The Happy Birthday Thread

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Conny Froboess was born in Wriezen 80 years ago and was Germany's representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 1962.

Desmond Child, born 70 years ago in Miami, is a musician and composer from the United States, whose compositions have sold more than 300 million albums worldwide. Child worked with major music stars, such as Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Cher, Dream Theater, Joss Stone, Kelly Clarkson, Kiss, Ricky Martin, Roxette, Scorpions, Steve Vai, among others.
In 2008 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Eros Ramazzotti was born in Rome 60 years ago, one of the main names in Italian music

Frank Jurić was born in Melbourne 50 years ago, he is a former professional footballer, he played in the 96 Olympics

 

 

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Bernie Ecclestone is 93 today.

 

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Ralph Bakshi is 85.

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British actress Angela Douglas is 83 today. An extensive CV includes Carry Ons, Z-Cars (playing Fancy Smith (Brian Blessed)'s girlfriend) Cleopatra (with Burton & Taylor), Doctor Who (Sylvester McCoy era, playing Mrs Lethbridge-Stewart) and Hamlet, as well as numerous other film and TV roles.

She was first married to Kenneth More (Reach for the Sky, A Night to Remember et al), amidst much scandal as he was already married and she was 26 years younger, until his death in 1982; she subsequently married writer/director Bill Bryden in 2009 (they met in, and lived together from, 1988) and was widowed for a second time when he died last year.

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Lech Waęsa was born 80 years ago in Popowo, was one of the founders of the Solidarność union (Solidarity) and president of Poland, between 1990 and 1995, the first after the collapse of communism. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Peace Nobel.

Wolfgang Overath was born 80 years ago in Siegburg, he is a former German futalist. It is also one of 7 players to have won gold (74), silver (66) and bronze (70) in FIFA World Cups, played at Koln, where he later became president of the club in 2004

Xabier Azkargorta was born 70 years ago in Azpeitia, is a former Spanish football coach and coach. He joked at Athletic Bilbao, and was Bolivia's coach in the 94 World Cup, and trained the team between 12 and 14, also trained Chile between 95 and 96

Ante čačić was born 70 years ago  in Zagreb and trained Croatia's football selection at Euro 2016

Oliver Golding has been born 30 years old and was born in Richmond Upon Thames, won the gold medal at the 2010 Youth Summer Games. Having won it in doubles with Czech Jiříýý, with whom he was also runner-up Us Open Tennis doubles in 2010. Already in 2011, she was the Youth Champion of the US Open Tennis by beating Czech Jiří At the Final

Carlos Salcedo was born in Mexico City 30 years ago, played the 2016 Olympics and the 2018 World Cup, played for Fiorentina and Eintracht Frankfurt

Oleg Verniaiev was born 30 years ago in Donetsk, is a gymnast, is an Olympic champion of parallel bars at the 2016 summer Olympic Games and silver medalist in the general individual. Verniaiev is also the world champion of parallel bars of 2014, the world champion in the 2015 General Individual and the European Champion in the General Individual in 2017, and has several medals in world and Europeans

 

 

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Richard Dreyfuss is 76 today. 

 

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Henry Winkler is 78.

...Ayyy.

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I don't know how, but Grace Slick is 84 today.

 

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Edge was born 50 years ago in Orangeville, a Canadian professional wrestler and actor. He currently works for All Elite Wrestling under the ring name Adam Copeland. he appeared in the films Highlander: Endgame and Bending the Rules. He has also made guest appearances on television shows such as The Weakest Link, Mind of Mencia, Deal or No Deal and MADtv. He appears on the SyFy series Haven as a recurring character named Dwight Hendrickson. He also appears in the series Vikings as a settler in Iceland.

 

 

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Otis Williams is 82 today. 

 

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"Lumberjack DJ" Ad-Rock (of the Beastie Boys) is 57.

 

Here's a mashup of one of his songs that's fitting for today (the ending is a bit weird):

 

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Rob Schneider, born in San Francisco 60 years ago, is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, voice actor and filmmaker. He was a cast member of Saturday Night Live and later went on to star in comedies such as Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and its 2005 sequel, The Animal (2001), The Hot Chick (2002), The Benchwarmers (2006) and Big Stan (2007).Won Golden Raspberry for Worst Actor for Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005).He also worked on the film Click

Dunga was born 60 years ago in Ijuí, played for Stuttgart, Fiorentina and was captain of the Brazilian football team in the 94 and 98 World Cups, also played in the 1990 World Cup, 1984 Olympics, was a coach in the 2008 Olympics and the 2010 World Cup

Mikkey Dee was born in Gothenburg 60 years ago, is a heavy metal drummer and current member of Scorpions. also played temporarily for the German power metal band Helloween, during the recording of the album Rabbit Don't Come Easy, in 2003. On December 29, 2015, one day after the death of his friend and bandmate Lemmy Kilmister, Dee went public to say that Motörhead, without its esteemed bassist and leader, could no longer remain active, thus dissolving the band. It ranked 29th on the list of the "50 best hard rock and metal drummers of all time". from the Loudwire website

Letitia Wright was born in Georgetown 30 years ago,The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) named Wright among the British Newcomers of 2015.Wright is best known as Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War (both from 2018).

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American children's writer Katherine Paterson, who wrote the novel "Bridge to Terabithia", is 91 today.

 

Photo Credit: Politics and Prose Bookstore per Creative Commons license

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Gary Player is 88.

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American journalist and broadcaster Dan Rather is 92 today.

 

Photo Credit: nrkbeta per Creative Commons license

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Salvatore Adamo, born in Comiso 80 years ago, is an Italian-Belgian French-speaking singer. His biggest hits are: Tombe la neige, La nuit, j'aime, Elle, Inch'Allah, F... comme femme, C'est ma vie.... Salvatore Adamo recorded around 850 songs in 8 different languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish, English, Japanese, Portuguese and Dutch.

Mark Hughes was born 60 years ago Ruabon, revealed by Manchester United, had two notable spells at the club. He also played for Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Southampton, Everton and Blackburn Rovers.
For the Welsh national team, he played 72 times and scored 16 goals. As a coach he trained the Wales national team, Manchester City, Fulham, Blackburn, QPR, Southampton, Stoke and Bradford, which was your last club

Pabllo Vittar, born 30 years ago in São Luís, is a Brazilian singer, drag queen and presenter. Because of her unprecedented success as a drag queen musical artist, Vittar has been credited with influencing the public's interest in other musical artists who are also drag queens, as well as trans and transvestite artists. She was cited by Forbes as "the most popular drag queen in the world".

 

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Marcel Ophuls is 96 today. 

 

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David Schwimmer is 57.

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Kabosu has turned 18, well done!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzGZ6_PPGra/?hl=de

 

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Ines Diers was born 60 years ago in Rochlitz, a German swimmer, winner of five medals at the 1980 Olympics.
She won the gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle and the 4x100 meter freestyle relay. Silver in the 200 meter freestyle, Silver in the 800 meter freestyle and Bronze in the 100 meter freestyle

Borut Pahor was born 60 years ago in Postojna, is a Slovenian politician, president of his country between 2012 and 2022 and former prime minister of his country. He was leader of the Social Democrats (DP), which are part of the Party of European Socialists , where he even became president

Dragoljub Brnović was born 60 years ago in Titograd - now Podgorica (Montenegro), he played for the former Yugoslavia in the 1990 World Cup, becoming known for missing one of the penalties against Argentina. He played for Metz

Hernâni Neves was born in Mourão 60 years ago, he is a former Portuguese footballer, who was also a player for the Portuguese beach football team, becoming captain until 2008. He won the best player award at the Beach Football World Championship , in 2001.
He played for Vitória de Setúbal, Farense, Benfica and Desportivo de Beja and for the Portuguese national football team,

Joachin Yaw Acheampong was born in Accra 50 years ago and won the bronze medal in Barcelona 1992.

Andreas Bourani, born 40 years ago in Augsburg, is a German singer and composer of Egyptian origin.

 

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Pat Buchanan is 85 today. 

 

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Michael Dukakis is 90.

(the picture on the right (with Dukakis on the right) was him back in February)

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Amartya Sen is 90.

 

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Márcio Nunes turns 60, born in Rio de Janeiro, the football player was marked for having committed an extremely unfair and purposeless foul on Zico. This shock would end up becoming a drama in Galinho's career and would hinder him several times, Zico left the field with sprains in both knees, left fibula and both ankles, Márcio, in 1988, tasted the same poison, being the target of a harsh tackle (the cause was also defender Fernando, from Vasco)

Shigeaki Hattori, born in Okayama 60 years ago, is a former Japanese motorsport driver. He competed in a CART season in 1999, for Bettenhausen Racing, and between 2000 and 2003 he competed in the Indy Racing League, in addition to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series between 2004 and 2005.

Mick Thomson was born in Des Moines, Iowa 50 years ago, known as Mick or by his number #7, he is an American musician and one of the guitarists of Slipknot. Following Joey Jordison's departure in 2013, Thomson became the third longest-serving member of Slipknot.

Suzane von Richthofen was born in São Paulo 40 years ago, she is accused of participating in the murder of her parents. On October 31, 2002, Suzane opened the door of the family mansion in Brooklin, São Paulo, so that the Cravinhos brothers could could access the residence. After that, they went to the second floor of the property and killed Manfred and Marísia with blows to the head.

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On 01/11/2023 at 13:51, diego said:

Mark Hughes was born 60 years ago Ruabon, revealed by Manchester United, had two notable spells at the club. He also played for Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Southampton, Everton and Blackburn Rovers.
For the Welsh national team, he played 72 times and scored 16 goals. As a coach he trained the Wales national team, Manchester City, Fulham, Blackburn, QPR, Southampton, Stoke and Bradford, where he is currently

 

Hughes was sacked by Bradford 4th October, as noted in the Football Manager Sacking Bingo thread.