canadian ice hockey player

Nazem Kadri is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer and actress

Han Sun-hwa, also known mononymously as Sunhwa, is a South Korean actress and singer. She is a former member of the South Korean girl group Secret. She made her television debut in 2004 while participating in SBS' Superstar Survival as a finalist, and in 2009, she was a regular cast member on a variety show called Invincible Youth. Aside from music, she also ventured into acting and made her debut in the 2010 drama, More Charming By The Day. Some of her notable works include Marriage, Not Dating (2014), Work Later, Drink Now (2021–2023), A Letter from Kyoto (2022), My Sweet Mobster (2024), and Pilot (2024).

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06/10/1989

Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (died 2014)

Albert Dominique Ebossé Bodjongo Dika was a Cameroonian footballer who played in Cameroon, Malaysia and Algeria.

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Tyler Ennis, Canadian ice hockey player

Tyler Foster Ennis is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward.

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Pizzi, Portuguese footballer

Luis Miguel Afonso Fernandes, known as Pizzi, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Primeira Liga club Estoril.

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06/10/1987

Akuila Uate, Fijian-Australian rugby league player

Akuila Uate, also known by the nicknames of "Aku" and "Akuila the Thriller", is a former professional rugby league footballer who played on the wing. He was both a Fiji and Australian international.

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06/10/1986

Meg Myers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Janice Sue Meghan Myers, known professionally as Meg Myers, is an American singer-songwriter. Originally from Tennessee, Myers moved to Los Angeles to pursue music and met Doctor Rosen Rosen, who signed her to his production company. In 2012, Myers released her first EP, Daughter in the Choir. Later that year, she signed to Atlantic Records, with which she released the Make a Shadow EP (2014) and her debut album, Sorry (2015). She later departed Atlantic for 300 Entertainment and released Take Me to the Disco, her second album, in 2018. Her third album TZIA was released in 2023 on Sumerian Records.

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Olivia Thirlby, American actress

Olivia Jo Thirlby is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Leah in the comedy-drama film Juno (2007), as Natalie in The Darkest Hour (2011) and as Judge Cassandra Anderson in Dredd (2012). In 2023, Thirlby portrayed Lilli Hornig in Christopher Nolan's biographical film Oppenheimer.

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06/10/1985

Mitchell Cole, English footballer (died 2012)

Mitchell James Cole was an English footballer who played as a winger. He retired from professional football in 2011 after being diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that made it unsafe for him to continue playing competitively.

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Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player

Sylvia Shaqueria Fowles is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Portland Fire of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She previously played for the Chicago Sky and Minnesota Lynx during her WNBA career. She won the WNBA MVP Award in 2017 and the WNBA Defensive Player of the Year award four times. She led the Lynx to win the WNBA Championship in 2015 and 2017, and she was named the MVP of the WNBA Finals both times. In 2020, Fowles overtook Rebekkah Brunson to become the WNBA's career leader in rebounds. In 2025, Fowles was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Hall of Fame.

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Sandra Góngora, Mexican ten-pin bowler

Sandra Góngora is a Mexican ten-pin bowler.

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Tarmo Kink, Estonian footballer

Tarmo Kink is an Estonian former footballer who played as a winger. He works as a coach at Paide Linnameeskond.

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06/10/1984

Morné Morkel, South African cricketer

Morné Morkel is a South African-born cricket coach and former cricketer. He played international cricket for South Africa national cricket team between 2006 and 2018. He briefly served as the bowling coach of the Pakistan national cricket team in 2023 and was the bowling coach of the Indian team which won the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy and 2025 Asia Cup.

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06/10/1983

Renata Voráčová, Czech tennis player

Renata Voráčová is a Czech professional tennis player.

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06/10/1982

Levon Aronian, Armenian chess grandmaster

Levon Grigori Aronian is an Armenian chess grandmaster who has represented the United States since 2021. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster in 2000, at the age of 17. He is a former blitz champion. His highest classical ranking was No. 2 position in the March 2014 FIDE world chess rankings with a rating of 2830, becoming the fourth highest-rated player in history.

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Will Butler, American musician and composer

William Pierce Butler is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He is best known as a former member of the indie rock band Arcade Fire, with whom he recorded six studio albums. Butler was a member of the band for eighteen years, between 2003 and 2021, and played synthesizer, bass, guitar and percussion. He is known for his spontaneity, energy and antics during live performances and is the younger brother of Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler. In 2010, he won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year as part of Arcade Fire.

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Paul Smith, English boxer

Paul James Smith Jr. is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2017, and has since worked as a commentator. He held the English middleweight title in 2008, the British super-middleweight title twice between 2009 and 2014, and challenged three times for a super-middleweight world title. As an amateur, he won a silver medal in the light middleweight division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

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06/10/1981

Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer

Zurab Khizanishvili is a Georgian football coach and former player who is currently the assistant manager of the Georgia U21 football team.

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06/10/1980

Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer

Abdoulaye Méïté is an Ivorian former professional footballer. He represented Ivory Coast internationally and was awarded a total of 48 caps.

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06/10/1979

David Di Tommaso, French footballer (died 2005)

David di Elias Alemu Tommaso was a French professional footballer who played as a central defender.

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Mohamed Kallon, Sierra Leonean footballer and manager

Mohamed Kallon MOR is a Sierra Leonean football manager and former player who is currently the manager of the Sierra Leone national team. A striker, Kallon played for Inter Milan from 2001 to 2004, and is widely considered the most famous footballer from Sierra Leone.

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Richard Seymour, American football player

Richard Vershaun Seymour is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the New England Patriots and Oakland Raiders. He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs, and was drafted by the Patriots sixth overall in the 2001 NFL draft.

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06/10/1978

Ricky Hatton, English boxer and promoter (died 2025)

Richard John Hatton, also known by nicknames such as "The Hitman", "The Pride of Hyde" and the "People's Champion", was a British professional boxer who competed between 1997 and 2012, and later worked as a boxing promoter and trainer. During his boxing career he held multiple world championships in the light-welterweight division, and one at welterweight. In 2005 he was named Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine, the Boxing Writers Association of America, ESPN, and BoxingScene.

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Liu Yang, Chinese astronaut

Liu Yang is a Chinese military transport pilot and taikonaut. On June 16, 2012, Yang became the first Chinese woman in space, as a crew member of Shenzhou 9.

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06/10/1977

Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player

Daniel Jean-Claude Brière is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and current general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers. He was drafted in the first round of the 1996 NHL entry draft by the Phoenix Coyotes, and also played for the Buffalo Sabres, Philadelphia Flyers, Montreal Canadiens and Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer and singer

Shimon Gershon is a retired Israeli national footballer and central defender. For nearly 10 years, Gershon was the captain of the Israeli football team Hapoel Tel Aviv. In 2006, he moved to capital city club Beitar Jerusalem, newly bought by Russian benefactor Arkady Gaydamak.

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Wes Ramsey, American actor

Wes Ramsey is an American actor. He is known for his performance in the romantic drama film Latter Days, and for playing Sam Spencer on the CBS daytime soap opera Guiding Light and for his recurring role as Wyatt Halliwell on The WB supernatural drama Charmed. He portrayed Peter August on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.

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06/10/1976

Freddy García, Venezuelan baseball player

Freddy Antonio García is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched for seven Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises, including the Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, and New York Yankees. García has also pitched in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL), Mexican League, and Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.

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Brett Gelman, American actor and comedian

Brett Gelman is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Murray Bauman in Netflix's horror-supernatural series Stranger Things and as Martin in the BBC comedy Fleabag.

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06/10/1975

Reon King, Guyanese cricketer

Reon Dane King is a former West Indian cricketer. King played 19 Test matches and 50 One Day Internationals for the West Indies. He also appeared for Guyana, Northerns and Durham in his cricketing career.

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06/10/1974

Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer and manager

Wálter Centeno Corea is a Costa Rican former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and current manager of Santos de Guapiles.

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Kenny Jönsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach

Kenny Per Anders Jönsson is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Islanders, and for Rögle BK in the Swedish Hockey League. Internationally, he played for the Sweden men's national ice hockey team and was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame.

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Seema Kennedy, British politician

Seema Louise Ghiassi Kennedy is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at both the Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office in 2019. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Ribble in Lancashire from 2015 to 2019, and also served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister from 2017 to 2019. She was the first female MP of Iranian heritage to take a seat in the House of Commons.

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Jeremy Sisto, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Jeremy Merton Sisto is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Billy Chenowith in HBO's Six Feet Under (2001–2005), NYPD Detective Cyrus Lupo in NBC's Law & Order (2008–2010), George Altman in the ABC sitcom Suburgatory (2011–2014), for which he was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, and Jubal Valentine in the CBS drama series FBI (2018–present). He has appeared in such films as Clueless (1995), May (2002), Thirteen (2003), Wrong Turn (2003), Waitress (2007), and Frozen II (2019).

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Hoàng Xuân Vinh, Vietnamese shooter

Hoàng Xuân Vinh is a Vietnamese sport shooter. Xuân Vinh participated in the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal in the 10 meter air pistol and a silver in the 50 meter pistol competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, becoming the first-ever and currently only athlete from Vietnam to win an Olympic gold medal.

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06/10/1973

Jeff B. Davis, American comedian, actor, and singer

Jeffrey Bryan Davis is an American actor, impressionist and comedian. He is known for his work as a recurring performer on the improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? From July 2016 until October 2019, he has starred as the Goblin Hero Boneweevil on the VRV Direct original production HarmonQuest.

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Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor

Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh actor. He is known for his roles in film and television series in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia.

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Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player and sportscaster

Rebecca Rose Lobo-Rushin is an American television basketball analyst and former professional women's basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 to 2003. Lobo, at 6'4", played the center position for much of her career. She played college basketball at the University of Connecticut, where she was a member of the team that won the 1995 national championship, going 35–0 on the season in the process. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010. In April 2017, she was one of the members of the 2017 class of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, alongside Tracy McGrady and Muffet McGraw.

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06/10/1972

Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer

Mark Schwarzer is an Australian former professional football player who played as a goalkeeper. He represented Australia at international level from 1993 to 2013, and was selected for both the 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cups.

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06/10/1971

Emily Mortimer, English actress

Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer is a British actress and filmmaker. She began acting in stage productions and has since appeared in several film and television roles. In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Lovely and Amazing. She is also known for playing Mackenzie McHale in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012–2014). She co-created and co-wrote the series Doll & Em (2014–2015) and wrote and directed the miniseries The Pursuit of Love (2021), the latter of which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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06/10/1970

Amy Jo Johnson, American actress

Amy Jo Johnson is an American and Canadian actress, musician, and filmmaker. As an actress, Johnson is best known for her roles as Kimberly Hart on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993–1995), Julie Emrick on Felicity (1998–2000), and Jules Callaghan on Flashpoint (2008–2012).

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Shauna MacDonald, Canadian actress and producer

Shauna MacDonald is a Canadian television and film actress, director, producer, writer, voice actor, and radio announcer. She became known for her role as the national continuity announcer for CBC Radio One.

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Darren Oliver, American baseball player

Darren Christopher Oliver is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He is a second generation major league player, as his father Bob Oliver played in the major leagues for nine seasons between 1967 and 1975.

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06/10/1969

Byron Black, Zimbabwean golfer

Byron Hamish Black is a Zimbabwean tennis and Davis Cup player for Zimbabwe.

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Muhammad V of Kelantan, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia

Muhammad V has been the 29th Sultan of Kelantan since ascending to the throne in 2010. He previously reigned as King of Malaysia from 2016 until his abdication in 2019.

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06/10/1968

Bjarne Goldbæk, Danish footballer and sportscaster

Bjarne Goldbæk is a Danish former professional footballer and current sports pundit for Eurosport. An attacking midfielder, he played for a number of foreign clubs, including Chelsea and Fulham in England and several clubs in Germany. He most prominently won the 1990 German Cup tournament and 1990–91 Bundesliga championship with 1. FC Kaiserslautern. For the Denmark national team, Goldbæk was capped 28 times, and he was a part of the Danish squads for the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000 tournaments.

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Bob May, American golfer

Robert Anthony May is an American professional golfer. He is most notable for losing to Tiger Woods in a three-hole playoff for the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla.

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06/10/1967

Kennet Andersson, Swedish footballer

Bernt Kennet Andersson is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a forward. Starting off his career with IFK Eskilstuna in the mid-1980s, he went on to play professionally in Sweden, Belgium, France, Italy, and Turkey before retiring in 2002. A full international between 1990 and 2000, he won 83 caps and scored 31 goals for Sweden national team and was a key member of the Sweden team that finished third at the 1994 FIFA World Cup. He also represented Sweden at UEFA Euro 1992 and 2000.

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Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman and bodybuilder

Svend Karlsen is a Norwegian former strongman, powerlifter and bodybuilder. The winner of the 2001 World's Strongest Man and three times Norway's Strongest Man, he was well known for shouting his catch phrase "Viking Power!" while competing.

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Steven Woolfe, English barrister and politician

Steven Marcus Woolfe is a British barrister, writer, commentator and former politician. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Migration & Economic Prosperity, a research think tank studying population and immigration into the UK, Europe and US. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England from 2014 until 2019. From 2014, he was a UKIP MEP, but resigned to become an Independent MEP in October 2016 following his opposition to the party's overly negative policy on immigration. He remained independent until July 2019.

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06/10/1966

Melania Mazzucco, Italian author

Melania Gaia Mazzucco is an Italian author. She is a recipient of the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize.

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Jacqueline Obradors, American actress

Jacqueline Obradors is an American actress. She has appeared in films such as Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999), Tortilla Soup (2001), A Man Apart (2003) and Unstoppable (2004). She is also the voice of Audrey Rocio Ramirez in Atlantis: The Lost Empire. On television, Obradors is known for her role as Detective Rita Ortiz in the ABC crime drama series NYPD Blue (2001–2005).

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Niall Quinn, Irish footballer and manager

Niall John Quinn is an Irish former professional footballer, manager, businessman and sports television pundit.

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Tommy Stinson, American singer-songwriter and bass player

Thomas Eugene Stinson is an American rock musician. He came to prominence in the 1980s as the bass guitarist for The Replacements, one of the definitive American alternative rock groups. After their breakup in 1991, Stinson formed Bash & Pop, acting as lead vocalist, guitarist and frontman. In the mid-1990s he was the singer and guitarist for the rock band Perfect, and eventually joined the hard rock band Guns N' Roses in 1998.

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06/10/1965

Jürgen Kohler, German footballer and manager

Jürgen Kohler is a German former professional footballer and manager, who played as a centre-back. He is currently the U17 manager of Bonner SC. During his playing career, he won the World Cup with the German national team in 1990 and the European Championship in 1996. At club level, he won the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Cup, three German championships, and one Italian championship as a player of Bayern Munich, Juventus Turin and Borussia Dortmund.

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Peg O'Connor, American philosopher and academic

Peg O'Connor, is a professor of Philosophy and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies as well as Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College. Her present research interests include two separate but intersecting strains: Wittgenstein's approach to ethics, and the philosophy of addiction. She also contributes to public discourse about her areas of interest through contributing to popular media, especially around philosophical issues surrounding addiction, and has actively spoken out about issues of gender equity facing the field of philosophy.

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Steve Scalise, American lawyer and politician

Stephen Joseph Scalise is an American politician who has been the House majority leader since 2023 and the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 1st congressional district since 2008. A member of the Republican Party, he was the House majority whip from 2014 to 2019 and the House minority whip 2019 to 2023.

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Rubén Sierra, Puerto Rican-American baseball player

Rubén Angel Sierra García is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder. Over 20 seasons, Sierra played for the Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics (1992–95), New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers (1996), Cincinnati Reds (1997), Toronto Blue Jays (1997), Chicago White Sox (1998), Seattle Mariners (2002) and Minnesota Twins (2006).

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John McWhorter, American academic and linguist

John Hamilton McWhorter V is an American linguist. He is an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University, where he also teaches American studies and music history. He has authored a number of books on race relations and African-American culture, and is a political commentator especially in his New York Times newsletter.

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06/10/1964

Ricky Berry, American basketball player (died 1989)

Ricky Alan Berry was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Sacramento Kings.

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Mark Field, German-English lawyer and politician

Mark Christopher Field is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cities of London and Westminster from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2017 to 2019. Field's extra-marital affair between 2004 and 2005 with Liz Truss led to Field's divorce from Michele Acton and an attempt to prevent Truss standing as a parliamentary candidate at the 2010 general election by members of her constituency association. A prominent supporter of the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union during the Brexit referendum and of Jeremy Hunt in the 2019 Conservative leadership election, he left his post as a Foreign Office Minister when Boris Johnson's premiership began. He stood down from the House of Commons at the 2019 general election.

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Tom Jager, American swimmer and coach

Thomas Michael Jager is an American former competition swimmer. He is five-time Olympic gold medalist in relay events, a two-time World Championship individual gold medalist for the 50-meter freestyle, and a former world record-holder in two events. Jager set the 50-meter freestyle world record on six occasions during his career. He held this record for over ten years from August 1989 to June 2000.

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Miltos Manetas, Greek painter

Miltos Manetas is a Greek painter and multimedia artist. He currently lives and works in Bogotá.

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Knut Storberget, Norwegian lawyer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Justice

Knut Storberget is a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Labour Party. He is currently serving as the county governor of Innlandet since 2019. He previously served as Minister of Justice under Jens Stoltenberg from 2005 to 2011. He was also a member of parliament for Hedmark from 2001 to 2017, and deputy member for the same constituency from 1993 to 2001.

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Matthew Sweet, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Sidney Matthew Sweet is an American alternative rock/power pop singer-songwriter and musician who was part of the burgeoning music scene in Athens, Georgia, during the 1980s before gaining commercial success in the 1990s as a solo artist. His companion albums, Tomorrow Forever and Tomorrow's Daughter, were followed by 2018's Wicked System of Things and 2021's Catspaw, his 15th studio effort.

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06/10/1963

Sven Andersson, Swedish footballer and coach

Sven Tommy Andersson is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Beginning his career with Örgryte IS in 1980, he went on to represent IFK Strömstad and Helsingborgs IF before retiring at West Ham United in 2002. A full international for Sweden, he won one cap in 1990 and was a part of his country's 1990 FIFA World Cup squad. He also represented the Sweden Olympic team at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

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Elisabeth Shue, American actress

Elisabeth Shue is an American actress. She has starred in films such as The Karate Kid (1984), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Cocktail (1988), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Soapdish (1991), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Saint (1997), Hollow Man (2000), Piranha 3D (2010), Battle of the Sexes (2017), Death Wish (2018), and Greyhound (2020). For her performance in Leaving Las Vegas, she was nominated for the Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG Award for Best Actress.

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06/10/1962

David Baker, American biologist and academic

David Baker is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to design proteins and predict their three-dimensional structures. He is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and an adjunct professor of genome sciences, bioengineering, chemical engineering, computer science, and physics at the University of Washington. He was awarded the shared 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on computational protein design.

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Rich Yett, American baseball player

Richard Martin Yett is a former professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball from 1985 to 1990.

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06/10/1961

Miyuki Matsuda, Japanese actress

Miyuki Matsuda is a Japanese actress, the widow of Yūsaku Matsuda, and the sister of Mami Kumagai.

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Paul Sansome, English footballer

Paul Eric Sansome is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made more than 150 appearances in the Football League for Millwall and more than 300 for Southend United.

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Ben Summerskill, English businessman and journalist

Ben Jeffrey Peter Summerskill is chair of The Silver Line and director of the Criminal Justice Alliance, a consortium of 135 charities working across the GB criminal justice pathway. He was the chief executive of the UK-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality organisation Stonewall, the largest LGBTQ+ equality body in Europe, from 2003 to 2014. He has also worked as a businessman and journalist. Summerskill is an occasional contributor to The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, The Times, Time Out and other publications. In 2015 he won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British LGBT Awards In 2017, he was appointed by the UK government to the council (Board) of ACAS, the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service. He was first appointed a trustee of the Silver Line in 2017.

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06/10/1960

Richard Jobson, Scottish singer, songwriter director and producer.

Richard Jobson is a Scottish filmmaker who also works as a television presenter. He is also known as the singer-songwriter of the punk rock-post punk band Skids.

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06/10/1959

Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician (died 2012)

Turki bin Sultan Al Saud was deputy minister of culture and information of Saudi Arabia. He was a member of the House of Saud and was one of the grandsons of Saudi's founder King Abdulaziz.

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Oil Can Boyd, American baseball player

Dennis Ray "Oil Can" Boyd is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Boyd played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox (1982–1989), Montreal Expos (1990–1991), and Texas Rangers (1991). In a 10-season career, Boyd collected a 78–77 record with 799 strikeouts and a 4.04 ERA in 1,389.2 innings.

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Brian Higgins, American politician

Brian Michael Higgins is an American former politician who was the U.S. representative for New York's 26th congressional district, from 2005 until 2024. The district, numbered as the 27th district from 2005 to 2013 and as the 26th from 2013 to 2024, included Buffalo and Niagara Falls, along with some surrounding urban and suburban areas. Higgins is a member of the Democratic Party, and of several congressional committees and caucuses. He was born and raised Buffalo, New York, before obtaining a bachelor's and master's from Buffalo State College and an MPA from Harvard University.

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Walter Ray Williams, Jr., American bowler

Walter Ray Williams Jr. is an American professional tenpin bowler and competitive horseshoes pitcher. He has won 47 national PBA Tour career titles, the most in the tour’s history, and has earned over $5 million in total PBA earnings as of 2022. Among his 47 titles are eight major championships. Williams is a seven-time PBA Player of the Year, tied with Jason Belmonte for the most all-time in history, and is one of five bowlers to win the award in three consecutive seasons (1996–1998). Williams has the distinction of being the only bowler to win the PBA Player of the Year award in 4 different decades, and is also the oldest player to win the award. He won at least one PBA Tour title in a record 17 consecutive seasons.

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06/10/1958

Sergei Mylnikov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (died 2017)

Sergei Aleksandrovich Mylnikov was a Soviet and Russian ice hockey goaltender and coach who competed in the Soviet Hockey League, National Hockey League, and the Swedish Division 2 between 1977 and 1995.

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06/10/1957

Bruce Grobbelaar, Zimbabwean footballer and coach

Bruce David Grobbelaar is a Zimbabwean former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, most prominently for English club Liverpool between 1981 and 1994, and for the Zimbabwean national team. Regarded as one of the best goalkeepers of his era, he is remembered for his gymnastic-like athletic ability, unflappable confidence, eccentric and flamboyant style of play, as well as his rushing ability, which has led pundits to compare him retrospectively to the sweeper-keepers of the modern era.

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06/10/1956

Sadiq al-Ahmar, Yemeni politician (died 2023)

Sheikh Sadiq bin Abdullah bin Hussein bin Nasser al-Ahmar was a Yemeni politician and leader of the Hashid tribal federation. He succeeded his father Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar in these positions after Abdullah's death in 2007. He is best known for his role in the 2011 Yemeni uprising, in which fighters under his command attacked and seized government facilities in the Battle of Sana'a.

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Kathleen Webb, American author and illustrator

Kathleen Webb is an American comic book writer and artist and one of the first female writers for Archie Comics.

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06/10/1955

Tony Dungy, American football player and coach

Anthony Kevin Dungy is an American former professional football safety and coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts. His teams became perennial postseason contenders under his leadership, missing the playoffs only twice with Tampa Bay. He led the Colts to victory in Super Bowl XLI, making him the first African American head coach to win the Super Bowl.

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06/10/1954

Bill Buford, American author and journalist

William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism."

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David Hidalgo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

David Kent Hidalgo is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Los Lobos. Hidalgo frequently plays accordion, violin, 6-string banjo, cello, requinto jarocho, percussion, drums and guitar as a session musician on other artists' releases.

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06/10/1953

Rein Rannap, Estonian pianist and composer

Rein Rannap is an Estonian composer and pianist.

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06/10/1952

Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and author

Ayten Mutlu is a Turkish poet and writer. She graduated from Yıldız Technical University and Istanbul University and graduated from Management faculty of İstanbul University in 1975. She retired from The Central Bank. She was politically active, in the Women rights Movement.

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06/10/1951

Kevin Cronin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Kevin Patrick Cronin Jr. is an American musician who was the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band REO Speedwagon. The band had several hits on the Billboard Hot 100 throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including two chart-toppers written by Cronin: "Keep On Loving You" (1980) and "Can't Fight This Feeling" (1984).

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Clive Rees, Singaporean-Welsh rugby player and educator

Clive Frederick William Rees is a Welsh former rugby union player. He won thirteen caps as left wing for Wales between 1973 and 1983.

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Gavin Sutherland, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player

The Sutherland Brothers were a Scottish folk and soft rock duo. From 1973 to 1978, they performed with rock band Quiver, and recorded and toured as Sutherland Brothers & Quiver. Under this combined moniker, the group recorded several albums and had a international hit single with the song "Arms of Mary" in 1976. In North America, their 1973 single "(I Don't Want to Love You But) You Got Me Anyway" reached No. 48 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 25 in Canada.

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Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (died 1985)

Manfred Winkelhock was a German racing driver, who competed in Formula One between 1980 and 1985.

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06/10/1950

David Brin, American physicist and author

Glen David Brin is an American science fiction author. He has won the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards. His novel The Postman was adapted into a 1997 feature film starring Kevin Costner.

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06/10/1949

Lonnie Johnson, American inventor

Lonnie George Johnson is an American inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur, best known for inventing the bestselling Super Soaker water gun in 1989. He was formerly employed at the U.S. Air Force and NASA, where he worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Penny Junor, English journalist and author

Penelope Jane Junor is an English journalist and author.

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Thomas McClary, American R&B singer-songwriter and guitarist

Thomas McClary is an American musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as the founder and lead guitarist of The Commodores. McClary is widely credited with having created the signature sound of The Commodores' original music.

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Leslie Moonves, American businessman

Leslie Roy Moonves is an American retired media executive who was the chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation from 2006 until his resignation in September 2018 following numerous allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault and abuse. He has been married to television personality Julie Chen since 2004.

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Nicolas Peyrac, French singer-songwriter and photographer

Nicolas Peyrac is a French musician, writer and photographer.

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06/10/1948

Gerry Adams, Irish republican politician

Gerard Adams is an Irish republican retired politician who was the president of Sinn Féin from 1983 to 2018. He was a Teachta Dála for Louth from 2011 to 2020 and a Member of the Northern Ireland Legislative Assembly for Belfast West. From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he was the Member of Parliament for the Belfast West constituency, but followed the Sinn Féin policy of abstentionism in the UK Parliament.

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Glenn Branca, American guitarist and composer (died 2018)

Glenn Branca was an American avant-garde composer, guitarist, and luthier. Known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series, he was a driving force behind the genres of no wave, totalism and noise rock. Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.

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06/10/1947

Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter and actor (died 2019)

Francisco "Patxi" Andión González was a Spanish singer-songwriter, musician and actor.

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Klaus Dibiasi, Italian diver

Klaus Dibiasi is a former sports diver from Italy, who competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics for his country, starting in 1964. He dominated the platform event from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, winning three Olympic gold medals.

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Millie Small, Jamaican singer-songwriter (died 2020)

Millicent Dolly May Small CD was a Jamaican singer who is best known for her international hit "My Boy Lollipop" (1964). The song reached number two in both the UK and US charts and sold over seven million copies worldwide. It was also the first major hit for Island Records and helped to achieve the label its mainstream success. She was the Caribbean's first international recording star and its most successful female performer.

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06/10/1946

Lloyd Doggett, American lawyer and politician

Lloyd Alton Doggett II is an American lawyer and politician serving in the United States House of Representatives from Texas since 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Doggett was a member of the Texas Senate from 1973 to 1985 and a justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1989 to 1994. Doggett represents the same district President Lyndon B. Johnson once represented from 1937 until 1949.

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Tony Greig, South African-English cricketer and sportscaster (died 2012)

Anthony William Greig was a South African–born cricketer and commentator. Greig qualified to play for the England cricket team by virtue of his Scottish father. He was a tall all-rounder who bowled both medium pace and off spin. Greig was captain of England from 1975 to 1977, and captained Sussex. His younger brother, Ian, also played Test cricket, while several other members of his extended family played at first-class level.

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John Monie, Australian rugby league player and coach

John Stephen Monie is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. He is probably best known for his coaching career where he won premierships in both Australia and England.

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Eddie Villanueva, Filipino evangelist and politician, founded the ZOE Broadcasting Network

Eduardo Cruz Villanueva, most commonly referred to as Bro. Eddie Villanueva or ECV, is an evangelist and founder, president and spiritual director of the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide (JILCW).

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Vinod Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician (died 2017)

Vinod Khanna was an Indian actor, film producer, and politician known for his work in Hindi cinema. Recognised as a style and fashion icon, he was often referred to as the "Sexy Sanyasi" in the media, as well a sex symbol. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest stars in Indian cinema history. In 2018, Khanna was posthumously honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest cinematic award, at the 65th National Film Awards. Beyond his film career, Khanna was also a spiritual seeker

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06/10/1945

Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1997)

Ivan Graziani was an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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06/10/1944

Merzak Allouache, Algerian director and screenwriter

Merzak Allouache is an Algerian film director and screenwriter. His 1976 film Omar Gatlato was later entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. His 1996 Salut cousin! was submitted to the 69th Academy Awards in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. He is one of the most influential Algerian filmmakers, considered by some to be the most important. He is the only Algerian filmmaker who devoted most, if not all, of his cinematic work to his native country.

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Patrick Cordingley, English general

Major General Patrick Anthony John Cordingley, is a retired British Army officer who commanded the 2nd Division from 1995 to 1996.

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Boris Mikhailov, Russian ice hockey player and coach

Boris Petrovich Mikhailov is a former Russian ice hockey player.

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Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (died 1977)

José Carlos Pace was a Brazilian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1972 to 1977. Pace won the 1975 Brazilian Grand Prix with Brabham.

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06/10/1943

Richard Caborn, English engineer and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics

Richard George Caborn is a British politician who served as Minister of Sport from 2001 to 2007 and later as the prime minister's ambassador for England's 2018 FIFA World Cup bid. He previously served as a junior minister in the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions and Department of Trade and Industry. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Central from 1983 to 2010.

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Peter Dowding, Australian politician, 24th Premier of Western Australia

Peter McCallum Dowding SC is an Australian lawyer and former politician who was the premier of Western Australia from 25 February 1988 until his resignation on 12 February 1990 due to a leadership spill. He was a member of the Parliament of Western Australia from 1980 to 1990 and a member of the Labor Party.

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Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter

Alexander Maxovich Shilov is a prominent Soviet and Russian portrait painter.

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Cees Veerman, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)

Cees Veerman was a Dutch musician. He was a singer, composer and guitarist for the rock band The Cats. He was born in Volendam in the province of North Holland.

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06/10/1942

Dan Christensen, American painter (died 2007)

Dan Christensen was an American abstract painter He is best known for paintings that relate to Lyrical Abstraction, Color field painting, and Abstract expressionism.

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Britt Ekland, Swedish actress and singer

Britt Ekland is a Swedish actress. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in The Double Man (1967), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), Machine Gun McCain (1969), Stiletto (1969), and the British crime film Get Carter (1971), which established her as a sex symbol. She also starred in several horror films, including The Wicker Man (1973), and she appeared as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).

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Fred Travalena, American comedian and actor (died 2009)

Frederick Albert Travalena III was an American entertainer, specializing in comedy and impressions.

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06/10/1941

Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (died 1987)

Paul Graham Popham was an American gay rights activist who was a founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) and served as its president from 1981 until 1985. He also helped found and was chairman of the AIDS Action Council, a lobbying organization in Washington, D.C. He was the basis for the character of Bruce Niles in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, which was one of the first plays to address the HIV/AIDS crisis.

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06/10/1940

Jan Keizer, Dutch footballer and referee

Johannes "Jan" Nicolaus Ignacius Keizer was a Dutch football referee. He refereed two matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, and one match in the 1984 UEFA European Football Championship in France.

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06/10/1939

Melvyn Bragg, English journalist, author, and academic

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, is an English broadcaster, author, and parliamentarian. Earlier in his career, Bragg worked for the BBC in various roles including presenter, a connection that resumed in 1988 when he began to host Start the Week on BBC Radio 4. He was also the editor and presenter of The South Bank Show, and served as Chancellor of the University of Leeds from 1999 until 2017.

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Jack Cullen, American baseball player

John Patrick Cullen is an American retired professional baseball player. The right-handed pitcher appeared in 19 games in Major League Baseball as a member of the New York Yankees. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and weighed 170 pounds (77 kg).

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Richard Delgado, American lawyer and academic

Richard Delgado is an American legal scholar, one the key founders of critical race theory, as described in foundational legal scholarship, along with Derrick Bell and Alan Freeman. Delgado is currently a Distinguished Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. Previously, he was the John J. Sparkman Chair of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. He has written and co-authored numerous articles and books, many with legal scholar and frequent collaborator Jean Stefancic, his spouse. He is also notable for his scholarship on hate speech and for introducing storytelling into legal scholarship.

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Sheila Greibach, American computer scientist and academic

Sheila Adele Greibach is an American researcher in formal languages in computing, automata, compiler theory and computer science. She is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and notable work include working with Seymour Ginsburg and Michael A. Harrison in context-sensitive parsing using the stack automaton model.

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John J. LaFalce, American captain, lawyer, and politician

John Joseph LaFalce was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of New York from 1975 to 2003. He retired in 2002 after his district was merged with that of a fellow Democrat.

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06/10/1938

Serge Nubret, Caribbean-French bodybuilder and actor (died 2011)

Serge Nubret was a Guadeloupean-French professional bodybuilder, actor and self-published author. He won numerous bodybuilding competitions, including 1976 NABBA Mr. Universe (1976). Nubret was nicknamed "the Black Panther."

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06/10/1936

Julius L. Chambers, American lawyer, educator, and activist (died 2013)

Julius LeVonne Chambers was an American lawyer, civil rights leader and educator.

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06/10/1935

Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American wrestler and trainer (died 2018)

Bruno Leopoldo Francesco Sammartino was an Italian-American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with the World Wide Wrestling Federation. Sammartino's first reign as WWF World Heavyweight Champion is the longest recognized men's world title reign in wrestling history.

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06/10/1934

Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author (died 2015)

Marshall Bertram Rosenberg was an American psychologist, mediator, author, and teacher. Starting in the early 1960s, he developed nonviolent communication, a process for supporting partnership and resolving conflict within people, relationships, and society. He worked worldwide as a peacemaker, and in 1984 founded the Center for Nonviolent Communication, an international nonprofit organization for which he served as Director of Educational Services. Rosenberg's motivation for developing nonviolent communication was based on his own experiences at the Detroit race riot of 1943, as well as the antisemitism that he experienced in his early life.

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06/10/1933

Prince Mukarram Jah, 8th Nizam of Hyderabad (died 2023)

Nizam Mir Barkat Ali Khan Siddiqi Mukarram Jah, Asaf Jah VIII, less formally known as Mukarram Jah, was the titular Nizam of Hyderabad between 1967 and 1971. He was the head of the House of Asaf Jah until he died in 2023.

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06/10/1931

Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer (died 2004)

Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh was a Russian-born Soviet astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyi, Crimea.

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Eileen Derbyshire, English actress

Eileen Derbyshire is a retired English actress, best known for her role as Emily Bishop in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She played the character for 55 years from January 1961 to January 2016, making her the longest-serving female cast member in a British TV soap opera. She was appointed an MBE in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours list for her long acting career.

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Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American astrophysicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)

Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.

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06/10/1930

Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 20th President of Syria (died 2000)

Hafez al-Assad was a Syrian politician and military officer who served as the president of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000. He was previously the prime minister from 1970 to 1971 as well as the regional secretary of the regional command of the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and secretary general of the National Command of the Ba'ath Party from 1970 until his death. Assad was a key participant in the 1963 Syrian coup d'état, which brought the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party to power in the country, a power that lasted until the fall of the regime in 2024, then led by his son Bashar.

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Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 2015)

Richard Benaud was an Australian cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. Following his retirement from international cricket in 1964, Benaud became a highly regarded commentator on the game.

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06/10/1929

George Mattos, American pole vaulter (died 2012)

George Mattos was an American pole vaulter. He competed for his native country in two Olympics, 1952 when he finished 9th and 1956 when he finished 4th, both times behind American teammate Bob Richards.

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06/10/1928

Flora MacNeil, Scottish Gaelic singer (died 2015)

Flora MacNeil, MBE was a traditional singer of Scottish Gaelic folk music. MacNeil gained prominence after meeting Alan Lomax and Hamish Henderson during the early 1950s, and continued to perform into her later years.

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Barbara Werle, American actress and singer (died 2013)

Barbara May Theresa Werle was an American actress, dancer and singer, best known for her role in Seconds (1966).

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06/10/1927

Bill King, American sportscaster (died 2005)

Wilbur "Bill" King was an American sports announcer. In 2016, the National Baseball Hall of Fame named King recipient of the 2017 Ford C. Frick Award, the highest honor for American baseball broadcasters.

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06/10/1925

Shana Alexander, American journalist and author (died 2005)

Shana Alexander was an American journalist. Although she became the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life magazine, she was best known for her participation in the "Point-Counterpoint" debate segments of 60 Minutes in the late 1970s with conservative James J. Kilpatrick.

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06/10/1923

Robert Kuok, Malaysian Chinese business magnate and investor

Robert Kuok Hock Nien, better known as Robert Kuok, is a Malaysian business magnate, investor and philanthropist based in Hong Kong since 1973. According to Forbes, his net worth is estimated at $11.8 billion as of April 2023, making him the wealthiest Malaysian citizen and 96th wealthiest person in the world. As of April 2023, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index 2023, Kuok has an estimated net worth of $17.7 billion, making him the 97th richest person in the world.

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Yaşar Kemal, Turkish journalist and author (died 2015)

Yaşar Kemal was a leading Turkish writer of Kurdish descent, who wrote in Turkish and a human rights activist. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of his 1955 novel Memed, My Hawk.

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06/10/1922

Joe Frazier, American baseball player and manager (died 2011)

Joseph Filmore Frazier was an American outfielder and manager in Major League Baseball.

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Teala Loring, American actress (died 2007)

Teala Loring was an American actress who appeared in over 30 films during the 1940s.

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06/10/1921

Evgenii Landis, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1997)

Evgenii Mikhailovich Landis was a Soviet mathematician who worked mainly on partial differential equations.

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Joseph Lowery, American minister and activist (died 2020)

Joseph Echols Lowery was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights movement. He founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr. and others, serving as its vice president, later chairman of the board, and its third president from 1977 to 1997. Lowery participated in most of the major activities of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued his civil rights work into the 21st century. He was called the "Dean of the Civil Rights Movement". In 2009, Lowery received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama.

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Giovanni Michelotti, Italian automotive designer (died 1980)

Giovanni Michelotti was one of the most prolific designers of sports cars in the 20th century. His notable contributions were for Ferrari, Lancia, Maserati and Triumph marques. He was also associated with truck designs for Leyland Motors, and with designs for British Leyland after the merger of Leyland and BMC.

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06/10/1920

John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, English lawyer and judge (died 2005)

John Francis Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, was a British right-wing barrister and judge who served as Master of the Rolls for ten years, from 1982 to 1992. He was the first President of the short-lived National Industrial Relations Court from 1971 to 1974.

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06/10/1919

Tommy Lawton, English footballer and coach (died 1996)

Thomas Lawton was an English football player and manager.

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06/10/1918

Goh Keng Swee, Singaporean soldier and politician, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (died 2010)

Goh Keng Swee was a Singaporean statesman and economist who served as the second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1973 and 1985. Goh is widely recognised as one of the founding fathers of modern Singapore.

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André Pilette, French-Belgian race car driver (died 1993)

André Théodore Pilette, son of former Indy 500 participant Théodore Pilette, was a racing driver from Belgium. He participated in 14 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 17 June 1951.

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06/10/1917

Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (died 1977)

Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and leader of the civil rights movement. She was the vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Hamer also organized Mississippi's Freedom Summer along with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She was a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus, an organization created to recruit, train, and support women of all races who sought election to government offices.

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06/10/1916

Chiang Wei-kuo, Japanese-Chinese general (died 1997)

Chiang Wei-kuo, also known as Wego Chiang, was the adopted son of Republic of China President Chiang Kai-shek, the adoptive brother of President Chiang Ching-kuo, a retired Army general, and an important figure in the Kuomintang. His courtesy names were Jian'gao (建鎬) and Niantang (念堂). Chiang served in the Wehrmacht before fighting in the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.

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06/10/1915

Carolyn Goodman, American psychologist and activist (died 2007)

Carolyn Elizabeth Goodman was an American clinical psychologist who became a prominent civil rights advocate after her son, Andrew Goodman and two other civil rights workers, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964.

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Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-American cardinal (died 1983)

Humberto Sousa Medeiros was a Portuguese-born American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Boston from 1970 until his death in 1983, and was created a cardinal in 1973. Medeiros previously serve as Bishop of Brownsville from 1966 to 1970.

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Alice Timander, Swedish dentist and actress (died 2007)

Alice Ingegärd Marianne Timander was a Swedish dentist, but was better known as an entertainer and a Swedish red carpet queen at Stockholm theatre premieres.

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06/10/1914

Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (died 2002)

Thor Heyerdahl KStJ was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.

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Joan Littlewood, English director and playwright (died 2002)

Joan Maud Littlewood was an English pioneering theatre director, who has been referred to as "The Mother of Modern Theatre", she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and is best known for her work in developing the Theatre Workshop Her production of Oh, What a Lovely War! in 1963 was one of her more influential pieces.

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06/10/1913

Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter and photographer (died 1985)

Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim was a German-born Swiss Surrealist artist and photographer.

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06/10/1912

Perkins Bass, American lawyer and politician (died 2011)

Perkins Bass was an American elected official from the state of New Hampshire, including four terms as a U.S. representative from 1955 to 1963.

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06/10/1910

Barbara Castle, English journalist and politician, First Secretary of State (died 2002)

Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, Baroness Castle, was a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1979, making her one of the longest-serving female MPs in British history. Regarded as one of the most significant Labour Party politicians, Castle developed a close political partnership with Prime Minister Harold Wilson and held several roles in the Cabinet. She is the first and, to date, the only woman to have held the office of First Secretary of State.

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Orazio Satta Puliga, Italian automobile designer (died 1974)

Orazio Satta Puliga was an Italian automobile designer of Sardinian ancestry known for several Alfa Romeo designs.

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06/10/1908

Carole Lombard, American actress (died 1942)

Carole Lombard was an American actress, particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in screwball comedies. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

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Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (died 1989)

Prof Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, FRSE was a Soviet mathematician working in mathematical analysis and partial differential equations.

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06/10/1906

Janet Gaynor, American actress (died 1984)

Janet Gaynor was an American actress. She began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films. After signing with Fox Film in 1926, she rose to fame and became one of the biggest box office draws of the era. In 1929, she became the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in 7th Heaven, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Street Angel (1928), the only occasion an actress won one Oscar for multiple film roles. Her success continued into the sound film era; for A Star Is Born (1937), she received a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination.

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Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach (died 1946)

Eugene "Taffy" O'Callaghan was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a forward for Tottenham Hotspur, Leicester City, Fulham and Wales during the 1920s and 1930s.

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06/10/1905

Helen Wills, American tennis player and painter (died 1998)

Helen Newington Wills, also known by her married names Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles during her career, including 19 singles titles.

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06/10/1903

Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, commonly abbreviated as E. T. S. Walton, was an Irish experimental physicist. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Cockcroft "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles." According to their Nobel Prize speech: "Thus, for the first time, a nuclear transmutation was produced by means entirely under human control."

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06/10/1901

Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German-Brazilian zoologist and academic (died 1990)

Eveline du Bois-Reymond Marcus was a German zoologist and drawer.

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06/10/1900

Vivion Brewer, American activist and desegregationist (died 1991)

Vivion Mercer Lenon Brewer was an American desegregationist, most notable for being a founding member of the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) in 1958 during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Willy Merkl, German mountaineer (died 1934)

Willy Merkl was a German mountain climber who is most notable for his attempt to lead a German-American team up the Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas in 1932.

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Stan Nichols, English cricketer (died 1961)

Morris Stanley Nichols was the leading all-rounder in English cricket for much of the 1930s.

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06/10/1897

Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist and academic (died 1991)

Florence Barbara Seibert was an American biochemist. She is best known for identifying the active agent in the antigen tuberculin as a protein, and subsequently for isolating a pure form of tuberculin, purified protein derivative (PPD), enabling the development and use of a reliable TB test. Seibert has been inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame and the National Women's Hall of Fame.

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06/10/1896

David Howard, American film director (died 1941)

David Howard was an American film director. He directed 46 films between 1930 and 1941, 29 of them westerns starring George O'Brien, including the acclaimed Mystery Ranch (1932).

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06/10/1895

Caroline Gordon, American author and critic (died 1981)

Caroline Ferguson Gordon was an American novelist and literary critic who, while still in her thirties, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1932 and an O. Henry Award in 1934. Her early fiction was influenced by her association with the Southern Agrarians.

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06/10/1893

Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (died 1956)

Meghnad Saha was an Indian astrophysicist and politician who helped devise the theory of thermal ionisation. His Saha ionisation equation allowed astronomers to accurately relate the spectral classes of stars to their actual temperatures.

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06/10/1891

Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator (died 1946)

Hendrik Adamson was an Estonian poet and teacher.

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06/10/1888

Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (died 1918)

Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros was a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot. Garros began a career in aviation in 1909 and performed many early feats such as the first-ever airplane crossing of the Mediterranean Sea in 1913. He joined the French army and became one of the earliest fighter pilots during World War I. Garros was shot down and died on 5 October 1918. In 1928, the Roland Garros tennis stadium was named in his memory; the French Open tennis tournament officially takes the name of Roland Garros, which is held in this stadium.

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06/10/1887

Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy (died 1965)

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a French-Swiss architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland to French-speaking Swiss parents and acquired French nationality in 1930. He designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and the Americas during a five-decade career. He considered that "the roots of modern architecture are to be found in Viollet-le-Duc."

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06/10/1886

Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (died 1960)

Edwin Fischer was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor. He is regarded as one of the great interpreters of J.S. Bach and Mozart in the twentieth century.

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06/10/1882

Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer (died 1937)

Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer, pianist and writer. He was a member of the modernist Young Poland movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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06/10/1876

Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice (died 1941)

Ernest Lapointe was a Canadian lawyer and politician. A member of Parliament from Quebec City, he was a senior minister in the government of Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King, playing an important role on issues relating to legal affairs, Quebec and French-speaking Canada.

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06/10/1874

Frank G. Allen, American merchant and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (died 1950)

Frank Gilman Allen was an American businessman and politician from Massachusetts. He was president of a successful leathergoods business in Norwood, Massachusetts, and active in local and state politics. A Republican, he served two terms as the 49th lieutenant governor, and then one as the 51st governor of Massachusetts. He was a major proponent of development in Norwood, donating land and funds for a number of civic improvements.

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06/10/1866

Reginald Fessenden, Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony (died 1932)

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a Canadian-American electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of patents in fields related to radio and sonar between 1891 and 1936.

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06/10/1862

Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and politician (died 1927)

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge was an American historian and United States senator from Indiana. He was an intellectual leader of the Progressive Era and a biographer of Chief Justice John Marshall and President Abraham Lincoln.

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06/10/1846

George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (died 1914)

George Westinghouse Jr. was a prolific American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneurial industrialist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his creation of the railway air brake and for being a pioneer in the development and use of alternating current (AC) electrical power distribution. During his career, he received 360 patents for his inventions and established 61 companies, many of which still exist today.

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06/10/1838

Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian soldier, poet, and author (died 1910)

Giuseppe Cesare Abba was an Italian writer and soldier. As a participant on the expedition of i Mille he fought next to Giuseppe Garibaldi in his conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1860.

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06/10/1831

Richard Dedekind, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1916)

Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind was a German mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, abstract algebra, and the axiomatic foundations of arithmetic. His best known contribution is the definition of real numbers through the notion of Dedekind cut. He is also considered a pioneer in the development of modern set theory and of the philosophy of mathematics known as logicism.

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06/10/1820

James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Armagh (died 1892)

James Molyneux Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont KP was an Irish politician and peer.

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Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano and actress (died 1887)

Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind , was a Swedish opera singer, often called the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she performed in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and undertook an extraordinarily popular concert tour of the United States beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840.

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06/10/1803

Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Polish-German physicist and meteorologist (died 1879)

Heinrich Wilhelm Dove was a Prussian physicist and meteorologist.

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06/10/1801

Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (died 1888)

Lazare Hippolyte Carnot was a French politician. He was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and the second son of the revolutionary politician and general Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, who also served in the government of Napoleon, as well as the father of French president Marie François Sadi Carnot.

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06/10/1773

John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist and academic (died 1835)

John MacCulloch FRS was a Scottish geologist. He was the first geologist to be employed by the government in Britain and is best known for his pioneering texts on geology and for producing the first geological maps of Scotland. He introduced the word "malaria" into the English language.

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Louis Philippe I of France (died 1850)

Louis Philippe I, nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, the penultimate monarch of France, the last French monarch to bear the title "King", and the only French monarch to descend from the Orléans branch of the Bourbon family. He abdicated from his throne during the French Revolution of 1848, which led to the foundation of the French Second Republic.

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06/10/1769

Isaac Brock, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (died 1812)

Major-General Sir Isaac Brock KB was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Guernsey. He is best remembered for his victory at the siege of Detroit and his death at the Battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812.

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06/10/1767

Henri Christophe, Grenadian-Haitian king (died 1820)

Henri Christophe was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution and the only monarch of the Kingdom of Haiti.

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06/10/1744

James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (died 1813)

James McGill was a Scottish-born businessman, politician, slaveholder, and philanthropist best known for being the founder of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Montreal West and appointed to the Executive Council of Lower Canada in 1792. He was an honorary lieutenant colonel of the 1st Battalion, Montreal Militia, a predecessor unit of The Canadian Grenadier Guards. He was also a prominent member of the Château Clique and one of the original founding members of the Beaver Club. His summer home stood within the Golden Square Mile.

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06/10/1742

Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-Danish poet and playwright (died 1785)

Johan Herman Wessel was an 18th-century Danish-Norwegian poet, satirist and playwright. His written work was characterized by the use of parody and satiric wit.

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06/10/1738

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (died 1789)

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria was the second child of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. As a child, and for a time the eldest surviving child, she was heiress presumptive, but she suffered from ill health and physical disability, and did not marry. In 1766 she became abbess of the Theresian Institution of Noble Ladies in Prague. Soon thereafter she moved to Klagenfurt and remained there for the rest of her life. Her palace in Klagenfurt, the Mariannengasse, now houses the Episcopal Palace.

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06/10/1732

John Broadwood, Scottish businessman, co-founded John Broadwood and Sons (died 1812)

John Broadwood was the Scottish founder of the piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons.

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06/10/1729

Sarah Crosby, English preacher, the first female Methodist preacher (died 1804)

Sarah Crosby was an English Methodist preacher, and is considered to be the first woman to hold this title. Crosby, along with Mary Bosanquet, is one of the most popular women preachers of Methodism. Scholars such as Paul Wesley Chilcote consider Crosby to be the busiest female Methodist preacher, as she preached up until the day she died. She was also renowned for being skilled at prayer, which at the time was seen as a sort of religious art form.

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06/10/1716

George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1771)

George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax was a British statesman of the Georgian era. Due to his success in extending commerce in the Americas, he became known as the "father of the colonies". President of the Board of Trade from 1748 to 1761, he aided the foundation of Nova Scotia, 1749, the capital Halifax being named after him. When Canada was ceded to the King of Great Britain by the King of France, following the Treaty of Paris of 1763, he restricted its boundaries and renamed it "Province of Quebec".

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06/10/1626

Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (died 1684)

Géraud de Cordemoy was a French philosopher, historian and lawyer. He is mainly known for his works in metaphysics and for his theory of language.

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06/10/1610

Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French general (died 1690)

Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, was a French soldier and, from 1668 to 1680, the governor of the Dauphin, the eldest son and heir of Louis XIV, King of France.

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06/10/1591

Settimia Caccini, Italian singer-songwriter (died 1638)

Settimia Caccini was a well-known Italian soprano and composer during the 1600s, being one of the first women to have a successful career in music. Caccini was highly regarded for her artistic and technical work with music. She came from a family of well-known composers and singers, with her father being Giulio Caccini and her sister Francesca Caccini. Settimia Caccini was less well known as a composer because she never published her own collection of works. Instead, nine works are attributed to her in two manuscripts of secular songs. Settimia was known much more for her talent as a singer, and she performed for nobility with the Caccini family consort and as a soloist. Coming from a musical family, she was able to lead herself to her own fame and success.

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06/10/1576

Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland (died 1612)

Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland was the eldest surviving son of John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland and his wife, Elizabeth née Charleton. He travelled across Europe, took part in military campaigns led by the Earl of Essex, and was a participant in Essex's rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I. He was favoured by James I, and honoured by his contemporaries as a man of great intelligence and talent. He enjoyed the friendship of some of the most prominent writers and artists of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. In 1603 he led an embassy to Denmark, homeland of James' Queen, Anne of Denmark.

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06/10/1573

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (died 1624)

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton,, was the only son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and Mary Browne, daughter of the 1st Viscount Montagu. Shakespeare's two narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, were dedicated to Southampton, who is frequently identified as the Fair Youth of Shakespeare's Sonnets.

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06/10/1565

Marie de Gournay, French writer (died 1645)

Marie de Gournay was a French writer. Author of a novel and a number of other literary compositions, including The Equality of Men and Women and The Ladies' Grievance, she insisted that women should be educated. Gournay was also an editor and commentator of Michel de Montaigne. After Montaigne's death, Gournay edited and published his Essays.

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06/10/1555

Ferenc Nádasdy, Hungarian noble (died 1604)

Count Ferenc II Nádasdy de Nádasd et Fogarasföld was a Hungarian nobleman and a distinguished soldier. His family, the Nádasdy family, was one of the wealthiest and most influential of the era in Hungary. In 1571, when Ferenc was 16, his mother, Orsolya Nádasdy, using her association with many noble families in Hungary, organized a marriage to the young Elizabeth Báthory, daughter of the Count György Báthory of Ecsed and his wife and cousin, Baroness Anna Báthory of Somlyó (1539–1570). The Báthory family were as rich and illustrious as the Nádasdy family, though older and more influential, since they had several relatives who had the charge of Nádor (palatine) of Hungary. Among them, included a cardinal, a King of Poland-Lithuania, and a Prince of Transylvania.

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06/10/1552

Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and missionary (died 1610)

Matteo Ricci was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. He created the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, a 1602 map of the world written in Chinese characters. In 2022, the Apostolic See declared its recognition of Ricci's heroic virtues, thereby bestowing upon him the honorific of Venerable.

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06/10/1510

John Caius, English physician and academic, co-founded the Gonville and Caius College (died 1573)

John Caius, also known as Johannes Caius and Ioannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Scholar and physician to Edward VI and Mary I of England.

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Rowland Taylor, English priest and martyr (died 1555)

Rowland Taylor was an English Protestant martyr during the Marian Persecutions.

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06/10/1459

Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (died 1507)

Martin Behaim, also known as Martin von Behaim and by various forms of Martin of Bohemia, was a German textile merchant and cartographer. He served John II of Portugal as an adviser in matters of navigation and participated in a voyage to West Africa. He is now best known for his Erdapfel, the world's oldest known globe, which he produced for the Imperial City of Nuremberg in 1492.

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06/10/1289

Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (died 1306)

Wenceslaus III was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1301 to 1305, and King of Bohemia and Poland from 1305. He was the son of Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia, and Judith of Habsburg.

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06/10/0649

Yuknoom Yichʼaak Kʼahkʼ (died around 696)

Yuknoom Yichʼaak Kʼahkʼ or Yuknoom Ixquiac was a Maya king of the Kaan kingdom, which had its capital at Calakmul during the Classic Period of Mesoamerican chronology.

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