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James Clancy Phelan
James Clancy Phelan, Australian author and academic

#James_Clancy_Phelan

Willem Einthoven
Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physician, physiologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)

#Willem_Einthoven

Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th President of Ireland

#Mary_Robinson

Dorsey Levens
Dorsey Levens, American football player and sportscaster

#Dorsey_Levens

Guilherme Costa Marques
Guilherme, Brazilian footballer

#Guilherme_Costa_Marques

William P. Sprague
William P. Sprague, American banker and politician (d. 1899)

#William_P._Sprague

Joe Camilleri
Joe Camilleri, Maltese-Australian singer-songwriter and saxophonist

#Joe_Camilleri

Léon Bourgeois
Léon Bourgeois, French police officer and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)

#Léon_Bourgeois

Park Gyu-ri
Park Gyu-ri, South Korean singer

#Park_Gyu-ri

Al Franken
Al Franken, American actor, screenwriter, and politician

#Al_Franken

Suzanne Lilar
Suzanne Lilar, Belgian author and playwright (d. 1992)

#Suzanne_Lilar

Abdulla Yameen
Abdulla Yameen, Maldivian politician, 6th President of the Maldives

#Abdulla_Yameen

Mario Mandžuki?
Mario Mandžuki?, Croatian footballer

#Mario_Mandžuki?

Dennis Day
Dennis Day, American singer and actor (d. 1988)

#Dennis_Day

Beau Falloon
Beau Falloon, Australian rugby league player

#Beau_Falloon

Allan McKeown
Allan McKeown, English-American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)

#Allan_McKeown

Hans Berger
Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic (d. 1941)

#Hans_Berger

Carl Johnson (athlete)
Carl Johnson, American long jumper (d. 1932)

#Carl_Johnson_(athlete)

Josh Allen (quarterback)
Josh Allen, American footballer

#Josh_Allen_(quarterback)

Lucien Bonaparte
Lucien Bonaparte, French soldier and politician (d. 1840)

#Lucien_Bonaparte

Robert Montgomery (actor)
Robert Montgomery, American actor and director (d. 1981)

#Robert_Montgomery_(actor)

Muffy Calder
Muffy Calder, Canadian-Scottish computer scientist and academic

#Muffy_Calder

Damián Ariel Álvarez
Damián Ariel Álvarez, Argentinian-Mexican footballer

#Damián_Ariel_Álvarez

Briana Banks
Briana Banks, German-American porn actress and model

#Briana_Banks

Charles Albert Gobat
Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)

#Charles_Albert_Gobat

Itagaki Taisuke
Itagaki Taisuke, Japanese soldier and politician (d. 1919)

#Itagaki_Taisuke

Anna Rogowska
Anna Rogowska, Polish pole vaulter

#Anna_Rogowska

Earl Averill
Earl Averill, American baseball player (d. 1983)

#Earl_Averill

Eder Sánchez
Eder Sánchez, Mexican race walker

#Eder_Sánchez

Tudor Arghezi
Tudor Arghezi, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1967)

#Tudor_Arghezi

Alison Carroll
Alison Carroll, English gymnast, model, and actress

#Alison_Carroll

Philip II of Spain
Philip II of Spain (d. 1598)

#Philip_II_of_Spain

Havoc (musician)
Havoc, American rapper and producer

#Havoc_(musician)

Elizabeth Buchan
Elizabeth Buchan, English author and critic

#Elizabeth_Buchan

Richard Hatch (actor)
Richard Hatch, American actor, writer, and producer (d. 2017)

#Richard_Hatch_(actor)

Stan Lynch
Stan Lynch, American drummer, songwriter, and producer

#Stan_Lynch

Scott Smith (fighter)
Scott Smith, American mixed martial artist

#Scott_Smith_(fighter)

Nick Cassavetes
Nick Cassavetes, American actor, director, and screenwriter

#Nick_Cassavetes

Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan
Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, Indian Civil Service Officer and former Under Secretary-General of the UN, serving twenty-two years. (d. 2003)

#Chakravarthi_V._Narasimhan

Peggy Cass
Peggy Cass, American actress, comedian, and game show panelist (d. 1999)

#Peggy_Cass

Raymond Burr
Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1993)

#Raymond_Burr

Sonja Vectomov
Sonja Vectomov, Czech musician/composer

#Sonja_Vectomov

Archduke Eugen of Austria
Archduke Eugen of Austria (d. 1954)

#Archduke_Eugen_of_Austria

Danny Ongais
Danny Ongais, American race car driver

#Danny_Ongais

Lázaro Cárdenas
Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general and president (1934-1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (d. 1970)

#Lázaro_Cárdenas

Quinton Fortune
Quinton Fortune, South African footballer and coach

#Quinton_Fortune

Bobby Cox
Bobby Cox, American baseball player and manager

#Bobby_Cox

Lisa Edelstein
Lisa Edelstein, American actress and playwright

#Lisa_Edelstein

Ambrose Greenway, 4th Baron Greenway
Ambrose Greenway, 4th Baron Greenway, English photographer and politician

#Ambrose_Greenway,_4th_Baron_Greenway

Jonny Howson
Jonny Howson, English footballer

#Jonny_Howson

Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot, American guitarist and composer

#Marc_Ribot

Kent Hrbek
Kent Hrbek, American baseball player and sportscaster

#Kent_Hrbek

Gina Bachauer
Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and composer (d. 1976)

#Gina_Bachauer

Luke Garbutt
Luke Garbutt, English footballer

#Luke_Garbutt

Ricky Williams
Ricky Williams, American football player and coach

#Ricky_Williams

Tom Daley
Tom Daley, English diver

#Tom_Daley

Mr. T
Mr. T, American actor and wrestler

#Mr._T

William Babington (physician)
William Babington, Irish-born, English physician and mineralogist (d. 1833)

#William_Babington_(physician)

Abderrahim Goumri
Abderrahim Goumri, Moroccan runner (d. 2013)

#Abderrahim_Goumri

Pete Sandoval
Pete Sandoval, Salvadoran-born American drummer

#Pete_Sandoval

Brandon Fields
Brandon Fields, American football player

#Brandon_Fields

Christian Audigier
Christian Audigier, French fashion designer (d. 2015)

#Christian_Audigier

Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)

#Andrei_Sakharov

Jamie Hepburn
Jamie Hepburn, Scottish politician, Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Health

#Jamie_Hepburn

Mark Cavendish
Mark Cavendish, Manx cyclist

#Mark_Cavendish

Yevgeny Minayev
Yevgeny Minayev, Russian weightlifter (d. 1993)

#Yevgeny_Minayev

Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Curtiss, American cyclist and engineer (d. 1930)

#Glenn_Curtiss

Gotye
Gotye, Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter

#Gotye

Armand Hammer
Armand Hammer, American physician and businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum (d. 1990)

#Armand_Hammer

Denis O'Connor (police officer)
Denis O'Connor, British police officer

#Denis_O'Connor_(police_officer)

Kay Kendall
Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian (d. 1959)

#Kay_Kendall

Fats Waller
Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1943)

#Fats_Waller

Andrew Miller (baseball)
Andrew Miller, American baseball player

#Andrew_Miller_(baseball)

José Batlle y Ordóñez
José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguayan journalist and politician, President of Uruguay (d. 1929)

#José_Batlle_y_Ordóñez

Bill Champlin
Bill Champlin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

#Bill_Champlin

Princess Stéphanie of Belgium
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (d. 1945)

#Princess_Stéphanie_of_Belgium

Hal Robson-Kanu
Hal Robson-Kanu, English footballer

#Hal_Robson-Kanu

Renée Soutendijk
Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress

#Renée_Soutendijk

Kaire Leibak
Kaire Leibak, Estonian triple jumper

#Kaire_Leibak

Alfred Moore
Alfred Moore, American lawyer and judge (d. 1810)

#Alfred_Moore

Rudolf Koller
Rudolf Koller, Swiss painter (d. 1905)

#Rudolf_Koller

Joseph Fouché
Joseph Fouché, French lawyer and politician (d. 1820)

#Joseph_Fouché

Ronald Isley
Ronald Isley, American singer-songwriter and producer

#Ronald_Isley

Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry, English philanthropist and reformer (d. 1845)

#Elizabeth_Fry

Jonathan Hyde
Jonathan Hyde, Australian-English actor

#Jonathan_Hyde

Stuart Bingham
Stuart Bingham, English snooker player

#Stuart_Bingham

Lucie Hradecká
Lucie Hradecká, Czech tennis player

#Lucie_Hradecká

Brad Arthur
Brad Arthur, Australian rugby league coach

#Brad_Arthur

Stewart Cink
Stewart Cink, American golfer

#Stewart_Cink

Vladimir Salnikov
Vladimir Salnikov, Russian swimmer

#Vladimir_Salnikov

Deron Miller
Deron Miller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

#Deron_Miller

Kevin Shields
Kevin Shields, American-Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

#Kevin_Shields

Nadine Dorries
Nadine Dorries, English nurse and politician

#Nadine_Dorries

Will Hutton
Will Hutton, English economist and journalist

#Will_Hutton

Tony Sheridan
Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)

#Tony_Sheridan

Sara Goller
Sara Goller, German volleyball player

#Sara_Goller

Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland
Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, English duchess (d. 1806)

#Harriet_Sutherland-Leveson-Gower,_Duchess_of_Sutherland

Bengt I. Samuelsson
Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

#Bengt_I._Samuelsson

Richard Appel
Richard Appel, American screenwriter and producer

#Richard_Appel

Princess Sophie of Sweden
Princess Sophie of Sweden, Swedish princess (d. 1865)

#Princess_Sophie_of_Sweden

Anatole Litvak
Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1974)

#Anatole_Litvak

Ernst Messerschmid
Ernst Messerschmid, German physicist and astronaut

#Ernst_Messerschmid

Isa Guha
Isa Guha, English cricketer

#Isa_Guha

Mohanlal
Mohanlal, Indian actor

#Mohanlal

Keith Davis (rugby union)
Keith Davis, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2019)

#Keith_Davis_(rugby_union)

George LeMieux
George LeMieux, American lawyer and politician

#George_LeMieux

Brigita Bukovec
Brigita Bukovec, Slovenian hurdler

#Brigita_Bukovec

Chris Benoit
Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2007)

#Chris_Benoit

?lber Ortayl?
?lber Ortayl?, Turkish historian and academic

#?lber_Ortayl?

Grete Gaim
Grete Gaim, Estonian biathlete

#Grete_Gaim

Abel Ayerza
Abel Ayerza, Argentinian physician and academic (d. 1918)

#Abel_Ayerza

Edson Buddle
Edson Buddle, American soccer player

#Edson_Buddle

Karen Khachanov
Karen Khachanov, Russian tennis player

#Karen_Khachanov

Günter Blobel
Günter Blobel, Polish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)

#Günter_Blobel

Maurice André
Maurice André, French trumpet player (d. 2012)

#Maurice_André

Bill Barber (musician)
Bill Barber, American tuba player and educator (d. 2007)

#Bill_Barber_(musician)

Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer, English-Australian singer-songwriter and musician

#Leo_Sayer

Rene Krhin
Rene Krhin, Slovenian footballer

#Rene_Krhin

Pete Sandoval
Pete Sandoval, Salvadoran-American drummer

#Pete_Sandoval

Robert Welch (designer)
Robert Welch, English silversmith and industrial designer (d. 2000)

#Robert_Welch_(designer)

Anthony Mundine
Anthony Mundine, Australian rugby league player and boxer

#Anthony_Mundine

Arthur Carr (cricketer)
Arthur Carr, English cricketer (d. 1963)

#Arthur_Carr_(cricketer)

Martin Carthy
Martin Carthy, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

#Martin_Carthy

Sisca Folkertsma
Sisca Folkertsma, Dutch footballer

#Sisca_Folkertsma

Horace Heidt
Horace Heidt, American pianist, bandleader, and radio host (d. 1986)

#Horace_Heidt

Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau, French painter (d. 1910)

#Henri_Rousseau

Rosalind Plowright
Rosalind Plowright, English soprano

#Rosalind_Plowright

Mutya Buena
Mutya Buena, English singer-songwriter

#Mutya_Buena

Greg Stewart (ice hockey)
Greg Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player

#Greg_Stewart_(ice_hockey)

Alexander Dale Oen
Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (d. 2012)

#Alexander_Dale_Oen

Viktoria Petryk
Viktoria Petryk, Ukrainian singer-songwriter

#Viktoria_Petryk

David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral
David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, English politician, Secretary of State for Wales

#David_Hunt,_Baron_Hunt_of_Wirral

Jamaal Magloire
Jamaal Magloire, Canadian basketball player and coach

#Jamaal_Magloire

Claire Cashmore
Claire Cashmore, English swimmer

#Claire_Cashmore

Craig Anderson (ice hockey)
Craig Anderson, American ice hockey player

#Craig_Anderson_(ice_hockey)

Syamsul Yusof
Syamsul Yusof, Malaysian actor, film director, scriptwriter, film producer, rapper and singer

#Syamsul_Yusof

Giuseppe Mercalli
Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest and volcanologist (d. 1914)

#Giuseppe_Mercalli

Armand Borel
Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and academic (d. 2003)

#Armand_Borel

John Dalton (musician)
John Dalton, English bass player (The Kinks)

#John_Dalton_(musician)

Ilmar Raag
Ilmar Raag, Estonian director, producer, and screenwriter

#Ilmar_Raag

Josh Hamilton
Josh Hamilton, American baseball player

#Josh_Hamilton

Heinz Holliger
Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist, composer, and conductor

#Heinz_Holliger

Olivia Olson
Olivia Olson, American singer and actress

#Olivia_Olson

Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2015)

#Malcolm_Fraser

Nora Aunor
Nora Aunor, Filipino actress and recording artist

#Nora_Aunor

Judge Reinhold
Judge Reinhold, American actor and producer

#Judge_Reinhold

Fairuza Balk
Fairuza Balk, American actress

#Fairuza_Balk

John Konrads
John Konrads, Australian swimmer

#John_Konrads

Manly Wade Wellman
Manly Wade Wellman, American author (d. 1986)

#Manly_Wade_Wellman

Dušan Kuciak
Dušan Kuciak, Slovak footballer

#Dušan_Kuciak

Denis MacShane
Denis MacShane, Scottish journalist and politician, UK Minister of State for Europe

#Denis_MacShane

Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer, German painter, engraver, and mathematician (d. 1528)

#Albrecht_Dürer

Mary Anning
Mary Anning, English paleontologist (d. 1847)

#Mary_Anning

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1843)

#Gaspard-Gustave_de_Coriolis

Heath L'Estrange
Heath L'Estrange, Australian rugby league player

#Heath_L'Estrange

Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil, Scottish journalist and academic

#Andrew_Neil

Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar, Iranian-English academic and politician

#Haleh_Afshar,_Baroness_Afshar

Tinus Osendarp
Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter and police officer (d. 2002)

#Tinus_Osendarp

Georgiy Gongadze
Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (d. 2000)

#Georgiy_Gongadze

Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope, English poet, essayist, and translator (d. 1744)

#Alexander_Pope

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding, English comedian, musician and television presenter

#Noel_Fielding

Danny Bailey
Danny Bailey, English footballer and coach

#Danny_Bailey

Ara Parseghian
Ara Parseghian, American football player and coach (d. 2017)

#Ara_Parseghian

Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)

#Jacques_Marie_Eugène_Godefroy_Cavaignac

Louis Renault (jurist)
Louis Renault, French jurist, educator, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)

#Louis_Renault_(jurist)

Harold Robbins
Harold Robbins, American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)

#Harold_Robbins

William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Lord Chamberlain of the Household (d. 1858)

#William_Cavendish,_6th_Duke_of_Devonshire

Michael Crick
Michael Crick, English journalist and author

#Michael_Crick

Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley, American novelist, essayist, and poet (d. 2005)

#Robert_Creeley

Indy de Vroome
Indy de Vroome, Dutch tennis player

#Indy_de_Vroome

Adrian Hardiman
Adrian Hardiman, Irish lawyer and judge (d. 2016)

#Adrian_Hardiman

L?ga Dekmeijere
L?ga Dekmeijere, Latvian tennis player

#L?ga_Dekmeijere

Ivan De Santis, Italian footballer
Diego Loyzaga, Filipino actor
Katharina Andresen, Norwegian heiress and equestrian
Philipp Grüneberg, German footballer
Hutch Dano, American actor
Emily Robins, New Zealand actress and singer
Park Sojin, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
Alexander Noyes, American drummer
Myra, American singer and actress
Kano, English rapper, producer, and actor
Kaori Shimizu, Japanese voice actress and singer
Deidson Araújo Maia, Brazilian footballer
Maximilian Mutzke, German singer-songwriter
Max B, American rapper and songwriter
Michael Fuß, German footballer
Aditi Gowitrikar, Indian model, actress, and physician, Mrs. World 2001
The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (d. 1997)
Carl Veart, Australian footballer and coach
Pauline Menczer, Australian surfer
Brian Statham, English footballer
Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress and singer
Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer
Julie Vega, Filipino actress and singer (d. 1985)
Matthias Ungemach, German-Australian rower
Tatyana Ledovskaya, Belarusian hurdler
Josh Richman, American actor and producer
Laurie Spina, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
Dave Specter, American guitarist
David Lonsdale, English actor
Patrick Grant, American musician and producer
David Crumb, American composer and educator
Mark Ridgway, Australian cricketer
Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994)
Jefery Levy, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Naeem Khan, Indian-American fashion designer
James Bailey, American basketball player
Paul Barber, English field hockey player
Janice Karman, American film producer, record producer, singer, and voice actress
D. B. S. Jeyaraj, Sri Lankan-Canadian journalist and blogger
Linda Laubenstein, American physician and academic (d. 1992)
Wayne Roycroft, Australian equestrian rider and coach
Janet Dailey, American author and entrepreneur (d. 2013)
Marcie Blane, American singer
Hilton Valentine, English guitarist and songwriter (The Animals)
Vincent Crane, English pianist and composer (d. 1989)
Lee "Shot" Williams, American singer (d. 2011)
Terry Lightfoot, English clarinet player and bandleader (d. 2013)
Bob Northern, American horn player and bandleader
Jocasta Innes, Chinese-English journalist and author (d. 2013)
Leonidas Vasilikopoulos, Greek admiral and intelligence chief (d. 2014)
Inese Jaunzeme, Latvian javelin thrower and surgeon (d. 2011)
Tommy Bryant, American bassist (d. 1982)
Larance Marable, American drummer (d. 2012)
Alice Drummond, American actress (d. 2016)
Tom Donahue, American radio host and producer (d. 1975)
Péter Zwack, Hungarian businessman and diplomat (d. 2012)
Evelyn Ward, American actress (d. 2012)
Dorothy Hewett, Australian feminist poet, novelist and playwright (d. 2002)
Vernon Biever, American photographer (d. 2010)
Sandy Douglas, English computer scientist and academic, designed OXO (d. 2010)
Forrest White, American businessman, co-founded the Music Man Company (d. 1994)
George P. Mitchell, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
Anthony Steel, English actor and singer (d. 2001)
Cathleen Cordell, American actress (d. 1997)
Monty Stratton, American baseball player and coach (d. 1982)
John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist and academic (d. 1986)
Chen Dayu, Chinese painter and calligrapher (d. 2001)
John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (d. 1979)
Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-American architect and academic, designed the Ameritrust Tower (d. 1981)
Sam Jaffe, American film producer and agent (d. 2000)
Regina M. Anderson, Multiracial playwright and librarian (d. 1993)
John McLaughlin, American painter and translator (d. 1976)
Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge (d. 1967)
Giles Chippindall, Australian public servant (d. 1969)
Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, Princess of Albania (d. 1936)
Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and publisher (d. 1920)
František Chvostek, Czech-Austrian physician and academic (d. 1884)
David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo, Dutch Talmudist (d. 1890)
Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1697)
Al-Hattab, Muslim jurist (d. 1547)