Born on Friday, 5th September – Famous Birthdays

05/09/2001

Bukayo Saka, English footballer

Bukayo Ayoyinka Temidayo Moses Saka is an English professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Premier League club Arsenal and the England national team. Known for his creativity, dribbling, and work rate, he is regarded as one of the best wingers in the world.

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Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow, Australian rugby league player

Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow, nicknamed "Hammer", is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a fullback for the Dolphins in the National Rugby League (NRL) and as a centre for Queensland in the State of Origin.

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05/09/1999

Filip Chytil, Czech ice hockey player

Filip Chytil is a Czech professional ice hockey player who is a centre for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the New York Rangers in the first round, 21st overall, in the 2017 NHL entry draft. Internationally, Chytil played for the Czech Republic national team in several tournaments.

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05/09/1998

Caroline Dolehide, American tennis player

Caroline Dolehide is an American professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 41 on 2 October 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 9 on 26 August 2024. Dolehide has won three WTA Tour and one WTA 125 doubles titles, and also 17 titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, eight in singles and nine in doubles.

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Mac Jones, American football player

Michael McCorkle "Mac" Jones is an American professional football quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, setting the NCAA season records for passer rating and completion percentage as a junior en route to winning the 2021 College Football Playoff National Championship. Jones also received Johnny Unitas Golden Arm, Davey O'Brien, and Manning awards. He was selected by the New England Patriots in the first round of the 2021 NFL draft.

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Davion Mitchell, American basketball player

Davion De'Monte Earl Mitchell, nicknamed Off-Night, is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Auburn Tigers and the Baylor Bears. He was taken ninth overall in the 2021 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings.

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05/09/1997

Steven Kwan, American baseball player

Steven Robert Kwan is an American professional baseball left fielder for the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2022.

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Kyōko Saitō, Japanese idol

Kyōko Saitō is a Japanese actress, television presenter, singer, and model, represented by Toho. She co-hosts the talk show Kyoccorohee on TV Asahi and made her international acting debut as the star of Love on Trial (2025), screened at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

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05/09/1996

Jarren Duran, American baseball player

Jarren William Duran is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2021. Listed at 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m) and 205 pounds (93 kg), he bats left-handed and throws right-handed. Duran was named the MVP of the 2024 MLB All-Star Game. Born in the United States, he represents Mexico at the international level.

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Sigrid, Norwegian singer

Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, known mononymously as Sigrid, is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. She has released three studio albums, Sucker Punch (2019), How to Let Go (2022), and There's Always More That I Could Say (2025). Both her debut and sophomore album reached the top of the charts in Norway as well as reaching the top 5 in the United Kingdom. She has also released three EPs.

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Richairo Zivkovic, Dutch footballer

Richairo Juliano Živković is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Thai League 1 club Bangkok United. Born in the Netherlands, he represents the Curaçao national team.

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05/09/1995

Lucas Wallmark, Swedish ice hockey player

Lucas Wallmark is a Swedish professional ice hockey center who is currently playing for ZSC Lions of the National League (NL). He was selected by the Carolina Hurricanes in the fourth round, 97th overall, at the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.

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05/09/1994

Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italian swimmer

Gregorio Paltrinieri is an Italian competitive swimmer. He is a former world record holder in the short course 1500-meter freestyle. He holds the European record in the long course 800-meter and 1500-meter freestyle events with times of 7:39.27 and 14:32.80, respectively. In the 1500-meter freestyle, he is a 2016 Olympic, three-time world long course, two-time world short course, three-time European long course, and three-time European short course champion. In the 800-meter freestyle, he is a 2019 world long course, 2022 world short course, three-time European long course, and 2021 European short course champion. In the 10 kilometre open water swim, he is a 2022 world and 2020 European champion. In the 5 kilometre open water swim, he is a two-time European champion.

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05/09/1993

Pablo Reyes, Dominican baseball player

Pablo Israel Reyes is a Dominican professional baseball infielder and outfielder in the San Diego Padres organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and New York Mets. He made his MLB debut in 2018.

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T. J. Warren, American basketball player

Anthony "T. J." Warren Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Westchester Knicks of the NBA G League. He played college basketball as a small forward for the NC State Wolfpack in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). In the 2013–14 season, he earned consensus second-team All-American honors and was named the ACC Player of the Year after leading the conference in scoring with 24.9 points per game.

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05/09/1991

Skandar Keynes, English actor and political adviser

Alexander Amin Caspar Keynes is an English political adviser and former actor. Best known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia film series, he appeared in all three instalments: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

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05/09/1990

Lance Stephenson, American basketball player

Lance Stephenson Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Iowa Wolves of the NBA G League. He attended Lincoln High School in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, where he was named Mr. New York Basketball after his senior year and appeared in the 2009 McDonald's All-American Game. He later played college basketball for the Cincinnati Bearcats and was selected in the second round of the 2010 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers. He is widely known for his wily and unique playstyle, which includes flashy passing, quick drives to the rim, and humorous celebrations.

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Yuna Kim, South Korean figure skater

Yuna Kim, also credited in eastern name order as Kim Yuna or Kim Yeon-a, is a South Korean figure skater. Known for her well-rounded skills, achievements, popularity, and impact on the sport, she is one of the most highly recognized athletes in South Korea and regarded as one of the greatest figure skaters in history, being commonly referred to as "Queen Yuna". Kim started skating at five years old and competed in women's singles from 2001 to 2014. She is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2014 Olympic silver medalist, a two-time World champion the 2009 Four Continents champion, a three-time Grand Prix Final champion, the 2006 World Junior champion, the 2005 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and a six-time South Korean national champion.

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Franco Zuculini, Argentine footballer

Franco Zuculini is an Argentine footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder.

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05/09/1989

Elena Delle Donne, American basketball player

Elena Delle Donne is an American former professional basketball player. Delle Donne played college basketball for the Delaware Blue Hens from 2009 to 2013. She was drafted by the Chicago Sky with the second overall pick of the 2013 WNBA draft, and led the Sky to the 2014 WNBA Finals, where they were defeated by the Phoenix Mercury. Delle Donne was traded to the Washington Mystics in 2017 and led them to their first WNBA championship in 2019. She will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2026.

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Kat Graham, American actress and singer

Katerina Alexandre Hartford Graham is a Swiss-born American actress, singer, dancer, and activist. She played Bonnie Bennett on The CW supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017). Her film credits include The Parent Trap (1998), 17 Again (2009), The Roommate (2011), Honey 2 (2011), Addicted (2014), and All Eyez on Me (2017). In music, Graham has released two extended plays and four studio albums.

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Craig Smith, American ice hockey player

Craig Smith is an American former professional ice hockey forward who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Nashville Predators in the fourth round, 98th overall, of the 2009 NHL entry draft, and also played for the Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals, Dallas Stars, Chicago Blackhawks, and Detroit Red Wings.

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José Ángel Valdés, Spanish footballer

José Ángel Valdés Díaz, known as José Ángel or Cote, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a left-back.

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Ben Youngs, English rugby player

Benjamin Ryder Youngs is an English former professional rugby union player who played as a scrum-half for Premiership Rugby club Leicester Tigers, and is the all time appearance record holder with 127 caps for the men’s England national team.

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05/09/1988

Denni Avdić, Swedish footballer

Denni Robin Avdić is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a centre-forward for Vasalunds IF.

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Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer

Felipe Salvador Caicedo Corozo is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a striker.

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Emmy Raver-Lampman, American actress and singer

Emmy Raver-Lampman is an American actress and singer. She began her career working in musical theater, and has performed in various Broadway and national touring productions such as Hair, Jekyll & Hyde, Wicked, and Hamilton. She played Allison Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.

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05/09/1986

Colt McCoy, American football player

Daniel "Colt" McCoy is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Longhorns, winning several awards and honors as a senior in 2009 and ranking second all-time in games won by an FBS quarterback. McCoy was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the third round of the 2010 NFL draft and was also a member of the San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, New York Giants, and Arizona Cardinals, primarily being used as a backup.

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Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer

Pragyan Ojha is an Indian former cricketer, who represented India in all forms of cricket. He played as an attacking left-arm orthodox bowler and left-handed tail-ender batsman for Hyderabad. In his 24 Tests, he only managed to score 89 runs. In fact, he is among the few cricketers who have taken more wickets than the runs they have scored in Test cricket. He was a part of the Indian squad which won the 2010 Asia Cup. He became the historical 800th Test wicket of Muttiah Muralitharan. He is the current selector of senior men's national selection committee.

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05/09/1985

Justin Dentmon, American basketball player

Justin Lorenzo Dentmon is an American professional basketball player for the Halcones Rojos Veracruz of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP). He played college basketball for Washington. In 2010, he was the top scorer in the Israel Basketball Premier League.

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Ryan Guy, American soccer player

Ryan Michael Guy is a soccer coach and former professional football player. He was capped 33 times and scored four goals for the Guam national team.

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05/09/1984

Alison Bell, Scottish field hockey player

Alison Bell is a Scottish female field hockey player who plays for the Scotland women's national field hockey team. She has represented Scotland in few international competitions including the 2005 Women's Hockey Junior World Cup, 2013 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship, 2010 Commonwealth Games, and 2014 Commonwealth Games.

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Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish cyclist (died 2021)

Chris Anker Sørensen was a Danish road bicycle racer who rode professionally between 2005 and 2018 for the Team Designa Køkken, Tinkoff–Saxo, Fortuneo–Vital Concept, and Riwal Platform teams. Sørensen then worked as a directeur sportif for his final professional team, Riwal Readynez.

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05/09/1983

Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer

Eugen Bopp is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in Ukraine, he represented the Germany national under-19 team.

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Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer

Pablo Mariano Granoche Louro is a Uruguayan football coach and former player, in the role of striker, currently in charge as assistant coach of FC Clivense in the Eccellenza amateur league. During his playing career, he was nicknamed El Diablo.

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Lincoln Riley, American football coach

Lincoln Michael Riley is an American college football coach and former player who is the head football coach at the University of Southern California. Riley previously served as the head coach at the University of Oklahoma for five seasons from 2017 to 2021, where he won four consecutive Big 12 Championship Games.

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Antony Sweeney, English footballer

Antony Thomas Sweeney is an English professional football coach and former player. A midfielder, he played in the Football League for Hartlepool United and Carlisle United, in a senior career that lasted between 2001 and 2016. He is currently a first-team coach at Stockport County.

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Chris Young, American baseball player

Christopher Brandon Young is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Oakland Athletics, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and Los Angeles Angels.

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05/09/1982

Alexandre Geijo, Spanish-Swiss footballer

Alexandre "Álex" Geijo Pazos is a former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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05/09/1981

Daniel Moreno, Spanish cyclist

Daniel Moreno Fernández is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2018 for the Relax–GAM, Omega Pharma–Lotto, Team Katusha, Movistar Team and EF Education First–Drapac p/b Cannondale teams. He specialised in mountain and high-mountain races along with Grand Tours like the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España, winning three stages of the latter in 2011 and 2013.

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Kai Rüütel, Estonian opera singer

Kai Rüütel is a mezzo-soprano opera singer from Estonia.

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Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player

Filippo Volandri is an Italian tennis coach and former professional player. Volandri reached a career-high singles ranking of world no. 25 in July 2007. He turned professional in 1997 and earned almost $4 million in prize money, winning 2 ATP titles. His biggest victory was defeating Roger Federer, world number 1, at 2007 Italian Open – Men's singles. Retired in 2017, the following year he became coach and since 2021 he has been the captain of the Italian team, which he led to the win of three consecutive Davis Cups in 2023, 2024 and 2025, establishing a new international record.

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05/09/1980

Franco Costanzo, Argentine footballer

Franco Costanzo Geymonat is an Argentine former football goalkeeper who last played for Chilean club Universidad Católica of the Primera División.

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Kevin Simm, British singer

Kevin Ian Simm is an English singer and songwriter. He was a member of Liberty X (2001–2007) and is the vocalist of Wet Wet Wet. Simm also won The Voice UK in 2016.

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05/09/1979

John Carew, Norwegian footballer

John Alieu Carew is a Norwegian actor and former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was capped 91 times and scored 24 goals for the Norway national team. At club level, he played professionally for football clubs in Norway, Spain, Italy, Turkey, France and England.

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Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster

Stacey Dales is a Canadian-American former basketball player and a current reporter on the NFL Network. Dales was born in Collingwood, Ontario, and raised in Brockville, Ontario.

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Julien Lizeroux, French skier

Julien Lizeroux is a retired French World Cup alpine ski racer. He competed mainly in slalom, but also in giant slalom and combined.

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Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer

Salvatore Mastronunzio is an Italian former footballer who played as a forward.

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George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer

George Paul O'Callaghan is an Irish former football player and manager.

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05/09/1978

Laura Bertram, Canadian actress

Laura Maureen Bertram is a Canadian actress best known for her roles as Amanda Zimm in Ready or Not and Trance Gemini in Andromeda.

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Chris Hipkins, New Zealand politician, 41st Prime Minister of New Zealand

Christopher John Hipkins is a New Zealand politician who has served as leader of the New Zealand Labour Party since January 2023 and leader of the Opposition since November 2023. He was the 41st prime minister of New Zealand from January to November 2023, previously serving as the minister for the public service and minister for education from 2017 to 2023, and the minister for health and the COVID-19 response from 2020 to 2022. He has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Remutaka since the 2008 general election.

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Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby player

Christopher Raymond Jack is a former New Zealand rugby union player who played as a lock. He played for Canterbury and the Tasman Mako in the National Provincial Championship and its successor, the Air New Zealand Cup; the Crusaders in Super Rugby; Saracens in the Guinness Premiership; and internationally for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks.

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Sylvester Joseph, Antiguan cricketer

Sylvester Cleofoster Joseph is a West Indian cricketer who has played in five Test matches and 13 One Day Internationals from 2000 to 2005. He captained the West Indies in one of those ODI games due to the more experienced players being unavailable courtesy of contract disputes. In West Indian domestic cricket he plays for the Leeward Islands. Joseph was a member of the West Indies team that won the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy.

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Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player

Zhang Zhong is a Chinese chess grandmaster, a twice Chinese champion and the 2005 Asian champion. In 1998, he became China's 9th Grandmaster.

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05/09/1977

Rosevelt Colvin, American football player and sportscaster

Rosevelt Colvin, III is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers and was selected by the Chicago Bears in the fourth round of the 1999 NFL draft.

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Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish footballer

Joseba Andoni Etxeberria Lizardi is a Spanish former professional footballer who played mostly as a winger, currently a manager.

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Minoru Fujita, Japanese wrestler

Minoru Fujita is a Japanese professional wrestler who works as a freelancer. He is known for working at Gatoh Move Pro Wrestling.

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Nazr Mohammed, American basketball player

Nazr Tahiru Mohammed is an American former professional basketball player who had a journeyman career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), playing for eight different teams over 18 seasons. He is the current general manager of the Oklahoma City Blue and a pro scout for the Oklahoma City Thunder. He played college basketball for Kentucky.

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05/09/1976

Tatiana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast

Tatiana Gutsu, rarely Tetiana Hutsu, is a Ukrainian former artistic gymnast from the Soviet Union and the winner of the all-around title in the 1992 Summer Olympics. She was renowned for performing some of the most difficult routines in the sport. She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2022.

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Carice van Houten, Dutch actress and singer

Carice Anouk van Houten is a Dutch actress. Her first leading role in the television film Suzy Q (1999) won her the Golden Calf for Best Acting in a Television Drama; two years later, she won the Golden Calf for Best Actress for Miss Minoes (2001).

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05/09/1975

Rod Barajas, American baseball player and manager

Rodrigo Richard Barajas is an American former professional baseball catcher and current quality control coach for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Barajas served as the interim manager for the San Diego Padres after Andy Green's firing on September 21, 2019. As a player in MLB, he played for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Pittsburgh Pirates. With the Diamondbacks, he won the 2001 World Series over the then reigning, three-time world champion New York Yankees. Barajas also played for the Mexico national baseball team.

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George Boateng, Dutch footballer and manager

George Antwi Boateng is a football manager and former player who is head coach of Belgian club Mons.

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Randy Choate, American baseball player

Randol Doyle Choate is an American former professional baseball pitcher. The New York Yankees selected him in the 1997 Major League Baseball (MLB) draft from Florida State University. Choate made his MLB debut for the Yankees in 2000, and also pitched for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Tampa Bay Rays, Florida/Miami Marlins, Los Angeles Dodgers, and St. Louis Cardinals. He won the 2000 World Series with the Yankees.

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Matt Geyer, Australian rugby league player and coach

Matt Geyer is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. A New South Wales State of Origin representative wing, he played his club football primarily with the Melbourne Storm of the National Rugby League competition, winning the 1999 premiership with them. He also represented City Origin and played for the Western Reds.

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05/09/1974

Lauren Jeska, British fell runner convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs

Lauren Jeska is a British former fell runner from Lancaster. Jeska, was convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs, HR manager for UK Athletics,

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Rawl Lewis, Grenadian cricketer

Rawl Nicholas Lewis is a Grenadan former cricketer. Lewis featured as a leg spinner for both the Windward Islands and the West Indies in his cricketing career. Lewis also formerly managed the West Indies.

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Ken-Marti Vaher, Estonian politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior

Ken-Marti Vaher is a leading member of the Estonian Pro Patria and Res Publica Union party.

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05/09/1973

Paddy Considine, English actor, director, and screenwriter

Patrick George Considine is an English actor, director, screenwriter and musician. He is known for playing antiheroes in independent films. He has received two British Academy Film Awards, three Evening Standard British Film Awards, British Independent Film Awards, and a Silver Lion for Best Short Film at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.

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Rose McGowan, American actress

Rósa Arianna McGowan is an American actress and activist. After her film debut in a brief role in the comedy Encino Man (1992), she achieved recognition for her performance in the dark comedy The Doom Generation (1995), receiving an Independent Spirit Award nomination. She had her breakthrough in the horror film Scream (1996) and subsequently headlined the films Going All the Way (1997), Devil in the Flesh (1998), and Jawbreaker (1999).

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05/09/1972

Shane Sewell, Canadian-American wrestler and referee

Shane Sewell is a Canadian professional wrestler and referee. He has worked for the World Wrestling Council, the International Wrestling Association and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as both a referee and wrestler. Sewell is a fourteen-time World Heavyweight Champion, having won the IWA Undisputed World Unified Heavyweight Championship ten times, the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship three times, and the WWL World Heavyweight Championship one time. By winning the IWA, WWC, and WWL World Heavyweight Championships, Sewell won the three world titles from three top promotions in Puerto Rico.

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Guy Whittall, Zimbabwean cricketer

Guy James Whittall is a former Zimbabwean international cricketer who played 46 Test matches and 147 One Day Internationals (ODIs) and captained Zimbabwe in four ODIs. He played as an all-rounder and was known as an aggressive middle-order batsman and an effective medium pace bowler. Whittall escaped from a leopard attack on 25 April 2024 with injuries.

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05/09/1971

Adam Hollioake, Australian cricketer and mixed martial artist

Adam John Hollioake is a former cricketer who represented England and is now a cricket coach. He has also competed as a professional boxer and had one fight as a mixed martial artist. Hollioake is currently head coach at Kent County Cricket Club.

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05/09/1970

Liam Lynch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, puppeteer, and director

William Patrick Niederst, better known as Liam Lynch, is an American filmmaker, singer, musician, songwriter, and puppeteer.

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Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer

Mohammed Rafique is a Bangladeshi cricket coach and former cricketer. He was the first Bangladeshi bowler to take 100 wickets in both formats, Test matches and ODI matches.

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Gilbert Remulla, Filipino journalist and politician

Gilbert Cesar Catibayan Remulla is a Filipino journalist and politician who currently serves as member of PAGCOR's board of directors.

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Johnny Vegas, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Michael Joseph Pennington, known by the stage name Johnny Vegas, is an English actor, comedian, director and writer. He is known for his thick Lancashire accent, husky voice, angry comedic rants and use of surreal humour.

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05/09/1969

Leonardo Araújo, Brazilian footballer and manager

Leonardo Nascimento de Araújo, known as Leonardo Araújo or simply Leonardo, is a Brazilian football executive and former player and manager. He last served as the sporting director of Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain from 2019 to 2022.

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Mariko Kouda, Japanese voice actress, singer, and radio host

Mariko Kouda is a Japanese actress, voice actress, J-pop singer and radio personality. She graduated from Kasukabe Kyōei High School and went on to major in Communications at Tamagawa University in Machida City, Tokyo, graduating in 1990. Kouda has had at least one song appear on the program Minna no Uta.

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Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer and coach

Mark Ravindra Ramprakash is an English former cricketer and cricket coach.

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Dweezil Zappa, American actor and musician

Dweezil Zappa is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor. He is the son of musical composer and performer Frank Zappa. Exposed to the music industry from an early age, Zappa developed a strong affinity for playing the guitar and producing music. Able to learn directly from guitarists such as Steve Vai and Eddie Van Halen, Zappa released his first single at the age of 12.

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05/09/1968

Serhiy Kovalets, Ukrainian footballer and manager

Serhiy Ivanovych Kovalets is a Ukrainian former footballer who recently is a manager of Metalurh Zaporizhzhia.

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Dennis Scott, American basketball player and sportscaster

Dennis Eugene Scott Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. A 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) small forward from Georgia Tech, and the 1990 ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year, Scott was selected by the Orlando Magic with the fourth pick of the 1990 NBA draft after being the leading scorer on a Yellow Jackets team that made the Final Four, and comprising one portion of Georgia Tech's "Lethal Weapon 3" attack featuring Scott, Kenny Anderson and Brian Oliver.

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Robin van der Laan, Dutch footballer and coach

Robertus Petrus van der Laan is a Dutch former football player and manager.

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Brad Wilk, American singer-songwriter and drummer

Brad Wilk is an American drummer. He is best known as a member of the rock bands Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and Prophets of Rage (2016–2019).

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05/09/1967

Matthias Sammer, German footballer and manager

Matthias Sammer is a German football official and former player and coach. He played as a defensive midfielder and later in his career as a sweeper.

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Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player

Janet Theresa "Jane" Sixsmith is a field hockey player, who was a member of the British squad that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She retired from the international scene after scoring over hundred goals and winning 165 caps for England and 158 for Great Britain. Sixsmith was the first British female hockey player to have appeared at four Olympic Games, followed by Kate Richardson-Walsh including the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Jane continues to play National League for Sutton Coldfield Hockey Club.

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05/09/1966

Achero Mañas, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter

Achero Mañas is a Spanish film director and former actor. He made three successful short films before winning recognition and several awards for his feature film debut El Bola.

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Milinko Pantić, Serbian footballer and manager

Milinko Pantić is a Serbian retired footballer and current manager.

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05/09/1965

David Brabham, Australian race car driver

David Philip Brabham is an Australian racing driver and one of the most successful and experienced specialists in sports car racing. He has won three international Sports Car series and is one of four Australians to have won the Le Mans 24 Hour sports car race, winning the event in 2009. Brabham won the American Le Mans Series in 2009 and 2010. He also competed in Formula One, racing for the Brabham and Simtek teams in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Brabham is the youngest son of three-time Formula One world champion Sir Jack Brabham, brother to Geoff Brabham and Gary Brabham. He is also brother-in-law to Mike Thackwell, father to Sam Brabham and uncle to Matthew Brabham.

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Hoshitango Imachi, Japanese wrestler

Hoshitango Imachi is an Argentine-born Japanese former professional sumo wrestler and professional wrestler. His highest rank was jūryō 3.

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Nick Talbot, English geneticist and academic

Nicholas José Talbot FRS FRSB is a British biologist who currently serves as Group Leader and Executive Director at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich.

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05/09/1964

Frank Farina, Australian footballer and manager

Frank Farina OAM is an Australian football (soccer) coach and former player who played as a forward.

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Sergei Loznitsa, Belarusian-Ukrainian director and screenwriter

Sergei Vladimirovich Loznitsa or Serhii Volodymyrovych Loznytsia, is a Ukrainian director of Belarusian origin known for his documentary as well as dramatic films.

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Ken Norman, American basketball player

Kenneth Darnel Norman is an American former professional basketball player. After graduating from Crane High School in Chicago, Kenny was an outstanding forward for the Illinois Fighting Illini who was selected 19th overall by the Los Angeles Clippers of the 1987 NBA draft. Norman was elected to the "Illinois Men's Basketball All-Century Team" in 2004. He earned the nickname, "Snake", that he kept throughout his college and professional careers, as a youth playing basketball at Touhy-Herbert Park, on Chicago's West Side.

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Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor (died 2016)

Thomas Mikal Ford was an American actor and comedian. He was best known for his role as Thomas "Tommy" Strawn in the sitcom Martin, which originally aired from 1992 until 1997. He also had a recurring role as Mel Parker in the sitcom The Parkers from 1999 until 2001. He also was known for his role as Lt. Malcolm Barker on New York Undercover.

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05/09/1963

Juan Alderete, American bass player and songwriter

Juan Alderete de la Peña is an American musician. He is best known as the longtime bassist of Racer X and for his tenures in The Mars Volta and Marilyn Manson.

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Kristian Alfonso, American actress and model

Kristian-Joy Alfonso is an American actress, former figure skater, and fashion model. She is best known for playing the role of Hope Williams Brady on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in 1985 for her role on Days. Alfonso also played Pilar Ortega on Falcon Crest and Lauren Ethridge on Melrose Place.

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Jeff Brantley, American baseball player and sportscaster

Jeffrey Hoke Brantley is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 14 seasons, from 1988 to 2001. Brantley, whose nickname is Cowboy, was hired in 2006 as a broadcaster for one of his former teams, the Cincinnati Reds.

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Terry Ellis, American R&B singer–songwriter and actress

Terry Lynn Ellis is an American singer. She is best known as a founding member of the R&B/pop vocal group En Vogue which formed in 1989.

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Taki Inoue, Japanese race car driver and manager

Takachiho "Taki" Inoue is a Japanese former racing driver. He competed in Formula One from 1994 to 1995, driving for Simtek and Footwork Arrows.

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05/09/1962

Tracy Edwards, English sailor and coach

Tracy Edwards, MBE is a British sailor. In 1989 she skippered the first all-female crew in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race, becoming the first woman to receive the Yachtsman of the Year Trophy and was appointed MBE. She has written two books about her experiences.

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John McGrath, Welsh businessman

John Edward McGrath is the British artistic director and chief executive of Aviva Studios, home of Factory International.

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05/09/1961

Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist and composer

Marc-André Hamelin, OC, OQ is a Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer who has received 11 Grammy Award nominations. He is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music.

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05/09/1960

Willie Gault, American football player, athlete, and actor

Willie James Gault is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons with the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Raiders. Considered one of the fastest NFL players of all time, Gault was a member of the Bears team that won Super Bowl XX. He was also a member of the U.S. Olympic team that boycotted the 1980 Olympics.

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Don Kulick, Swedish anthropologist and academic

Don Kulick is an American anthropologist and linguist. He is a professor in anthropology at the University of Hong Kong. Kulick works within the frameworks of both cultural and linguistic anthropology, and has carried out field work in Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Italy and Sweden. Kulick is also known for his extensive fieldwork on the Tayap people and their language in Gapun village of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

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05/09/1959

Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist and publisher (died 2014)

Frank Schirrmacher was a German journalist, literature expert and essayist, writer, and from 1994 co-publisher of the national German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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05/09/1958

Lars Danielsson, Swedish bassist, composer, and producer

Lars Danielsson is a Swedish jazz bassist, composer, and record producer.

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05/09/1957

Rudi Gores, German footballer and manager

Rudi Gores is a German former professional football player and coach.

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Peter Winnen, Dutch cyclist

Peter Johannes Gertrudis Winnen is a Dutch former road racing cyclist. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in road racing and finished in 26th place. After the Games he turned professional in 1981. Among his 14 victories were two stages at Alpe d'Huez in the Tour de France and a national championship. He came third in the Tour de France in 1983.

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05/09/1956

Low Thia Khiang, Singaporean businessman and politician

Low Thia Khiang is a Singaporean former politician who has served as the secretary-general of the Workers' Party (WP) between 2001 and 2018 and the de facto leader of the opposition between 2006 and 2018. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hougang Single Member Constituency (SMC) from 1991 to 2011 and the Bedok Reservoir–Punggol division of Aljunied Group Representation Constituency (GRC) from 2011 to 2020.

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Roine Stolt, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Roine Stolt is a Swedish guitarist, vocalist and composer. A major figure in Sweden's rock history, Stolt led two of his country's most successful progressive rock bands: Kaipa in the 1970s and The Flower Kings in the 1990s onward. In the same vein as frequent collaborator Steven Wilson, Stolt has regularly collaborated with other progressive rock musicians; he has made a guest appearance on several modern progressive rock albums, and multiple progressive rock supergroups include him as a member.

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Debbie Turner, American actress

Debra Turner is an American actress who played the role of Marta von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music.

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05/09/1954

Richard Austin, Jamaican footballer and cricketer (died 2015)

Richard Arkwright Austin was an international cricketer from Jamaica, who played two Tests and one One Day International for the West Indies.

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Frederick Kempe, American journalist and author

Frederick Kempe is president and chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council, a foreign policy think tank and public policy group based in Washington, D.C. He is a journalist, author, columnist and a regular commentator on television and radio both in Europe and the United States. His book BERLIN 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (Putnam) was released May 10, 2011, and was a New York Times bestseller.

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05/09/1953

Victor Davis Hanson, American historian and journalist

Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, and conservative political commentator. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National Review, the Washington Times, and other media outlets.

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Murray Mexted, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster

Murray Graham Mexted is a former New Zealand rugby union player who played 34 consecutive tests for the All Blacks from 1979 to 1985. He also played 38 non-test games including 7 as captain. During his time with the All Blacks, he wore the number eight jersey and was considered an excellent ball winner and an effective defender.

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Eiki Nestor, Estonian engineer and politician, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs

Eiki Nestor is an Estonian politician, member of the Social Democratic Party. He was the leader of the party from 1994 to 1996. Nestor has been a member of the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Parliament of Estonia, being a Minister without Portfolio in charge of regional affairs from 1994 to 1995 and a Minister of Social Affairs from 1999 to 2002. He was elected Speaker of the Riigikogu in March 2014 and served until April 2019.

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Paul Piché, Canadian singer-songwriter

Paul Piché is a Canadian singer-songwriter, environmentalist and political activist

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05/09/1952

David Glen Eisley, American rock singer-songwriter and actor

David Glen Eisley is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor.

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05/09/1951

Paul Breitner, German footballer

Paul Breitner is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder and left-back. Considered one of the best full-backs and midfielders of all time, and one of the best players of his era, Breitner was named in the FIFA World Cup All-Time Team. In 2004 he was named one of the Top 125 greatest living footballers as part of FIFA's 100th anniversary celebration.

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Michael Keaton, American actor and producer

Michael John Douglas, known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. In 2016, Keaton received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was named Officer of Order of Arts and Letters in France.

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Jamie Oldaker, American drummer and percussionist (died 2020)

James Oldaker was an American rock music, blues rock and country music drummer and percussionist.

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05/09/1950

Rosie Cooper, English businesswoman and politician

Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper is a British health official and former politician. Cooper was a Liberal and later Liberal Democrat member of the Liverpool City Council from 1973 until 1999, when she joined the Labour Party. After leaving the council the following year, she was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for West Lancashire from 2005 until her resignation in 2022, when she was named chair of the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. In 2018, she was the target of a plot to murder her involving Jack Renshaw.

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Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist, created Cathy

Cathy Lee Guisewite is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy, which had a 34-year run. The strip focused on a career woman facing the issues and challenges of eating, work, relationships, and having a mother—or as the character put it in one strip, "the four basic guilt groups."

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05/09/1949

Clem Clempson, English guitarist and songwriter

David "Clem" Clempson is an English rock guitarist who has played in a number of bands, including Colosseum and Humble Pie.

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05/09/1948

Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Foreign Minister of Austria

Benita Ferrero-Waldner is an Austrian diplomat and politician, and a member of the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Ferrero-Waldner served as Foreign Minister of Austria 2000–2004 and was the candidate of the Austrian People's Party in the 2004 Austrian presidential election, which she narrowly lost with 47.6% of the votes. She served as the European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy from 2004 to 2009, and as the European Commissioner for Trade and European Neighbourhood Policy from 2009 to 2010.

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05/09/1947

Mel Collins, Manx saxophonist and flute player

Melvyn Desmond Collins is a British saxophonist, flautist and session musician.

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Chip Davis, American pianist, songwriter, and producer

Louis F. "Chip" Davis Jr. is the founder and leader of the music group Mannheim Steamroller. Davis composed the music for several C. W. McCall albums, including the hit 1975 song "Convoy". He has also written and made other albums, such as Day Parts, and has written several books.

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Buddy Miles, American singer-songwriter and drummer (died 2008)

George Allen "Buddy" Miles Jr. was an American composer, drummer, guitarist, vocalist and producer. He was a founding member of the Electric Flag (1967), a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys (1969–1970), founder and leader of the Buddy Miles Express and later, the Buddy Miles Band. Miles also played and recorded with Carlos Santana, John McLaughlin, and others. He also sang lead vocals on the California Raisins claymation TV commercials and recorded two California Raisins R&B albums.

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Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 2019)

Bruce Yardley was an Australian cricketer who played in 33 Test matches and seven One Day Internationals between 1978 and 1983, taking 126 Test wickets.

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05/09/1946

Kyongae Chang, South Korean astrophysicist and academic

Kyongae Chang is a South Korean astrophysicist. She is best known for her work on gravitational lensing, including the Chang-Refsdal lens.

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Dennis Dugan, American actor and director

Dennis Dugan is an American film director, actor, and comedian. He is known for directing the films Problem Child, Brain Donors, Beverly Hills Ninja and National Security, and his partnership with comedic actor Adam Sandler, for whom he directed the films Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, The Benchwarmers, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Grown Ups, Just Go with It, Jack and Jill and Grown Ups 2. Dugan is a four-time Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director nominee, winning once.

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Dean Ford, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2018)

Dean Ford was a Scottish singer and songwriter best known for his tenure as lead vocalist and frontman of the beat pop group Marmalade from 1966 to 1974. Ford co-wrote the group's worldwide hit "Reflections of My Life" with fellow band member Junior Campbell. "Reflections of My Life" has sold more than two million units globally, and in 1998 the writers were awarded a Special Citation of Achievement by BMI for attaining radio broadcast performances in excess of one million in the U.S. alone.

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Freddie Mercury, British singer and songwriter (died 1991)

Freddie Mercury was a British singer and songwriter who achieved global fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen. Regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock music, he is known for his flamboyant stage persona and four-octave vocal range. Mercury defied the conventions of a rock frontman with his theatrical style, influencing the artistic direction of Queen.

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Loudon Wainwright III, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

Loudon Snowden Wainwright III is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actor. He has released twenty-six studio albums, four live albums, and six compilations. Some of his best-known songs include "The Swimming Song", "Motel Blues", "The Man Who Couldn't Cry", "Dead Skunk", and "Lullaby". In 2007, he collaborated with musician Joe Henry to create the soundtrack for Judd Apatow's film Knocked Up. In addition to music, he has acted in small roles in at least eighteen television programs and feature films, including three episodes in the third season of the series M*A*S*H.

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05/09/1945

Eva Bergman, Swedish director and screenwriter

Eva Bergman is a Swedish film, theatre and television director who worked at Dramaten. She is the daughter of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, and was married to crime writer Henning Mankell from 1998 until his death in 2015.

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Al Stewart, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Alastair Ian Stewart is a British singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He developed a style of combining folk-rock songs with tales of characters and events from history.

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05/09/1944

Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author, and playwright (died 1996)

Dario Bellezza was an Italian poet, author and playwright. He won the Viareggio, Gatto, and Montale prizes.

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Gareth Evans, Australian lawyer and politician, 33rd Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Gareth John Evans is an Australian politician, international policymaker, academic, and barrister. He represented the Labor Party in the Senate and House of Representatives from 1978 to 1999, serving as a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating governments from 1983 to 1996 as Attorney-General, Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Transport and Communications and most prominently, from 1988 to 1996, as Minister for Foreign Affairs. He was Leader of the Government in the Senate from 1993 to 1996, Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 1996 to 1998, and remains one of the two longest-serving federal Cabinet Ministers in Labor Party history.

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05/09/1943

Dulce Saguisag, Filipino social worker and politician, 10th Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (died 2007)

Dulce Maramba Quintans-Saguisag was a Filipino politician and former Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development under the administration of former President Joseph Estrada. Saguisag was one of Estrada's eleven cabinet members who withdrew support for Estrada on January 19, 2001, following accusations of massive corruption by the president. Estrada was ousted from office the next day, which is now known in the Philippines as EDSA II.

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05/09/1942

Werner Herzog, German actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Werner Herzog is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. His film-making process involves avoiding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing his cast and crew into real situations mirroring those in the film on which they are working.

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Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (died 1995)

Eduardo Mata was a Mexican conductor and composer.

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05/09/1941

Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022)

David Murray Dryden was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, who created and first used the modern goaltending mask, consisting of fibreglass and a cage. From 1962 to 1980, he played nine seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, Buffalo Sabres, and Edmonton Oilers, and in the World Hockey Association between 1974 and 1979 with the Chicago Cougars and Edmonton Oilers. In the 1978-79 season, at the age of 37, Dryden led the Oilers to the best record in WHA with 41 wins and became the first player in franchise history to win a league Most Valuable Player award. He was the only goaltender to win the WHA's MVP award. When the team made the NHL the following year, he played 14 games to close out his career.

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05/09/1940

Valerie Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland, English politician

Valerie Georgina Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland, was a British social worker, first chief executive of Childline, child and adult welfare advocate and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.

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Raquel Welch, American actress and singer (died 2023)

Jo Raquel Welch was an American actress. Welch first gained attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although Welch had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in a doe-skin bikini became bestselling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), Hannie Caulder (1971), Kansas City Bomber (1972), The Last of Sheila (1973), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Wild Party (1975), and Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976). She made several television variety specials.

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05/09/1939

Claudette Colvin, American nurse and activist (died 2026)

Claudette Colvin was an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. It occurred nine months before the similar, more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.

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William Devane, American actor, director, and screenwriter

William Joseph Devane is an American actor. He is known for his role as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing (1983–1993) and as James Heller on the Fox serial dramas 24 (2001–2010) and 24: Live Another Day (2014). He is also known for his work in films such as Family Plot (1976), Marathon Man (1976), Rolling Thunder (1977), Payback (1999), and Space Cowboys (2000).

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George Lazenby, Australian actor, the second to play James Bond

George Robert Lazenby is an Australian retired actor. He began his professional career as a model and an actor in commercials. He had no film acting experience when he was cast as the fictional British spy James Bond for the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Lazenby replaced the original Bond actor, Sean Connery, but declined to return for subsequent films in the series, instead pursuing roles in Universal Soldier (1971), Who Saw Her Die? (1972), The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss (1974), and The Man from Hong Kong (1975).

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John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2008)

John Coburn Stewart was an American songwriter and singer. He is known for his contributions to the American folk music movement of the 1960s while with the Kingston Trio (1961–1967) and as a popular music songwriter of the Monkees' No. 1 hit "Daydream Believer" and his own No. 5 hit "Gold" during a solo career spanning 40 years that included almost four dozen albums and more than 600 recorded songs.

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George Tremlett, English journalist, author, and politician (died 2021)

George William Tremlett was an English author, bookshop owner, and politician.

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05/09/1938

John Ferguson, Sr., Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2007)

John Bowie "Fergy" Ferguson Sr. was a professional ice hockey player and executive. Ferguson played left wing for the Montreal Canadiens from 1963 to 1971. After retiring from active play, he became a coach, and later a general manager. He is the father of John Ferguson Jr.

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Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen, English politician (died 2024)

Doreen Elizabeth Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen, was a British life peer and a Labour member of the House of Lords.

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05/09/1937

Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Argentine footballer and manager (died 2018)

Antonio Valentín Angelillo was an Italian Argentine football forward who played the majority of his professional career in the Italian Serie A; he was a member of both the Argentine and the Italy national teams.

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Dick Clement, English director, producer, and screenwriter

Dick Clement is a retired English writer, director and producer. He became known for his writing partnership with Ian La Frenais for television series including The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

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05/09/1936

Robert Burns, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2014)

Robert Burns was a Canadian politician, attorney and union activist from Quebec, Canada.

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John Danforth, American politician and diplomat, 24th United States Ambassador to the United Nations

John Claggett Danforth is an American politician, attorney, diplomat, and Episcopal priest who served as the attorney general of Missouri from 1969 to 1976 and as a United States senator from 1976 to 1995. A member of the Republican Party, he later served as special counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice from 1999 to 2000 and as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2004 to 2005.

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Jonathan Kozol, American sociologist, author, and educator

Jonathan Kozol is an American writer, progressive activist, and educator, best known for his books on public education in the United States.

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Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player and coach (died 2026)

William Stanley Mazeroski, nicknamed "Maz" and "the Glove", was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played his entire career for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1956 to 1972. A ten-time All-Star known during his career primarily for his spectacular defensive play, he came to be known best for one of the most memorable home runs in baseball history, a dramatic ninth-inning drive in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series that beat the favored New York Yankees. It was the first time that the major league season ended with a home run, and remains the only walk-off home run to clinch a World Series championship in Game 7. ESPN ranked the World Series winner at the top of its list of the 100 Greatest Home Runs of All Time, while Sports Illustrated had it eighth in its compilation of the 100 Greatest Moments in Sports History. Mazeroski received the Babe Ruth Award for his play in the Series, during which he batted .320.

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Knuts Skujenieks, Latvian poet, journalist, and translator (died 2022)

Knuts Skujenieks was a Latvian poet, journalist, and translator from fifteen European languages.

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05/09/1935

Werner Erhard, American author and philanthropist, founded Werner Erhard and Associates and The Hunger Project

Werner Hans Erhard is an American author and lecturer who founded Erhard Seminars Training (est), a course of personal and social transformation, which was offered from 1971 to 1984. In 1985, Erhard replaced est with a newly designed and updated program called the Forum. Since 1991, the Forum has been kept up to date and offered by Landmark Education.

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Helen Gifford, Australian composer and educator

Helen Margaret Gifford OAM is an Australian composer. On Australia Day 1996 she was appointed to the Medal of the Order of Australia, "in recognition of service to music as a composer". At the APRA Music Awards of 2016 she won the category "Distinguished Services to Australian Music".

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Lucille Soong, Chinese-American actress

Lucille Soong is a Chinese-American actress. In the 1960s she occasionally worked under the stage name Soong Ling. She is best known for her role as Jenny Huang in the television series Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020). She has appeared in films and television shows since 1959, and is the author of the autobiography Wild Orchid: From Beijing to La-La Land.

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05/09/1934

Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal (died 2024)

Paul Josef Cordes was a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum (1995–2010) and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2007.

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Dennis Letts, American actor and educator (died 2008)

Dennis Letts was an American college professor, and later, in a second career, an actor. As the latter, he originated the critically successful role of Beverly Weston in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of the Tony-winning play August: Osage County in the summer of 2007, the writing of which had earned his son, Tracy Letts, a Pulitzer Prize.

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Kevin McNamara, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2017)

Joseph Kevin McNamara was a British Labour politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for almost 40 years.

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05/09/1933

Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilean cardinal

Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa is a Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Santiago from 1998 to 2010. He has been a cardinal since 2001 and was a member of Pope Francis' Council of Cardinal Advisers from its creation in 2013 until his departure in 2018.

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05/09/1932

Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer

Carol Lawrence is an American actress, appearing in musical theatre and on television. She is known for creating the role of Maria on Broadway in the musical West Side Story (1957), receiving a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She appeared at The Muny, St. Louis, in several musicals, including Funny Girl. She also appeared in many television dramas, including Rawhide, The Six Million Dollar Man and Murder, She Wrote. She was married to fellow performer Robert Goulet.

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Robert H. Dennard, American electrical engineer and inventor (died 2024)

Robert Heath Dennard was an American electrical engineer and inventor.

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05/09/1929

Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor (died 2024)

George Robert Newhart was an American comedian and actor. Newhart was known for his deadpan and stammering delivery style. Beginning his career as a stand-up comedian, he transitioned his career to acting in television. He received three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award as well as the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

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Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and cosmonaut (died 2004)

Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev was a Soviet cosmonaut. In 1962, aboard Vostok 3, he became the third Soviet cosmonaut to fly into space. Nikolayev was an ethnic Chuvash and because of it is considered the first Turkic cosmonaut.

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05/09/1928

Joyce Hatto, English pianist and educator (died 2006)

Joyce Hilda Hatto was an English concert pianist and piano teacher. In 1956 she married William Barrington-Coupe, a record producer who was convicted of Purchase Tax evasion in 1966. Hatto became famous very late in life when unauthorised copies of commercial recordings made by other pianists were released under her name, resulting in high praise from critics. The fraud did not come to light until 2007, more than six months after her death.

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Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist and educator (died 2005)

Albert Mangelsdorff was a German jazz trombonist. Working mainly in free jazz, he was an innovator in multiphonics.

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05/09/1927

Paul Volcker, American economist and academic (died 2019)

Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, with measures known as the Volcker shock. He previously served as the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1975 to 1979.

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05/09/1925

Justin Kaplan, American author (died 2014)

Justin Daniel Kaplan was an American writer and editor. The general editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, he was best known as a biographer, particularly of Samuel Clemens, Lincoln Steffens, and Walt Whitman.

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05/09/1924

Paul Dietzel, American football player and coach (died 2013)

Paul Franklin Dietzel was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head coach at Louisiana State University (1955–1961), the United States Military Academy (1962–1965), and the University of South Carolina (1966–1974), compiling a career head coaching record of 109–95–5. Dietzel's 1958 LSU team concluded an 11–0 season with a win over Clemson in the Sugar Bowl and was a consensus national champion. For his efforts that year, Dietzel was named the National Coach of the Year by both the American Football Coaches Association and the Football Writers Association of America. Dietzel also served as the athletic director at South Carolina (1966–1974), Indiana University Bloomington (1977–1978), LSU (1978–1982), and Samford University (1985–1987).

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Frank Armitage, Australian-American artist (died 2016)

Frank Armitage was an Australian-born American painter and muralist, known for painting the backgrounds of several classic animated Disney films, designing areas of and painting murals for Walt Disney World and Tokyo DisneySea, and his biomedical visualization artwork.

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05/09/1923

David Hamer, Australian captain and politician (died 2002)

David John Hamer was an Australian politician and Royal Australian Navy officer.

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Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (died 2004)

Kenneth Douglas Meuleman was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test match in 1946. His cricket career started in Victoria, but after moving to Perth, Western Australia, he established himself as an important member of the State Sheffield Shield team between 1945/46 and 1960/61. He captained the side for a number of seasons.

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05/09/1922

Denys Wilkinson, English physicist and academic (died 2016)

Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson FRS was a British nuclear physicist.

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05/09/1921

Murray Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2013)

John Murray "Moe" Henderson was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 405 games in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins between 1945 and 1952.

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Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (died 2007)

Jack Joseph Valenti was an American political advisor and lobbyist who served as a Special Assistant to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was also the longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America. During his 38-year tenure in the MPAA, he created the MPAA film rating system, and was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyright lobbyists in the world.

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05/09/1920

Peter Racine Fricker, English-American composer and educator (died 1990)

Peter Racine Fricker was an English composer, among the first to establish his career entirely after the Second World War. He lived in the US for the last thirty years of his life. Fricker wrote over 160 works in all the main genres excepting opera. He was a descendant of the French playwright Racine.

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Fons Rademakers, Dutch-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2007)

Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter.

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05/09/1919

Elisabeth Volkenrath, German SS officer and executed war criminal (died 1945)

Elisabeth Volkenrath was a German supervisor at several Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

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05/09/1918

Luis Alcoriza, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1992)

Luis Alcoriza de la Vega was a Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor.

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Bob Katter, Sr., Australian captain and politician (died 1990)

Robert Cummin Katter was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1966 to 1990, representing the National Party. He served as Minister for the Army in the McMahon government in 1972. His sons Bob Katter Jr. and Carl Katter as well as grandson Robbie have also been involved in politics.

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Fred McCarthy, American cartoonist and monk (died 2009)

Frederick Francis "Fred" McCarthy, O.F.S., was an American Franciscan cartoonist, creator of the popular Brother Juniper single-panel comic strip.

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05/09/1917

Pedro E. Guerrero, American photographer (died 2012)

Pedro E. Guerrero was an American photographer known for his extraordinary access to Frank Lloyd Wright. He was a sought-after architectural photographer in the 1950s. In a career shift that was part serendipity and part the result of being blacklisted by the major shelter magazines for his stance against the Vietnam War, he later concentrated on documenting the work and lives of the American artists Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson.

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Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racer and trainer (died 2008)

Ernst Sören Nordin was a Swedish harness racing driver and trainer who later started a stable in America. Nordin won 3,221 races in 10 different countries as a driver, he won the Swedish Trotting Derby 11 times – still a record. In 1950, Nordin won the Prix d'Amérique, and in 1953 the Elitloppet. 21 times, Nordin was the champion driver at Solvalla racetrack in Stockholm, Sweden's premier track.

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05/09/1916

Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2002)

Frank Shuster, was a Canadian comedian best known as a member of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster, alongside Johnny Wayne. Wayne played to Shuster's straight man.

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Frank Yerby, American novelist (died 1991)

Frank Garvin Yerby was an American writer, best known for his 1946 historical novel The Foxes of Harrow.

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05/09/1914

Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist (died 2013)

Stuart Freeborn was a British motion picture make-up artist. He has been referred to as the "grandfather of modern make-up design" and is perhaps best known for his work on the original Star Wars trilogy, most notably the design and fabrication of Yoda.

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Gail Kubik, American violinist, composer, and educator (died 1984)

Gail Thompson Kubik was an American composer, music director, violinist, and teacher.

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Nicanor Parra, Chilean physicist, mathematician, and poet (died 2018)

Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean physicist and poet. He has been considered one of the most influential Spanish-language Chilean poets of the 20th century.

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05/09/1912

John Cage, American composer and theorist (died 1992)

John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, artist, and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives.

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Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German actress and photographer (died 2001)

Beata Margareta Kristina Söderbaum was a Swedish-German film actress, film producer, and photographer. She performed in Nazi-era films made by a German state-controlled production company, several of them directed by her husband Veit Harlan.

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Frank Thomas, American voice actor, animator, and screenwriter (died 2004)

Franklin Rosborough Thomas was an American animator and pianist. He was one of Walt Disney's leading team of animators known as the Nine Old Men.

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05/09/1910

Leila Mackinlay, English author (died 1996)

Leila Antoinette Sterling Mackinlay was a British writer of romance novels from 1930 to 1979 as Leila S. Mackinlay or Leila Mackinlay and also under the pseudonym Brenda Grey. Some of her novels are based on real people like Madame Vestris, Lola Montez or Jane Elizabeth Digby; she also wrote Musical Productions, a musical book. She was the daughter of the musician and writer Malcolm Sterling Mackinlay and granddaughter of the vocalist Antoinette Sterling.

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Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (died 1981)

Phiroze Edulji Palia was an early Indian cricketer. His first name is sometimes written as other orthographic variations including Phiroz. Palia represented India in his first ever Test match at Lord's in 1932. He suffered an injury while fielding. In the second innings he was hardly in a position to walk, but batted as the last man. He again toured England in 1936 and played at Lord's.

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05/09/1909

Hans Carste, German pianist and conductor (died 1971)

Hans Friedrich August Carste was a German composer and conductor. He arrived in Berlin in 1931 after working in Vienna and Breslau. He composed film music and as well as songs for the stage. Electrola offered him and his orchestra an exclusive recording contract and he recorded many high quality sides for them. Hans Carste joined the NSDAP in 1933.

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Bernard Delfont, Russian-English talent manager (died 1994)

Bernard Delfont, Baron Delfont was a Russian-born British theatrical impresario and media proprietor. He was the brother of fellow impresarios Lew and Leslie Grade, and was a prominent figure in British entertainment during the 20th-century.

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Archie Jackson, Scottish-Australian cricketer (died 1933)

Archibald Jackson, occasionally known as Archibald Alexander Jackson, was an Australian international cricketer who played eight Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1929 and 1931. A teenage prodigy, he played first grade cricket at only 15 years of age and was selected for New South Wales at 17. In 1929, aged 19, Jackson made his Test debut against England, scoring 164 runs in the first innings to become the youngest player to score a Test century.

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05/09/1908

Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (died 1973)

Josué de Castro, born Josué Apolônio de Castro, was a Brazilian physician, nutritionist, geographer, writer, public administrator, and activist against world hunger.

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Joaquín Nin-Culmell, German-American pianist and composer (died 2004)

Joaquín María Nin-Culmell was a Cuban-Spanish composer, internationally known concert pianist, and emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer and painter (died 2019)

Cecilia Seghizzi was an Italian composer, painter, teacher and supercentenarian.

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Renzo Rivolta, Italian engineer (died 1966)

Renzo Rivolta was an Italian engineer and entrepreneur who founded the Iso vehicle company that produced appliances, scooters and later sports cars.

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05/09/1906

Ralston Crawford, American painter, lithographer, and photographer (died 1978)

Ralston Crawford (1906–1978) was a Canadian-born American painter, lithographer, photographer, and teacher. He is best known for his abstract representations of urban life and industry. He taught at the Cincinnati Art Academy for many years.

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Sunnyland Slim, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1995)

Albert Luandrew, known as Sunnyland Slim, was an American blues pianist born in the Mississippi Delta and moved to Chicago, helping to make that city a center of postwar blues.

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05/09/1905

Maurice Challe, French general (died 1979)

Maurice Challe was a French general during the Algerian War, one of four generals who took part in the Algiers putsch.

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Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author (died 1983)

Arthur Koestler was an Austro-Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest, and was educated in Austria, apart from his early school years. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany but resigned in 1938 after becoming disillusioned with Stalinism.

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Justiniano Montano, Filipino lawyer and politician (died 2005)

Justiniano Solis Montano Sr. was a Filipino lawyer and politician who was elected for one term to the Philippine Senate and for multiple terms as a member of the House of Representatives.

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05/09/1904

Vera Bradford, Australian pianist and educator (died 2004)

Vera Florence Bradford was an Australian classical pianist and teacher, with a very long career. Her playing was admired for its depth and beauty of tone, classical unity and tremendous power.

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05/09/1902

Jean Dalrymple, American playwright, producer, manager, and publicist (died 1998)

Jean Van Kirk Dalrymple was an American theater producer, manager, publicist, and playwright. She was instrumental in the founding of New York City Center, and is best known for her productions there.

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Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1979)

Darryl Francis Zanuck was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era. Best known as a co-founder of 20th Century Fox, he played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors. Zanuck produced three films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture and won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award twice, the only person to receive more than one.

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05/09/1901

Florence Eldridge, American actress (died 1988)

Florence Eldridge was an American actress. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 1957 for her performance in Long Day's Journey into Night.

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Mario Scelba, Italian politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Italy (died 1991)

Mario Scelba was an Italian politician and statesman who was the 33rd prime minister of Italy from February 1954 to July 1955. A founder of Christian Democracy (DC), Scelba was one of the longest-serving Minister of the Interior in the history of the republic, having served at the Viminale Palace in three distinct terms from 1947 to 1962.

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05/09/1899

Humphrey Cobb, American author and screenwriter (died 1944)

Humphrey Cobb was an Italian-born, Canadian-American screenwriter and novelist. He is known for writing the novel Paths of Glory (1935), which was made into an acclaimed 1957 anti-war film Paths of Glory by Stanley Kubrick. Cobb was also the lead screenwriter on the 1937 film San Quentin, starring Humphrey Bogart.

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Helen Creighton, Canadian author and educator (died 1989)

Mary Helen Creighton, CM was a prominent Canadian folklorist. She collected over 4,000 traditional songs, stories, and beliefs in a career that spanned several decades, and she published many books and articles on Nova Scotia folk songs and folklore. She received numerous honorary degrees for her work and was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1976.

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05/09/1897

Morris Carnovsky, American actor (died 1992)

Morris Carnovsky was an American stage and film actor. He was one of the founders of the Group Theatre (1931-1940) in New York City and had a thriving acting career both on Broadway and in films until, in the early 1950s, professional colleagues told the House Un-American Activities Committee that Carnovsky had been a Communist Party member. He was blacklisted and worked less frequently for a few years, but then re-established his acting career, taking on many Shakespearean roles at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and performing the title roles in college campus productions of King Lear and The Merchant of Venice. Carnovsky's nephew is veteran character actor and longtime "Pathmark Guy" James Karen.

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Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst, founded ACNielsen (died 1980)

Arthur Charles Nielsen Sr. was an American businessman, electrical engineer and market research analyst who created and tracked the Nielsen ratings for television as founder of the A.C. Nielsen Company.

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05/09/1892

Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist and educator (died 1973)

Joseph Szigeti was a Hungarian violinist.

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05/09/1888

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (died 1975)

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian academic, philosopher and statesman who served as the Vice President of India from 1952 to 1962 and President of India from 1962 to 1967. He was the ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1952. He was also the vice-chancellor of Banaras Hindu University from 1939 to 1948 and the vice-chancellor of Andhra University from 1931 to 1936. Radhakrishnan is considered one of the most influential and distinguished 20th century scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, he held the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta from 1921 to 1932 and Spalding Chair of Eastern Religion and Ethics at University of Oxford from 1936 to 1952.

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05/09/1883

Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian musicologist and scholar (died 1967)

Otto Erich Deutsch was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's compositions, first published in 1951 in English, with a revised edition published in 1978 in German. It is from this catalogue that the D numbers used to identify Schubert's works derive.

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05/09/1881

Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Foreign Minister of Austria (died 1938)

Otto Bauer was an Austrian politician who was one of the founders and leading thinkers of the Austromarxists who sought a middle ground between social democracy and revolutionary socialism. He was a member of the Austrian Parliament from 1907 to 1934, deputy party leader of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) from 1918 to 1934, and Foreign Minister of the Republic of German-Austria in 1918 and 1919. In the latter position, he worked unsuccessfully to bring about the unification of Austria and the Weimar Republic. His opposition to the SDAP joining coalition governments after it lost its leading position in Parliament in 1920 and his practice of advising the party to wait for the proper historical circumstances before taking action were criticized by some for facilitating Austria's move from democracy to fascism in the 1930s. When the SDAP was outlawed by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg in 1934, Bauer went into exile, where he continued to work for Austrian socialism until his death.

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Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, English field marshal (died 1964)

Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson,, also known as Jumbo Wilson, was a senior British Army officer of the 20th century. He saw active service in the Second Boer War and then during the First World War on the Somme and at Passchendaele. During the Second World War he served as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) British Troops in Egypt, in which role he launched Operation Compass, attacking Italian forces with considerable success, in December 1940. He went on to be Military Governor of Cyrenaica in February 1941, commanding a Commonwealth expeditionary force to Greece in April 1941 and General Officer Commanding (GOC) British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan in May 1941.

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05/09/1880

José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (died 1936)

José María of Manila was a Criollo Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was martyred in the early phase of the Spanish Civil War, and is the third Filipino to have been declared blessed by the Roman Catholic Church.

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05/09/1876

Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (died 1956)

Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. Leeb was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Military Order of Max Joseph which granted him the title of nobility. During the Battle of France, he commanded Army Group C, responsible for the breakthrough of the Maginot Line.

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05/09/1874

Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager (died 1959)

Napoléon Lajoie, also known as Larry Lajoie, was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "the Frenchman", he represented both Philadelphia franchises and the Cleveland Bronchos, which was renamed "the Naps" by fans after him, and which he led as its player-manager from 1905 through 1909.

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05/09/1873

Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American general and engineer (died 1942)

Brigadier General Cornelius "Neily" Vanderbilt III was an American military officer, inventor, engineer, and yachtsman. He was a member of the Vanderbilt family.

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05/09/1872

V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1936)

Valliappan Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, businessman, Tamil scholar, and politician. He founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in 1906 to compete against the monopoly of the British India Steam Navigation Company (BISNC). He launched the first indigenous Indian shipping service between Tuticorin in British India and Colombo in Ceylon. Once a member of the Indian National Congress, he was later charged with sedition by the British government and sentenced to life imprisonment, and his barrister license was revoked. He is known by the epithet Kappalottiya Tamizhan. Tuticorin Port Trust, one of India's thirteen major ports, is named after him.

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Horace Rice, Australian tennis player (died 1950)

Horace Rice was an Australian tennis player.

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05/09/1871

Friedrich Akel, Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (d 1941)

Friedrich Karl Akel was an Estonian diplomat and politician who served as State Elder of Estonia in 1924.

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05/09/1867

Amy Beach, American pianist and composer (died 1944)

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music.

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05/09/1856

Thomas E. Watson, American lawyer, publisher, and politician (died 1922)

Thomas Edward Watson was an American politician, attorney, newspaper editor, and writer from Georgia. In the 1890s Watson championed poor farmers as a leader of the Populist Party, articulating an agrarian political viewpoint while attacking business, bankers, railroads, Democratic President Grover Cleveland, and the Democratic Party. He was the nominee for vice president with Democrat William Jennings Bryan in 1896 on the Populist ticket.

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05/09/1850

Eugen Goldstein, German physicist (died 1930)

Eugen Goldstein was a German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, and the discoverer of anode rays or canal rays, later identified as positive ions in the gas phase including the hydrogen ion.

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05/09/1847

Jesse James, American outlaw (died 1882)

Jesse Woodson James was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang. Raised in the "Little Dixie" area of Missouri, James and his family maintained strong Southern sympathies. He and his brother Frank James joined pro-Confederate guerrillas known as "bushwhackers" operating in Missouri and Kansas during the American Civil War. As followers of William Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson, they were accused of committing atrocities against Union soldiers and civilian abolitionists, including the Centralia Massacre in 1864.

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05/09/1836

Justiniano Borgoño, Peruvian soldier and politician, 57th President of Peru (died 1921)

Justiniano Borgoño Castañeda was a Peruvian brigadier general and politician who served as the President of Peru, an office he held for four months in 1894. The son of a brigadier general in the Peruvian Army, Borgoño left behind agricultural administration to join the Army following the outbreak of the Peruvian Civil War of 1856–1858. He returned to military service nearly twenty years later to serve in the War of the Pacific, during which he survived a leg wound and being taken as a prisoner of war for three months.

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05/09/1833

George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (died 1917)

George Huntington Hartford headed the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) from 1878 to 1917. During this period, A&P created the concept of the chain grocery store and expanded into the country's largest retailer. He joined the firm as a clerk in 1861 and quickly assumed managerial responsibilities. When A&P's founder, George Gilman, retired in 1878, Hartford entered into a partnership agreement and ran the company until the founder's death in 1901. In the settlement of Gilman's estate, Hartford acquired control of the company and ultimately purchased the interests of Gilman's heirs.

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05/09/1831

Victorien Sardou, French author and playwright (died 1908)

Victorien Sardou was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play. He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-century operas such as La Tosca (1887) on which Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (1900) is based, and Fédora (1882) and Madame Sans-Gêne (1893) that provided the subjects for the lyrical dramas Fedora (1898) and Madame Sans-Gêne (1915) by Umberto Giordano. His play Gismonda, from 1894, was also adapted into an opera of the same name by Henry Février, as was Patrie! by Émile Paladilhe.

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05/09/1829

Lester Allan Pelton, American inventor (died 1908)

Lester Allan Pelton was an American inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydroelectricity and hydropower in the American Old West as well as world-wide. In the late 1870s, he invented the Pelton water wheel, at that time the most efficient design of the impulse water turbine. Recognized as one of the fathers of hydroelectric power, he was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal during his lifetime and is an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

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05/09/1827

Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and songwriter (died 1849)

Goffredo Mameli was an Italian patriot, poet and writer who was a notable figure in the Risorgimento. He is famously the lyricist of "Il Canto degli Italiani"—the national anthem of Italy.

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05/09/1826

John Wisden, English cricketer and businessman (died 1884)

John Wisden was an English cricketer who played 187 first-class cricket matches for three English county cricket teams, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex. He is now best known for launching the eponymous Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1864, the year after he retired from first-class cricket.

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05/09/1818

Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer and surveyor (died 1848)

Edmund Besley Court Kennedy was an explorer in Australia in the mid-19th century. He was the Assistant-Surveyor of New South Wales, working with Sir Thomas Mitchell. Kennedy explored the interior of Queensland and northern New South Wales, including the Thomson River, the Barcoo River, Cooper Creek, and Cape York Peninsula. He died in December 1848 after being speared by Aboriginal Australians in far north Queensland near Cape York.

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05/09/1817

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, author, and playwright (died 1875)

Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist, and playwright. He is considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on account of the strength of his dramatic trilogy The Death of Ivan the Terrible (1866), Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (1868), and Tsar Boris (1870). He also gained fame for his satirical works, published under his own name and under the collaborational pen name of Kozma Prutkov. His fictional works include the novella The Family of the Vourdalak, The Vampire (1841), and the historical novel Prince Serebrenni (1862).

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05/09/1806

Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general and politician, French Minister of War (died 1865)

Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière was a 19th-century French general.

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05/09/1792

Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (died 1857)

Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy was a French geologist and mineralogist.

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05/09/1791

Giacomo Meyerbeer, German pianist and composer (died 1864)

Giacomo Meyerbeer was a German opera composer, "the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Mozart and Wagner". With his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors, he gave the genre of grand opera 'decisive character'. Meyerbeer's grand opera style was achieved by his merging of German orchestra style with Italian vocal tradition. These were employed in the context of sensational and melodramatic libretti created by Eugène Scribe and were enhanced by the up-to-date theatre technology of the Paris Opéra. They set a standard that helped to maintain Paris as the opera capital of the nineteenth century.

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05/09/1787

François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (died 1850)

François Sulpice Beudant was a French mineralogist and geologist. The mineral beudantite was named after him.

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05/09/1781

Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer and publisher (died 1858)

Anton Diabelli was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations.

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05/09/1775

Juan Martín Díez, Spanish general (died 1825)

Juan Martín Díez, nicknamed El Empecinado, was a Spanish military leader and guerrilla fighter, who fought in the Peninsular War.

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05/09/1774

Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and etcher (died 1840)

Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings often set contemplative human figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. Art historian Christopher John Murray described their presence, in diminished perspective, amid expansive landscapes, as reducing the figures to a scale that directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".

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05/09/1772

Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Iranian king (died 1834)

Fath-Ali Shah Qajar was the second Shah of Qajar Iran. He reigned from 17 June 1797 until his death on 24 October 1834. His reign saw the irrevocable ceding of Iran's northern territories in the Caucasus, comprising what is nowadays Georgia, Dagestan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, to the Russian Empire following the Russo-Persian Wars of 1804–1813 and 1826–1828 and the resulting treaties of Gulistan and Turkmenchay. These two treaties are closely tied to Fath-Ali Shah's legacy amongst Iranians, who often view him as a weak ruler.

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05/09/1771

Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen (died 1847)

Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Lawrence of Austria, Duke of Teschen was an Austrian field marshal, the third son of Emperor Leopold II and Maria Luisa of Spain. He was also the younger brother of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor. He was epileptic, but achieved respect both as a commander and as a reformer of the Austrian Army. He was considered one of Napoleon's most formidable opponents and one of the greatest generals of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Charles wrote several military works as well.

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05/09/1769

John Shortland, English commander (died 1810)

John Shortland was an officer of the Royal Navy, the eldest son of John Shortland. Shortland joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman and went to Quebec in a transport commanded by his father. From 1783 to 1787 he served in the West Indies. In 1787 he was master's mate in HMS Sirius when the First Fleet sailed for Australia. Shortland spent nearly five years in Australia including time on Norfolk Island where Sirius was wrecked in 1790. In 1792 he returned to England.

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05/09/1750

Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet and author (died 1774)

Robert Fergusson was a Scottish poet. After formal education at the University of St Andrews, Fergusson led a bohemian life in Edinburgh, the city of his birth, then at the height of intellectual and cultural ferment as part of the Scottish Enlightenment. Many of his extant poems were printed from 1771 onwards in Walter Ruddiman's Weekly Magazine, and a collected works was first published early in 1773. Despite a short life, his career was highly influential, especially through its impact on Robert Burns. He wrote both Scottish English and the Scots language, and it is his vivid and masterly writing in the latter leid for which he is principally acclaimed.

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05/09/1735

Johann Christian Bach, German-English viol player and composer (died 1782)

Johann Christian Bach was a German composer of the Classical era and the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He received his early musical training from his father, and later from his half-brother, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in Berlin. After his time in Berlin he made his way to Italy to study with famous Padre Martini in Bologna. While in Italy, J.C. Bach was appointed as an organist at the Milan Cathedral. In 1762 he became a composer to the King’s Theatre in London where he wrote a number of successful Italian operas and became known as "The English Bach". He is responsible for the development of the sinfonia concertante form. He became one of the most influential figures of the classical period, influencing compositional styles of prolific composers like Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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05/09/1725

Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician and theorist (died 1799)

Jean-Étienne Montucla was a French mathematician and historian.

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05/09/1722

Frederick Christian, Prince-Elector of Saxony (died 1763)

Frederick Christian was the Prince-Elector of Saxony for 73 days in 1763. He was a member of the House of Wettin. He was the third but eldest surviving son of Frederick Augustus II, Prince-Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, by his wife, Maria Josepha of Austria.

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05/09/1695

Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician and diplomat (died 1770)

Count Carl Gustaf Tessin was a Swedish count and politician and son of architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock. He was one of the most brilliant personages of his day, and the most prominent representative of French culture in Sweden. He was also often considered a fine orator.

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05/09/1694

František Václav Míča, Czech conductor and composer (died 1744)

František Antonín Míča was a conductor, tenor singer and composer from Bohemia.

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05/09/1667

Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (died 1733)

Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri was an Italian Jesuit priest, scholastic philosopher, and mathematician. He is considered the forerunner of non-Euclidean geometry.

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05/09/1666

Gottfried Arnold, German historian and theologian (died 1714)

Gottfried Arnold was a German Lutheran theologian and historian.

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05/09/1651

William Dampier, English explorer (died 1715)

William Dampier was an English explorer, pirate, privateer and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australia's first natural historian, as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between the 16th-century explorer Sir Francis Drake and the 18th-century explorer James Cook; he "bridged those two eras" with a mix of piratical derring-do of the former and scientific inquiry of the latter.

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05/09/1642

Maria of Orange-Nassau, Dutch princess (died 1688)

Maria of Nassau or Maria of Orange-Nassau was a Dutch princess of the house of Orange and by marriage pfalzgräfin or countess of Simmern-Kaiserslautern.

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05/09/1641

Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, English diplomat (died 1702)

Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, was an English nobleman and politician of the Spencer family. An able and gifted statesman, his caustic temper and belief in absolute monarchy nevertheless made him numerous enemies. He was forced to flee England in 1688, but later established himself with the new regime after the Glorious Revolution of that year. Subsequently, he took on a more disinterested role as an adviser to the Crown, seeking neither office nor favour. He evinced no party loyalty, but was devoted to his country's interests, as he saw them. By the notoriously lax standards of the Restoration Court, his private life was remarkably free from scandal, which won him favour in the more sober post-Revolution state.

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05/09/1638

Louis XIV, king of France (died 1715)

Louis XIV was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. He is a symbol of the Age of Absolutism in Europe for styling himself as Le Roi Soleil, which portrayed him as supreme leader. He presided over a great expansion of the French colonial empire and a patronage of arts in his court at the Palace of Versailles that defined the Baroque style of French architecture. His reign of 72 years and 110 days remains the longest of any monarch in history.

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05/09/1568

Tommaso Campanella, Italian poet, philosopher, and theologian (died 1639)

Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.

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05/09/1567

Date Masamune, Japanese daimyō (died 1636)

Date Masamune was a Japanese samurai and daimyō during the Azuchi–Momoyama period through the early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful feudal lords in the Tōhoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai. An outstanding tactician, he was made all the more iconic for his missing eye, as Masamune was often called dokuganryū (独眼竜), or the "One-Eyed Dragon of Ōshū". As a legendary warrior and leader, Masamune is a character in a number of Japanese period dramas.

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05/09/1540

Magnus of Holstein, prince of Denmark (died 1583)

Magnus of Denmark or Magnus of Holstein was a Prince of Denmark, Duke of Holstein, and a member of the House of Oldenburg. As a vassal of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, he was the titular King of Livonia from 1570 to 1578.

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05/09/1533

Jacopo Zabarella, Italian philosopher and logician (died 1589)

Giacomo Zabarella was an Italian Aristotelian philosopher and logician.

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05/09/1500

Maria of Jever, ruler of the Lordship of Jever (died 1575)

Maria of Jever, known in Jeverland as Fräulein Maria, was the last ruler of the Lordship of Jever from the Wiemken family. She ruled from 1517 to her death.

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05/09/1451

Isabel Neville, daughter of Richard Neville (died 1476)

Lady Isabel Neville was the elder daughter and co-heiress of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Anne de Beauchamp, suo jure 16th Countess of Warwick. She was the wife of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence. She was also the elder sister of Anne Neville, wife and consort of Clarence's brother, Richard III.

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05/09/1319

Peter IV, king of Aragon (died 1387)

Peter IV, called the Ceremonious, was from 1336 until his death the king of Aragon, Sardinia-Corsica, and Valencia, and count of Barcelona. In 1344, he deposed James III of Majorca and made himself King of Majorca.

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05/09/1269

Agnes of Bohemia, Duchess of Austria (died 1296)[citation needed]

Agnes of Bohemia was a Bohemian princess, Countess of Habsburg, and Duchess of Austria.

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05/09/1201

Alix of Thouars, duchess of Brittany (died 1221)

Alix of Thouars, whose name may also be spelled Alis or Alice, was the Duchess of Brittany from 1203 until her death. She was also Countess of Richmond in the peerage of England.

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05/09/1187

Louis VIII, king of France (died 1226)

Louis VIII, nicknamed The Lion, was King of France from 1223 to 1226. As a prince, he invaded England on 21 May 1216 and was excommunicated by a papal legate on 29 May 1216. On 2 June 1216, Louis was proclaimed "King of England" by rebellious barons in London, though never crowned. With the assistance of allies in England and Scotland he gained control of approximately one third of the English kingdom and part of Southern Wales. He was eventually defeated by English loyalists and those barons who swapped sides following the death of King John. After the Treaty of Lambeth, he was paid 10,000 marks, pledged never to invade England again, and was absolved of his excommunication.

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05/09/0989

Fan Zhongyan, Chinese chancellor (died 1052)

Fan Zhongyan, courtesy name Xiwen (希文), was an accomplished statesman, writer, scholar, and reformer of the northern Song dynasty. After serving multiple regional posts and at the imperial court for over two decades, Fan was appointed as a vice chancellor by Emperor Renzong to lead the Qingli reforms. Although short-lived, the Qingli reforms and Fan Zhongyan's ideas inspired later reformers, most notably Wang Anshi. Fan's attitude towards official service is encapsulated by his oft-quoted line on the proper attitude of scholar-officials: "They were the first to worry the worries of all-under-Heaven, and the last to enjoy its joys". Fan's philosophical, educational and political contributions were exemplar of a Confucian scholar dedicated to public service. He was considered a mentor and leader of the lettered class and a pilot in political reforms. He advocated for the classical prose movement and is well-known for his ci poetry. He elevated the charitable family estate to an important institution promoting social welfare at the community level.

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