Born on Wednesday, 10th September – Famous Birthdays

10/09/2004

Gabriel Bateman, American actor[citation needed]

Gabriel Bateman is an American actor. He is best known for starring in numerous horror films, including as Robert in Annabelle (2014), Martin Wells in Lights Out (2016), Andy Barclay in Child's Play (2019), and Kyle Flynn in Unhinged (2020).

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10/09/2001

Armando Broja, Albanian-born English footballer

Armando Broja is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League side Burnley. Born in England, he plays for the Albania national team.

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Nick Cross, American football player

Nicolas Cross is an American professional football safety for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). Cross played college football for the Maryland Terrapins and was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the third round of the 2022 NFL draft.

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10/09/1999

Laura Taylor, Australian swimmer

Laura Taylor is an Australian swimmer.

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jschlatt, American YouTuber and singer

jschlatt, also known as Schlatt, is an American YouTuber, entrepreneur, singer, and voice actor. He produces a variety of gaming, commentary, and reaction content. He is a former member of Minecraft server communities such as SMPLive and Dream SMP. He was a co-owner of streamer collective group One True King until his departure in December 2022. He is an acquired owner of the energy drink company Gamersupps from May 2022, and is a co-owner of pre-built gaming computer company Starforge Systems.

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10/09/1998

Anna Blinkova, Russian tennis player

Anna Vladimirovna Blinkova is a Russian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 34, achieved on 7 August 2023, and a best doubles ranking of world No. 45, achieved on 14 September 2020. She has won two singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour.

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Sheck Wes, American rapper

Khadimou Rassoul Cheikh Fall, known professionally as Sheck Wes, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his 2017 single "Mo Bamba", which went viral and peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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10/09/1997

Brooke Henderson, Canadian golfer

Brooke Mackenzie Henderson is a Canadian professional golfer on the LPGA Tour.

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Troy Terry, American ice hockey player

Troy Nathan Terry is an American professional ice hockey player who is a right winger for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Terry was drafted by the Ducks at the 2015 NHL entry draft, in the fifth round, 148th overall.

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10/09/1995

Jack Grealish, English footballer

Jack Peter Grealish is an English professional footballer who plays as a left winger or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Everton, on loan from Manchester City.

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Matt Rife, American comedian and actor

Matthew Steven Rife is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for his self-produced comedy specials Only Fans (2021), Matthew Steven Rife (2023), and Walking Red Flag (2023), his 2023 Netflix specials Natural Selection and Lucid, his Christmas special Unwrapped and his previous recurring role on the sketch improv comedy and rap show Wild 'n Out.

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10/09/1993

Sam Kerr, Australian footballer

Samantha May Kerr is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a striker for Women's Super League club Chelsea, and the Australia national team, which she has captained since 2019. Known for her speed, skill, and tenacity, Kerr is widely considered one of the best strikers in the world, and one of Australia's greatest athletes.

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10/09/1992

Ricky Ledo, American basketball player

Ricardo Julio Ledo is an American professional basketball player for the Trotamundos de Carabobo of the Superliga Profesional de Baloncesto (SPB). He committed to play for the Providence Friars, but the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) ruled him academically ineligible to play during his freshman season in 2012–13. Ledo never played for the Friars that season, and at the end of the year he declared he was entering the 2013 NBA draft.

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Ayub Masika, Kenyan footballer

Ayub Timbe Masika is a Kenyan professional footballer who plays as a winger for Crossing Schaerbeek

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10/09/1991

Sam Morsy, Egyptian footballer

Samy Sayed Mekkawy Saied Morsy is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for EFL Championship club Bristol City. Born in England, he won nine caps for the Egypt national team.

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10/09/1990

Corban Knight, Canadian ice hockey player

Corban Knight is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who is currently a free agent. He was a fifth-round selection, 135th overall, by the Florida Panthers in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, but was traded to the Calgary Flames after the Panthers were unable to sign him to a contract. Knight played four seasons of college hockey with the University of North Dakota and was a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award in 2012–13.

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10/09/1989

Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer

Manish Krishnanand Pandey is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed top-order batsman representing, Karnataka in domestic cricket and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He became the first Indian player to score a century in the IPL in the 2009 season, playing for his former team Royal Challengers Bengaluru. He was a part of the Indian squad which won the 2018 Asia Cup and won the 2014 and 2024 IPL titles with KKR.

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Matt Ritchie, English footballer

Matthew Thomas Ritchie is a professional footballer who plays as a winger or wing-back for EFL League One club Reading. Ritchie represented the Scotland national team from 2015 to 2018. Prior to joining his first club Portsmouth for a second spell in 2024, he played for Swindon Town, Bournemouth and Newcastle.

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10/09/1988

Bobby Sharp, Canadian wrestler

Robert Sharp is an active Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name "Lion Warrior" Bobby Sharp. He is currently working for numerous companies across Canada including Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling, High Impact Wrestling Canada, Monster Pro Wrestling, and Real Canadian Wrestling. Sharp is a Cauliflower Alley Club Future Legend award winner and a Canadian National Wrestling Association (CNWA) National Champion (2012).

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Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player

Jordan Staal is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre and captain for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He is regarded as a premier penalty-killer and skilled two-way forward. In 2007, he became the youngest player to score a hat trick in league history.

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Jared Lee Loughner, American mass murderer

Jared Lee Loughner is an American mass murderer who pleaded guilty to 19 charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with the January 8, 2011, Tucson shooting, in which he shot and severely injured U.S. representative Gabby Giffords, and killed six people, including Chief U.S. District Court judge John Roll. Loughner shot and injured a total of 13 people, including one man who was injured while subduing him.

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10/09/1987

Paul Goldschmidt, American baseball player

Paul Edward Goldschmidt is an American professional baseball first baseman for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks and St. Louis Cardinals, and has represented the United States in international competition.

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Alex Saxon, American actor

Alex Saxon is an American actor known for playing Wyatt in The Fosters, Max in Finding Carter, and Ace in Nancy Drew. He has also had roles in other television series: Awkward (2011); Ray Donovan (2013–2015); and The Mentalist (2015).

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10/09/1986

Angel McCoughtry, American basketball player

Angel Lajuane McCoughtry is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Minnesota Lynx of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and a two-time Olympic gold medalist. McCoughtry completed her college career at the University of Louisville in 2009. She was selected first overall by the Atlanta Dream in the 2009 WNBA draft and was considered its franchise player during her tenure with the team. McCoughtry has also played overseas in Turkey, Slovakia, Lebanon, Hungary and Russia.

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Ashley Monroe, American singer-songwriter

Ashley Lauren Monroe is an American country music singer-songwriter.

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Eoin Morgan, Irish- English cricketer

Eoin Joseph Gerard Morgan is a cricket commentator and former cricketer who played for Ireland and England. He captained the England in limited overs cricket from 2015 until his international retirement in June 2022. He is regarded as one of England's greatest limited-overs captains. Under his captaincy, England won the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, their first title in the tournament, and reached the final of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20. Morgan was also a member of the England team that won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.

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10/09/1985

Aleksandrs Čekulajevs, Latvian footballer

Aleksandrs Čekulajevs is a Latvian footballer who plays as a forward. Čekulajevs is widely famous for his goal scoring abilities. Scoring 46 goals in the 2011 Meistriliiga season he was named in third position as world's top scorer of the year by IFFHS.

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James Graham, English rugby league player

James Graham is an English former professional rugby league player who played as a prop for St Helens in the Super League, and at international level for England and Great Britain.

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Neil Walker, American baseball player

Neil Martin Andrew Walker is an American former professional baseball second baseman and current broadcaster. He played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets, Milwaukee Brewers, New York Yankees, Miami Marlins, and Philadelphia Phillies.

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10/09/1984

Sander Post, Estonian footballer

Sander Post is an Estonian football coach and former player who played as a centre back. He is the current manager of Meistriliiga club FC Kuressaare.

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Harry Treadaway, English actor

Harry John Newman Treadaway is an English actor. His credits include Control (2007), City of Ember (2008), Fish Tank (2009), Pelican Blood (2010), Flight of the Storks (2012), Mr. Mercedes (2017–2018), The Crown (2019), Star Trek: Picard (2020), Deceit (2021), and The Chemistry of Death (2023). He is the twin brother of actor Luke Treadaway.

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Luke Treadaway, English actor

Luke Antony Newman Treadaway is an English actor. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor from the National Theatre's production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in 2013.

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Drake Younger, American wrestler

Drake Wuertz is an American professional wrestling referee and professional wrestler.

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10/09/1983

Shawn James, Guyanese-American basketball player

Shawn Fitzalbert James is a Guyanese-American former professional basketball player. Standing at 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), he played at the power forward and center positions. In 2010–11, he was the top rebounder in the Israel Basketball Premier League. In 2013 he was the Israeli Basketball Premier League Defensive Player of the Year, and named to the All-EuroLeague Second Team.

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Jérémy Toulalan, French footballer

Jérémy Toulalan is a French former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, but was also utilized as a central defender. He is best known for his humble demeanor, simple distribution, good technique and effective tackling.

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Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player

Joseph Daniel Votto is a Canadian-American former professional baseball first baseman who spent his entire 17-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Cincinnati Reds from 2007 to 2023. He was the second Canadian player, following Larry Walker, to have 2,000 hits, 300 home runs, and 1,000 runs batted in (RBI) in MLB. Votto is a six-time MLB All-Star, a seven-time Tip O'Neill Award winner, and two-time Lou Marsh Trophy winner as Canada's athlete of the year. In 2010, he won the National League (NL) Most Valuable Player Award and Hank Aaron Award. Renowned for his plate discipline and ability to get on base, Votto was first in career walks (1,365), third in on-base percentage (.409), and fourth in on-base plus slugging (.920) among all active players at the time of his retirement during the 2024 season. He is one of two Reds with at least 300 home runs, 1,000 RBI, and 2,000 hits in franchise history, the other being Johnny Bench.

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10/09/1982

Misty Copeland, American ballerina and author

Misty Danielle Copeland is an American ballet dancer and author. She has danced primarily for American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States. On June 30, 2015, Copeland became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT's 75-year history.

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Javi Varas, Spanish footballer

Javier 'Javi' Varas Herrera is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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10/09/1981

Marco Chiudinelli, Swiss tennis player

Marco Chiudinelli is a retired tennis player from Switzerland. A member of Switzerland's winning 2014 Davis Cup squad, he reached his highest singles ranking of 52 in February 2010 during a career that was often hindered by injury.

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Germán Denis, Argentinian footballer

Germán Gustavo Denis is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Bonnie Maxon, American wrestler

Bonnie Maxson, better known by her ring name Rain, is an American retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), Shine Wrestling and the Mexican Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotions. She formerly teamed with Lacey to form The Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew, but following Lacey's retirement, she teamed with British wrestler Jetta to form The International Home Wrecking Crew. Rain was also the inaugural Shine Champion.

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10/09/1980

Roger Mason Jr., American basketball player

Roger Philip Mason Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He is the former deputy executive director of the NBA Players Association. He is the former president and commissioner of Big3.

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Trevor Murdoch, American wrestler

William Theodore Mueller, better known by his ring name, Trevor Murdoch, is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), where he works as a producer. Murdoch is best known for his appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 2005 to 2008.

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Mikey Way, American bass player and songwriter

Michael James Way is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the bassist of the rock band My Chemical Romance. He also serves as the multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist of rock duo Electric Century. Way co-wrote Collapser with Shaun Simon; it was released in July 2019 on DC Comics. In 2024, Way cowrote Christmas 365 with Jonathan Rivera, published under Dark Horse Comics.

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Tetsuya Yamagami, Japanese assassin of Shinzo Abe

Tetsuya Yamagami is a Japanese Navy veteran who assassinated Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, on 8 July 2022, in Nara. A resident of Nara, he was arrested at the scene of the assassination. At the time of his arrest, he was 41 years old, had no prior criminal history, and was unemployed. His criminal trial began in Nara on 28 October 2025. Yamagami was sentenced to life imprisonment on 21 January 2026.

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10/09/1979

Jacob Young, American actor

Jacob Wayne Young is an American actor and producer. He is a five-time Daytime Emmy Award nominee, winning once in 2002 for his role as Lucky Spencer in the soap opera General Hospital (2000–2003). He is best known for his roles as Rick Forrester in the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful and JR Chandler in the soap opera All My Children (2003–2011).

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10/09/1978

Julia Goldsworthy, English politician

Julia Anne Goldsworthy is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Falmouth and Camborne from 2005 until 2010. A member of the Liberal Democrats, she was narrowly defeated by 66 votes by the Conservatives in the new Camborne and Redruth constituency following boundary changes. In the House of Commons, she served as the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Communities and Local Government. Afterwards, she worked as a special adviser.

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Alex Horne, British comedian

Alexander James Jeffery Horne is an English comedian and musician. He is the creator of BAFTA award-winning TV series Taskmaster, in which he takes the role of assistant to the Taskmaster Greg Davies. He is the host and bandleader of comedic band The Horne Section. Horne hosts the band's eponymous podcast and television series, and has appeared with them on BBC Radio 4, TV channel Dave, and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

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Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Lithuanian basketball player

Ramūnas Šiškauskas is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player and coach. Listed at 1.98 m tall, he could play at both the shooting guard and small forward positions. His individual accolades as a player include a EuroLeague MVP award, four All-EuroLeague Team selections, as well as an All-EuroBasket Team designation. On May 16, 2014, Šiškauskas was named a EuroLeague Legend.

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10/09/1977

Mike DiBiase, American wrestler

Michael Wills Foreman DiBiase II is an American retired professional wrestler. A third generation wrestler, DiBiase is the grandson of Iron Mike DiBiase and Helen Hild and the son of "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase.

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Caleb Ralph, New Zealand rugby player

Caleb Stan Ralph is a New Zealand rugby union footballer. Ralph began his first-class career with Bay of Plenty, then moved to Auckland before heading to Canterbury. He started his Super Rugby career with the Chiefs in 1997, Blues (1998–1999), Crusaders (2000–2008) and a cameo role with the Queensland Reds (2011). He made his All Black debut while playing for Auckland in 1998.

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10/09/1976

Marty Holah, New Zealand rugby player

Martin Rowan Holah is a New Zealand former rugby union player, who has played for Welsh regional side Ospreys, the Waikato provincial team and the Chiefs Super Rugby franchise. Holah was capped in 36 international test matches for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks.

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Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player

Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten is a Brazilian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals for 43 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2000. Kuerten won 20 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including three majors at the French Open in 1997, 2000, and 2001, as well as the 2000 Tennis Masters Cup. He also won eight doubles titles.

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Vasilios Lakis, Greek footballer

Vasilios Lakis is a Greek former professional footballer. He was nicknamed "Turbo" for his speed when attacking along the right wing and his ability to provide accurate crosses.

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Matt Morgan, American wrestler

Matthew Thomas Morgan is an American politician and retired professional wrestler. He is known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he performed on the SmackDown brand, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is a two-time TNA World Tag Team Champion. He is currently a commissioner for the city of Longwood, Florida. Morgan also appeared on American Gladiators.

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Reinder Nummerdor, Dutch volleyball player

Reinder Aart Nummerdor is a Dutch volleyball player who represented his native country at five consecutive Summer Olympics. Two times as a member of the indoor volleyball team in 2000 and 2004, and three more times after switching to beach volleyball.

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10/09/1975

Dan O'Toole, Canadian sportscaster

Daniel Gerard O'Toole is a former Canadian television sports anchor who was last employed by TSN. From 2003 to 2013 and 2017 to February 2021, he co-hosted the 1:00 AM (ET) weekday broadcast of TSN's SportsCentre, alongside Jay Onrait.

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Melanie Pullen, American photographer

Melanie Pullen is an American photographer who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

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10/09/1974

Mohammad Akram, Pakistani cricketer and coach

Mohammad Akram is a former Pakistani cricketer. He is the current Director of Cricket for the Pakistan Super League team Peshawar Zalmi.

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Mirko Filipović, Croatian mixed martial artist, boxer, and politician

Mirko Filipović, better known by his ring name Mirko Cro Cop, is a Croatian former professional mixed martial artist, kickboxer and amateur boxer. He is mostly known for his time in Pride Fighting Championships. Cro Cop fought in the UFC, K-1, RIZIN and Bellator. He is widely considered one of the greatest Heavyweight Kickboxers and MMA fighters of all time.

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Ryan Phillippe, American actor and producer

Matthew Ryan Phillippe is an American actor. After appearing as Billy Douglas on the soap opera One Life to Live (1992–1993) and making his feature film debut in Crimson Tide (1995), he came to prominence in the late 1990s with starring roles in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), 54 (1998), Playing by Heart (1998), and Cruel Intentions (1999).

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Ben Wallace, American basketball player

Benjamin Camey Wallace is an American basketball executive and former professional player who played most of his career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Detroit Pistons. Nicknamed "Big Ben", he is often considered the greatest undrafted player in NBA history. He is also widely regarded as one of the best defensive players of all time, excelling in rebounding, shot-blocking, and interior defense.

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10/09/1973

Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer

Ferdinand Alexandre Coly is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a full-back.

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Mark Huizinga, Dutch martial artist

Mark Huizinga is a Dutch judoka and Olympic champion.

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Tim Stimpson, English rugby player

Timothy Richard George Stimpson is a former rugby union international full back. During his career he played for Wakefield, West Hartlepool, Newcastle Falcons, Leicester Tigers, Perpignan, Leeds Tykes and Nottingham, England and the British and Irish Lions. His international career was a start-stop affair, however, he excelled at club level. In particular, during his five-year spell at Leicester Tigers between 1998 and 2003, as a goalkicker, he was an integral part of the dominant Leicester side that won the league four times in succession to add to back-to-back Heineken Cup, becoming the Premiership's top points scorer in the process.

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10/09/1972

James Duval, American actor and producer

James Edward Duval is an American actor. He is known for his roles in Independence Day (1996), Donnie Darko (2001), and the films of Gregg Araki.

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Bente Skari, Norwegian skier

Bente Skari, née Martinsen, is a Norwegian former cross-country skier. She is one of the most successful cross-country skiers ever.

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10/09/1971

Joe Bravo, American jockey

Joe Bravo is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. The son and grandson of jockeys, he began his professional career in Thoroughbred flat racing at Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens, Florida Where he made his first winning mount at the latter end of 1988.

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10/09/1970

Ménélik, Cameroonian-French rapper

Ménélik, is a Cameroonian-French rapper and singer.

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Dean Gorré, Surinamese footballer and manager

Dean Roberto Gorré is a Surinamese football coach and former player. He was recently the interim coach of the Curaçao national team.

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Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter

Paula Anne Kelley is an American indie pop singer-songwriter and orchestral arranger/composer from Boston, Massachusetts.

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Neera Tanden, American lawyer and policy analyst

Neera Tanden is an American political consultant and former government official who is the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank. Tanden was director of the United States Domestic Policy Council from 2023 to 2025 and served as a senior advisor and staff secretary to President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2023. Tanden had a previous tenure as president of the Center for American Progress, where she worked in different capacities since its founding in 2003 until she joined the Biden administration in 2021.

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10/09/1969

Craig Innes, New Zealand rugby player

Craig Ross Innes, also known by the nickname of "Postie", is a New Zealand former rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. After a successful rugby union career which saw him represent his country he switched to rugby league, playing in both England and Australia, winning the 1996 ARL Premiership, before playing out the last years of his career in rugby union in New Zealand.

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Johnathon Schaech, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Johnathon Schaech is an American actor and screenwriter. He first gained recognition for his role in How to Make an American Quilt (1995). Other films include The Doom Generation (1995), That Thing You Do! (1996), Hush (1998), Prom Night (2008), Phantom (2013), Marauders (2016) and The Night Clerk (2020). 

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10/09/1968

Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer and manager

Andreas "Andi" Herzog is an Austrian former footballer and manager who most recently was the assistant manager of South Korea. As a player, he played as an attacking midfielder, most notably for Werder Bremen. A full international between 1988 and 2003, he won 103 caps and scored 26 goals for the Austria national team. He represented his country at the 1990 and 1998 FIFA World Cups.

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Big Daddy Kane, American rapper, producer, and actor

Antonio Hardy, better known by his stage name Big Daddy Kane, is an American rapper, producer and actor who began his career in 1986 as a member of the Juice Crew. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and skilled MCs in hip-hop. Rolling Stone ranked his song "Ain't No Half-Steppin'" 25th on its list of The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time, calling him "a master wordsmith of rap's ... golden age and a huge influence on a generation of MCs."

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Guy Ritchie, English director, producer, and screenwriter

Guy Stuart Ritchie is an English filmmaker known primarily for British comedy gangster films and large-scale action-adventure films.

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10/09/1966

Yuki Saito, Japanese singer and actress

Yuki Saito is a Japanese actress, singer and narrator. She attended Kanagawa Prefectural Shimizugaoka High School.

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Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player and manager[citation needed]

Joseph Nieuwendyk is a Canadian former National Hockey League (NHL) player. He was a second round selection of the Calgary Flames, 27th overall, at the 1985 NHL entry draft and played 20 seasons for the Flames, Dallas Stars, New Jersey Devils, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Florida Panthers. He is one of only 11 players in NHL's history to win the Stanley Cup with three or more different teams, winning titles with Calgary in 1989, Dallas in 1999 and New Jersey in 2003. A two-time Olympian, Nieuwendyk won a gold medal with Team Canada at the 2002 winter games. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2011 and his uniform number 25 was honoured by the Flames in 2014. He was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. In 2017, he was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.

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10/09/1964

Jack Ma, Chinese businessman, co-founder of Alibaba Group [citation needed]

Ma Yun, also known as Jack Ma, is a Chinese businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of the Jack Ma Foundation, and co-founder of Alibaba Group and Yunfeng Capital. As of May 2025, Ma's net worth was estimated at US$27.2 billion.

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John E. Sununu, American engineer and politician

John Edward Sununu is an American politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 to 2003 and the U.S. Senate representing New Hampshire from 2003 to 2009. He is the son of John H. Sununu and older brother of Chris Sununu, both of whom were governors of New Hampshire. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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10/09/1963

Randy Johnson, American baseball player[citation needed]

Randall David Johnson, nicknamed "the Big Unit," is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1988–2009) for six teams, primarily the Seattle Mariners and Arizona Diamondbacks.

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Bill Stevenson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer

John William Stevenson is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is the drummer, main songwriter, and only constant member of the California punk rock group Descendents since its inception. In late December 1981, he played a few concerts with the hardcore punk band Black Flag because their drummer, Robo, was detained in England after a tour there. He went on to record with Black Flag on several of their albums until 1985, including the highly influential My War. After this, he focused his attention on Descendents and played with the band until lead singer Milo Aukerman left in 1987. After Milo's departure, Bill and the other members of Descendents, Karl Alvarez and Stephen Egerton, recruited singer Dave Smalley of Dag Nasty and formed ALL. ALL went on to have two more singers, Scott Reynolds (1989–1993) and Chad Price (1993–present). Aukerman came back for the 1996 album Everything Sucks, the 2004 album Cool to Be You, 2016's Hypercaffium Spazzinate and the newest album 9th and Walnut. All and Descendents continue to tour between Stevenson's and Aukerman's respective careers as a recording engineer and a biochemist. Stevenson was born in Torrance, California and attended Mira Costa High School, with fellow members of the Descendents.

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10/09/1960

Alison Bechdel, American author and illustrator

Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home. Fun Home was subsequently adapted as a musical, which won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. In 2012, she released her second graphic memoir Are You My Mother? She was a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. She is also known for originating what would later be called the Bechdel test.

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Margaret Ferrier, Scottish politician

Margaret Ferrier is a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rutherglen and Hamilton West from 2015 to 2017, and again from 2019 to 2023. She was first elected to the House of Commons at the 2015 general election as the Scottish National Party (SNP) candidate for the constituency. She lost her seat to Ged Killen of the Labour Party at the 2017 general election but regained it at the 2019 election.

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Colin Firth, English actor and producer

Colin Andrew Firth is an English actor and producer. He is the recipient of a number of awards and honours, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Volpi Cup as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and three British Academy Television Awards. In 2011, Firth was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and appeared in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.

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Tim Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Timothy Robert Hunter is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, and most recently the head coach of the Moose Jaw Warriors of the Western Hockey League (WHL), having previously served as an assistant coach in the National Hockey League (NHL), most recently for the Washington Capitals. Chosen in the 3rd round of the 1979 NHL Entry Draft by the Atlanta Flames, Hunter went on to a 16-season playing career with the Calgary Flames, Quebec Nordiques, Vancouver Canucks, and San Jose Sharks.

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David Lowery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

David Charles Lowery is an American musician and academic. He is the founder of the alternative rock band Camper Van Beethoven and the co-founder of Cracker, a more traditional rock band. Lowery released his first solo album, The Palace Guards, in February 2011. Although both Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven continue to play live dates, since 2016 Lowery has focused on issuing new studio recordings only as a solo artist.

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10/09/1959

Michael Earl, American actor, singer, and puppeteer (died 2015)

Michael Earl was an American puppeteer. A four-time Emmy Award-winner whose credits include Mr. Snuffleupagus on Sesame Street (1978–1981) and Dr. Ticktock in Ticktock Minutes, a musical series of PSA's on PBS he also co-created, scripted and wrote lyrics for that garnered 11 Southern Regional Emmys, a 1998 National Emmy for Best Public Service Announcements, a Gabriel Award, two Parents' Choice Awards and numerous other honors. Earl performed the original Shrek character in a motion-capture development test film for DreamWorks and puppeteered lead characters in Paramount Pictures' Team America: World Police.

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10/09/1958

Chris Columbus, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Christopher Joseph Columbus is an American filmmaker. Born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, Columbus studied film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. After writing screenplays for several teen comedies in the mid-1980s, including Gremlins, The Goonies, and Young Sherlock Holmes, he made his directorial debut with a teen adventure, Adventures in Babysitting (1987). Columbus gained recognition soon after with the highly successful Christmas comedy Home Alone (1990) and its sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).

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Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer-songwriter and producer

Siobhan Maire Deirdre Fahey is an Irish singer whose vocal range is a light contralto. She was a founding member of the British girl group Bananarama, who have had ten top-10 hits including the US number one hit single "Venus". She later formed the musical act Shakespears Sister, who had a UK number one hit with the 1992 single "Stay". Fahey joined the other original members of Bananarama for a 2017 UK tour, and, in 2018, a North America and Europe tour.

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10/09/1957

Kate Burton, British-American actress

Katherine Burton is a Welsh and American actress, the daughter of actors Richard Burton and Sybil Christopher. On television, Burton received critical acclaim as Dr. Ellis Grey in the drama series Grey's Anatomy, and as Vice President Sally Langston on Scandal. She has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Tony Awards.

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Carol Decker, English singer-songwriter

Carol Ann Decker is an English singer. She is the lead vocalist of the pop band T'Pau, which had international success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Although Decker is mainly associated with the group, she also released "One Heart", a solo single, in 1995, and sometimes performs solo at shows and festivals.

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10/09/1956

Johnnie Fingers, Irish keyboard player and songwriter

John Peter Moylett, known professionally as Johnnie Fingers, is an Irish keyboardist and co-founding member of the new wave band the Boomtown Rats. He was notable for his attire of striped pyjamas on stage and his melodic piano style. Though uncredited as such for decades, Fingers was the co-author of Boomtown Rats' 1979 hit "I Don't Like Mondays"; in 2019 Fingers received a financial settlement and credit for having co-written the song.

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10/09/1955

Pat Mastelotto, American rock drummer

Lee Patrick Mastelotto is an American rock drummer and record producer. He has been a member of King Crimson, Stick Men, Mr. Mister and O.R.k., as well as working as a session drummer with XTC, The Pointer Sisters and The Rembrandts, among others. In addition, he has led or co-led other projects including Mastica, Tuner, TU and The Mastelottos.

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10/09/1954

Jackie Ashley, English journalist

Jacqueline Ashley is an English journalist and broadcaster.

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Lorely Burt, English politician

Lorely Jane Burt, Baroness Burt of Solihull, is a British politician, who was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Solihull from 2005 to 2015. She received a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours. She is a patron of Humanists UK.

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Clark Johnson, American-Canadian actor

Clark Johnson is an American-Canadian actor and director, who has worked in both television and film. He is best known for his roles as David Jefferson on Night Heat (1985–88), Clark Roberts on E.N.G. (1989–94), Meldrick Lewis in Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–99) and Augustus Haynes in The Wire (2008).

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Don Wilson, American kickboxer and actor

Donald Glen Wilson, nicknamed "the Dragon", is an American former professional kickboxer, boxer, actor, and martial artist. An 11-time world champion who scored 47 knockouts in four decades, he has been called by the STAR System Ratings as "perhaps the greatest kickboxer in American history. He has disposed of more quality competition than anyone we've ever ranked". In 2015, he was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame.

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10/09/1953

Pat Cadigan, American science fiction author

Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan is a British-American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Her novels and short stories often explore the relationship between the human mind and technology. Her debut novel, Mindplayers, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1988.

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Amy Irving, American actress

Amy Irving is an American actress and singer, who has worked in film, stage, and television. Her accolades include an Obie Award, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award.

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John Thurso, Scottish businessman and politician

John Archibald Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso, known also as John Thurso, is a Scottish businessman, Liberal Democrat politician and hereditary peer who is notable for having served in the House of Lords both before and after a period in the House of Commons.

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10/09/1952

Medea Benjamin, American activist, founder of Code Pink

Medea Benjamin is an American political activist who, along with Jodie Evans and others, co-founded Code Pink. She also co-founded, along with her then husband Kevin Danaher, the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. Benjamin was the Green Party nominee in the 2000 United States Senate election in California, running under the name Medea Susan Benjamin. She finished in third place with 326,828 votes (3.1%).

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Vic Toews, Paraguayan-Canadian lawyer and politician, 48th Canadian Minister of Justice

Victor Toews is a Canadian politician and jurist. Toews is a justice of the Court of King's Bench of Manitoba. He represented Provencher in the House of Commons of Canada from 2000 until his resignation on July 9, 2013, and served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, most recently as Minister of Public Safety. He previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1995 to 1999, and was a senior cabinet minister in the government of Gary Filmon. Prior to his appointment to the judiciary, Toews was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.

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10/09/1951

Sarah Coakley, English philosopher, theologian, and academic

Sarah Anne Coakley is an English Anglican priest, systematic theologian, and philosopher of religion with interdisciplinary interests. She became an honorary professor at the Logos Institute, the University of St Andrews, after retiring from the position of Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity (2007–2018) at the University of Cambridge. She was a visiting professorial fellow (2019-22) then honorary professor at the Australian Catholic University, and an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

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Steve Keirn, American wrestler

Stephen Paul Keirn is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances in multiple National Wrestling Alliance territories as Steve Keirn as one-half of the tag team The Fabulous Ones, as well as his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation under the ring name Skinner.

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Bill Rogers, American golfer

William Charles Rogers is an American professional golfer who is best known as the winner of the 1981 Open Championship.

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10/09/1950

Rosie Flores, American singer and guitarist

Rosie Flores is an American rockabilly, blues and country musician who has been writing and performing since the 1970s. She currently resides in Austin, Texas, where August 31 was declared Rosie Flores Day by the Austin City Council in 2006.

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Tom Lund, Norwegian football player

Tom Lund is a former Norwegian football coach and striker. He played his entire career at Norwegian club Lillestrøm, taking them from the third division to the first and winning the Double. He never played professionally, despite receiving offers from big international clubs. He is widely considered one of the greatest Norwegian football players of all time.

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Joe Perry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Joseph Anthony Pereira, professionally known as Joe Perry, is an American musician best known as a founding member, guitarist, and backing and occasional lead vocalist of the rock band Aerosmith, who has appeared on every studio album except Rock in a Hard Place. Perry also has his own solo band called the Joe Perry Project, and is a member of the all-star band Hollywood Vampires with Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp.

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10/09/1949

Barriemore Barlow, English rock drummer and songwriter

Barrie "Barriemore" Barlow is an English musician, best known as the drummer and percussionist for the rock band Jethro Tull, from May 1971 to June 1980.

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Babette Cole, English author and illustrator (died 2017)

Babette Cole was an English children's writer and illustrator.

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Don Muraco, American wrestler

Don Muraco is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation from 1981 to 1988, where he held the WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship on two occasions and was crowned the inaugural winner of the King of the Ring tournament in 1985. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2004 and the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2014.

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Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and author

William James O'Reilly Jr. is an American conservative commentator, journalist, author, and television host.

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10/09/1948

Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese historian and author

Zhang Chengzhi is a contemporary Hui Chinese author. Often named as the most influential Muslim writer in China, his historical narrative History of the Soul, about the rise of the Jahriyya (哲合忍耶) Sufi order, was the second-most popular book in China in 1994.

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Brian Donohoe, Scottish politician

Sir Brian Harold Donohoe is a former British Labour Party politician and former trade union official, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Ayrshire from 2005 until losing his seat in 2015. Prior to constituency boundary changes in 2005, he was MP for Cunninghame South and was first elected in 1992.

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Judy Geeson, English actress

Judith Amanda Geeson is an English film, stage, and television actress. She began her career primarily working on British television series, with a leading role on The Newcomers from 1965 to 1967, before making her major film debut in To Sir, with Love (1967). She starred in a range of films throughout the 1970s, from crime pictures to thriller and horror films, including The Executioner (1970), 10 Rillington Place (1970), Fear in the Night (1972), Brannigan (1975), and The Eagle Has Landed (1976). She played heiress Caroline Penvenen from 1975-1977 in the BBC series Poldark.

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Bob Lanier, American basketball player and coach (died 2022)

Robert Jerry Lanier Jr. was an American professional basketball player. He played center for the Detroit Pistons and the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Lanier was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992.

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Margaret Trudeau, Canadian actress and talk show host, 12th Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada

Margaret Joan Trudeau is a Canadian activist and the mother of Justin Trudeau, the 23rd prime minister of Canada. She married Pierre Trudeau, the 15th prime minister of Canada, in 1971, three years after he became prime minister. They divorced in 1984, during his final months in office. She is also the mother of the journalist and author Alexandre "Sacha" Trudeau, and Michel Trudeau with Trudeau, and of son Kyle, and daughter Alicia, with Ottawa real-estate developer Fried Kemper. She is the first woman in Canadian history to have been both the wife and the mother of prime ministers. Trudeau is an advocate for people with bipolar disorder, with which she has been diagnosed.

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Charlie Waters, American football player, coach, and radio host

Charlie Tutan Waters is an American former professional football player who spent his entire 12-year career as a safety for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Clemson Tigers.

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10/09/1947

Larry Nelson, American golfer

Larry Gene Nelson is an American professional golfer. He has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level.

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David Pountney, English director and manager

Sir David Willoughby Pountney is a British-Polish theatre and opera director and librettist internationally known for his productions of rarely performed operas and new productions of classic works. He has directed over ten world premières, including three by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies for whom he wrote the librettos of The Doctor of Myddfai, Mr Emmet Takes a Walk and Kommilitonen!

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10/09/1946

Michèle Alliot-Marie, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs

Michèle Yvette Marie-Thérèse Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie, known in France as MAM, is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member of the Republicans, part of the European People's Party. A member of all right-wing governments formed in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, she was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of Defense (2002–2007), the Interior (2007–2009) and Foreign Affairs (2010–2011); she has also been in charge of Youth and Sports (1993–1995) and Justice (2009–2010), and was granted the honorary rank of Minister of State in her last two offices.

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Jim Hines, American sprinter and football player (died 2023)

James Ray Hines was an American track and field athlete and National Football League (NFL) player, who held the 100-meter world record for 15 years. In 1968, he became the first man to officially break the 10-second barrier in the 100 meters, and won individual and relay gold at the Mexico City Olympics.

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Don Powell, English rock drummer

Donald George Powell is an English musician who was the drummer for glam rock and later hard rock group Slade for over fifty years, from 1966 until he was dismissed by Dave Hill in 2020.

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Patrick Norman, Canadian singer-songwriter

Yvon Éthier better known as Patrick Norman is a Canadian country musician. He sings both in French and English and has had hits in Quebec and in the rest of Canada.

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10/09/1945

José Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and guitarist

José Montserrate Feliciano García is a Puerto Rican musician. He recorded many international hits, including his rendition of the Doors' "Light My Fire" and his self-penned Christmas song "Feliz Navidad". Music genres he explores consist of a fusion of many styles, such as Latin, blues, jazz, soul and rock music, created primarily with the help of his signature acoustic guitar sound.

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Gerard Henderson, Australian journalist and author

Gerard Henderson is an Australian author, columnist and political commentator noted for his right-wing Catholic and conservative views. He founded and is the executive director of The Sydney Institute, a privately funded Australian current affairs forum.

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Mike Mullane, American colonel and astronaut

Richard Michael Mullane is an engineer and weapon systems officer, a retired USAF officer, and a former NASA astronaut. During his career, he flew as a mission specialist on STS-41-D, STS-27, and STS-36.

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10/09/1944

Thomas Allen, English actor, singer, and academic

Sir Thomas Boaz Allen is an English operatic baritone. He is widely admired in the opera world for his voice, the versatility of his repertoire, and his acting—leading many to regard him as one of the best lyric baritones of the late 20th century. From 2012 to 2022 he served as Chancellor of Durham University.

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10/09/1942

Danny Hutton, Irish-American singer

Daniel Anthony Hutton is an Irish-American singer, best known as one of the three lead vocalists in the band Three Dog Night. Hutton was a songwriter and singer for Hanna-Barbera Records from 1965 to 1966. Hutton had a modest national hit, "Roses and Rainbows", during his tenure as a recording artist for Hanna-Barbera Records. Hutton is the father of two sons, Dash Hutton, the former drummer in the American rock band Haim and Timothy V. Hutton, a bassist and producer. The sons co-own a recording studio called The Canyon Hut.

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10/09/1941

Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and author (died 2002)

Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1996, Gould was hired as the Vincent Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology at New York University, after which he divided his time teaching between there and Harvard.

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Christopher Hogwood, English harpsichord player and conductor, founded the Academy of Ancient Music (died 2014)

Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood was an English conductor, harpsichordist, and musicologist. Founder of the early music ensemble the Academy of Ancient Music, he was an authority on historically informed performance and a leading figure in the early music revival of the late 20th century.

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Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer, invented Game Boy (died 1997)

Gunpei Yokoi , sometimes transliterated as Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese toy maker and video game designer. As a long-time Nintendo employee, he was best known as the original designer of several notable Nintendo products, including the Ultra Hand toy, the Game & Watch and Game Boy handheld game systems, as well as the producer of a few critically acclaimed franchises such as Metroid and Kid Icarus. The modern Nintendo philosophy of focusing on interactive gameplay over cutting-edge technology was espoused by Yokoi.

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10/09/1940

Roy Ayers, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, vibraphonist, and producer (died 2025)

Roy Edward Ayers Jr. was an American vibraphonist, record producer, and composer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several studio albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped to pioneer jazz-funk. He was a key figure in the acid jazz movement, and has been described as "The Godfather of Neo Soul". He was best known for his compositions "Everybody Loves the Sunshine", "Running Away", and "Freaky Deaky" and others that charted in the 1970s. At one time, Ayers was listed among the performers whose music was most often sampled by rappers.

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Buck Buchanan, American football player (died 1992)[citation needed]

Junious "Buck" Buchanan was an American professional football defensive tackle who played for the Kansas City Chiefs in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). Buchanan was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1990. He was selected to the NFL 100th Anniversary Team. His was the first African American taken as the first selection in an AFL or NFL draft. Buchanan was massive for his era, standing at 6 ft 7 in, and weighing 270 lbs.. His height gave him an advantage against linemen in the trenches.

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Bob Chance, American baseball player (died 2013)

Robert Chance was an American first baseman and right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators and California Angels in part of six seasons spanning 1963 through 1969. Listed at 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and 215 pounds (98 kg), Chance batted left handed and threw right handed. He was born in Statesboro, Georgia.

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10/09/1938

David Hamilton, English radio and television host

David Hamilton is an English radio and television presenter.

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10/09/1937

Jared Diamond, American biologist, geographer, and author

Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist, historian, and author. He has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books, most notably Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), which received multiple awards, including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. In 2005, Diamond was ranked ninth on a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy of the world's top 100 public intellectuals.

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Tommy Overstreet, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)

Thomas Cary Overstreet was an American country music singer. Often referred to as "T.O." by fans and radio disc jockeys, Overstreet had five top-five hit singles in the Billboard country charts and 11 top-10 singles. His popularity peaked in the 1970s. He lived in Hillsboro, Oregon.

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10/09/1936

Peter Lovesey, British writer (died 2025)

Peter Harmer Lovesey, also known by his pen name Peter Lear, was a British writer of historical and contemporary detective novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath. He was also one of the world's leading track and field statisticians.

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10/09/1935

Mary Oliver, American poet (died 2019)

Mary Jane Oliver was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild. Her poetry is characterized by wonderment at the natural environment, vivid imagery, and unadorned language. In 2007, she was declared the best-selling poet in the United States.

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10/09/1934

Charles Kuralt, American journalist (died 1997)[citation needed]

Charles Bishop Kuralt was an American television, newspaper and radio journalist and author. He is most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years. In 1996, Kuralt was inducted into Television Hall of Fame of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

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Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (died 1985)[citation needed]

Roger Eugene Maris was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He is best known for setting a new MLB single-season home run record with 61 home runs in 1961.

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Jim Oberstar, American educator and politician (died 2014)

James Louis Oberstar was an American politician and congressman who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2011. Hailing from Minnesota and a member of the state's local Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, he represented the northeastern eighth congressional district, which included the cities of Duluth, Brainerd, Grand Rapids, International Falls, and Hibbing, within an area of Minnesota known as the Iron Range. He chaired the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee from 2007 until his departure, having been the ranking minority member since 1995. In November 2010, he was defeated by a margin of 4,407 votes by Republican Chip Cravaack. He had the longest tenure of any Congressman from Minnesota.

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Larry Sitsky, Australian pianist, composer, and educator

Lazar "Larry" Sitsky is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator and scholar.

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Mr. Wrestling II, American wrestler (died 2020)

John Francis Walker, better known by the ring name Mr. Wrestling II, was an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with Championship Wrestling from Florida and Georgia Championship Wrestling in the 1970s and early 1980s.

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10/09/1933

Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel and cosmonaut (died 2000)

Yevgeny Vasilyevich Khrunov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 5/Soyuz 4 mission.

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Karl Lagerfeld, German-French fashion designer and photographer (died 2019)[citation needed]

Karl Otto Lagerfeld, also called Kaiser Karl, was a German fashion designer, photographer, and creative director.

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10/09/1932

Bo Goldman, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (died 2023)

Bo Goldman was an American screenwriter and playwright. He received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Writers Guild of America Awards, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998. He also received two BAFTA Award nominations.

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10/09/1931

Isabel Colegate, English author and agent (died 2023)

Isabel Diana Colegate was a British author and literary agent.

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Philip Baker Hall, American actor (died 2022)

Philip Baker Hall was an American character actor. He is known for his collaborations with Paul Thomas Anderson, including Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), and Magnolia (1999). He also starred in leading roles in films, such as Secret Honor (1984) and Duck (2005). Hall had supporting roles in many films, including Midnight Run (1988), Say Anything... (1989), The Truman Show (1998), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Insider (1999), The Contender (2000), Bruce Almighty (2003), Dogville (2003), Zodiac (2007), 50/50 (2011), and Argo (2012). He received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Male Lead for his role in Hard Eight and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture for Boogie Nights and Magnolia.

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10/09/1930

Aino Kukk, Estonian chess player and engineer (died 2006)

Aino Kukk was an Estonian chess player, who won the Estonian Women's Chess Championship in 1955.

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10/09/1929

Michel Bélanger, Canadian businessman and banker (died 1997)

Michel Bélanger, was a Canadian businessman and banker.

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John Golding, English historian, scholar, and curator (died 2012)

Harold John Golding was a British artist, art scholar, and curator. Born in East Sussex, Golding spent most of his childhood in Mexico, where both his parents were settled. There, he met several artistic and cultural figures, including Leonora Carrington, Diego Rivera, Juan O'Gorman and José Orozco, who influenced his later artistic practice. He was sent to board at Ridley College in St. Catharines, Canada, and – despite wishing to train as an artist – subsequently read art and archaeology at the University of Toronto. While at Toronto he made frequent visits to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and on the encouragement of his professor, Peter H. Brieger, he moved in 1951 to the Courtauld Institute of Art in London for postgraduate study.

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Arnold Palmer, American golfer and businessman (died 2016)[citation needed]

Arnold Daniel Palmer was an American professional golfer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most charismatic players in the sport's history. Since embarking on a professional career in 1955, he won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and the circuit now known as PGA Tour Champions. Nicknamed "the King", Palmer was one of golf's most popular stars and seen as a trailblazer, the first superstar of the sport's television age, which began in the 1950s.

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10/09/1928

Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant and politician

Roch Bolduc is a former Canadian civil servant and Senator from the province of Quebec.

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Walter Ralston Martin, American minister and author, founded the Christian Research Institute (died 1989)

Walter Ralston Martin was an American Baptist Christian minister and author who founded the Christian Research Institute in 1960 as a parachurch ministry specializing as a clearing-house of information in both general Christian apologetics and in countercult apologetics. As the author of the influential The Kingdom of the Cults (1965), he has been dubbed by the conservative Christian columnist Michael J. McManus, the "godfather of the anti-cult movement".

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Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and humanitarian, founded L'Arche (died 2019)

Jean Vanier was a Canadian Catholic philosopher and theologian. In 1964, he founded L'Arche, an international federation of communities spread over 37 countries for people with developmental disabilities and those who assist them. In 1971, he co-founded Faith and Light with Marie-Hélène Mathieu, which also works for people with developmental disabilities, their families, and friends in over 80 countries. He continued to live as a member of the original L'Arche community in Trosly-Breuil, France, until his death.

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10/09/1927

Johnny Keating, Scottish trombonist, composer, and producer (died 2015)

John Keating was a Scottish musician, songwriter, arranger and trombonist.

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10/09/1926

Beryl Cook, English painter and illustrator (died 2008)

Beryl Cook, OBE was a British painter best known for her original and instantly recognisable paintings. Often comical, her works pictured people whom she encountered in everyday life, including people enjoying themselves in pubs, girls shopping or out on a hen night, drag queen shows or a family picnicking by the seaside or abroad. She had no formal training and did not take up painting until her thirties. She was a shy and private person, and in her work often depicted flamboyant and extrovert characters very different from herself.

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10/09/1925

Roy Brown, American singer-songwriter (died 1981)

Roy James Brown was an American blues singer who had a significant influence on the early development of rock and roll and the direction of R&B. His original song and hit recording "Good Rockin' Tonight" has been covered by many artists including Wynonie Harris, Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Joe Ely, Ricky Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Pat Boone, James Brown, the Doors, the Treniers, and the rock group Montrose. Brown was one of the first popular R&B singers to perform songs with a gospel-steeped delivery, which was then considered taboo by many churches. In addition, his melismatic, pleading vocal style influenced notable artists such as B. B. King, Bobby Bland, Jackie Wilson and Little Richard.

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Dick Lucas, English minister and cleric

Richard Charles Lucas is an Anglican cleric, best known for his long ministry at St Helen's Bishopsgate, a conservative evangelical church in London, England, and for his work as founder of the Proclamation Trust and the Cornhill Training Course.

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Boris Tchaikovsky, Russian pianist and composer (died 1996)

Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky, PAU, was a Soviet and Russian composer, born in Moscow, whose oeuvre includes orchestral works, chamber music, and film music. He is considered as part of the second generation of Russian composers, following in the steps of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and especially Mussorgsky.

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10/09/1924

Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player and coach (died 1988)

Theodore Bernard Kluszewski, nicknamed "Big Klu", was an American professional baseball player, best known as a power-hitting first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds teams of the 1950s. He played from 1947 through 1961 with four teams in Major League Baseball (MLB), spending 11 of those 15 seasons with the Reds, and became famous for his bulging biceps and mammoth home runs.

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Boyd K. Packer, American educator and religious leader, 26th President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (died 2015)

Boyd Kenneth Packer was an American religious leader and educator who served as president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2008 until his death. He also served as the quorum's acting president from 1994 to 2008 and was an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve from 1970 until his death. He served as a general authority of the church from 1961 until his death.

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10/09/1923

Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (died 2013)

Glen Parmelee Robinson, Jr., called the "father of high-tech industry in Georgia", was an American businessman and founder of Scientific Atlanta, formerly a subsidiary of Cisco Systems. Robinson was the first employee of Scientific Atlanta, where he remained CEO then Chairman of the company until he retired.

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10/09/1921

Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (died 2000)

Joann Lõssov, also known as Ioann Fyodorovich Lysov, was an Estonian basketball player. Lõssov trained at VSS Kalev, in Tallinn. He was named MVP of the 1947 EuroBasket. Member of the Soviet Union basketball team in 1947–52, from 1949, the captain and points guard. After his career as a player, worked as the head coach of the Soviet Union women's team in 1953–58 and helped to organise special trainings of the Soviet Union team. Elected to the Hall of fame of Estonian basketball in 2010.

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John W. Morris, American general (died 2013)

John Woodland Morris was an American lieutenant general who became Chief of Engineers.

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10/09/1920

Fabio Taglioni, Italian engineer (died 2001)

Fabio Taglioni was an Italian engineer. He is known for creating the Ducati 125 Desmo engine.

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10/09/1919

Lex van Delden, Dutch composer (died 1988)

Lex van Delden, born Alexander Zwaap was a Dutch composer and the father of actor Lex van Delden.

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10/09/1917

Miguel Serrano, Chilean poet and diplomat (died 2009)

Miguel Joaquín Diego del Carmen Serrano Fernández was a Chilean diplomat, writer, occultist, and fascist activist. A Nazi sympathiser in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he later became a prominent figure in the neo-Nazi movement as an exponent of Esoteric Hitlerism.

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10/09/1915

Edmond O'Brien, American actor (died 1985)

Eamon Joseph O'Brien, known professionally as Edmond O'Brien, was an American actor of stage, screen, and television, and film director. His career spanned almost 40 years, and he won one Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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10/09/1914

Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Anglo-Irish captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (died 1990)

Terence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, PC (NI), was the fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and leader (1963–1969) of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). A moderate unionist who sought to reconcile sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland society and met with his counterpart in the Irish Republic, he was a member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for the Bannside constituency from 1946 until his resignation in January 1970.

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Robert Wise, American director and producer (died 2005)

Robert Earl Wise was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and directed and produced The Sand Pebbles (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture.

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10/09/1913

Lincoln Gordon, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Brazil (died 2009)

Abraham Lincoln Gordon was the 9th President of the Johns Hopkins University (1967–1971) and a United States Ambassador to Brazil (1961–1966). Gordon had a career both in government and in academia, becoming a Professor of International Economic Relations at Harvard University in the 1950s, before turning his attention to foreign affairs. Gordon had a career in business after his resignation as president of Johns Hopkins University, but remained active at institutions such as the Brookings Institution until his death.

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10/09/1912

Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (died 2002)

Basappa Danappa Jatti was the vice president of India, serving from 1974 to 1979. He was the acting president of India from 11 February to 25 July 1977. He also served as the chief minister of Karnataka. Jatti rose from a being a Municipality member to India's second-highest office during a five-decade-long chequered political career.

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10/09/1908

Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (died 2004)

Sir Walter Angus Bethune was an Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. He was Premier of Tasmania from 26 May 1969 to 3 May 1972.

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Raymond Scott, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 1994)

Raymond Scott was an American composer, band leader, pianist and record producer. Known best in his time as a composer of production music, Scott is today regarded as an early pioneer of electronica.

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Waldo Rudolph Wedel, American archaeologist and author (died 1996)

Waldo Rudolph Wedel was an American archaeologist and a central figure in the study of the prehistory of the Great Plains. He was born in Newton, Kansas to a family of Mennonites.

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10/09/1907

Alva R. Fitch, American general (died 1989)

Alva Revista Fitch was a lieutenant general in the United States Army and was deputy director of Defense Intelligence Agency from 1964 to 1966. He commanded an artillery battalion during the Battle of Bataan and was a prisoner of war from 1942 to 1945. From October 16, 1961, to January 5, 1964, Fitch served as the assistant chief of staff for intelligence, Headquarters, Department of the Army.

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Dorothy Hill, Australian geologist and palaeontologist (died 1997)

Dorothy Hill, was an Australian geologist and palaeontologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science.

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10/09/1906

Karl Wien, German geographer, academic, and mountaineer (died 1937)

Karl ("Carlo") Wien was a German mountaineer.

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10/09/1904

Honey Craven, American horse rider and manager (died 2003)

Clarence Leo "Honey" Craven, was an American equestrian, ringmaster and manager of the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York, the Devon Horse Show in Pennsylvania, and ringmaster at nearly every prominent horse show in the United States. He also managed the Eastern States Show, the Children's Services Show and the North Shore Horse Show.

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Max Shachtman, American theorist and politician (died 1972)

Max Shachtman was an American Marxist theorist. He went from being an associate of Leon Trotsky to a social democrat and mentor of senior assistants to AFL–CIO President George Meany. The Marxist tendency associated with his beliefs is known as Shachtmanism.

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10/09/1903

Cyril Connolly, English author and critic (died 1974)

Cyril Vernon Connolly CBE was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–49) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he aspired to be in his youth.

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10/09/1898

Bessie Love, American actress (died 1986)

Bessie Love was an American-British actress who achieved prominence playing innocent, young girls and wholesome leading ladies in silent and early sound films. Her acting career spanned nearly seven decades—from silent film to sound film, including theatre, radio, and television—and her performance in The Broadway Melody (1929) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer (died 1999)

Waldo Lonsbury Semon was an American inventor born in Demopolis, Alabama. He is credited with inventing methods for making polyvinyl chloride useful.

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10/09/1897

Georges Bataille, French philosopher, novelist, and poet (died 1962)

Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art. His writing, which included essays, novels, and poetry, explored such subjects as eroticism, mysticism, surrealism, and transgression. His work would prove influential on subsequent schools of philosophy and social theory, including post-structuralism.

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Hilde Hildebrand, German actress and singer (died 1976)

Emma Minna Hilde Hildebrand was a German actress born in Hanover, Germany on 10 September 1897. She died at the age of 78 in Grunewald, Berlin, on 27 May 1976.

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10/09/1896

Adele Astaire, American actress and dancer (died 1981)

Adele Astaire Douglass was an American dancer, stage actress, and singer. After beginning work as a dancer and vaudeville performer at the age of nine, Astaire built a successful performance career with her younger brother, Fred Astaire.

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Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (died 1970)

Robert Taschereau was a lawyer who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Canada from 1963 to 1967, as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1940 to 1963, and briefly as the Administrator of the Government of Canada for one month from March to April 1967 following the death of Governor General of Canada Georges Vanier.

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Ye Ting, Chinese general (died 1946)

Ye Ting was a Chinese military officer and figure who played a key role in the Northern Expedition to reunify China after the 1911 Revolution. After serving with the Kuomintang, Ye later joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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10/09/1895

Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (died 1976)

Viswanatha Satyanarayana was a 20th-century Telugu writer. His works included poetry, novels, dramatic play, short stories and speeches, covering a wide range of subjects such as analysis of history, philosophy, religion, sociology, political science, linguistics, psychology and consciousness studies, epistemology, aesthetics and spiritualism. He was a student of the illustrious Telugu writer Chellapilla Venkata Sastry, of the Tirupati Venkata Kavulu duo. Viswanatha's wrote in both a modern and classical style, in complex modes. His popular works include Ramayana Kalpavrukshamu, Kinnersani Patalu and the novel Veyipadagalu. Among many awards, he was awarded the Jnanpith Award in 1970, the first for a Telugu writer, and Padma Bhushan in 1971.

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10/09/1894

Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet screenwriter/producer/director of Ukrainian origin (died 1956)

Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudovkin, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory.

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10/09/1892

Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)

Arthur Holly Compton was an American physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with C. T. R. Wilson for his discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. It was a significant discovery at the time; the wave nature of light had been well-demonstrated, but the idea that light had both wave and particle properties was not easily accepted.

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10/09/1890

Bob Heffron, New Zealand-Australian miner and politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (died 1978)

Robert James Heffron, also known as Bob Heffron or R. J. Heffron, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, union organiser and Australian Labor Party (ALP) Premier of New South Wales from 1959 to 1964. Born in New Zealand, Heffron became involved in various Socialist and labour movements in New Zealand and later Australia before joining the Australian Labor Party. A prominent unionist organiser, he was gaoled for "conspiracy to strike action". He was later elected to the Parliament of New South Wales for Botany in 1930. However his disputes with party leader Jack Lang led to his expulsion from the ALP in 1936 and Heffron formed his own party from disgruntled Labor MPs known as the Industrial Labor Party. The success of his party enabled his readmission to the party and his prominence in a post-Lang NSW Branch which won office in 1941.

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Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian-French fashion designer (died 1973)

Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer from an aristocratic background. She created Maison Schiaparelli in Paris in 1927, which she managed from the 1930s to the 1950s. Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli's designs celebrated Surrealism and eccentric fashions. Her collections were famous for unconventional and artistic themes like the human body, insects, or trompe-l'œil, and for the use of bright colors like her "shocking pink".

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Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian author, poet, and playwright (died 1945)

Franz Viktor Werfel was a Czech novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.

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Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist and officer (died 1976)

Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH CIE MC TD was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army. Over the course of his career, he served as Director of both the National Museum of Wales and London Museum, Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, and the founder and Honorary Director of the Institute of Archaeology in London, in addition to writing twenty-four books on archaeological subjects.

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10/09/1889

Ivar Böhling, Finnish wrestler (died 1929)

Ivar Theodor Böhling was a Finnish wrestler who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

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10/09/1888

Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (died 1976)

Israel Abramofsky, was a Russian-born artist, who trained in Paris and settled in the United States, known for his landscape works, and works depicting Jewish life in Eastern Europe.

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10/09/1887

Giovanni Gronchi, Italian soldier and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (died 1978)

Giovanni Gronchi was an Italian politician from Christian Democracy who served as the president of Italy from 1955 to 1962 and was marked by a controversial and failed attempt to bring about an "opening to the left" in Italian politics. He was reputed the real holder of the executive power in Italy from 1955 to 1962, behind the various Prime Ministers of this time. During his term he saw the fall of the Italian Empire in 1960, with the independence of the Somali Republic.

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Kenneth Mason, English soldier and geographer (died 1976)

Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Mason MC was a British soldier and explorer notable as the first statutory professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. His work surveying the Himalayas was rewarded in 1927 with a Royal Geographical Society Founder's Medal, the citation reading for his connection between the surveys of India and Russian Turkestan, and his leadership of the Shaksgam Expedition.

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Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (died 1961)

Govind Ballabh Pant was an Indian independence activist and politician who was the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Alongside Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel, Pant was a key figure in the Indian independence movement and later a pivotal figure in the Indian government. He was one of the foremost political leaders of Uttar Pradesh and a key player in the successful movement to establish Hindi as the official language of Indian Union..

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10/09/1886

H.D., American poet, novelist, and memoirist (died 1961)

Hilda Doolittle was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the avant-garde Imagist group of poets with American expatriate poet and critic Ezra Pound. During this early period, her minimalist free verse poems depicting Classical motifs drew international attention. Eventually distancing herself from the Imagist movement, she experimented with a wider variety of forms, including fiction, memoir, and verse drama. Reflecting the trauma she experienced in London during the Blitz, H.D.'s poetic style from World War II until her death pivoted towards complex long poems on esoteric and pacifist themes.

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10/09/1885

Johannes de Jong, Dutch cardinal (died 1955)

Johannes de Jong was a Dutch Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Utrecht from 1936 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.

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Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (died 1950)

Carl Clinton Van Doren was an American critic and biographer. He was the brother of critic and teacher Mark Van Doren and the uncle of Charles Van Doren.

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10/09/1884

Herbert Johanson, Estonian architect (died 1964)

Herbert Voldemar Johanson was an Estonian architect.

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10/09/1880

Georgia Douglas Johnson, American poet and playwright (died 1966)

Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson, better known as Georgia Douglas Johnson, was an American poet and playwright. She was one of the earliest female African-American playwrights, and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Native American activist (died 1947)

Laura Cornelius Kellogg was an Oneida leader, author, orator, activist and visionary. Kellogg, a descendant of distinguished Oneida leaders, was a founder of the Society of American Indians. Kellogg was an advocate for the renaissance and sovereignty of the Six Nations of the Iroquois, and fought for communal tribal lands, tribal autonomy and self-government. Popularly known as "Indian Princess Wynnogene," Kellogg was the voice of the Oneidas and Haudenosaunee people in national and international forums. During the 1920s and 1930s, Kellogg and her husband, Orrin J. Kellogg, pursued land claims in New York on behalf of the Six Nations people. Kellogg's "Lolomi Plan" was a Progressive Era alternative to Bureau of Indian Affairs control emphasizing indigenous American self-sufficiency, cooperative labor and organization, and capitalization of labor. According to historian Laurence Hauptman, "Kellogg helped transform the modern Iroquois, not back into their ancient League, but into major actors, activists and litigants in the modern world of the 20th century Indian politics."

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10/09/1876

Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (died 1942)

Hugh Donald "Huge Deal" McIntosh was an Australian theatrical entrepreneur, sporting promoter and newspaper proprietor

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10/09/1875

George Hewitt Myers, American forester and philanthropist (died 1957)

George Hewitt Myers was an American forester and philanthropist.

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10/09/1874

Mamie Dillard, African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist (died 1954)

Mary "Mamie" J. Dillard was an American educator, clubwoman and suffragist.

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10/09/1872

Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (died 1933)

Colonel Kumar Sri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II, often known as Ranji or K. S. Ranjitsinhji, was an Indian cricketer who later became ruler of his native Indian princely state of Nawanagar, from 1907 to 1933. The main part of his cricket career was from 1893 to 1904 when, as one of the greatest batsmen of his time, he played for Cambridge University, Sussex, London County and, in 15 Test matches, for England.

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10/09/1871

Charles Collett, English engineer (died 1952)

Charles Benjamin Collett was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway from 1922 to 1941. He designed the GWR's 4-6-0 Castle and King Class express passenger locomotives.

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10/09/1866

Jeppe Aakjær, Danish author and poet (died 1930)

Jeppe Aakjær was a Danish poet and novelist, a member of the 'Jutland Movement' in Danish literature". A regionalist, much of his writings was about his native Jutland. He was known for writings that reflected his concern for the impoverished and for describing rural existence.

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10/09/1864

Carl Correns, German botanist and geneticist (died 1933)

Carl Erich Correns was a German botanist and geneticist notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of the botanist Hugo de Vries, and for his acknowledgment of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject.

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10/09/1860

Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (died 1938)

Mariamna Vladimirovna Veryovkina, commonly known as Marianne von Werefkin, was a Russian-born painter, active in Germany and Switzerland during the late Belle Époque and interwar periods. She is particularly known for her Expressionist works.

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10/09/1852

Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (died 1937)

Hans Niels Andersen was a Danish shipping magnate, businessman, diplomat and founder of the East Asiatic Company.

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Alice Brown Davis, American tribal chief (died 1935)

Alice Brown Davis was the first female Principal Chief of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and served from 1922 to 1935, appointed by President Warren G. Harding. She was of Seminole and Scots descent. Her older brother John Frippo Brown had served as chief of the tribe and their brother Andrew Jackson Brown as treasurer.

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10/09/1844

Abel Hoadley, English-Australian candy maker, created the Violet Crumble (died 1918)

Abel Hoadley was an English-born Australian businessman, confectioner, orchardist and manufacturer of jams and sauces, remembered today as establishing the company's that bear his name A. Hoadley and Company and the Hoadley Chocolate Company and inventing of the popular Australian chocolate honeycomb bar the Violet Crumble.

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10/09/1839

Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (died 1912)

Isaac Kaufmann Funk was an American Lutheran minister, editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer. He was the co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls Company, the father of author Wilfred J. Funk, and the grandfather of author Peter Funk, who continued his father's authorship of Word Power until 2003. Funk & Wagnalls Company published The Literary Digest, The Standard Dictionary of the English Language, and Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia.

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Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician, statistician, and philosopher (died 1914)

Charles Sanders Peirce was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". According to philosopher Paul Weiss, writing in 1934, Peirce was "the most original and versatile of America's philosophers and America's greatest logician". Bertrand Russell wrote in 1959, "he was one of the most original minds of the later nineteenth century and certainly the greatest American thinker ever".

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10/09/1836

Joseph Wheeler, American general and politician (died 1906)

Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler was an American military officer. He was a cavalry general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, and then a general in the United States Army during both the Spanish-American and Philippine–American Wars near the turn of the twentieth century. For much of the Civil War, he was the senior cavalry general in the Army of Tennessee and fought in most of its battles in the Western Theater.

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10/09/1821

William Jervois, English captain, engineer, and politician, 10th Governor of South Australia (died 1897)

Lieutenant-General Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois was a British military engineer and diplomat. After joining the British Army in 1839, he saw service, as a second captain, in South Africa. In 1858, as a major, he was appointed Secretary of a Royal Commission set up to examine the state and efficiency of British land-based fortifications against naval attack; and this led to further work in Canada and South Australia. From 1875 to 1888 he was, consecutively, Governor of the Straits Settlements, Governor of South Australia and Governor of New Zealand.

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10/09/1801

Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (died 1881)

Marie Catherine Laveau was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, an herbalist, and a midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II, also practiced rootwork, conjure, and Native American and African spiritualism, as well as Louisiana Voodoo and traditional Roman Catholicism. An alternate spelling of her name, Laveaux, is considered by historians to be from the original French spelling.

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10/09/1793

Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (died 1834)

Harriet Arbuthnot was an early 19th-century English diarist, social observer and political hostess on behalf of the Tory party. During the 1820s she was the closest woman friend of the hero of Waterloo and British Prime Minister, the 1st Duke of Wellington. She maintained a long correspondence and association with the Duke, all of which she recorded in her diaries, which are consequently extensively used in all authoritative biographies of the Duke of Wellington.

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10/09/1788

Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and author (died 1868)

Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes, was a French archaeologist and antiquary notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley.

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10/09/1787

John J. Crittenden, American statesman and politician (died 1863)

John Jordan Crittenden was an American statesman and politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He represented the state in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and twice served as United States Attorney General in the administrations of William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. He was also the 17th governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislature. Although frequently mentioned as a potential candidate for the U.S. presidency, he never consented to run for the office.

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Justina Jeffreys, Jamaican-born British gentlewoman (died 1869)

Justina Jeffreys was a Jamaican-born British gentlewoman in Wales. She resided the majority of her life at Glandyfi Castle which was built by her husband.

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10/09/1786

Nicolás Bravo, Mexican soldier and politician, 11th President of Mexico (died 1854)

Nicolás Bravo Rueda was a Mexican soldier and politician who served as interim President of Mexico three times, in 1839, 1842, and 1846. Previously, he fought in the Mexican War of Independence, and served as Mexico's first Vice President under President Guadalupe Victoria from 1824 until 1827, when he attempted to overthrow Victoria. He was also the fourth vice president under President Mariano Paredes in 1846, and served in the Mexican–American War.

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William Mason, American surgeon and politician (died 1860)

William Mason was an American physician and politician who served one term as a United States representative from New York from 1835 to 1837.

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10/09/1758

Hannah Webster Foster, American author (died 1840)

Hannah Webster Foster was an American novelist.

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10/09/1753

John Soane, English architect and academic, designed the Royal Academy and Freemasons' Hall (died 1837)

Sir John Soane was an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style. The son of a bricklayer, he rose to the top of his profession, becoming professor of architecture at the Royal Academy and an official architect to the Office of Works. He received a knighthood in 1831.

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10/09/1714

Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (died 1774)

Niccolò Jommelli was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he was responsible for certain operatic reforms including reducing ornateness of style and the primacy of star singers somewhat.

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10/09/1659

Henry Purcell, English organist and composer (died 1695)

Henry Purcell was an English composer and organist of the middle Baroque era. He was extremely prolific, having composed more than 100 songs, a tragic opera Dido and Aeneas, and wrote incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen.

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10/09/1655

Caspar Bartholin the Younger, Danish anatomist (died 1738)

Caspar Bartholin the Younger, was a Danish anatomist who first described the "Bartholin's gland" in the 17th century. The discovery of the Bartholin's gland is sometimes mistakenly credited to his grandfather.

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10/09/1638

Maria Theresa of Spain (died 1683)

Maria Theresa of Spain was Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 as the wife of King Louis XIV. She was born an Infanta of Spain and Portugal as the daughter of King Philip IV and Elisabeth of France, and was also an Archduchess of Austria as a member of the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg.

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10/09/1624

Thomas Sydenham, English physician and author (died 1689)

Thomas Sydenham was an English physician. He was the author of Observationes Medicae (1676) which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates'. Among his many achievements was the discovery of a disease, Sydenham's chorea, also known as St Vitus' Dance. To him is attributed the prescient dictum, "A man is as old as his arteries."

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10/09/1588

Nicholas Lanier, English singer-songwriter and lute player (died 1666)

Nicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere was an English composer and musician; the first to hold the title of Master of the King's Music from 1625 to 1666, an honour given to musicians of great distinction. He was the court musician, a composer and performer and Groom of the Chamber in the service of King Charles I and Charles II. He was also a singer, lutenist, scenographer and painter.

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10/09/1561

Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Paraguayan-Argentinian soldier and politician (died 1634)

Hernando Arias de Saavedra, commonly known as Hernandarias, was a soldier and politician of criollo ancestry. He was the first person born in the Americas to become a governor of a European colony in the New World, serving two terms as governor of Governorate of the Río de la Plata, 1597–1599 and 1602–1609, and one of the Governorate of Paraguay 1615–1617.

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10/09/1550

Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish general (died 1615)

Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y de Zúñiga-Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, GE, was a Spanish aristocrat who was most noted for his role as commander of the Spanish Armada that was to attack Southern England in 1588. He was a great-great grandson of Ferdinand II of Aragon.

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10/09/1547

George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (died 1596)

George I of Hesse-Darmstadt was the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1567 to 1596.

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10/09/1497

Wolfgang Musculus, German theologian (died 1563)

Wolfgang Musculus was a Reformed theologian of the Reformation.

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10/09/1487

Pope Julius III (died 1555)

Pope Julius III, born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 February 1550 to his death, in March 1555.

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10/09/1423

Eleanor, Princess of Asturias (died 1425)

Eleanor of Castile was heir presumptive to the throne of the Crown of Castile and Princess of Asturias from 1424 until a few months before her death.

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10/09/0904

Guo Wei, posthumously known as Emperor Taizu of Later Zhou

Guo Wei, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Taizu of Later Zhou (後周太祖), was the founding emperor of the Chinese Later Zhou dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, reigning from 951 until his death in 954.

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10/09/0877

Eutychius, patriarch of Alexandria (died 940)

Eutychius of Alexandria was the Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria. He is known for being one of the first Christian Egyptian writers to use the Arabic language. His writings include the chronicle Nazm al-Jawhar, also known by its Latin title Eutychii Annales.

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