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Going deeper into history of really under-rated, but famous people born on my birthday, whose list you can find below:

1. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358), the 3rd shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan

2. William Le Baron Jenney (1832), known as the “Father of the American skyscraper”

3. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), a French inventor and is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle!

4. Agostino Bassi, (1773), who preceded and influenced Louis Pasteur in the origin of the germ theory of disease

5. Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866), in 1933, he was the first person awarded the Prize in genetics, for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity

6. Lope K. Santos (1879), Filipino writer and labor leader, "Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar"

7. May Sutton Bundy (1887), is the first American Woman to win Wimbledon

8. Dr. Nahman Avigad (1905), born was an Israeli archaeologist. Among his most exciting finds were the remnants of the “broad wall”, twice mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah

9. Eric Williams (1911), first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

10. Ethel Rosenberg (1915), American Communist and wife of Julius Rosenberg, both of whom were executed in 1953 after having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage. The charges were in relation to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Theirs was the first execution of civilians for espionage in United States history

11. Hammer DeRoburt (1922), first President of Nauru

12. Feroz Khan (1939), Indian Bollywood actor

13. Bishan Bedi (1946), Indian Cricketer

14. Mark Hamill (1951), Actor who played Luke Skywalker in the earlier Star Wars series

15. Rajiv Kulkarni (1962), Indian Cricketer

16. Bridgette Leann Wilson-Sampras (1973), Played the role of Sonya in the movie “Mortal Kombat”. Since 2000, she has been married to tennis player Pete Sampras.

17. Chauncey Billups (1976), NBA guard (Boston Celtics)

18. Mao Asada (1990), Japanese world-Champion figure skater. She is also the first and only woman to have landed two triple Axel jumps in the same program at an ISU competition.

Regards

Varun Reddy.