Born on Thursday, 11th September – Famous Birthdays

11/09/2001

Joseph Fahnbulleh, Liberian-American sprinter

Joseph Blowadeh Siafa Fahnbulleh is a Liberian-American sprinter. An Olympic finalist, Fahnbulleh is a double NCAA champion and finished fourth at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the 200 meters race.

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Nicholas Robertson, American ice hockey player

Nicholas Robertson is an American professional ice hockey player who is a left winger for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected 53rd overall by the Maple Leafs in the 2019 NHL entry draft. He made his NHL debut with the Maple Leafs during the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs, where he had one goal in four games. He is the younger brother of Jason Robertson of the Dallas Stars.

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11/09/2000

Leandro Bolmaro, Argentine-Italian basketball player

Leandro Nicolás Bolmaro is an Argentine-Italian professional basketball player for Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He also represents the senior Argentina national team.

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Zay Flowers, American football player

Xavien "Zay" Kevonn Flowers is an American professional football wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Boston College Eagles and was selected by the Ravens in the first round of the 2023 NFL draft.

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11/09/1997

Harmony Tan, French tennis player

Harmony Tan is a French professional tennis player.

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11/09/1996

Ross Colton, American professional ice hockey player

Ross Colton is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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11/09/1994

Teuvo Teräväinen, Finnish ice hockey player

Teuvo Henri Matias Teräväinen is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the first round, 18th overall, of the 2012 NHL entry draft by the Blackhawks after playing several seasons with the Jokerit organization in Finland. Also being drafted by the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL)'s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the 2011 KHL Junior Draft, he is known for his offensive abilities and play-making skills. In 2015, Teräväinen won a Stanley Cup as a member of the Blackhawks.

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11/09/1993

Farrah Moan, American drag queen and entertainer

Cameron Clayton, better known by the stage name Farrah Moan, is an American drag queen, model, actress, make-up artist and internet personality best known for participating in the 9th season of the reality TV show RuPaul's Drag Race, placing eighth, as well as participating in the 4th season of All Stars, where she placed ninth. Her stage name is a pun on the term "pheromone", whilst also being a reference to American actress Farrah Fawcett. In some interviews, she jokingly states that her drag surname is a reference to "being a whore".

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11/09/1992

Jonathan Adams, English discus thrower

Jonathan Robert Adams is a Track and field athlete competing in the Shot Put in the F35 classification for athletes with cerebral palsy. Adams qualified to represent the Great Britain team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, competing in the F34 shot put placing 14th in the final.

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11/09/1991

Jordan Ayew, Ghanaian footballer

Jordan Pierre Ayew is a French-Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for EFL Championship club Leicester City and the Ghana national team.

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Kygo, Norwegian DJ

Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll, known professionally as Kygo, is a Norwegian record producer. He first received international attention with his December 2013 remix of the track "I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran and his December 2014 single "Firestone". In late 2015, he reached one billion streams on Spotify faster than any other artist, and by June 2016, he had reached two billion streams.

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11/09/1990

Jo Inge Berget, Norwegian footballer

Jo Inge Berget is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Norwegian side Sarpsborg 08. He has played professionally in his homeland, Italy, Wales, Scotland, Sweden and the United States, and made his debut for the Norway national team in 2012.

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11/09/1989

Michael J. Willett, American actor and musician

Michael James Mansel Willett is an American actor. Willett is known most for his roles as Lionel in United States of Tara and Tanner in G.B.F.. He starred in the MTV show Faking It from 2014 until its cancellation in 2016.

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11/09/1987

Robert Acquafresca, Italian footballer

Robert Acquafresca is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is a former Italy under-21 international and represented Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Elizabeth Henstridge, English actress

Elizabeth Frances Henstridge is an English actress, model and director. She is best known for her role as Jemma Simmons in the ABC superhero action drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020), set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Tyler Hoechlin, American actor

Tyler Lee Hoechlin is an American actor. He initially earned recognition for starring as Michael Sullivan Jr. in the 2002 film Road to Perdition, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. In television, Hoechlin starred as Martin Brewer on 7th Heaven from 2003 to 2007, and also became known for portraying Derek Hale on Teen Wolf, Clark Kent/Superman in the CW's Supergirl (2016–2019) and Superman & Lois (2021–2024), and for voicing Sephiroth in the Final Fantasy VII Remake franchise.

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11/09/1986

Chiliboy Ralepelle, South African rugby player

Mahlatse Chiliboy Ralepelle is a former rugby union player for the Sharks in Super Rugby and in the Currie Cup. His usual position is at hooker.

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LaToya Sanders, American basketball player

LaToya Antoinette Sanders, also known as Lara Sanders in Turkey, is an American-Turkish professional basketball coach and former player. She currently serves as an assistant coach for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Sanders played college basketball at the University of North Carolina before getting drafted by the Phoenix Mercury in the 2008 WNBA draft. Sanders played for seven seasons in the WNBA with the Mercury, Minnesota Lynx, Los Angeles Sparks, and Washington Mystics. In 2019, her final season in the league, she won the championship with the Mystics. Sanders also played overseas in Israel, Turkey, Russia, and Italy. In 2012, she received Turkish citizenship and represented the Turkey women's national basketball team, including an appearance at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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Ben Scrivens, Canadian ice hockey player

Benjamin John Scrivens is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He is the current team manager of the University of Denver Pioneers. Scrivens has played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers, and Montreal Canadiens.

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11/09/1985

Shaun Livingston, American basketball player

Shaun Livingston is an American professional basketball executive and former player. He entered the league directly out of high school and was selected fourth by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2004 NBA draft. During his 15-year career, Livingston played 959 games for nine teams and won three NBA championships as a member of the Golden State Warriors—in 2015, 2017, and 2018.

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11/09/1983

Vivian Cheruiyot, Kenyan runner

Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot is a Kenyan long-distance runner. She represented Kenya at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2008, 2012, and 2016, winning the silver medal in the 5,000 metres and bronze in the 10,000 metres at the 2012 London Olympics as well as gold in the 5,000 m and silver in the 10,000 m at the 2016 Rio Olympics, setting a new Olympic record in the former. Cheruiyot won the silver medal in the 5,000 m at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and became the world champion in the event at the 2009 edition, repeating this achievement in 2011, when she also won the 10,000 m. She added gold for the latter event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics. After taking a silver in the 3,000 metres at the 2010 World Indoor Championships, Cheruiyot won a number of outdoor 5,000 m titles that year, becoming Commonwealth Games, African and Continental Cup champion, as well as winning the Diamond League title.

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Ike Diogu, Nigerian-American basketball player

Ikechukwu Somtochukwu Diogu is a Nigerian-American former professional basketball player who played six seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and in multiple other leagues in his 18-year career. He was an All-American college player for the Arizona State Sun Devils.

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Jacoby Ellsbury, American baseball player

Jacoby McCabe Ellsbury is an American former professional baseball center fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox from 2007 through 2013 and then played for the New York Yankees from 2014 to 2017. An enrolled member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, Ellsbury is the first Native American of Navajo descent to play Major League Baseball.

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11/09/1982

Elvan Abeylegesse, Ethiopian-Turkish runner

Elvan Abeylegesse is an Ethiopian former middle and long-distance running athlete who represented Turkey. She competed over distances from 1500 metres up to the marathon, and also in cross country. She is a former world record-holder for the 5000 metres, at 14:24.68.

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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarusian politician

Sviatlana Hieorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya is a Belarusian opposition leader and political activist. Since running in the 2020 presidential election against President Alexander Lukashenko, she has led dissidence to his authoritarian rule through an alternate government operating from Lithuania and Poland.

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11/09/1981

Charles Kelley, American singer and musician

Charles Burgess Kelley is an American country music singer who is the co-lead vocalist and founding member of the country music trio Lady A, which was formed in 2006 and are signed to Big Machine Records. He has also released two solo albums.

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Dylan Klebold, American mass murderer, responsible for the Columbine High School massacre (died 1999)

Eric David Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold were American high school seniors and a mass murderer duo who perpetrated the massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, in Columbine, Colorado. Harris and Klebold killed 13 students and one teacher and wounded 23 others. After killing most of their victims in the school library, the two died by suicide. At the time, the attack was the deadliest high school shooting in United States history. The ensuing media frenzy and moral panic turned "Columbine" into a byword for school shootings, and the event into one of the most infamous mass shootings.

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Michael Sukkar, Australian politician

Michael Sven Sukkar is an Australian former politician who was the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Housing and as the Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing in the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Liberal government. From 2022 to 2025, Sukkar was the Shadow Minister for Housing, NDIS, and Social Services from 2022 to 2025. He was a member of the House of Representatives from his first election in September 2013 to his defeat in May 2025, representing the Division of Deakin in Victoria for the Liberal Party.

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11/09/1980

Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player

Michael William Comrie is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. During his 13-year National Hockey League (NHL) career he played with the Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, Phoenix Coyotes, Ottawa Senators, New York Islanders, and the Pittsburgh Penguins. He retired in early 2012 after undergoing hip surgery for the third time.

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Greet Daems, Belgian politician

Greet Daems is a Belgian trade unionist, politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, she has represented Antwerp since June 2019.

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Antônio Pizzonia, Brazilian racing driver

Antônio Reginaldo Pizzonia Júnior is a Brazilian professional racing driver who has raced in Formula One and the Champ Car World Series. Born in Manaus, he started his car racing career in the Formula Vauxhall Junior series in 1997 and then progressed through various junior formulae, winning the Formula Vauxhall Junior Winter Festival in 1997, the Formula Vauxhall Junior and Formula Renault Winter Festival in 1998, the Formula Renault 2.0 UK in 1999, and the British Formula 3 Championship in 2000.

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11/09/1979

Eric Abidal, French footballer

Eric Sylvain Abidal is a French former professional footballer who played as a left-back or centre-back.

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Frank Francisco, Dominican baseball player

Franklin Thomas Francisco is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets, and Chicago White Sox.

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David Pizarro, Chilean footballer

David Marcelo Pizarro Cortez is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He was usually deployed as a central midfielder, although he could also operate in a holding role in front of the back-line, in a more attacking position in the hole behind the strikers, or even as a deep-lying playmaker. An intelligent and technically gifted player, who possessed significant physical strength in spite of his diminutive stature, and an ability to dictate play in midfield, Pizarro was known in particular for his vision, range of passing, dribbling skills, and ability from set pieces.

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Ariana Richards, American actress and artist

Ariana Clarice Richards is an American painter and former actress. She is best known for her role as Lex Murphy in the 1993 film Jurassic Park. Richards won several Young Artist Awards for her acting as a child, but as an adult has focused primarily on her art career.

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11/09/1978

Dejan Stanković, Serbian footballer and manager

Dejan Stanković is a Serbian professional football manager and former player. He captained the Serbia national team from 2007 until 2011, when he announced his retirement from international football. He is currently the head coach of Serbian Super League team Red Star Belgrade.

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11/09/1977

Jonny Buckland, Welsh guitarist

Jonathan Mark Buckland is a British musician and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay. Raised in Pantymwyn, he started to play guitar at an early age, taking inspiration from groups such as My Bloody Valentine, the Stone Roses and U2. His compositions are noted for being sparse and delicate, using delay pedals and slide bars with a timbre that led to comparisons to the Edge.

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Ludacris, American rapper and producer

Christopher Brian Bridges, known professionally as Ludacris, is an American rapper and actor. Born in Champaign, Illinois, Ludacris moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he first began rapping. Starting out with a brief stint as a DJ, he formed the record label Disturbing tha Peace in the late 1990s to release his debut studio album Incognegro (1999). After its single, "What's Your Fantasy", became a top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, the album was re-released by Def Jam Recordings as his major label debut, Back for the First Time (2000). The latter album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 and spawned his second top 40 single, "Southern Hospitality".

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Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player

Matthew John Stevens is a Welsh professional snooker player. He has won two of the game's Triple Crown events, the Masters in 2000 and the UK Championship in 2003. He has also been a two-time runner-up in the other triple crown event, the World Snooker Championship, in 2000 and 2005. Stevens reached a career high ranking of No. 4 for the 2005/2006 season. Stevens has compiled more than 350 century breaks during his career.

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Tobias Zellner, German footballer

Tobias Zellner is a former German footballer.

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11/09/1976

Tomáš Enge, Czech racing driver

Tomáš Enge is a Czech former professional racing driver who has competed in many classes of motorsport, including three races in Formula One.

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Murali Kartik, Indian cricketer and sportscaster

Murali Kartik is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer who sporadically represented the national team from 2000 to 2007. He was a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He was not selected for international matches during his prime years due to the presence of Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh in the Indian squad. A left-handed batsman who had some success with the bat at first-class level with 21 half-centuries, Murli was not able to repeat such performances at international level.

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11/09/1975

Juan Cobián, Argentinian footballer

Juan Manuel Cobián is a former Argentine footballer who played mostly as a right-back for clubs including Sheffield Wednesday, Swindon Town, Aberdeen and Boca Juniors.

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Pierre Issa, South African footballer

Pierre Sanharib Issa is a South African former professional soccer player who played as a defender. He is the sporting director of Greek side Olympiacos.

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11/09/1974

DeLisha Milton-Jones, American basketball player and coach

DeLisha Lachell Milton-Jones is an American retired professional basketball player and head coach of Old Dominion. Milton-Jones played college basketball for the University of Florida. She was a first-team All-American and SEC Player of the Year her senior season.

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11/09/1971

Richard Ashcroft, English singer-songwriter and musician

Richard Paul Ashcroft is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He formed the alternative rock band the Verve in 1990 and served as the sole songwriter, lead singer and rhythm guitarist throughout the band's lifetime. In 2000, Ashcroft embarked on a solo career, releasing six UK top-three solo albums, including Alone with Everybody, Keys to the World and These People.

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11/09/1970

Antonio Gómez Medina, Mexican wrestler

Antonio Gómez Medina is a Mexican professional wrestler, or Luchador as they are called in Spanish, and professional wrestling trainer based out of Arena Coliseo Guadalajara in Guadalajara. Gómez is best known under the ring name Máscara Mágica; he is the second person to use the "Máscara Mágica" name, taking it over after Eddie Guerrero abandoned the name in the early 1990s. As Máscara Mágica, he was part of the Los Nuevo Infernales group; as part of a Los Nuevo Inferales vs. Los Infernales storyline, and lost his mask as a result of a Luchas de Apuestas match loss to Los Infernales leader El Satánico. In recent years Gómez has focused more on his training position at Arena Coliseo Guadalajara, where he also works as a booker and part-time wrestler.

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Ted Leo, American singer and musician

Theodore Francis Leo is an American singer and musician. He is the frontman and lead guitarist of the rock group Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, and in 2013, he and Aimee Mann formed the indie rock duo The Both.

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Taraji P. Henson, American actress and singer

Taraji Penda Henson is an American actress, producer, author, and mental health advocate. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award, alongside nominations for an Academy Award, six Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. In 2016 and 2024, Time named Henson one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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11/09/1969

Stefano Cagol, Italian artist, photographer and director

Stefano Cagol is an Italian contemporary artist living in Italy, Germany and Norway. His artistic practice spans video, photography, installation and performance art in the fields of conceptual art, environmental art / eco art and land art, and has reflected for years on borders, viruses, flags and climate issues.. His research includes both artistic and curatorial work, often engaging with political ecology and the Anthropocene. He has exhibited internationally and curated interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of art and science.

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Eduardo Pérez, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster

Eduardo Atanasio Pérez Pérez is an American former professional baseball player, coach, and current television sports color commentator. He played in Major League Baseball and the Nippon Professional Baseball league as a first baseman, third baseman, and outfielder from 1993 to 2006. After his playing career, Pérez became a baseball analyst with ESPN, ESPN Deportes, and ESPN Latin America as well as a host on SiriusXM's MLB Network Radio.

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11/09/1968

Allan Alaküla, Estonian journalist

Allan Alaküla is an Estonian journalist.

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Paul Mayeda Berges, American director and screenwriter

Paul Mayeda Berges is an American screenwriter and director. He is known for his work on films such as 2002's Bend It Like Beckham.

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11/09/1967

Maria Bartiromo, American financial journalist and television personality

Maria Sara Bartiromo is an American conservative journalist and author who has also worked as a financial reporter and news anchor. She is the host of Mornings with Maria and Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street on the Fox Business channel, and Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News channel.

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Harry Connick Jr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, actor, and talk show host

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. is an American singer, pianist, composer, actor, and former television host. As of 2019, he has sold over 30 million records worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million in certified sales. He has had seven top 20 U.S. albums, and ten number-one U.S. jazz albums, earning more number-one albums than any other artist in U.S. jazz chart history as of 2009.

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Sung Jae-gi, South Korean activist, founded Man of Korea (died 2013)

Sung Jae-gi was a South Korean men's rights activist. Sung was the leader of various masculinist and anti-feminist organizations, including the Association of Anti-Feminism and Male Liberation, Association for the Abolition of the Ministry of Women, and Man of Korea. Sung also ran a shelter for homeless men, male victims of violent crime, teenage runaways, and gay and transgender men.

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Charles Walker, English politician

Sir Charles Ashley Rupert Walker is a British politician who served as chair of the House of Commons Procedure Committee from 2012 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Broxbourne in Hertfordshire from 2005 to 2024.

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11/09/1965

Bashar al-Assad, Syrian politician, 21st President of Syria

Bashar Hafez al-Assad is a Syrian former politician, doctor, and military officer who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his overthrow in 2024 after the Syrian civil war. As president, Assad was commander-in-chief of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces and secretary-general of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria from 1970 to 2000.

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Paul Heyman, American wrestling promoter, manager, and journalist

Paul Heyman is an American professional wrestling manager, former executive, promoter, and commentator. He is signed to WWE, where he performs as the on-screen manager of The Vision stable and Brock Lesnar.

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Moby, American singer-songwriter, musician, and DJ

Richard Melville Hall, known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United States and the United Kingdom".

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11/09/1964

Ellis Burks, American baseball player

Ellis Rena Burks is an American former outfielder. Burks played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 18 seasons from 1987 to 2004 with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants, and Cleveland Indians. Burks was a two-time MLB All-Star, two-time Silver Slugger Award winner, a Gold Glove Award winner, and a member of the 30–30 club. He is a member of the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame.

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11/09/1963

Dave Bidini, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Dave Bidini is a Canadian musician and writer. Originally from Etobicoke, Ontario, he is a founding member of the rock band Rheostatics, and leads the intermittently active Bidiniband. In addition, he has published several books about music, travel and sports, and has written feature journalism pieces and columns for numerous Canadian magazines and newspapers. He is the only Canadian to have been nominated for all three of Canada's main entertainment awards, the Gemini Award for television work, the Genie Awards for film work and the Juno Awards for music, as well as being nominated on Canada's national book awards program, Canada Reads.

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11/09/1962

Filip Dewinter, Belgian politician

Philip Michel Frans "Filip" Dewinter is a Belgian politician, journalist and commentator. He is one of the leading members of Vlaams Belang, a right-wing Flemish nationalist and secessionist political party.

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Kristy McNichol, American actress

Christina Ann "Kristy" McNichol is an American former actress. Beginning her career as a child actress, she rose to fame in 1976 with her role as the teenage daughter Letitia "Buddy" Lawrence in the TV drama Family for which she won two Emmy Awards. Subsequent roles included Angel in the film Little Darlings, Polly in Only When I Laugh, and Barbara Weston in the TV sitcom Empty Nest. McNichol retired from acting in 2001.

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Victoria Poleva, Ukrainian pianist and composer

Victoria Vita Polyova is a Ukrainian composer. She was the Shevchenko National Prize laureate of 2018.

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Julio Salinas, Spanish footballer

Julio Salinas Fernández is a Spanish former professional footballer who played during the 1980s and 1990s.

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11/09/1961

Virginia Madsen, American actress

Virginia Madsen is an American actress. She is the recipient of two Critics' Choice Awards, an Independent Spirit Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as nominations for one Academy Award and one Golden Globe Award.

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Samina Raja, Pakistani poet and educator (died 2012)

Samina Raja was a Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, editor, translator, educationist and broadcaster. She lived in Islamabad, Pakistan, and worked in the National Language Authority and National Book Foundation as a subject specialist.

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11/09/1960

Hiroshi Amano, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Hiroshi Amano is a Japanese electronics engineer specializing in the field of semiconductor technology. He is a co-inventor of the blue LED, for which he was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura.

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Anne Ramsay, American actress

Anne Ramsay is an American actress best known for her role as Lisa Stemple on Mad About You, for which she shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Ensemble in a Comedy series.

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11/09/1959

David Frost, South African golfer

David Laurence Frost is a South African professional golfer who was ranked in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Frost has 29 professional tournament wins to his name, spread across four continents, including the World Series of Golf, South African Open, Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge and Canadian Open. He has also been on the winning Alfred Dunhill Cup team and played in the Presidents Cup.

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John Hawkes, American actor

John Hawkes is an American actor. He is the recipient of two Independent Spirit Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

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11/09/1958

Roxann Dawson, American actress and director

Roxann Dawson, also credited as Roxann Biggs and Roxann Biggs-Dawson, is an American actress and director. She is best known for her role as B'Elanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001). In the 2000s, she transitioned to a career primarily as a director, and has directed numerous episodes of television series including Star Trek: Enterprise, Crossing Jordan, Cold Case, Heroes, The Closer, The Mentalist, The Good Wife, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Mercy Street, The Deuce, Foundation and Dark Matter.

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Scott Patterson, American actor and baseball player

Scott Patterson is an American actor and former baseball player. After making his film debut in Intent to Kill (1992), Patterson had his breakout with a main role as Luke Danes on the WB comedy-drama television series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007). He reprised his role on the Netflix miniseries Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016).

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11/09/1956

Tony Gilroy, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Anthony Joseph Gilroy is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He wrote the screenplays of The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), the first three films in the Bourne film franchise, and wrote and directed the fourth film of the franchise, The Bourne Legacy (2012), as well as Michael Clayton (2007) and Duplicity (2009).

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11/09/1955

Sharon Lamb, American psychologist and academic

Sharon Lamb is an American professor in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston's, College of Education and Human Development, and a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA). She also sits on the editorial board of the academic journals Feminism & Psychology, and Sexualization, Media, and Society.

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11/09/1953

Jani Allan, English-South African journalist and author (died 2023)

Jani Allan was a South African journalist, columnist, writer, broadcaster, and media personality.

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Sarita Francis, Former Montserrat Deputy Governor

Sarita Violeta Francis is the Director of the Montserrat National Trust.

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Renée Geyer, Australian singer-songwriter (died 2023)

Renée Rebecca Geyer was an Australian singer who was an acclaimed jazz, soul and R&B musician. She released 15 studio albums with Moving Along (1977) and Tenderland (2003) both reaching number 11 on the Australian charts. Geyer's singles success as a solo artist in Australia were with "It's a Man's Man's World", "Heading in the Right Direction" and "Stares and Whispers" in the 1970s and "Say I Love You" in the 1980s. The latter also reached number one in New Zealand. The singer was an internationally respected and sought-after backing vocalist, whose session credits include work with Sting, Chaka Khan, Toni Childs, Joe Cocker, Neil Diamond, Men at Work and Trouble Funk.

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Tommy Shaw, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Tommy Roland Shaw is an American musician best known for his tenure in the rock band Styx as co-lead vocalist. In between his stints with Styx, he has played with other groups including Damn Yankees and Shaw Blades as well as releasing several solo albums.

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11/09/1952

Catherine Bott, English soprano

Catherine Bott is a British singer and broadcaster.

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11/09/1951

Richard D. Gill, English-Dutch mathematician and academic

Richard David Gill is a British-Dutch mathematician and professor emeritus at Leiden University. He has held academic positions in the Netherlands. As a probability theorist and statistician, Gill has researched counting processes. He is also known for his consulting and advocacy on behalf of alleged victims of statistical misrepresentation, including the reversal of the murder conviction of a Dutch nurse who had been jailed for six years.

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Johnny Neumann, American basketball player and coach (died 2019)

Carl John Neumann, nicknamed "Johnny Reb", was an American professional basketball player and coach. At 6'6" and 200 pounds, he played at the shooting guard and small forward positions.

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Hugo Porta, Argentinian rugby player

Hugo Porta is an Argentine retired rugby union player. Considered one of the best fly-halves the sport has seen, he is an inductee of both the International Rugby Hall of Fame and IRB Hall of Fame. During the 1970s and 1980s, he played 58 times for Argentina, captaining them on 34 occasions, including leading them during the first World Cup in 1987.

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11/09/1950

Anne Dell, Australian biochemist and academic

Anne Dell is an Australian biochemist specialising in the study of glycomics and the carbohydrate structures that modify proteins. Anne's work could be used to figure out how pathogens such as HIV are able to evade termination by the immune system which could be applied toward understanding how this occurs in fetuses. Her research has also led to the development of higher sensitivity mass spectroscopy techniques which have allowed for the better studying of the structure of carbohydrates. Anne also established GlycoTRIC at Imperial College London, a research center that allows for glycobiology to be better understood in biomedical applications. She is currently Professor of Carbohydrate Biochemistry and Head of the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London. Dell's other contributions to the study of Glycobiology are the additions she has made to the textbook "Essentials of Glycobiology" Dell was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.

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Bruce Doull, Australian footballer

Alexander Bruce Doull is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Amy Madigan, American actress

Amy Marie Madigan is an American actress. Known for her work on stage and screen, her accolades include an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Critics' Choice Award, in addition to a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.

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Barry Sheene, English motorcycle racer and sportscaster (died 2003)

Barry Steven Frank Sheene was a British professional motorcycle racer and television sports presenter. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing between 1971 and 1984, most prominently as a member of the Suzuki factory racing team where he won two consecutive FIM World Championships in 1976 and 1977. Sheene remains the last British competitor to win the premier class of FIM road racing competitions.

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11/09/1949

Roger Uttley, English rugby player and coach

Roger Miles Uttley OBE is a former English rugby union player.

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Bill Whittington, American racing driver (died 2021)

William Marvin Whittington was an American racing driver from Lubbock, Texas, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans and competed five times in the Indianapolis 500.

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11/09/1948

John Martyn, English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2009)

Iain David McGeachy, known professionally as John Martyn, was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a 40-year career, he released 23 studio albums and received frequent critical acclaim. The Times described him as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues".

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11/09/1947

John Agrue, American serial killer (died 2009)

John William Agrue was an American murderer who was posthumously identified as a serial killer. He was convicted in 1966 of murdering his 15-year-old sister-in-law in Joliet, Illinois, and was later linked to a 1982 killing in Longmont, Colorado, after his parole from prison. He was arrested that year for an attempted kidnapping but was not charged in the Colorado homicide at the time due to a lack of evidence.

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11/09/1945

Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (died 2024)

Franz Anton Beckenbauer was a German professional football player, manager, and official. Nicknamed der Kaiser, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential players of all time. Beckenbauer was a versatile player who started out as a midfielder, but made his name as a centre-back. He is often credited as having invented the role of the modern sweeper.

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Gianluigi Gelmetti, Italian composer and conductor (died 2021)

Gianluigi Gelmetti OMRI, was an Italian-Monégasque conductor and composer.

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Leo Kottke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Leo Kottke is an American acoustic guitarist. He is known for a fingerpicking style that draws on blues, jazz, and folk music, and for syncopated, polyphonic melodies. He has overcome a series of personal obstacles, including partial loss of hearing and a nearly career-ending bout with tendon damage in his right hand, to emerge as a widely recognized master of his instrument. He resides in the Minneapolis area with his family.

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11/09/1944

Everaldo, Brazilian footballer (died 1974)

Everaldo Marques da Silva, nicknamed Everaldo, was a footballer from Brazil who played as a left back for Grêmio and the Brazil national team. He won the 1970 FIFA World Cup. The golden star in Grêmio's flag was added in 1970 in his homage.

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Freddy Thielemans, Belgian educator and politician, Mayor of Brussels (died 2022)

Freddy Thielemans was a Belgian socialist politician who was the mayor of the City of Brussels from 2001 to 2013, and previously also for a period in 1994.

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11/09/1943

André Caillé, Canadian chemist and businessman

André Caillé is a Canadian electricity company executive.

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Mickey Hart, American musician

Mickey Hart is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 1971, and again from October 1974 until their final show in July 1995. He and fellow Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann earned the nickname "the rhythm devils".

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Brian Perkins, New Zealand-English journalist and actor

Brian Perkins is a former senior newsreader on BBC Radio 4.

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11/09/1942

Lola Falana, American actress, singer, and dancer

Loletha Elayne Falana or Loletha Elaine Falana, better known by her stage name Lola Falana, is an American singer, dancer, and actress. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1975 for her performance as Edna Mae Sheridan in Doctor Jazz.

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11/09/1941

Minnijean Brown-Trickey, Civil Rights activist and Little Rock Nine member

Minnijean Brown-Trickey is an American political figure who was a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American teenagers who integrated Little Rock Central High School. The integration followed the Brown v. Board of Education decision which required public schools to be desegregated.

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11/09/1940

Brian De Palma, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Brian Russell De Palma is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. With a career spanning over 50 years, he is best known for work in the suspense, crime, and psychological thriller genres. De Palma was a leading member of the New Hollywood generation.

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Nông Đức Mạnh, Vietnamese politician

Nông Đức Mạnh is a Vietnamese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the most powerful position in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, from 2001 to 2011. His parents were Tày peasants. Nông Đức Mạnh was born in Cường Lợi, Na Rì district, Bắc Kạn province. His son Nông Quốc Tuấn is the party secretary for Bắc Giang province.

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Theodore Olson, American lawyer (died 2024)

Theodore Bevry Olson was an American lawyer who served as the 42nd solicitor general of the United States from 2001 to 2004 in the administration of President George W. Bush. He previously served as the Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1981 to 1984 under President Ronald Reagan, and he was also a longtime partner at the law firm Gibson Dunn.

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11/09/1939

Charles Geschke, American businessman, co-founded Adobe Systems (died 2021)

Charles Matthew "Chuck" Geschke was an American businessman and computer scientist best known for founding the graphics and publishing software company Adobe Inc. with John Warnock in 1982, with whom he also co-created the PDF document format.

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11/09/1938

Brian F. G. Johnson, English chemist and academic

Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson is a British scientist and emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He was also Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 1999 to 2005.

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11/09/1937

Robert Crippen, American captain, pilot, and astronaut

Robert Laurel Crippen is an American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and astronaut. He traveled into space four times: as pilot of STS-1 in April 1981, the first Space Shuttle mission; and as commander of STS-7 in June 1983, STS-41-C in April 1984, and STS-41-G in October 1984. He was also a part of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), Skylab Medical Experiment Altitude Test (SMEAT), ASTP support crew member, and the Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) for the Space Shuttle.

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Queen Paola of Belgium

Paola Margherita Maria-Antonia Consiglia dei Principi Ruffo di Calabria is a member of the Belgian royal family who was Queen of the Belgians during the reign of her husband, King Albert II, from 9 August 1993 to 21 July 2013.

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11/09/1936

Pavel Landovský, Czech actor, director, and playwright (died 2014)

Pavel Landovský, nicknamed Lanďák, was a Czech actor, playwright, and director. He was a prominent dissident under the communist regime of former Czechoslovakia.

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11/09/1935

Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer

Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. His most performed works include Fratres (1977), Spiegel im Spiegel (1978), and Für Alina (1976). From 2011 to 2018, and again in 2022 and 2025, Pärt was the most performed living composer in the world. The Arvo Pärt Centre, in Laulasmaa, was opened to the public in 2018.

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Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (died 2000)

Gherman Stepanovich Titov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1. He was the fourth person in space, counting suborbital voyages of US astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. A month short of 26 years old at launch, he is the youngest professional astronaut and was the youngest person to fly in space until 2021 when Oliver Daemen flew on Blue Origin NS-16 at the age of 18. Since Daemen flew a suborbital mission, Titov remains the youngest person to fly in Earth orbit.

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11/09/1933

Margaret Booth, English lawyer and judge (died 2021)

Dame Margaret Myfanwy Wood Booth, DBE was a British judge.

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William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (died 2002)

William Luther Pierce III was an American neo-Nazi political activist. For more than 30 years, he was one of the highest-profile individuals of the white nationalist movement. A physicist by profession, he authored the novels The Turner Diaries and Hunter under the pen name Andrew Macdonald. The first novel inspired multiple terrorist attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Pierce founded the white nationalist National Alliance, an organization which he led for almost 30 years.

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Nicola Pietrangeli, Italian tennis player (died 2025)

Nicola Chirinsky Pietrangeli was an Italian tennis player. He won two singles titles at the French Championships and is considered by many to be one of Italy's greatest tennis champions.

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11/09/1931

Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian and academic (died 2014)

Hans-Ulrich Wehler was a German left-liberal historian known for his role in promoting social history through the "Bielefeld School", and for his critical studies of 19th-century Germany.

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11/09/1930

Cathryn Damon, American actress and dancer (died 1987)

Cathryn Lee Damon was an American actress known for her roles in sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s. She was best known as Mary Campbell in Soap, for which she was nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, winning in 1980.

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Jean-Claude Forest, French author and illustrator (died 1998)

Jean-Claude Forest was a French writer and illustrator of comics and the creator of character Barbarella.

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Saleh Selim, Egyptian footballer, manager, and actor (died 2002)

Mohamed Saleh Mohamed Selim was an Egyptian football executive, former football player and an actor. He was the 13th president of Al Ahly SC.

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11/09/1929

Luis García, Venezuelan baseball player and manager (died 2014)

Luis García Beltrán was a Venezuelan professional baseball player and manager. Listed at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), 189 lb (86 kg), he batted and threw right handed.

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Primož Kozak, Slovenian playwright (died 1981)

Primož Kozak was a Slovenian playwright and essayist. Together with Dominik Smole, Dane Zajc and Taras Kermauner, he was the most visible representative of the so-called Critical generation, a group of Slovenian authors and intellectuals that reflected on the paradoxes of the communist regime, and the relation between power and individual existence in general.

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Patrick Mayhew, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2016)

Patrick Barnabas Burke Mayhew, Baron Mayhew of Twysden, was a British barrister and politician.

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11/09/1928

Reubin Askew, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of Florida (died 2014)

Reubin O'Donovan Askew was an American politician, who served as the 37th governor of Florida from 1971 to 1979. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 7th U.S. trade representative from 1979 to 1980 under President Jimmy Carter. He led on tax reform, civil rights, and financial transparency for public officials, maintaining an outstanding reputation for personal integrity.

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Earl Holliman, American actor (died 2024)

Henry Earl Holliman was an American actor, animal rights activist, and singer known for his many character roles in films, mostly Westerns and dramas, in the 1950s and 1960s. He won a Golden Globe Award for the film The Rainmaker (1956) and portrayed Sergeant Bill Crowley on the television police drama Police Woman throughout its 1974 to 1978 run.

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11/09/1927

Keith Holman, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2011)

Keith Victor Holman, MBE was an Australian Rugby League footballer, a national and state representative Halfback whose club career was played with Western Suburbs between 1949 and 1961. He has since been named as one of Australia’s finest rugby league players of the 20th century. After retiring as player, Holman was coach of Wests and later became one of the game's top-level referees. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1977.

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G. David Schine, American soldier and businessman (died 1996)

Gerard David Schine, better known as G. David Schine or David Schine, was the wealthy heir to a hotel chain fortune who became a central figure in the Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954 in his role as the chief consultant to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Later in life, he became a part of the film/television industry. He was the executive producer for the 1971 film The French Connection.

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11/09/1926

Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (died 2005)

Edward Thomas Miksis was an American professional baseball infielder and outfielder. He played fourteen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1944 and 1958 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, and Cincinnati Reds.

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11/09/1925

Harry Somers, Canadian soldier and composer (died 1999)

Harry Stewart Somers, CC was a contemporary Canadian composer.

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11/09/1924

Daniel Akaka, American soldier, engineer, and politician (died 2018)

Daniel Kahikina Akaka was an American educator and politician who served as a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1990 to 2013. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

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Tom Landry, American football player and coach (died 2000)

Thomas Wade Landry was an American professional football coach, player, and World War II bomber pilot. Regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time, he was the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL), a position he held for 29 seasons. During his coaching career, he created many new formations and methods, such as the now default 4–3 defense that is used by a majority of teams in the NFL, and the "flex defense" system made famous by the "Doomsday Defense" squads he built during his tenure with the Cowboys. His 29 consecutive years from 1960 to 1988 as the coach of one team is an NFL record, along with his 20 consecutive winning seasons, which is considered to be his most impressive professional accomplishment.

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Rudolf Vrba, Czech-Canadian pharmacologist and educator (died 2006)

Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the camp in April 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, and co-wrote the Vrba-Wetzler report, a detailed report about the mass murder taking place there. The report, distributed by George Mantello in Switzerland, is credited with having halted the mass deportation of Hungary's Jews to Auschwitz in July 1944, saving more than 200,000 lives. After the war, Vrba trained as a biochemist, working mostly in England and Canada.

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11/09/1923

Betsy Drake, American actress (died 2015)

Betsy Drake was an American actress, writer, and psychotherapist. She was the third wife of actor Cary Grant.

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Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer and academic (died 1984)

Vasilije Mokranjac was a Serbian composer, professor of composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was one of the most prominent Serbian composers in the second half of the 20th century. Although famed for his symphonies, he also wrote piano music, as well as music for radio, film and theatre. He won the most prestigious awards in former Yugoslavia, including the October Prize, the award of the Yugoslav Radio-Diffusion, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Alan Badel, English actor (died 1982)

Alan Fernand Badel was an English actor who appeared frequently on stage, in film, on radio and on television.

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11/09/1921

Leaford Bearskin, American tribal leader and colonel (died 2012)

Leaford Bearskin was a Native American tribal leader and US Air Force officer. He was Chief of the Wyandotte Nation from 1983 to 2011.

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11/09/1917

Donald Blakeslee, American colonel and pilot (died 2008)

Donald James Matthew Blakeslee was an American pilot and officer in the United States Air Force, whose aviation career began as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force flying Spitfire fighter aircraft during World War II. He then became a member of the Royal Air Force Eagle Squadrons, before transferring to the United States Army Air Forces in 1942. He flew more combat missions against the Luftwaffe than any other American fighter pilot, and by the end of the war was a flying ace credited with 15.5 aerial victories.

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Herbert Lom, Czech-born English actor (died 2012)

Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru, known professionally as Herbert Lom, was a Czech-British actor with a career spanning over 60 years. His cool demeanour and precise, elegant elocution saw him cast as criminals or suave villains in his younger years, and professional men and nobles as he aged. Highly versatile, he was also known to legions of comedy fans as the beleaguered Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther film series.

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Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (died 1989)

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. was a Filipino lawyer, military officer, and politician who served as the tenth and longest serving president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. His regime has been widely referred to as a kleptocracy. From 1972 to 1981, Marcos ruled the Philippines under martial law as a dictator, embracing a policy of "constitutional authoritarianism." Following the reestablishment of democracy in 1981, a wide-ranging economic crisis, and the assassination of Ninoy Aquino, Marcos was deposed in 1986 by the People Power Revolution and was succeeded as president by Aquino's widow, Corazon Aquino. He was also the father of Bongbong Marcos, the incumbent president of the Philippines since 2022.

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Jessica Mitford, English-American journalist and author (died 1996)

Jessica Lucy "Decca" Treuhaft was an English-American author, communist activist and one of the Mitford sisters. Her 1960 memoir Hons and Rebels and her 1963 book of social commentary The American Way of Death both became classics.

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Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and horse breeder (died 2001)

Daniel Leopold Wildenstein was a French art dealer, historian and owner-breeder of thoroughbred and standardbred race horses. He was the third member of the family to preside over Wildenstein & Co., one of the most successful and influential art-dealerships of the 20th century. He was once described as "probably the richest and most powerful art dealer on earth."

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11/09/1916

Ed Sabol, American film producer, co-founded NFL Films (died 2015)

Edwin Milton Sabol was an American filmmaker and the founder of NFL Films. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011 as a contributor due to his works with NFL Films.

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11/09/1915

Dajikaka Gadgil, Indian jeweller (died 2014)

Anant "Dajikaka" Gadgil was an Indian jeweller, industrialist and writer. He is best known for founding the P. N. Gadgil Jewellers & Company in Pune in 1958.

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11/09/1914

Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (died 2009)

Patriarch Pavle was the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1990 to his death. His full title was: His Holiness the Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch Pavle.

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11/09/1913

Bear Bryant, American football player and coach (died 1983)

Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football player and coach. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest college football coaches of all time, and best known as the head coach of the University of Alabama football team, the Alabama Crimson Tide, from 1958 to 1982. During his 25-year tenure as Alabama's head coach, he amassed six national championships and 13 conference championships. Upon his retirement in 1982, he held the record for the most wins (323) as a head coach in collegiate football history. The Paul W. Bryant Museum, Paul W. Bryant Hall, Paul W. Bryant Drive, and Saban Field at Bryant–Denny Stadium are all named in his honor at the University of Alabama.

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Jacinto Convit, Venezuelan physician and academic (died 2014)

Jacinto Convit García was a Venezuelan physician and scientist, known for developing a vaccine to prevent leprosy and his studies to treat cancer. He played a role in founding Venezuela's National Institute of Biomedicine and held many leprosy-related positions. Among Convit's many honors for his work on leprosy and tropical diseases was Spain's Prince of Asturias Award in the Scientific and Technical Research category and France's Legion of Honor. In 1988, Convit was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his experimental anti-leprosy vaccine.

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11/09/1911

Lala Amarnath, Indian cricketer (died 2000)

Lala Amarnath Bhardwaj was an Indian cricketer. He is considered to be the father figure of Indian cricket. He scored the first ever century for India in Test Cricket in 1933. He was independent India's first cricket captain and captained India in their first Test series win against Pakistan in 1952.

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Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1971)

Bola de Nieve, born Ignacio Jacinto Villa Fernández, was a Cuban singer-pianist and songwriter. His name originates from his round, black face.

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11/09/1908

Alvar Lidell, English journalist (died 1981)

Tord Alvar Quan Lidell was an English radio announcer and newsreader for the BBC and compere. He joined BBC Birmingham as chief announcer in 1932 before moving to London the following year. Lidell was made deputy chief announcer of the BBC in 1937 and announced important events such as Edward VIII's abdication and Britain's declaration of war with Germany in 1939.

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11/09/1907

Cécile Chabot, Canadian poet and illustrator (died 1990)

Cécile Chabot was a Canadian poet and illustrator.

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Lev Oborin, Russian pianist and educator (died 1974)

Lev Nikolayevich Oborin ; was a Soviet and Russian pianist, composer and pedagogue. He was the winner of the first International Chopin Piano Competition in 1927.

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11/09/1904

Karl Plutus, Estonian lawyer and jurist (died 2010)

Karl Plutus was an Estonian jurist and the oldest verified living man in Estonia from 2006 to 2010.

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11/09/1903

Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (died 1969)

Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the works of Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and G. W. F. Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, his writings—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951), and Negative Dialectics (1966)—strongly influenced the European New Left.

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Stephen Etnier, American lieutenant and painter (died 1984)

Stephen Morgan Etnier was an American realist painter, and an active painter for six decades. His work is distinguished by a mixture of realism and luminism, favoring industrial and working scenes, but always imbued with atmospheric light. Geographically, his career spanned the length of the eastern Atlantic and beyond.

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11/09/1901

D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman, founded Gold Kist (died 1999)

David William Brooks was an American farmer and businessman.

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11/09/1899

Philipp Bouhler, German politician (died 1945)

Philipp Bouhler was a German senior Nazi Party functionary who was both a Reichsleiter and Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP. He was also the SS official responsible for the Aktion T4 euthanasia program that killed more than 250,000 disabled adults and children in Nazi Germany, as well as co-initiator of Aktion 14f13, also called Sonderbehandlung, that killed 15,000–20,000 concentration camp prisoners.

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Jimmie Davis, American singer-songwriter and politician, 47th Governor of Louisiana (died 2000)

James Houston Davis was an American singer, songwriter, and Democratic Party politician. After achieving fame for releasing both sacred and country songs, Davis served as the 47th governor of Louisiana from 1944 to 1948 and again from 1960 to 1964.

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Anton Koolmann, Estonian wrestler and coach (died 1953)

Anton Koolmann was a wrestler and coach from Kuusalu Parish, Estonia who took part at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

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11/09/1898

Gerald Templer, English field marshal and politician, British High Commissioner in Malaya (died 1979)

Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer was a senior British Army officer. He fought in both the world wars and was involved in the British response to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. As Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the professional head of the British Army between 1955 and 1958, Templer was Prime Minister Anthony Eden's chief military adviser during the Suez Crisis. He is also credited as a founder of the United Kingdom's National Army Museum.

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11/09/1895

Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (died 1982)

Vinayak Narahar Bhave, also known as Vinoba Bhave, was an Indian philosopher and an advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya, he is best known for the Bhoodan land reform movement, and is considered as the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi.

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11/09/1893

Douglas Hawkes, English-Greek racing driver and engineer (died 1974)

Wallace Douglas Hawkes was a British motor car designer, businessman and racing driver. He was born in Barton, Gloucestershire, married Gwenda Stewart in 1937, and died, aged 80, in Athens, Greece.

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11/09/1891

William Thomas Walsh, American historian, author, and educator (died 1949)

William Thomas Walsh, was an American historian, educator and author; he was also a violinist.

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11/09/1885

D. H. Lawrence, English novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (died 1930)

David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialisation, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels – Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) – were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of romance, sexuality, and use of explicit language.

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Herbert Stothart, American composer and conductor (died 1949)

Herbert Pope Stothart was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz. Stothart was widely acknowledged as a prominent member of the top tier of Hollywood composers during the 1930s and 1940s.

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11/09/1884

Sudhamoy Pramanick, Indian activist and politician (died 1974)

Sudhamoy Pramanick was an Indian advocate from Shantipur. He was the lifetime secretary of the Tili Samaj, a societal benefit organisation. He was a social activist - member of the executive committee of the Indian National Congress and involved with the Satyagraha movement to campaign for Indian independence.

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11/09/1879

Louis Coatalen, French engineer (died 1962)

Louis Hervé Coatalen was an automobile engineer and racing driver born in Brittany who spent much of his adult life in Britain and took British nationality. He was a pioneer of the design and development of internal combustion engines for cars and aircraft.

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11/09/1877

Felix Dzerzhinsky, Polish-Russian academic and politician (died 1926)

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed Iron Felix, was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first three Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka, the GPU and the OGPU, establishing state security organs for the Bolshevik government. He was a key architect of the Red Terror and de-Cossackization.

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James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (died 1946)

Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer. He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929, and was the president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1925 to 1927, and won its Gold Medal.

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11/09/1876

Stan Rowley, Australian sprinter (died 1924)

Stanley Rupert Rowley was an Australian sprinter who won four medals at the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Young, New South Wales and died in Manly, New South Wales.

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11/09/1871

Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona, Italian racing driver, mountaineer, and politician (died 1927)

Prince Luigi Marcantonio Francesco Rodolfo Scipione Borghese, commonly known as Scipione Borghese, was an Italian aristocrat, industrialist, politician, explorer, mountain climber and racing driver belonging to the House of Borghese.

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11/09/1865

Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (died 1929)

Jānis Pliekšāns, known by his pseudonym Rainis, was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts and Indulis un Ārija, and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust. His works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism.

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11/09/1862

Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, English field marshal and politician, 12th Governor General of Canada (died 1935)

Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, was a British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada, the 12th since the Canadian Confederation.

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Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician (died 1910)

Hawley Harvey Crippen, colloquially known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for the murder of his second wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen. He was the first criminal to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraphy.

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O. Henry, American short story writer (died 1910)

William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction. His works include "The Gift of the Magi", "The Caballero's Way", "The Duplicity of Hargraves", and "The Ransom of Red Chief", as well as the novel Cabbages and Kings. Porter's stories are known for their naturalist observations, witty narration, and surprise endings.

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11/09/1861

Juhani Aho, Finnish author and journalist (died 1921)

Juhani Aho, originally Johannes Brofeldt, was a Finnish author and journalist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen times.

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11/09/1860

James Allan, New Zealand rugby player (died 1934)

James Allan ) was a New Zealand rugby union player who played eight games for the New Zealand national rugby union team, and was nicknamed the Taieri Giant. Allan played in the first match contested by the New Zealand team, and the New Zealand Rugby Union regard him as the first ever All Black.

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11/09/1859

Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian author and playwright (died 1905)

Vjenceslav Novak was a Croatian Realist writer, dramatist, and music historian.

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11/09/1847

Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (died 1921)

Mary Watson Whitney was an American astronomer and was the head of the Vassar College Observatory for 22 years, where 102 scientific papers were published under her guidance.

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11/09/1838

John Ireland, Irish-American archbishop (died 1918)

John Ireland was an Irish-American prelate who was the third Catholic bishop and first archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota (1888–1918). He became both a religious as well as civic leader in Saint Paul during the turn of the 20th century. Ireland was known for his progressive stance on education, immigration and relations between church and state, as well as his opposition to saloons, alcoholism, political machines, and political corruption.

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11/09/1836

Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American journalist, author, and explorer (died 1870)

Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as Fitzhugh Ludlow, was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater (1857).

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11/09/1829

Thomas Hill, American painter (died 1908)

Thomas Hill was an American artist of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of the Californian landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

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11/09/1825

Eduard Hanslick, Bohemian-Austrian musicologist and critic (died 1904)

Eduard Hanslick was an Austrian music critic, aesthetician and historian. Among the leading critics of his time, he was the chief music critic of the Neue Freie Presse from 1864 until the end of his life. His best known work, the 1854 treatise Vom Musikalisch-Schönen, was a landmark in the aesthetics of music and outlines much of his artistic and philosophical beliefs on music.

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11/09/1816

Carl Zeiss, German lens maker, created the Optical instrument (died 1888)

Carl Zeiss was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman. In 1846 he founded his workshop, which is still in business as Zeiss. Zeiss gathered a group of gifted practical and theoretical opticians and glass makers to reshape most aspects of optical instrument production. His collaboration with Ernst Abbe revolutionized optical theory and practical design of microscopes. Their quest to extend these advances brought Otto Schott into the enterprises to revolutionize optical glass manufacture. The firm of Carl Zeiss grew to one of the largest and most respected optical firms in the world.

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11/09/1800

Daniel S. Dickinson, American lawyer and politician, 13th Lieutenant Governor of New York (died 1866)

Daniel Stevens Dickinson was an American politician and lawyer, most notable as a United States senator from 1844 to 1851.

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11/09/1798

Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (died 1895)

Franz Ernst Neumann was a German mineralogist and physicist. He devised the first formulas to calculate inductance. He also formulated Neumann's law for molecular heat. In electromagnetism, he is credited for introducing the magnetic vector potential.

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11/09/1786

Friedrich Kuhlau, German-Danish pianist and composer (died 1832)

Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau, sometimes written as Frederick Kulav, was a Danish pianist and composer during the late Classical and early Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danish Golden Age and is immortalized in Danish cultural history through his music for Elves' Hill, the first true work of Danish National Romanticism and a concealed tribute to the absolute monarchy.

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11/09/1771

Mungo Park, Scottish surgeon and explorer (died 1806)

Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, though it was later proven that they are different rivers. He was killed during a second expedition, having successfully travelled about two-thirds of the way down the Niger.

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11/09/1764

Valentino Fioravanti, Italian organist and composer (died 1837)

Valentino Fioravanti was an Italian composer of opera buffas.

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11/09/1751

Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (died 1827)

Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen was a member of the House of Saxe-Meiningen and a Princess of Saxe-Meiningen by birth and a member of the House of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Duchess consort of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg through her marriage to Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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11/09/1723

Johann Bernhard Basedow, German author and educator (died 1790)

Johann Bernhard Basedow was a German educational reformer, teacher and writer. He founded the Philanthropinum, a short-lived but influential progressive school in Dessau, and was the author of "Elementarwerk", a popular illustrated textbook for children.

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11/09/1711

William Boyce, English organist and composer (died 1779)

William Boyce was an English composer and organist. Like Beethoven later on, he became deaf but continued to compose. He knew Handel, Arne, Gluck, J.C. Bach, Abel, and a very young Mozart, all of whom respected his work.

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11/09/1700

James Thomson, Scottish poet and playwright (died 1748)

James Thomson was a Scottish poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!"

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11/09/1681

Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German academic and jurist (died 1741)

Johann Gottlieb Heineccius was a German jurist from Eisenberg, Thuringia.

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11/09/1611

Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, French general (died 1675)

Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, commonly known as Turenne, was a French general and one of only six marshals to have been promoted Marshal General of France. The most illustrious member of the La Tour d'Auvergne family, his military exploits over his five-decade career earned him a reputation as one of the greatest military commanders in history.

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11/09/1578

Vincenzo Maculani, Catholic cardinal (died 1667)

Vincenzo Maculani was an Italian Catholic Cardinal, inquisitor and military architect. He was known as a severe man, harsh and without compassion, who preferred the black cappa of his order to the brighter red he was later entitled to wear as a cardinal.

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11/09/1572

Daniyal, Imperial Prince of the Royal House of Timur (died 1604)

Daniyal Mirza was a prince of the Mughal Empire who served as the Viceroy of the Deccan. He was the third son of the emperor Akbar and a half-brother of the emperor Jahangir.

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11/09/1557

Joseph Calasanz, Spanish priest and founder of Piarists (died 1648)

Joseph Calasanz, also known as Joseph Calasanctius and Josephus a Matre Dei, was a Spanish Catholic priest, educator and the founder of the Pious Schools, which provided free education to poor boys. For this purpose he founded the religious order that ran them, commonly known as the Piarists. He became a close friend of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei. Joseph is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church, following his 1767 papal canonisation.

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11/09/1525

John George, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1598)

John George of Brandenburg was a prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1571–1598).

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11/09/1524

Pierre de Ronsard, French poet and author (died 1585)

Pierre de Ronsard was a French poet known in his generation as a "prince of poets". His works include Les Amours de Cassandre (1552), Les Hymnes (1555-1556), Les Discours (1562-1563), La Franciade (1572), and Sonnets pour Hélène (1578).

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11/09/1522

Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian ornithologist and botanist (died 1605)

Ulisse Aldrovandi was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies. He is usually referred to, especially in older scientific literature in Latin, as Aldrovandus; his name in Italian is equally given as Aldroandi.

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11/09/1494

Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Guelders (1518–1538) (died 1572)

Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg was a Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg by birth and by marriage Duchess of Guelders.

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11/09/1476

Louise of Savoy, French regent (died 1531)

Louise of Savoy was a French noble and regent, Duchess suo jure of Auvergne and Bourbon, Duchess of Nemours and the mother of King Francis I and Marguerite of Navarre. She was politically active and served as the regent of France in 1515, in 1525–1526 and in 1529, during the absence of her son.

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11/09/1465

Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (died 1536)

Bernardo Accolti was an Italian poet.

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11/09/1318

Eleanor of Lancaster, countess of Arundel (died 1372)

Eleanor of Lancaster, Countess of Arundel was the fifth daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, and Maud Chaworth.

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11/09/1182

Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shōgun (died 1204)

Minamoto no Yoriie was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the second shōgun (1202–1203) of the Kamakura shogunate and the first son of its founder, Minamoto no Yoritomo. His Dharma name was Hokke-in-dono Kingo Da’i Zengo (法華院殿金吾大禅閤).

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11/09/0600

Yuknoom Ch'een II, Mayan ruler

Yuknoom Chʼeen II, known as Yuknoom the Great, was a Maya ruler of the Kaan kingdom, which had its capital at Calakmul during the Classic Period of Mesoamerican chronology.

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