Philippe Petit (76)
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 76 years old today.

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Kathleen Battle

American opera singer

*August 13th, 1948, Portsmouth

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Satwiksairaj Rankireddy

Indian badminton player

*August 13th, 2000, Amalapuram

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Hansjürgen Müller-Beck

German prehistorian

*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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Janet Yellen

United States Secretary of the Treasury since 2021

*August 13th, 1946, Brooklyn

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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

92

Madhur Jaffrey

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

*August 13th, 1933, Civil Lines

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David Crane

American writer and producer

*August 13th, 1957, Philadelphia

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Sridevi

Indian actress (1963–2018)

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

78

Rudolf von Gneist

German politician (1816–1895)

*August 13th, 1816, Berlin †July 22nd, 1895, Berlin

73

Bronisław Korfanty

Polish senator and politician

*August 13th, 1952, Siemianowice Śląskie

86

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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Corey Patterson

American baseball player

*August 13th, 1979, Atlanta

40

Mattia Pasini

Italian motorcycle racer

*August 13th, 1985, Rimini

69

Emilio Sereni

Italian writer and politician

*August 13th, 1907, Rome †March 20th, 1977, Rome

78

Antonio Salandra

Prime Minister of Italy (1853-1931)

*August 13th, 1853, Troia †December 9th, 1931, Rome

73

Dirk Sager

German journalist

*August 13th, 1940, Hamburg †January 2nd, 2014, Potsdam

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Marcio Veloz Maggiolo

Dominican anthropologist and archaeologist

*August 13th, 1936, Santo Domingo †April 10th, 2021, Santo Domingo

Also born in 1949

77

Joachim Witt

German rock musician

*February 22nd, 1949, Hamburg

76

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

70

Jahn Teigen

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

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

77

Åse Kleveland

Swedish-Norwegian singer and politician

*March 18th, 1949, Stockholm

76

David Rubenstein

American businessman

*August 11th, 1949, Baltimore

77

Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

77

Egon Flaig

German university teacher, Historian of classical antiquity and writer

*May 16th, 1949, Oberstenfeld

77

Meryl Streep

American actress (born 1949)

*June 22nd, 1949, Summit

66

Papa Wemba

Congolese singer, musician and actor (1949-2016)

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

76

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher

*September 2nd, 1949, Peine

67

Denis Johnson

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

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

77

Hans Michelbach

German politician

*May 3rd, 1949, Gemünden am Main

76

Benjamin Netanyahu

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

*October 21st, 1949, Tel Aviv

76

Gloria Gaynor

American singer

*September 7th, 1949, Newark

76

Bruce Springsteen

American rock singer (born 1949)

*September 23rd, 1949, Long Branch

77

Jessica Lange

American actress

*April 20th, 1949, Cloquet

67

Carlos Slepoy

Argentinian lawyer (1949-2017)

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

68

Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

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

77

António Guterres

Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2017

*April 30th, 1949, Lisbon

67

Jutta Winkelmann

German film director and author (1949–2017)

*April 3rd, 1949, Kassel †February 23rd, 2017, Munich

77

Amin Maalouf

Francophone Lebanese writer based in France

*February 25th, 1949, Beirut

74

Sebastián Piñera

Chilean entrepreneur and politician

*December 1st, 1949, Santiago †February 6th, 2024, Ranco Lake

77

Bernard Arnault

French entrepreneur

*March 5th, 1949, Roubaix

77

Franz Xaver Bogner

German director and screenwriter

*January 15th, 1949, Pliening

77

Norbert Kartmann

German politician

*January 16th, 1949, Nieder-Weisel

77

Valery Leontiev

Soviet and Russian singer

*March 19th, 1949, Ust-Usa

76

Sigourney Weaver

American actress

*October 8th, 1949, Manhattan

76

Richard Gere

American actor (born 1949)

*August 31st, 1949, Philadelphia

67

Baldwin Lonsdale

Ni-Vanuatu politician and Anglican priest

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

77

Jim Broadbent

English actor (born 1949)

*May 24th, 1949, Holton cum Beckering

Philippe Petit