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William Penn
William Penn, English businessman who founded Pennsylvania (d. 1718)

#William_Penn

Shaggy 2 Dope
Shaggy 2 Dope, American rapper and producer

#Shaggy_2_Dope

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)

#Dwight_D._Eisenhower

Roger Taylor (tennis)
Roger Taylor, English tennis player

#Roger_Taylor_(tennis)

Damian Lau
Damian Lau, Hong Kong actor, director, and producer

#Damian_Lau

Péter Nádas
Péter Nádas, Hungarian author and playwright

#Péter_Nádas

Mikhail Pervukhin
Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1978)

#Mikhail_Pervukhin

Chris Thomas King
Chris Thomas King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor

#Chris_Thomas_King

Yukio Sakurauchi
Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (d. 1947)

#Yukio_Sakurauchi

LaRon Landry
LaRon Landry, American football player

#LaRon_Landry

Ryan Hall (runner)
Ryan Hall, American runner

#Ryan_Hall_(runner)

Dan McCafferty
Dan McCafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter

#Dan_McCafferty

E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (d. 1962)

#E._E._Cummings

Iwona Blazwick
Iwona Blazwick, English curator and critic

#Iwona_Blazwick

Isaac Mizrahi
Isaac Mizrahi, American fashion designer

#Isaac_Mizrahi

Preston King (politician)
Preston King, American lawyer and politician (d. 1865)

#Preston_King_(politician)

Joey Travolta
Joey Travolta, American actor, director, and producer

#Joey_Travolta

C. Everett Koop
C. Everett Koop, American admiral and surgeon, 13th United States Surgeon General (d. 2013)

#C._Everett_Koop

Ron Lancaster
Ron Lancaster, American-Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008)

#Ron_Lancaster

Glenn Maxwell
Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer

#Glenn_Maxwell

Evelio Javier
Evelio Javier, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1986)

#Evelio_Javier

Viktor Onopko
Viktor Onopko, Russian footballer and manager

#Viktor_Onopko

François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt
François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)

#François_Sébastien_Charles_Joseph_de_Croix,_Count_of_Clerfayt

Bernd Rosemeyer
Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (d. 1938)

#Bernd_Rosemeyer

Lasha Zhvania
Lasha Zhvania, Georgian businessman and politician

#Lasha_Zhvania

Lesley Joseph
Lesley Joseph, English actress

#Lesley_Joseph

James II of England
James II of England (d. 1701)

#James_II_of_England

Hans Kraay Sr.
Hans Kraay Sr., Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2017)

#Hans_Kraay_Sr.

Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)

#Lillian_Gish

Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist (d. 1975)

#Hannah_Arendt

John William Kendrick
John William Kendrick, American engineer and businessman (d. 1924)

#John_William_Kendrick

Shimazu Tadayoshi
Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimy? (d. 1568)

#Shimazu_Tadayoshi

Raymond Davis Jr.
Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)

#Raymond_Davis_Jr.

François Bozizé
François Bozizé, Gabonese general and politician, President of the Central African Republic

#François_Bozizé

Craig Venter
Craig Venter, American biologist, geneticist, and academic

#Craig_Venter

Doug Ring
Doug Ring, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2003)

#Doug_Ring

Éamon de Valera
Éamon de Valera, American-Irish rebel and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (d. 1975)

#Éamon_de_Valera

Sumner Welles
Sumner Welles, American politician and diplomat, 11th Under Secretary of State (d. 1961)

#Sumner_Welles

Saeed Ajmal
Saeed Ajmal, Pakistani cricketer

#Saeed_Ajmal

Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1602)

#Philip_IV,_Count_of_Nassau-Weilburg

Carlos Spencer
Carlos Spencer, New Zealand rugby player

#Carlos_Spencer

Nikolai Andrianov
Nikolai Andrianov, Russian gymnast and coach (d. 2011)

#Nikolai_Andrianov

Jaan Ehlvest
Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player

#Jaan_Ehlvest

Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen
Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer (d. 1939)

#Joseph_Duveen,_1st_Baron_Duveen

John See
John See, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1907)

#John_See

Robert Simson
Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician and academic (d. 1768)

#Robert_Simson

Harry Brecheen
Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach (d. 2004)

#Harry_Brecheen

John Dean
John Dean, American lawyer and author, 13th White House Counsel

#John_Dean

Viktor Röthlin
Viktor Röthlin, Swiss runner

#Viktor_Röthlin

Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer, founded the Ralph Lauren Corporation

#Ralph_Lauren

Jaelen Feeney
Jaelen Feeney, Australian rugby league player

#Jaelen_Feeney

Bahadur Shah I
Bahadur Shah I, Mughal emperor (d. 1712)

#Bahadur_Shah_I

Ben Whishaw
Ben Whishaw, English actor

#Ben_Whishaw

Alex Scott (footballer, born 1984)
Alex Scott, English footballer

#Alex_Scott_(footballer,_born_1984)

Allan Jones (actor)
Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)

#Allan_Jones_(actor)

Tillakaratne Dilshan
Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan cricketer

#Tillakaratne_Dilshan

Laura Zeng
Laura Zeng, American rhythmic gymnast

#Laura_Zeng

Suzzanna
Suzzanna, Indonesian actress (d. 2008)

#Suzzanna

Jerry Glanville
Jerry Glanville, American football player and coach

#Jerry_Glanville

Tümer Metin
Tümer Metin, Turkish footballer

#Tümer_Metin

Byron Edmund Walker
Byron Edmund Walker, Canadian banker and philanthropist (d. 1924)

#Byron_Edmund_Walker

Dwayne Schintzius
Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)

#Dwayne_Schintzius

Aad van den Hoek
Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist

#Aad_van_den_Hoek

Learco Guerra
Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager (d. 1963)

#Learco_Guerra

Norman Ornstein
Norman Ornstein, American political scientist and scholar

#Norman_Ornstein

Beth Daniel
Beth Daniel, American golfer and sportscaster

#Beth_Daniel

Michael Duberry
Michael Duberry, English footballer

#Michael_Duberry

Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham
Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and politician (d. 1813)

#Charles_Middleton,_1st_Baron_Barham

Rowan Blanchard
Rowan Blanchard, American actress

#Rowan_Blanchard

Giambattista Marino
Giambattista Marino, Italian poet (d. 1625)

#Giambattista_Marino

W. Edwards Deming
W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (d. 1993)

#W._Edwards_Deming

Max Thieriot
Max Thieriot, American actor and director

#Max_Thieriot

Konrad Peutinger
Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (d. 1547)

#Konrad_Peutinger

Joseph Plateau
Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic, created the Phenakistoscope (d. 1883)

#Joseph_Plateau

Marie of Anjou
Marie of Anjou (d. 1463)

#Marie_of_Anjou

Roger Moore
Roger Moore, English actor and producer (d. 2017)

#Roger_Moore

Willy Alberti
Willy Alberti, Dutch singer and actor (d. 1985)

#Willy_Alberti

Farah Pahlavi
Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran

#Farah_Pahlavi

Thelma Coyne Long
Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player and captain (d. 2015)

#Thelma_Coyne_Long

Ocean Vuong
Ocean Vuong, Vietnamese-American poet

#Ocean_Vuong

Jason Plato
Jason Plato, English race car driver and television host

#Jason_Plato

Lê ??c Th?
Lê ??c Th?, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)

#Lê_??c_Th?

Jared Goff
Jared Goff, American football player

#Jared_Goff

Jüri Jaanson
Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower and politician

#Jüri_Jaanson

Jay Ferguson (Canadian musician)
Jay Ferguson, Canadian guitarist and songwriter

#Jay_Ferguson_(Canadian_musician)

Gen Nakatani
Gen Nakatani, Japanese lawyer and politician, 13th Japanese Minister of Defense

#Gen_Nakatani

Alesso Baldovinetti
Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian painter (d. 1499)

#Alesso_Baldovinetti

Scott Kooistra
Scott Kooistra, American football player

#Scott_Kooistra

Art Shamsky
Art Shamsky, American baseball player and manager

#Art_Shamsky

Ümit Besen
Ümit Besen, Turkish singer-songwriter

#Ümit_Besen

Tom Craddock
Tom Craddock, English footballer

#Tom_Craddock

Masaoka Shiki
Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and critic (d. 1902)

#Masaoka_Shiki

Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt, American poet and author

#Katha_Pollitt

Mobutu Sese Seko
Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (d. 1997)

#Mobutu_Sese_Seko

Christopher Timothy
Christopher Timothy, Welsh actor, director, and screenwriter

#Christopher_Timothy

Loris Francesco Capovilla
Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal (d. 2016)

#Loris_Francesco_Capovilla

Jessica Drake
Jessica Drake, American porn actress and director

#Jessica_Drake

Lori Petty
Lori Petty, American actress

#Lori_Petty

Katy Manning
Katy Manning, English-Australian actress and production manager

#Katy_Manning

Udo Kier
Udo Kier, German-American actor and director

#Udo_Kier

Dave Schultz (ice hockey)
Dave Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player and referee

#Dave_Schultz_(ice_hockey)

Alexander von Zemlinsky
Alexander von Zemlinsky, Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher (d. 1942)

#Alexander_von_Zemlinsky

Nikolai Volkoff
Nikolai Volkoff, Croatian-American wrestler (d. 2018)

#Nikolai_Volkoff

Gautam Gambhir
Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer

#Gautam_Gambhir

Jodocus Hondius
Jodocus Hondius, Flemish engraver and cartographer (d. 1611)

#Jodocus_Hondius

Przemys? II
Przemys? II of Poland (d. 1296)

#Przemys?_II

Adolphe Monticelli
Adolphe Monticelli, French painter (d. 1886)

#Adolphe_Monticelli

Sylvain Lefebvre
Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

#Sylvain_Lefebvre

Thomas William Holmes
Thomas William Holmes, Canadian sergeant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1950)

#Thomas_William_Holmes

Sophia of Hanover
Sophia of Hanover (d. 1714)

#Sophia_of_Hanover

Melba Montgomery
Melba Montgomery, American country music singer

#Melba_Montgomery

Karyn White
Karyn White, American singer-songwriter

#Karyn_White

George Grenville
George Grenville, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770)

#George_Grenville

John Wooden
John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)

#John_Wooden

Joe Burgess
Joe Burgess, English rugby league player

#Joe_Burgess

Daan Jippes
Daan Jippes, Dutch author and illustrator

#Daan_Jippes

Elizabeth Esteve-Coll
Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, English curator and academic

#Elizabeth_Esteve-Coll

Joe Girardi
Joe Girardi, American baseball player and manager

#Joe_Girardi

Hassan al-Banna
Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious leader, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)

#Hassan_al-Banna

Al Oliver
Al Oliver, American baseball player

#Al_Oliver

Justin Hayward
Justin Hayward, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

#Justin_Hayward

Ashton Agar
Ashton Agar, Australian cricketer

#Ashton_Agar

Jürg Schubiger
Jürg Schubiger, Swiss psychotherapist and author (d. 2014)

#Jürg_Schubiger

Natalie Maines
Natalie Maines, American singer-songwriter

#Natalie_Maines

Dmitry Pisarev
Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (d. 1868)

#Dmitry_Pisarev

Jim Jackson (basketball)
Jim Jackson, American basketball player and sportscaster

#Jim_Jackson_(basketball)

Joey de Leon
Joey de Leon, Filipino comedian, actor and television host

#Joey_de_Leon

Christian Pineau
Christian Pineau, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1995)

#Christian_Pineau

Ryan Church
Ryan Church, American baseball player

#Ryan_Church

Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1689)

#Ernest_Günther,_Duke_of_Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg

Joe Start
Joe Start, American baseball player and manager (d. 1927)

#Joe_Start

A. J. Pero
A. J. Pero, American drummer (d. 2015)

#A._J._Pero

Floyd Landis
Floyd Landis, American cyclist

#Floyd_Landis

Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1923)

#Katherine_Mansfield

Joachim Tielke
Joachim Tielke, German instrument maker (d. 1719)

#Joachim_Tielke

Betty Heidler
Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower

#Betty_Heidler

Harry Anderson
Harry Anderson, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2018)

#Harry_Anderson

Mochitsura Hashimoto
Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander (d. 2000)

#Mochitsura_Hashimoto

Thomas Dolby
Thomas Dolby, English singer-songwriter and producer

#Thomas_Dolby

Jon Seda
Jon Seda, American actor

#Jon_Seda

Reginald Doherty
Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (d. 1910)

#Reginald_Doherty

Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard, Indian-English singer-songwriter and actor

#Cliff_Richard

P. J. Brown
P. J. Brown, American basketball player

#P._J._Brown

Alicja Dorabialska
Alicja Dorabialska, Polish chemist (d. 1975)

#Alicja_Dorabialska

Ferdinand VII of Spain
Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)

#Ferdinand_VII_of_Spain

Mordechai Vanunu
Mordechai Vanunu, Moroccan-Israeli technician and academic

#Mordechai_Vanunu

Steve Coogan
Steve Coogan, English actor, producer, and screenwriter

#Steve_Coogan

Greg Evigan
Greg Evigan, American actor

#Greg_Evigan

Ivan Pernar (politician, born 1985)
Ivan Pernar, Croatian Member of Parliament

#Ivan_Pernar_(politician,_born_1985)

Kazumi Watanabe
Kazumi Watanabe, Japanese guitarist and composer

#Kazumi_Watanabe

Javon Walker
Javon Walker, American football player

#Javon_Walker

Will Atkinson
Will Atkinson, English footballer

#Will_Atkinson

Pär Zetterberg
Pär Zetterberg, Swedish footballer

#Pär_Zetterberg

Colin Hodgkinson
Colin Hodgkinson, English bass player

#Colin_Hodgkinson

Marcia Barrett
Marcia Barrett, Jamaican-English singer

#Marcia_Barrett

Simon van der Stel
Simon van der Stel, Dutch commander and politician, 1st Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony (d. 1712)

#Simon_van_der_Stel

Stacy Keibler
Stacy Keibler, American wrestler and actress

#Stacy_Keibler

Steve Cram
Steve Cram, English runner and coach

#Steve_Cram

Shaznay Lewis
Shaznay Lewis, English singer-songwriter

#Shaznay_Lewis

Boof Bonser
Boof Bonser, American baseball player

#Boof_Bonser

Julia A. Ames
Julia A. Ames, American journalist, editor, and reformer (d. 1891)

#Julia_A._Ames

Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer
Jordan Clark, English cricketer
Mario Titone, Italian footballer
Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian race car driver
Matt Roth, American football player
Terrence McGee, American football player
Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer
Amjad Khan, Danish-English cricketer
Paúl Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
Liina-Grete Lilender, Estonian figure skater and coach
Usher, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer
Jana Macurová, Czech tennis player
Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
Justin Lee Brannan, American guitarist and songwriter
Kelly Schumacher, American-Canadian basketball and volleyball player
Carl Johan Grimmark, Swedish guitarist
Barry Ditewig, Dutch footballer
Samuel José da Silva Vieira, Brazilian footballer
Thom Brooks, American-British political philosopher and legal scholar
Julian O'Neill, Australian rugby league player
Erika deLone, American tennis player
Robert Jaworski Jr., Filipino basketball player and politician
Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer and manager
Vasko Vassilev, Bulgarian violinist
Hiromi Nagasaku, Japanese actress and singer
Meelis Lindmaa, Estonian footballer
Martin Barbari?, Czech footballer and coach (d. 2013)
David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer and journalist
Johnny Goudie, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
Werner Daehn, German actor
Pat Kelly, American baseball player, coach, and manager
Constantine Koukias, Greek-Australian flute player and composer
Jim Rome, American radio and TV personality
Trevor Goddard, English-American actor (d. 2003)
Zbigniew Kruszy?ski, Polish footballer and coach
Michel Després, Canadian lawyer and politician
Arleen Sorkin, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
Jennell Jaquays, American game designer
Carole Malone, English journalist
Rick Aviles, American comedian and actor (d. 1995)
Charlie Joiner, American football player
Norman Harris, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 1987)
Bob Hiller, English rugby player
Laurie Lawrence, Australian rugby player and coach
Eddie Keher, Irish sportsman (hurling)
J. C. Snead, American golfer
Perrie Mans, South African snooker player
Rocky Thompson, American golfer and politician
Shula Marks, South African historian and academic
Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and academic (d. 2005)
Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor and actor (d. 2005)
Alan Williams, Welsh journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales (d. 2014)
Robert Parker, American singer and saxophonist
Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer and wrestler (d. 2007)
Frank E. Resnik, American chemist and businessman (d. 1995)
Joel Barnett, English accountant and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (d. 2014)
José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (d. 2009)
Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist, journalist, and politician (d. 1991)
Alexis Rannit, Estonian poet and critic (d. 1985)
Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)
Ruth Hale, American actress and playwright (d. 2003)
Arthur Justice, Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator (d. 1977)
Victoria Drummond, British marine engineer (d. 1978)
Charlie Parker, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 1959)