The Happy Birthday Thread

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Darleane C. Hoffman, US scientist and one of the discoverers of periodic element #106 Seaborgium, is 97. Mentioned here in the "Dead on Wikipedia" thread two years ago but still going strong and received the Enrico Fermi Award this year. 

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Lou Ferrigno is 72.

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Biagio Antonacci was born in Milan 60 years ago, On September 1, 2005, he arrived in Hollywood, where Biagio Antonacci received the award for "Best Italian Male Artist" for more than a million copies of the album sold by Convivendo in early November.

Éric Boullier was born 50 years ago in Laval, the Frenchman was the racing director of the McLaren F1 Team from 2014 to 2018. Previously he was the team principal of the Renault F1 Team and the Lotus F1 Team, and vice-president of the Association of Teams of Formula 1 (FOTA, in its acronym in English) until its dissolution after six years

 

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Sinbad is 67.

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Kevin Afghani is 27.

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Abdelkader Horr turns 70, competed in the 1982 FIFA World Cup

Hugh Bonneville was born in London 60 years ago and played the lead role of Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham in the series Downton Abbey, receiving nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Film , winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series in 12,14 and 15

Sylvain Chomet was born 60 years ago in Maisons-Laffitte, Chomet's first feature-length animated film, The Bicycles of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville, or Belleville Rendez-vous in the UK) was also nominated for two Oscars in 2003 ( Best Animation and Best Song)

Tanju Çolak was born 60 years ago in Samsun, he was a very rare idol of his country's two arch-rivals, Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe, averaging more than one goal per game in both. In 1988, he also received the European golden boot, as the continent's top scorer, and to this day he is the only Turk to win the award. He was still the top scorer in the history of the national championship until 2007, when he was surpassed by Hakan Şükür

Marco Rodríguez was born in Mexico City 50 years ago, he was a football referee and refereed the World Cups of 06, 10 and 14, having refereed Brazil's 7-1 defeat to Germany, and also refereed the final of the FIFA Club World Cup. 2007 between AC Milan and Boca Juniors

 

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Stanley Tucci is 63.

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Billy Gunn was born in Orlando, Florida 60 years ago, is an American professional wrestler, who worked in WWE under the ring name Billy Gunn, where he wrestled in the Raw division, from 1993 to 2004 and 2012 to 2015.

Paul John James was born in Cardiff 60 years ago, the former footballer was naturalized Canadian and was part of the national team in the 84 Olympics and 86 World Cup

Philipp Lahm was born 40 years ago in Munich, one of the greatest idols in the history of Bayern Munich, a club for which he played between 2003 and 2017.
He was one of the main players and captain of the German national team until its last match, playing in three World Cups, in 2006, 2010 and 2014. In the last one he was crowned champion, also played for Stutgart and won several individual awards, such as German footballer of the year in 17

Arouna Koné was born in Ányama 40 years ago, was part of the squad of the Ivorian national football team in the 2006 World Cup, among the clubs he has played for are Everton, PSV, Sevilla, Annover, Levante, Wigan and Sivasspor

 

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Andy Partridge is 70 today. One of the two frontmen and songwriters for XTC, he wrote about two-thirds of their output, including this, which reached number 16 in 1981.

 

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Leonard DiCaprio is 49 today. 

 

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Paul Ignatius is 103 today.

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Ryan Gosling is 43.

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Neil Young turns 78 today.

 

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Valerie Leon was born in London 80 years ago, had a great participation on television in the comic series Carry On, very popular in the United Kingdom in the 60s and 70s, always in small roles. In addition to this series, she also acted in British action series such as The Avengers, The Saint and The Persuaders, in the movies, her supporting roles, as well as Bond girl in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and 007 Never Again (1983), as Lady in Bahamas, an eventual lover of Bond in the second film

Brian Hyland was born in Queens 80 years ago, Hyland began his career in 1959, but it was the following year that he, at the age of 16, scored his first big hit: "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini

 

Sula Miranda was born in São Paulo 60 years ago, she is a very famous Brazilian singer

Nasser Al-Khelaïfi was born 50 years ago in Qatar and is president of PSG

Paul Ratcliffe was born 50 years ago in Salford, He was a silver medal winner in K-1 slalom at Sydney 2000

 

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Anne Hathaway is 41 today. 

 

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Joe Mantegna is 76.

 

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Roberto Boninsegna was born in Mantua 80 years ago, he became famous in the 1970 World Cup by scoring two goals, one in the epic semi-final against Germany and the other in the grand final against Brazil, he also played in the 74 World Cup, he played for Juventus, Cagliaria ,Internazionale and other clubs

Charles Tickner was born in Lafayette, California 70 years ago, and is a former figure skater. He won an Olympic bronze medal in 1980 and won two world championship medals, becoming champion in 1978.

David Embé was born in Yaoundé 50 years ago, is a Cameroonian professional footballer, striker, and played in the 1994 World Cup.

 

[Hell 1,328]

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is 70 today. 

 

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Obie Trice is 46.

 

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Dominique de Villepin was born in Rabat, Morocco 70 years ago, is a French diplomat and politician. He was Prime Minister of France, holding that position from March 13, 2005 until May 15, 2007.

Igor Bobrin, born 70 years ago in Leningrad, is a former Russian figure skater, who competed in the men's singles and participated in the 1980 Winter Olympics, placing 6th

Alejandro Falla was born in Cali, 40 years ago, one of the main tennis players in his country, he was champion in youth doubles at Roland Garros alongside Carlos Salamanca, also Colombian, in 2001. In 2012 he achieved his best ranking (48)

Samuel Umtiti was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon, 30 years ago, he is naturalized French and participated in the 2018 World Cup, and played for Barcelona

 

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Fred Haise is 90.

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King Charles III is 75 today. 

 

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Ella and Mia Allan are 13.

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Bill Farmer is 71 today.

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Petula Clark is 91.