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Tiberius
Roman emperor
(d. 37 AD)
Leonardo Loredan
Italian ruler
(d. 1521)
Beatrice of Naples
Hungarian queen
(d. 1508)
Francesco Cattani da Diacceto
Florentine philosopher
(d. 1522)
Elisabeth of the Palatinate
Landgravine of Hesse, German noble
(d. 1522)
Jeanne d'Albret
Queen of Navarre
(d. 1572)
Anna d'Este
Duchess consort of Nemours
(d. 1607)
Saint Turibius of Mongrovejo
Spanish Grand Inquisitioner, Archbishop of Lima
(d. 1606)
Anna Juliana Gonzaga
Archduchess of Austria and nun
(d. 1621)
Paul Sartorius
German organist and composer
(d. 1609)
Augustyn Kordecki
Polish monk
(d. 1673)
Jean Chardin
French-English jeweler and explorer
(d. 1703)
Charles Duncombe
English banker and politician
(d. 1711)
Girolamo Abos
Maltese-Italian composer and educator
(d. 1760)
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
(d. 1793)
Carlo Antonio Campioni
French-Italian composer
(d. 1788)
Edward Law
1st Baron Ellenborough, English lawyer, judge, and politician
(d. 1818)
James McHenry
Irish-American surgeon and politician
(d. 1816)
Peter Andreas Heiberg
Danish philologist and author
(d. 1841)
Georg von Cancrin
German-Russian Minister of Finance
(d. 1845)
Francis Danby
Irish painter of the Romantic era
(d. 1861)
Mary Tyler Peabody Mann
American author and educator
(d. 1887)
Jónas Hallgrímsson
Icelandic poet, author and naturalist
(d. 1845)
John Bright
English academic and politician
(d. 1889)
Louis-Honoré Fréchette
Canadian poet, author, and politician
(d. 1908)
Jules Violle
French physicist and academic
(d. 1923)
Edmund James Flynn
Canadian lawyer and politician
(d. 1927)
Minnie Hauk
American-Swiss soprano and actress
(d. 1929)
Jürgen Kröger
German architect
(d. 1928)
Luigi Facta
Italian politician and journalist
(d. 1930)
Georgina Febres-Cordero
Venezuelan nun
(d. 1925)
Charles Turner
Australian cricketer
(d. 1944)
W. C. Handy
American trumpet player and composer
(d. 1958)
Alexander Kolchak
Russian admiral and explorer
(d. 1920)
Emil Breitkreutz
American runner and coach
(d. 1972)
Luis Cluzeau Mortet
Uruguayan pianist and composer
(d. 1957)
George S. Kaufman
American director, producer, and playwright
(d. 1961)
Dietrich Kraiß
German general
(d. 1944)
Elpidio Quirino
6th President of the Philippines
(d. 1956)
Guo Moruo
Chinese historian, author, and poet
(d. 1978)
Tazio Nuvolari
Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer
(d. 1953)
Bobby Cruickshank
American golfer
(d. 1975)
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Austrian philosopher and politician
(d. 1972)
Paul Hindemith
German composer, violist and conductor
(d. 1963)
Joan Lindsay
Australian author and critic
(d. 1984)
Oswald Mosley
English fascist leader and politician
(d. 1980)
Lawrence Tibbett
American actor and singer
(d. 1960)
Choudhry Rahmat Ali
Indian-Pakistani academic
(d. 1951)
Mary Margaret McBride
American radio host
(d. 1976)
Eliška Junková
Czechoslovakian race car driver
(d. 1994)
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Nigerian statesman, 1st President of Nigeria
(d. 1996)
Eddie Condon
American guitarist and banjo player
(d. 1973)
Burgess Meredith
American actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter
(d. 1997)
Mirza Nasir Ahmad
Indian-Pakistani religious leader
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George O. Petrie
American actor and director
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W. E. D. Ross
Canadian actor, playwright, and author
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Ellen Albertini Dow
American actress
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Eddie Chapman
English spy
(d. 1997)
Jean Fritz
Chinese-American author
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Harold Baigent
New Zealand actor and director
(d. 1996)
Daws Butler
American voice actor and singer
(d. 1988)
Al Lucas
Canadian-American bassist
(d. 1983)
Gene Amdahl
American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer
(d. 2015)
José Saramago
Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate in Literature
(d. 2010)
Sam Farber
American businessman
(d. 2013)
Mel Patton
American sprinter and coach
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Dolo Coker
American pianist and composer
(d. 1983)
Clu Gulager
American actor and director
(d. 2022)
Peter Boizot
English businessman
(d. 2018)
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic
(d. 2013)
Paul Foytack
American baseball player
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Salvatore Riina
Italian mob boss
(d. 2017)
Luciano Bottaro
Italian author and illustrator
(d. 2006)
Hubert Sumlin
American singer and guitarist
(d. 2011)
Garnet Mimms
American R&B singe
r
Elizabeth Drew
American journalist and autho
r
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
Iraqi-Lebanese cleric, educator, and author
(d. 2010)
Magdi Yacoub
Egyptian-English surgeon and academi
c
John Moore
Australian businessman and politicia
n
Alan Budd
English economist and academic
(d. 2023)
Ahmed Bouanani
Moroccan filmmaker
(d. 2011)
Kang Ning-hsiang
Taiwanese politicia
n
Walter Learning
Canadian actor
(d. 2020)
Robert Nozick
American philosopher, author, and academic
(d. 2002)
Troy Seals
American singer-songwriter and guitaris
t
Michael Billington
English author and criti
c
Donna McKechnie
American actress, singer, and dance
r
Angelo Gilardino
Italian guitarist, composer, and musicologist
(d. 2022)
Gerry Marshall
English race car driver
(d. 2005)
Dan Penn
American singer-songwriter and produce
r
Willie Carson
Scottish jockey and sportscaste
r
Joanna Pettet
English-Canadian actres
s
Oliver Braddick
English psychologist and academic
(d. 2022)
Teenie Hodges
American guitarist and songwriter
(d. 2014)
Lynn Hunt
American historian, author, and academi
c
Steve Railsback
American acto
r
Colin Burgess
Australian drummer and songwriter
(d. 2023)
Terence McKenna
American botanist, philosopher, and author
(d. 2000)
Barbara Smith
American write
r
Beverly Smith
American write
r
Jo Jo White
American basketball player and coach
(d. 2018)
Omar Ruiz Hernández
Cuban journalist and activis
t
Horst Bertram
German footballer and manager
(d. 2023)
Chi Coltrane
American singer-songwriter and pianis
t
Bonnie Greer
American-English playwright and criti
c
Ken James
Australian acto
r
Harvey Martin
American football player
(d. 2001)
Manuel Zamora
Filipino farmer and politicia
n
Andy Dalton
New Zealand rugby playe
r
Miguel Sandoval
American acto
r
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designe
r
Griff Rhys Jones
Welsh comedian, actor, and autho
r
Andrea Barrett
American novelist and short story write
r
Dick Gross
Australian lawyer and politicia
n
Héctor Cúper
Argentine footballer, coach, and manage
r
Pierre Larouche
Canadian ice hockey player and coac
h
Guillermo Lasso
Ecuadoran businessman, 47th President of Ecuado
r
Jun Kunimura
Japanese acto
r
Esteban Trapiello
Venezuelan businessma
n
Terry Labonte
American race car driver and businessma
n
Jacques Gamblin
French acto
r
Marg Helgenberger
American actres
s
Boris Krivokapić
Serbian author and academi
c
Glenda Bailey
English journalis
t
Francis M. Fesmire
American cardiologist and physician
(d. 2014)
Frank Bruno
English boxe
r
Darwyn Cooke
Canadian writer and artist
(d. 2016)
Mani
English bass playe
r
Steve Argüelles
English drummer and produce
r
William Bonner
Brazilian newscaster, publicist and journalis
t
Zina Garrison
American tennis playe
r
Waheed Alli
Baron Alli, English businessman and politicia
n
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Italian-French actress, director, and screenwrite
r
Dwight Gooden
American baseball playe
r
Diana Krall
Canadian singer-songwriter and pianis
t
Harry Lennix
American acto
r
Maeve Quinlan
American actres
s
Mika Aaltonen
Finnish footballe
r
Joey Cape
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and produce
r
Stephen Critchlow
English actor
(d. 2021)
Dave Kushner
American guitaris
t
Christian Lorenz
German keyboard playe
r
Dean McDermott
Canadian-American actor and produce
r
Tahir Shah
English journalist, author, and explore
r
Craig Arnold
American poet and academic
(d. 2009)
Lisa Bonet
American actress and directo
r
Tammy Lauren
American actres
s
Shobha Nagi Reddy
Indian politician
(d. 2014)
Melvin Stewart
American swimme
r
Logan Mader
Canadian-American guitarist and produce
r
Martha Plimpton
American actres
s
Tanja Damaske
German javelin thrower and shot putte
r
Mustapha Hadji
Moroccan footballer and manage
r
Annely Peebo
Estonian soprano and actres
s
Alexander Popov
Russian swimmer and coac
h
Waqar Younis
Pakistani cricketer and coac
h
Missi Pyle
American actress and singe
r
Christian Horner
English race car driver and manage
r
Brendan Laney
New Zealand-Scottish rugby player and sportscaste
r
Brooke Elliott
American actress and singe
r
Maurizio Margaglio
Italian ice dancer and coac
h
Paul Scholes
English footballer and sportscaste
r
Julio Lugo
Dominican baseball player
(d. 2021)
Yuki Uchida
Japanese actress, model, and singe
r
Dan Black
English singer-songwrite
r
Juha Pasoja
Finnish footballe
r
Martijn Zuijdweg
Dutch swimme
r
Oksana Baiul
Ukrainian-American figure skate
r
Gigi Edgley
Australian singer-songwriter and actres
s
Maggie Gyllenhaal
American actress and singe
r
Mauricio Ochmann
Mexican actor and produce
r
Kip Bouknight
American baseball playe
r
Mehtap Doğan-Sızmaz
Turkish runne
r
Takashi Nagayama
Japanese acto
r
Gary Naysmith
Scottish footballer and manage
r
Carolina Parra
Brazilian guitarist and drumme
r
Bruce Irons
American surfe
r
Moris Carrozzieri
Italian footballe
r
Kayte Christensen
American basketball playe
r
Nicole Gius
Italian skie
r
Carol Huynh
Canadian wrestle
r
Hasan Üçüncü
Turkish footballe
r
Fernando Cabrera
Puerto Rican baseball playe
r
Allison Crowe
Canadian singer-songwrite
r
Caitlin Glass
American voice actress, singer, and directo
r
Kate Miller-Heidke
Australian singer-songwrite
r
Osi Umenyiora
English-American football playe
r
Nonito Donaire
Filipino-American boxe
r
Jannie du Plessis
South African rugby playe
r
Ronald Pognon
French sprinte
r
Amar'e Stoudemire
American-Israeli basketball playe
r
Kool A.D.
American rappe
r
Kari Lehtonen
Finnish ice hockey playe
r
Britta Steffen
German swimme
r
Gemma Atkinson
English model and actres
s
Kimberly J. Brown
American actres
s
Mark Bunn
English footballe
r
Tamawashi Ichiro
Mongolian sumo wrestle
r
Aditya Roy Kapur
Indian acto
r
Sanna Marin
Finnish politician, former Prime Minister of Finlan
d
Omar Mateen
Islamic terrorist, perpetrator of the Orlando nightclub shootin
g
Maxime Médard
French rugby playe
r
Eitan Tibi
Israeli footballe
r
Jordan Walden
American baseball playe
r
Iamsu!
American rapper and produce
r
Arjo Atayde
Filipino acto
r
Dénes Dibusz
Hungarian football playe
r
Tomomi Kasai
Japanese actress and singe
r
George Akpabio
Nigerian footballe
r
Matthew Allwood
Australian rugby league playe
r
Marcelo Brozović
Croatian footballe
r
Shane Prince
American-Belarusian ice hockey playe
r
C. J. Beathard
American football playe
r
Pete Davidson
American comedian and acto
r
Nélson Semedo
Portuguese footballe
r
Denzel Valentine
American basketball playe
r
Brandon Larracuente
American acto
r
Yoshiki Yamamoto
Japanese footballe
r
Noah Gray-Cabey
American actor and pianis
t
André-Frank Zambo Anguissa
Cameroonian footballe
r
Bruno Guimarães
Brazilian footballe
r
Bol Bol
South Sudanese-American basketball playe
r
Josh Green
Australian basketball playe
r
Gu Yanhui
Chinese warlor
d
Shen Lun
Chinese scholar-officia
l
Ælfric of Abingdon
Archbishop of Canterbur
y
Dobrodeia of Kiev
Rus princess and author of medical book
s
Edmund Rich
English archbishop and saint
(b. 1175)
Ibn Arabi
Andalusian Arab philosopher
(b. 1165)
Nasr
Sultan of Granada
(b. 1287)
Prince Hisaaki
Japanese shōgun
(b. 1276)
John
Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
(b. 1406)
Theda Ukena
German noble
(b. 1432)
Marie of Baden-Sponheim
German Noblewoman
(b. 1507)
Charles Neville
6th Earl of Westmorland
(b. 1542)
Pierre Charron
French Catholic theologian and philosopher
(b. 1541)
Trajano Boccalini
Italian author and educator
(b. 1556)
Sofonisba Anguissola
Italian painter
(b. c. 1532)
Paolo Quagliati
Italian organist and composer
(b. 1555)
Bengt Gottfried Forselius
Swedish-Estonian scholar and author
(b. 1660)
Pierre Nicole
French philosopher and author
(b. 1625)
Jack Sheppard
English criminal
(b. 1702)
James Butler
2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
(b. 1665)
John Hawkesworth
English journalist and author
(b. 1715)
Pehr Kalm
Finnish botanist and explorer
(b. 1716)
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
American politician
(b. 1723)
André Michaux
French botanist and explorer
(b. 1746)
Moses Cleaveland
American general, lawyer, and politician, founded Cleveland, Ohio
(b. 1754)
Mustafa IV
Ottoman sultan
(b. 1779)
Christiaan Hendrik Persoon
South African-French mycologist and academic
(b. 1761)
František Chvostek
Czech-Austrian soldier and physician
(b. 1835)
Louis Riel
Canadian lawyer and politician
(b. 1844)
Robert I
Duke of Parma
(b. 1848)
Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th Premier of Quebec
(b. 1829)
A. A. Ames
American physician and politician, 9th Mayor of Minneapolis
(b. 1842)
Lawrence Feuerbach
American shot putter
(b. 1879)
George Barham
English businessman, founded Express County Milk Supply Company
(b. 1836)
Max Abraham
Polish-German physicist and academic
(b. 1875)
Pierce Butler
American lawyer and jurist
(b. 1866)
Eduard Eelma
Estonian footballer
(b. 1902)
Miina Härma
Estonian organist, composer, and conductor
(b. 1864)
Giuseppe Volpi
Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival
(b. 1877)
Bob Smith
American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous
(b. 1879)
Ōtori Tanigorō
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Yokozuna
(b. 1887)
Clark Gable
American actor
(b. 1901)
Sam Rayburn
American lawyer and politician, 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
(b. 1882)
Donald C. Peattie
American botanist and author
(b. 1898)
Edie Sedgwick
American model and actress
(b. 1943)
Vera Karalli
Russian ballerina and actress
(b. 1889)
Alan Watts
English-American philosopher, author, and educator
(b. 1915)
Walther Meissner
German physicist and engineer
(b. 1882)
Jack Foster
English cricketer
(b. 1905)
Pavel Alexandrov
Russian mathematician and academic
(b. 1896)
Vic Dickenson
American trombonist
(b. 1906)
Siobhán McKenna
Irish actress
(b. 1923)
Panditrao Agashe
Indian businessman
(b. 1936)
Jim Brewer
American baseball player and coach
(b. 1937)
Jean-Claude Malépart
Canadian lawyer and politician
(b. 1938)
Ege Bagatur
Turkish politician
(b. 1937)
Lucia Popp
Slovak-German soprano
(b. 1939)
Achille Zavatta
Tunisia-born French clown
(b. 1915)
Chet Powers
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(b. 1943)
Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1928)
Robert Earl Davis
American hip-hop artist
(b. 1971)
Ahmet Kaya
Turkish-French singer-songwriter
(b. 1957)
Tommy Flanagan
American pianist and composer
(b. 1930)
Ralph Edwards
American radio and television host and producer
(b. 1913)
Henry Taube
Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1915)
Donald Watson
English activist, founded the Vegan Society
(b. 1910)
Milton Friedman
American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1912)
Yuri Levada
Russian sociologist and political scientist
(b. 1930)
Harold Alfond
American businessman
(b. 1914)
Grethe Kausland
Norwegian actress and singer
(b. 1947)
Trond Kirkvaag
Norwegian actor and screenwriter
(b. 1946)
Vernon Scannell
English boxer, poet, and author
(b. 1922)
Jan Krugier
Polish-Swiss art dealer
(b. 1928)
Reg Varney
English actor and screenwriter
(b. 1916)
Antonio de Nigris
Mexican footballer
(b. 1978)
Sergei Magnitsky
Ukrainian-Russian accountant and lawyer
(b. 1972)
Edward Woodward
English actor
(b. 1930)
Britton Chance
American biologist and sailor
(b. 1913)
Ronni Chasen
American publicist
(b. 1946)
Wyngard Tracy
Filipino DJ and talent manager
(b. 1952)
John Chapman
Australian evangelist and academic
(b. 1930)
Subhash Dutta
Bangladeshi actor and director
(b. 1930)
Patrick Edlinger
French mountaineer
(b. 1960)
Aliu Mahama
Ghanaian engineer and politician, 3rd Vice President of Ghana
(b. 1946)
Eliyahu Nawi
Iraqi-Israeli lawyer, judge, and politician
(b. 1920)
Bob Scott
New Zealand rugby player
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Robert Conley
American journalist
(b. 1928)
Billy Hardwick
American bowler
(b. 1941)
William McDonough Kelly
Canadian lieutenant and politician
(b. 1925)
Tanvir Ahmad Khan
Indian-Pakistani diplomat, 19th Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
(b. 1932)
Oscar Lanford
American mathematician and academic
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Arne Pedersen
Norwegian footballer and manager
(b. 1931)
Louis D. Rubin
Jr., American author, critic, and academic
(b. 1923)
Charles Waterhouse
American painter, sculptor, and illustrator
(b. 1924)
Charles Champlin
American historian, author, and critic
(b. 1926)
Jovan Ćirilov
Serbian poet and playwright
(b. 1931)
Ian Craig
Australian cricketer
(b. 1935)
Juan Joseph
American football player and coach
(b. 1987)
Jadwiga Piłsudska
Polish soldier, pilot, and architect
(b. 1920)
Carl Sanders
American soldier, pilot, and politician, 74th Governor of Georgia
(b. 1925)
David Canary
American actor
(b. 1938)
Michael C. Gross
American graphic designer and producer
(b. 1945)
Bert Olmstead
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
(b. 1926)
Alton D. Slay
American general
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Jay Wright Forrester
American computer engineer
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Melvin Laird
American politician and writer
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Daniel Prodan
Romanian football player
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Hiromi Tsuru
Japanese actress
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Ann Wedgeworth
American actress
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William Goldman
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
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John Campbell Brown
Scottish astronomer
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Terry O'Neill
British photographer
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Sheila Nelson
English string teacher
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Jyrki Kasvi
Finnish journalist and politician
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Robert Clary
French-American actor and author
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