Laine Erik (82)
April 21st, 1942

Estonian middle-distance runner – Laine Erik was born in Särevere (Township in Türi Rural Municipality, Järva County, Estonia) on April 21st, 1942 and is 82 years old today.

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Mark Wainberg

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*April 21st, 1945, Montreal †April 11th, 2017, Bal Harbour

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Olbram Zoubek

Czech sculptor

*April 21st, 1926, Prague †June 15th, 2017, Prague

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Patti LuPone

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Dirk Heidenblut

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*April 21st, 1961, Essen

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Charles Grodin

American actor (1935–2021)

*April 21st, 1935, Pittsburgh †May 18th, 2021, Wilton

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Kai-Uwe von Hassel

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*April 21st, 1913 †May 8th, 1997, Aachen

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Zhao Jianhua

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Elaine May

American screenwriter, film director, actress, and comedian

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Iggy Pop

American singer

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Dieter Fromm

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Mette Schjoldager

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Yuhan Tan

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*April 21st, 1987, Bilzen

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Nicholas Kidd

Badminton player

*April 21st, 1981, Rabaul

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Mesinee Mangkalakiri

Badminton player

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Rachel Honderich

Canadian badminton player

*April 21st, 1996, Toronto

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Taichi Saito

Japanese badminton player

*April 21st, 1993, Chiba Prefecture

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Lin Guipu

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John Cameron Mitchell

American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director

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Gwendal Peizerat

French ice dancer

*April 21st, 1972, Lyon

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Glen Hansard

Irish musician and songwriter

*April 21st, 1970, Dublin

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Günter Petersmann

German rower

*April 21st, 1941, Dortmund

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw

British actress (born 1983)

*April 21st, 1983, Oxford

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Toby Stephens

British actor

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Michael Succow

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Baruch Fischhoff

Researcher

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Alan Fersht

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Joe Biden

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*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

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Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

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Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

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Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

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Katherine Justice

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*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

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Wolfgang Schäuble

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*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

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Richard Stoltzman

American musician

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Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

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John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

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Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

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Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

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Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

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Per A. Anonsen

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Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

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Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

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Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

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Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

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Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

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Raman Ghosh

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Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

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Jimi Hendrix

American guitarist (1942–1970)

*November 27th, 1942, Seattle †September 18th, 1970, Kensington

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Pierre Seron

Belgian comics artist (1942-2017)

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Thomas Danneberg

German actor (1942–2023)

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Sven-Erik Magnusson

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Bob Hoskins

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*October 26th, 1942, Bury St Edmunds †April 29th, 2014, Bury St Edmunds

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Michael Bloomberg

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Mike Pender

British musician

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Roger Ebert

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

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David Ogden Stiers

American actor (1942–2018)

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Fraser Stoddart

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Laine Erik