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Incumbent Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak is 43 today.

 

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American actor Rami Malek is 42 today.

 

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Football player Romelu Lukaku is 30 today. Since 2017, he has been Belgium’s top goalscorer, with now 72 goals in 106 caps.

He is the third youngest player and goalscorer for Belgium.

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Former Ivorian football player Yaya Touré is 40 today. He mainly played for FC Barcelona and Manchester City.

He notably won 6 titles in 2009 with Barcelona : FIFA Club World Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Champions League, Spain Super Cup, La Liga and Copa de Espana !95F7E060-0EC9-4441-B8B1-C2F8F12AFBE8.jpeg.d13ee10f6c8c15728849a14144976758.jpeg

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American businessman Bernard Marcus, who co-founded The Home Depot, is 94 today.

 

Photo Credit: Robert Huffstutter per Creative Commons license

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Namibian president Sam Nujoma, who served his term from 1990 to 2005, is 94 today.

 

Photo Credit: Marcello Casal Jr./ABr per Creative Commons license

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American folk, blues, and jazz singer and social activist Barbara Dane is 96 today.

 

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Otaviano Costa turns 50, famous Brazilian presenter, actor and broadcaster

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Debby Ryan, 30, American actress and singer, best known for playing Bailey Pickett in Zack & Cody: All Aboard, Abby Jensen in 16 Wishes, Jessie, title character of the Disney Channel series Jessie

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60's singer Joe Brown is 82 today. He came close to qualifying for Kill or Save (with his Bruvvers), but not close enough. This reached number 2 in 1962; despite it technically being a B-Side, this got the airplay and became the hit (the A-Side being the largely forgotten A Lay-About's Lament)

 

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30th Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison is 55 today.

 

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American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder is 73 today.

 

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Today, former Turkish football player Hakan Unsal is 50. He won the UEFA Cup and Supercup with Galatasaray in 2000, and the Bronze Medal-Third Place at the 2002 World Cup. Those are the highest achievements of Turkish football.

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Welsh actress Siân Phillips, who starred in the movie "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" and the TV series "Claudius", is 90 today.

 

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5 hours ago, John "요한" Sulu said:

Welsh actress Siân Phillips, who starred in the movie "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" and the TV series "Claudius", is 90 today.

 

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Do you mean "I Clavdivs"?

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English actress, star of stage and screen (film & TV), Francesca Annis is 78 today.

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Norodom Sihamoni turns 70, is the current king of Cambodia, Previously served as Cambodia's ambassador to UNESCO, being nominated to become the next king, after his father, Norodom Sihanouk, abdicated in 2004., Sihamoni remains unmarried and has no children. His father, Norodom Sihanouk, stated that Sihamoni "loves women like his sisters".

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Anahí, is a Mexican singer, actress, songwriter, writer and businesswoman who turns 40

 

Amber Tamblyn, also 40 years old, is an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated American actress and poet. She became known for her roles in the series Joan of Arcadia and House M.D., and also for the film Four Girlfriends and Traveling Jeans. She also participated in the series Two and a Half Men as Jenny Harper, the lost daughter of Charlie Harper.

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Kristina Mladenovic turns 30, is a French tennis player who came to lead the doubles ranking in 2019, won the Australian Open 2x and Roland Garros 4x in doubles

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America business magnate and internet entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg, who co-founded Facebook, is 39 today.

 

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Tim Roth, the English born actor who is one of the Brit Pack and has starred in lots of big films like Planet of the Apes, Pulp Fiction and The Hateful Eight is 62 today

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Japanese singer, screen, stage and voice actor, drag queen, director, composer and hibakusha Akihiro Miwa (real name Akihiro Maruyama, but much better known by his stage name) is 88 today :birthday:

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Miwa was born in Nagasaki in 1935. His father, who owned a cafe-nightclub, was accused of "supporting the enemy's culture" early during World War II.

 

On August 9, 1945, the day the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Miwa was a fourth-grade pupil at Sako National Elementary School drawing a picture for his summer holiday homework. After finishing that picture, he took a few steps back to look at it. Suddenly, as he describes it: "there was an intense flash of light, as if all the magnesium on earth were burned at once. Light and darkness was reversed before his eyes. Miwa heard the ground rumbling. The glass windows shattered and the roofing tiles fell on their heads."

Miwa, his brother and the family housemaid ran barefoot to an air raid shelter. He later met his father (who had escaped without being injured as he had taken a day off work) in the shelter and the family decided to evacuate to another part of Nagasaki. He saw horrors on the journey, for example a man who had been crushed under a building grabbed his arm, skin falling off him and at a hospital a long line of people in horrible condition. 

He's suffered from health effects from the radiation since, including anemia, chronic bronchitis and other illnesses that in the 1980s and 1990s were so severe he had to end his stage acting career. He also suffered a severe stroke in 2019, but has recovered well. 

 

Akihiro Miwa's career as a singer and cabaret performer started at 17 in 1952, he sang French chansons of for example Édith Piaf, Yvette Guilbert and Marie Dubas in Tokyo's nightclubs. See the image - his first major hit was Gilbert Bécaud's Me Que Me Que (1953) in Japanese in 1957, one of the reasons it was very popular was that it included profanities not yet used in Japanese media at the time. He often dressed in feminine or unisex clothes and had a "genderless appearance", earning the nicknames "sister boy" and "most beautiful boy since Jinmu". During his long career he's worked with numerous notable directors and actors, for example Shūji Terayama, Kinji Fukasaku and Hayao Miyazaki. He's also still working, here's an image from a recent ad campaign:

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Facts about Akihiro Miwa:

- He owns a record signed by Édith Piaf.

- He has dyed his hair since his 30s when it turned gray due to chronic ailments.

- He publicly came out as gay in the 1960s, becoming one of Japan's first openly gay celebrities.

- Miwa is a popular symbol of luck in Taiwan, and Taiwan's Ministry of Finance has claimed that saving a picture of Akihiro Miwa as a cell phone background will increase chances of winning Taiwan's receipt lottery. 

- He's voiced pokemon characters such as Arceus, and Studio Ghibli characters, for example Witch of the Waste.

- He's a Buddhist and knew late nun Jakucho Setouchi well, they once released a book together.

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Its the 88th birthday of Midlands broadcasting legend Tony Butler. OK? ok.

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Andy Murray, arguably Scotland's greatest ever sportsman achieving World's top ranking tennis player for 41 weeks and winning 3 Grand Slam titles, two of them at Wimbledon, is 36 today

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Ousmane Dembélé is 26 today.

 

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Jasper Johns is 93 today.

 

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32 minutes ago, Hell said:

Jasper Johns is 93 today.

 

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Isn't that Des O'Connor? :lol:

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