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Owen Davidson was born in Melbourne 80 years ago, the former tennis player. He won thirteen Grand Slam doubles titles during his career, eleven in the mixed and two in the men.

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Michael Barrantes was born in San Jose 40 years ago, the footballer played in the 2014 World Cup

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Allan Banegas was born 30 years ago, the Honduran footballer participated in the 2016 Olympics (his team finished in 4th place)

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Leroy Van Dyke is 94 today.

 

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Glynis Johns, the excellent film, stage, and television actress, dancer, musician, and singer, probably best known for her supporting role in the 1964 film "Mary Poppins", one of the most famous works of her versatile career, who was the recipient of a Tony Award for her noted performance in the Broadway production of "A Little Night Music", is 100 today.

 

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Film composer Harold Faltermeyer is 71.

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Bob Geldof who was the singer with The Boomtown Rats but is best known as the man behind Live Aid is 72 today

Bob Geldof: 10 classic Geldof quotes

 

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Steve Miller was born 80 years ago in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was the founder, vocalist and guitarist of the Steve Miller Band. Miller was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016

Gabriele Gravina was born 70 years ago in Castellaneta, and is president of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), a position he has held since October 22, 2018.

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Nicky Hilton was born in New York 40 years ago and is the sister of Paris Hilton

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Jewell Loyd was born 30 years ago in Lincolnwood, Illinois, the basketball player won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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Imran Khan is 71 today.

 

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Melvyn Bragg, the prolific author of twenty-two novels, whose first novel was published in 1965, works of non-fiction, and screenplays, broadcaster, probably best known for his notable work as the editor and presenter of "The South Bank Show" for thirty-three years, and a media personality, who was appointed to the House of Lords as a Labour life peer: Lord Bragg of Wigton, and was born in Wigton, Cumbria, is 84 today.

 

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Ottavio Bianchi, born in Brescia 80 years ago, is a former Italian football player and coach. As a coach, Bianchi's greatest success was winning the 1988–89 UEFA Cup final with Napoli.

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Elisabeth Shue was born 60 years ago in Wilmington, Delaware, nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for the film Leaving Las Vegas.

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Vasile Tarlev was born 60 years ago in Başcalia and was Prime Minister of Moldova between 2001 and 2008

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Romero Britto was born 60 years ago in Recife, and is a Brazilian painter, sculptor and screen printer based in the United States. Considered one of the most prestigious artists by American celebrities, he has painted paintings for personalities such as Michael Jackson, Madonna and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He also produced paintings for names such as Dilma Rousseff, Bill Clinton and the royal couple Prince William and Kate Middleton, and at the invitation of the then Prince Charles, he had dinner at Buckingham Palace

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Thomas Bickel, born 60 years ago in Aarberg, is a former Swiss professional footballer who participated in the 1994 World Cup,

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Sylvain Legwinski was born 50 years ago and represented the French national football team at the 1996 Olympics

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Ioan Gruffudd was born 50 years ago in Llwydcoed, Wales, played Officer Harold Lowe in the film Titanic (1997), Mister Fantastic in the film productions of the Fantastic Four franchise, as the English abolitionist William Wilberforce in Amazing Grace (2006) and in Sanctum (2011). On TV, he stood out in Forever playing Henry Morgan (2014-2015).

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Cyrille Diabaté was born 50 years ago in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, competed in UFC and MMA

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Ricardo Pereira was born 30 years ago in Lisbon and plays for Leicester, he played in the 2018 World Cup too

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Michel Pereira was born in Tucumã 30 years ago and is a UFC fighter

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Britt Ekland the sexy Swedish actress, probably best known for her roles in The Wicker Man and The Man With The Golden Gun, who was also famously married to Peter Sellers and had a relationship with Rod Stewart is 81 today.

Britt Ekland says she regrets having cosmetic surgery as it 'ruined' her  face | The Independent

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On 05/04/2023 at 15:10, diego said:

Murílio de Avellar Hingel turns 90, he was Minister of Education in Brazil between 92 and 95

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Robert Kuok is 100 today.

 

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Jayne Torvill, the renowned professional ice skater and "Dancing On Ice" judge, known for winning, with her ice-skating partner Christopher Dean, a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, they received twelve perfect scores of 6.0, and a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, who was born in Clifton, Nottingham, is 66 today.

 

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Oliver North is 80.

Oliver North Tapped as President of the NRA

 

(I don't agree with everything he's said/done, but it gives me an excuse to post this:)

 

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My father in law turned 85 yesterday! :birthday:

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Tico Torres was born 70 years ago in New York, best known as the drummer of the legendary rock band Bon Jovi

Dida was born 50 years ago in Irará, and is currently a goalkeeping coach at Milan. He won bronze at the 2016 Olympics, participated in the 98 (runner-up), 02 (champion) and 06 World Cups, played for Corinthians, Grêmio, Internacional and Milan ( ITA)

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Sami Hyypiä was born 50 years ago in Porvoo, the Finnish footballer played for Liverpool, Brighton and Leverkusen (GER), and was the Finnish footballer of the years 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006, and in 01 he was the sportsman Finn of the year and entered the UEFA national team

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Grigol Mgaloblishvili was born 50 years ago in Tbilisi and was Prime Minister of Georgia from November 1, 2008 to February 6, 2009.

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Maxim Trankov, born in Perm 40 years ago, is a Russian figure skater. Trankov competes in doubles. He won with Tatiana Volosozhar two gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics, one in doubles and the other in team competition, one gold and two silver medals at world championships, three gold medals in European Championship, and were champions of the Russian national championship twice. With Maria Mukhortova, he won one silver and two bronze medals in European championships, one gold medal at the 2005 Winter Universiade, and one gold and three silver medals in the Russian championship

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Merouane Zemmama, born 40 years ago, is a Moroccan professional footballer who participated in the 2004 Olympics.

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Abraham Conyedo was born 30 years ago in Santa Clara (Cuba), participated in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he participated in the heavyweight clash, winning the bronze medal, he has Italian nationality

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Li Shijia was born 20 years ago in Sinchua, She is the 2019 Stuttgart World Bronze Medalist on the balance beam and the 2019 Zhaoqing World Cup Champion on the uneven bars and balance beam.

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Vladimir Putin is 71 today.

 

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Ray Reardon, the remarkable professional snooker player, snooker's greatest player of the 1970s, who won the World Championship 6 times: 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, and 1978 (five titles in six years), the first player to be world number one when rankings were introduced in 1976, who was born and raised in the coal mining community of Tredegar in Monmouthshire, Wales, is 91 today.

 

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Chevy Chase was born 80 years ago in Lower Manhattan, New York, and is an American actor. His greatest successes were in performances in comedy films. (among them ¡Three Amigos!)
He began his career as a comedian on television in 1975, on the program Saturday Night Live. There he made famous his catchphrase that parodied television news presenters: "I'm Chevy Chase and you're not."

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Robert Tepper was born 80 years ago in Bayonne, New Jersey, and is a singer, best known for his song included on the soundtrack to the film Rocky IV, "No Easy Way Out", reaching No. 22 in 1986, momentarily exposing Robert Tepper to the public eye.

David Yates, born 60 years ago in St Helens, Merseyside, rose to prominence with the general public by directing the last four films in the Harry Potter film series. These works brought him critical and commercial success. He later directed The Legend of Tarzan (2016) and the spin-off franchise Fantastic Beasts, which now totals two films.

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Alberto Undiano Mallenco was born 50 years ago in Pamplona and has been a FIFA referee since 2004. He participated in the 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, the 2007 U20 World Cup, the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup and since 2005 UEFA Champions League.
He refereed the 2007 U20 World Cup final.

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Angus T. Jones was born 30 years ago in Austin, Texas, and is best known for his role as Jake Harper on the TV series Two and a Half Men.

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Garbiñe Muguruza is a Spanish-Venezuelan professional tennis player, former world number 1 in the WTA Singles Ranking, born 30 years ago in Guatire, Venezuela, defending Spain in tennis, having reached her first final in a Grand Slam tournament in 2015 , at Wimbledon, where he lost the final to Serena Williams. After that, she won the 2016 Roland Garros tournament, defeating Serena Williams in the final, and the 2017 Wimbledon tournament, defeating Venus Williams in the final.

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Bubba Wallace was born 30 years ago in Mobile, Alabama, and is an American racing driver who competes in the Stock Car category. He currently competes in the NASCAR Cup Series

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Harold Fonseca was born in Tegucigalpa 30 years ago and played for the Honduras team at the 2016 Olympics

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R. L. Stine is 80 today.

 

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Jim Starlin, the accomplished and respected American comics artist and writer, one of the most important names of his generation and one of the most in-demand artists in the comic industry, well famous for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock; and as the creator or co-creator of Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, Shang-Chi and Thanos, the powerful and unsympathetic villain, whose finest works include "Amazing Spider-Man", "Batman", "Cosmic Odyssey", "Silver Surfer", "Dreadstar" and "The Infinity Gauntlet", is 74 today.

 

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Steve Burns (of Blue's Clues fame) is 50.

Noggin | Blue's Clues – Meet the characters

 

(He also made the Young Sheldon theme song years before its premiere:)

 

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Brian Blessed is 87 today

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