Robert Kilroy-Silk (81)
May 19th, 1942

British politician (born 1942) – Robert Kilroy-Silk was born in Birmingham (City in West Midlands, England) on May 19th, 1942 and is 81 years old today.

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Massimo Fagioli

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Nora Ephron

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Tom Scott

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Peter Mayhew

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Victoria Wood

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Sam Smith

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Malcolm X

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Jan Janssen

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Ashraf Ghani

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Grace Jones

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Natalia Oreiro

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Pat Roach

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Bobby Burgess

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Girish Karnad

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Lorraine Hansberry

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Andrea Pirlo

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John Mills-Cockell

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Pete Townshend

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Paul Brady

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Joe Biden

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Terry Jones

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Katherine Justice

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Richard Stoltzman

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Amitabh Bachchan

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John Cale

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Paul McCartney

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Daliah Lavi

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Muhammad Ali

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*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

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Per A. Anonsen

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Søren Steen

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Muammar Gaddafi

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Michel Mayor

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Aretha Franklin

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Jun'ichirō Koizumi

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Hu Jintao

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Thomas Danneberg

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Bob Hoskins

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Michael Bloomberg

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Mike Pender

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Roger Ebert

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David Ogden Stiers

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Fraser Stoddart

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Robert Kilroy-Silk