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Jeremy Corbyn and Hank Williams Jr. are both 74 today.

 

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German-born American statesman Henry Kissinger, who was the Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient is 100 today.

 

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Roberto Bomtempo was born 60 years ago in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian actor starred in several soap operas (among them A História de Ana Raio e Zé Trovão, Senhora do Destino, Chocolate com Pimente, Malhação, Bicho do Mato) and films (Os Trapalhões and Rei do Futebol,Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei,Cine Holliúdy,Cine Holliúdy 2: A Chibata Sideral) He won the award for best supporting actor in Gramado (important Brazilian film festival) for A Maldição de Sanpaku (1991)

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Yorgos Lanthimos, born in Athens 50 years ago, the Greek filmmaker has been nominated four times for an Oscar: In 2010 for Kynodontas, in the category of Best Foreign Language Film, in 2017 for The Lobster, in the category of Best Original Screenplay and in 2019 for The Favourite, in the categories of Best Director and Best Film, At the 75th Venice Film Festival, he presented his most recent work, The Favorite (2018), and won the Grand Jury Prize. The film tied for the most nominations at the 91st Academy Awards with ten, including Best Picture and Best Director for Lanthimos, a film which won the BAFTA for Best British Film but lost in the main competition at Cannes has 2 awards
Jury Prize
2015 - The Lobster
Best Screenplay
2017 - The Killing of a Sacred Deer

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Lucenzo turns 40, the Frenchman from Bordeaux is a musician who was very successful in Brazil with the song below:

 

 

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Juan Vicente Pérez Mora was born 114 years ago in El Cobre, Táchira, Venezuela, he is the oldest validated man in the world, the first man in 12 years to turn 114 (the last was Jiroemon Kimura ) Juan Worked mainly in the cane harvest of sugar and coffee and lives in San José, Bolívar in Venezuela

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American actor Louis Gossett Jr. is 87 today.

 

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English footballer Paul Gascoigne is 56 today.

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Tero Palmroth is 70 years old, the Finn from Tampere, was a driver but he competed in only 15 races (starting in 12) in CART (Champ Car) between 1988 and 1992 and between 1994 and 1995. He tried to qualify for 6 editions of the 500 Miles of Indianapolis, not starting in 2.
His only point in the category was won in the 1990 edition of the Indy 500, when he came in 12th place. Palmroth retired in 1995 after failing to qualify for the 1995 race.

Resultado de imagem para Tero Palmroth. Tamanho: 120 x 185. Fonte: www.iltalehti.fi

Arto Lindsay is 70 years old, the musician from Richmond has made many partnerships in his career, among them with the late this year Ryuichi Sakamoto

Lionel Letizi, the Frenchman from Nice turns 50 and was a goalkeeper and helped Hugo Lloris at the beginning of his career at Nice, Letizi played in the 1996 Olympics

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Toby Hemingway was born 40 years ago in Brighton, Sussex and is an actor. He is probably best known for his role as bad boy Reid Garwin in the 2006 film The Pact (I watched and enjoyed the film a lot)

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American actress Caroll Baker is 92 today.

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American basketball executive and player Jerry West is 85 today.

 

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Danny Elfman turns 70, the Los Angeles composer worked in 2007 with the heavy metal and hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold on the orchestration of the song A Little Piece Of Heaven. This song was even released as a clip by the band, having been highly praised as an obscure, half-circus song with slight touches of necrophilia, it also made several famous tracks such as Simpsons, Batman, Spider Man, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Beetlejuice ,Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton),MIB,Mission Impossible

Débora Bloch, a Brazilian actress from Belo Horizonte, is 60 years old, has won several important national awards, participated in the TV Pirata program, in the JK series, in the soap opera Avenida Brasil, in the film Caramuru - A Invenção do Brasil, to name a few of her works.

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Ukyo Katayama, the Japanese driver from Tokyo raced the formula in the mid-1990s and was popular in the paddock for his constant good humor and sense of self-criticism ("There's more to be done with this car - the only problem is my steering!") , in late 1994 he had been diagnosed with cancer in his back. Due to commitments in Formula 1, the treatment was delayed and he was in pain. Katayama didn't announce this until his retirement from Formula 1, as he didn't want anyone to pity him and make excuses for his poor performance.
In 99 he was 2nd at Le Mans

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Blaze Bayley was born 60 years ago singer-songwriter from Birmingham founded Wolfsbane and served as lead singer, later joined Iron Maiden, and is currently in his solo band Blaze Bayley. He suffered a heart attack on March 25 and had surgery on March 13. /apr

Alpay Özalan turns 50, the Turk from Izmir was part of the selection in the 2002 Cup, and in the 96 and 00 Euro Cup

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Alberto Medina turns 40, Mexican from Culiacán played in the 2010 World Cup

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Jean Makoun, Cameroonian from Yaoundé, 40 years ago, he played for Lille, Lyon, Aston Villa and played in the 2010 and 2014 cups

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Abdoulaye Wade is 97 today. He is a Senegalese politician who was President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Party, having led the party since it was founded in 1974. A long-time opposition leader, he ran for President four times, beginning in 1978, before he was elected in 2000. He won re-election in 2007 with a majority in the first round, but in 2012 he was defeated in a controversial bid for a third term.

 

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CeeLo Green is 48.

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Instead of one of his songs such as "Crazy" or "Forget You", here's his appearance in the American Dad! episode "Hot Water".

 

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Luis Rego is 80 years old, born in Lisbon (POR), is a Portuguese actor, comedian, musician , he began his career as a musician in "Les Charlots", where he owns the guitar group that accompanies singer Antoine

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Colm Meaney born in Dublin turns 70 and is an Irish actor whose most prominent role was that of Miles O'Brien in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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Mustapha Allaoui turns 40, the Moroccan footballer played in the 2004 Olympics

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Naohisa Takato turns 30, the Japanese judoka won bronze at the 2016 Olympics and gold at Tokyo-20

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48th President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo is 72 today.

 

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9 hours ago, diego said:

Luis Rego is 80 years old, born in Lisbon (POR), is a Portuguese actor, comedian, musician of French origin

He is not of French origin, but in 1960 he came to France where he did all his career and still resides. As an actor, his most important role was Bobo in Les Bronzés

 

Today Hungarian Prime Minister (since 2010) Viktor Orbán is 60. His first term as Prime Minister was between 1998 to 2002. He is the president and the Fidesz party since 2003, having previously served between 1993 and 2000.

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57 minutes ago, Sinbabad said:

He is not of French origin, but in 1960 he came to France where he did all his career and still resides. As an actor, his most important role was Bobo in Les Bronzés

 

Today Hungarian Prime Minister (since 2010) Viktor Orbán is 60. His first term as Prime Minister was between 1998 to 2002. He is the president and the Fidesz party since 2003, having previously served between 1993 and 2000.

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Wiki informs that he is of French origin, I think they reversed it then

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Sharon Gless was born 80 years ago in Los Angeles. She is an American actress who won several awards in the 1980s, including two Emmys (1986 and 1987) for the series Cagney & Lacey and two Golden Globes for the series Cagney & Lacey (1986). ) and The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (1991)

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Marcelo Falcão turns 50, born in Rio de Janeiro and lead singer of the band O Rappa

Dominique Monami, Belgian tennis player from Verviers was born 50 years ago, his best position in the ranking was 9

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Ni Hua is a Chinese chess player who has participated in the chess Olympics for 40 years. Ni participated in the editions of Istanbul 2000, Bled 2002, Turin 2006, Dresden 2008 and Tromsø 2014, having helped the Chinese team to win a gold medal, in 2014, and a silver, in 2006. Individually, his best result was a medal bronze in 2014

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Asuka Cambridge is a Japanese sprinter born in Jamaica, for 30 years he has been a Japanese sprinter, who competes in the 100 and 200 meters. He is a two-time champion of the East Asian Games and a bronze medalist at the World Junior Championships in Athletics.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Cambridge was part of the 4x100 meter relay team for Japan, which took the silver medal in the final.

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Amelie Morgan born in Slough (ENG), 20 years ago participated in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where she participated in the women's team event, winning the bronze medal after finishing the series with 164,096 points

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It's also this user's birthday here on the forum

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2 minutes ago, diego said:

It's also this user's birthday here on the forum

diego

 

Happy Birthday Diego

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Happy birthday Diego my fellow dead pooling amigo. Hope you are having a wonderful day, best wishes, Steve 

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Paolo Sorrentino, a very talented Italian film director including films The Hand of God and The Family Friend both of which I've seen and  would recommend is 53 today

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Terry Waite is 84 today.

 

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John Prescott is 85 today.

 

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Happy birthday, Diego.

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