Philippe Petit (74)
August 13th, 1949

French high-wire artist – Philippe Petit was born in Nemours (Commune in Seine-et-Marne, France) on August 13th, 1949 and is 74 years old today.

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Kathleen Battle

American opera singer

*August 13th, 1948, Portsmouth

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Hansjürgen Müller-Beck

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*August 13th, 1927, Apolda †August 2nd, 2018, Bern

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Lennon Stella

Canadian singer and actress

*August 13th, 1999, Oshawa

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Fidel Castro

Cuban politician and revolutionary (1926–2016)

*August 13th, 1926, Birán †November 25th, 2016, Havana

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Janet Yellen

United States Secretary of the Treasury since 2021

*August 13th, 1946, Brooklyn

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Satwiksairaj Rankireddy

Indian badminton player

*August 13th, 2000, Amalapuram

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Thomas Pogge

German philosopher

*August 13th, 1953, Hamburg

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Dagmar von Kurmin

German actress

*August 13th, 1933, Riga †August 1st, 2020, Bonn

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Alfred Hitchcock

English filmmaker (1899–1980)

*August 13th, 1899, Leytonstone †April 29th, 1980, Bel Air

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David Crane

American writer and producer

*August 13th, 1957, Philadelphia

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Madhur Jaffrey

Indian-American actress, food and travel writer, and television personality

*August 13th, 1933, Delhi

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Herb Ritts

American photographer

*August 13th, 1952, Los Angeles †December 26th, 2002, Los Angeles

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Sebastian Stan

Romanian-born American-raised actor

*August 13th, 1982, Constanța

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Giulia Be

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*August 13th, 1999, Rio de Janeiro

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Sridevi

Indian actress (1963–2018)

*August 13th, 1963, Sivakasi †February 24th, 2018, Dubai

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Harold B. Mattingly

British historian of graeco-roman history, numismatist and university teacher (1923-2015)

*August 13th, 1923, Finchley †August 23rd, 2015, Truro

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Pat Harrington Jr.

American Emmy Award-winning stage and television actor (1929–2016)

*August 13th, 1929, Manhattan †January 6th, 2016, Los Angeles

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Kathleen Cassello

American operatic soprano

*August 13th, 1958, Wilmington †April 12th, 2017, Munich

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Karine Jean-Pierre

White House Press Secretary since 2022

*August 13th, 1974, Fort-de-France

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Frederick Sanger

British biochemist

*August 13th, 1918, Rendcomb †November 19th, 2013, Cambridge

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Niko Kranjčar

Croatian footballer

*August 13th, 1984, Zagreb

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Corey Patterson

American baseball player

*August 13th, 1979, Atlanta

53

Alan Shearer

English footballer

*August 13th, 1970, Newcastle upon Tyne

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Dan Fogelberg

American musician (1951–2007)

*August 13th, 1951, Peoria †December 16th, 2007, Deer Isle

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Jennifer N. Pritzker

American billionaire

*August 13th, 1950, Chicago

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Claude Arribas

French association football player

*August 13th, 1951, Le Mans

87

Vyjayanthimala

Indian actress, dancer and parliamentarian

*August 13th, 1936, Chennai

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Paul Greengrass

English writer and film director

*August 13th, 1955, Cheam

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Manuel Valls

French and Spanish politician

*August 13th, 1962, Horta

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Angelika Krüger-Leißner

German politician

*August 13th, 1951, Jüterbog

Also born in 1949

75

Joachim Witt

German rock musician

*February 22nd, 1949, Hamburg

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Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

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Åse Kleveland

Swedish-Norwegian singer and politician

*March 18th, 1949, Stockholm

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Jahn Teigen

Norwegian singer, musician, and comedian (1949–2020)

*September 27th, 1949, Tønsberg Municipality †February 24th, 2020, Ystad

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David Rubenstein

American businessman

*August 11th, 1949, Baltimore

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Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

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Egon Flaig

German university teacher, Historian of classical antiquity and writer

*May 16th, 1949, Oberstenfeld

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Meryl Streep

American actress (born 1949)

*June 22nd, 1949, Summit

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Odaline de la Martinez

American conductor and composer

*October 31st, 1949, Matanzas

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Gertrúd Ladányi

Badminton player

*May 3rd, 1949, Esztergom

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Papa Wemba

Congolese singer and musician

*June 14th, 1949, Lubefu †April 24th, 2016, Abidjan

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Denis Johnson

American writer (novel, drama, poetry, essay) (1949-2017)

*July 1st, 1949, Munich †May 24th, 2017, Sea Ranch

40

Stiv Bators

American punk rock vocalist and guitarist

*October 22nd, 1949, Youngstown †June 3rd, 1990, 1st arrondissement of Paris

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Sverre Årnes

Norwegian writer

*May 14th, 1949, Surnadal Municipality

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Gloria Gaynor

American singer

*September 7th, 1949, Newark

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Jessica Lange

American actress

*April 20th, 1949, Cloquet

67

Carlos Slepoy

Argentinian lawyer (1949-2017)

*October 2nd, 1949, Buenos Aires †April 17th, 2017, Madrid

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Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

*February 14th, 1949, Brooklyn †May 19th, 2017, Paris

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Bruce Springsteen

American rock singer (born 1949)

*September 23rd, 1949, Long Branch

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Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999, 2009–2021, 2022–present)

*October 21st, 1949, Tel Aviv

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Baldwin Lonsdale

Ni-Vanuatu politician and Anglican priest

*November 30th, 1949, Mota Lava †June 17th, 2017, Port Vila

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António Guterres

Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2017

*April 30th, 1949, Lisbon

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Valery Leontiev

Soviet and Russian singer

*March 19th, 1949, Ust-Usa

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Richard Gere

American actor (born 1949)

*August 31st, 1949, Philadelphia

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Sigourney Weaver

American actress

*October 8th, 1949, Manhattan

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Bernard Arnault

French entrepreneur

*March 5th, 1949, Roubaix

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Lenny McLean

English boxer (1949-1998)

*April 9th, 1949, Hoxton †July 28th, 1998, London Borough of Bexley

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Jim Broadbent

English actor

*May 24th, 1949, Lincoln

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Atik Jauhari

Badminton player and trainer

*August 14th, 1949, Tangerang City

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Haruki Murakami

Japanese writer (born 1949)

*January 12th, 1949, Kyoto

Philippe Petit