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Professional british swimmer   and Olympic gold medallist Anita Lonsbrough  celebrates her 81st  birthday today. 

She has won numerous medals throughout her career but her Olympic gold was at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. :birthday:

She was also the first woman to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

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Australian actor Chris Hemsworth  celebrates his 39th birthday today. :birthday:

 

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American superstar wrestler  Hulk  Hogan  turns 69 today. :birthday:

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Ian McDiarmid, the chameleonic and talented film, radio, stage and television actor who made his name on stage and is internationally famous for his role as Emperor/Senator Palpatine or Sith Lord Darth Sidious in the "Star Wars" film series, is 78 today.

 

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Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President/military dictator 2001-2008, on the DL in 2004 and 2020 (and last survivor of the 2004 DL) is 79 today.

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Some Old Hollywood and new generation Hollywood today.

 

 

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American actor  George  Hamilton,  often noted for his permatan  before they were more  commonplace,  celebrates his 83rd birthday today. :birthday:

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Oscar winning actor  Casey Affleck  celebrates his 47th birthday today. :birthday:

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Pete Sampras, the extraordinary and talented American tennis player who won 64 titles in singles, including seven Wimbledon titles and five US Open championships, is 51 today.

 

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George Soros, Hungarian-born American political activist, author, businessman with a net worth of over $8 billion, financial speculator, financier, investor and philanthropist, is 92 today.

 

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Danny Bonaduce, American film/television child actor, radio/television presenter and wrestler who gained fame for his role in the famous 1970s television sitcom "The Partridge Family", is 63 today.

He wrote an autobiography, "Random Acts of Badness", about his journey through drug addiction.

 

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Tom Perrotta, American bestselling novelist and screenwriter famous for his novels "Election" and "Little Children", both of which were made into films, and "The Leftovers", which was adapted into an Award-winning HBO series, is 61 today.

 

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Nintendo composer Koji Kondo is 61.

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Among his most famous musical works:

 

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Madhur Jaffrey, actress, author, cook, potential future DL candidate is 89 today.

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Sebastian Stan is 40 today

 

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Northern Irish singer Feargal Sharkey celebrates turning 64 today. :birthday:

 

 

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English professional snooker player  Joe Perry celebrates his 48th birthday today. :birthday:

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One of the worlds most commercially successful  female  novelists  Danielle Steel, celebrates her 75th birthday today. She has to date written at least 190 books including  140 novels. A number of which have been adapted  for television. :birthday:

 

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Retired  australian professional  swimmer  Kieren Perkins, an Olympic gold and silver medallist   - 1 Gold at the 1992 Olympics,  1 Gold at the 1996 Olympics and and a silver medallist at both the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and and the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, celebrates his 49th birthday today. :birthday:

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Estrella Morente, Spanish flamenco singer, daughter of legendary singer Enrique Morente and dancer Aurora Carbonell, who belongs to one best known dynasty of flamenco dancers and singers of Spain, is 42 today.

Estrella Morente is the most important name of her generation.

Her first album, composed of flamenco songs, was platinum and the second, composed of Christmas songs, was gold.

Morente was the voice behind Penelope Cruz's flamenco song in "Volver", the 2006 Spanish film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

 

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Susan Olsen, American film/television actress, radio host and singer known for her role as Cindy Brady in the famous and popular 1970s sitcom "The Brady Bunch" from 1969 to 1974, is 61 today.

Her brother Christopher, remembered for his role as the kidnapped boy in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956), was also a child actor.

 

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Gary Larson, of The Far Side fame, is 72.

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This is not a birthday as such, but this is the most appropriate thread for this that I know of. 

 

121 years ago today, the first official flight in an aeroplane was managed by German-American Gustave Albin Whitehead. It is reckoned that the Wright Brothers met him, where they stole his ideas and took the credit for his work two years later. 

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David Crosby is 81 today

 

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Magic Johnson is 63 today

 

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 Only daughter of Queen Elizabeth ll,  HRH Princess Royal,  widely known as Princess Anne,  celebrates her 72nd birthday today  :birthday:

One of  the busiest working royals of recent years in the British Royal family. 

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American actor, singer and songwriter Joe Jonas,  who originally found fame as part of his family pop group The Jonas  Brothers,  celebrates his 33rd birthday today. :birthday:    

 

 

 

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Former Prime Minister of France Alain Juppe  ,who held the position between 1995-1997, celebrates his 77th birthday today. 

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Bobby Caldwell, the American contemporary jazz singer and songwriter best known for his 1978 hit single "What You Won't Do For Love", is 71 today.

 

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Jim Dale, the British actor, director, lyricist, narrator of the Harry Potter audiobooks and the television series "Pushing Daisies" and singer, is 87 today.

 

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Mark Thatcher and Carol Thatcher are both 69 today

 

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Jennifer Lawrence is 32 today

 

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