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Patrick Geddes
Sir Patrick Geddes FRSE (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner (see List of urban theorists). He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban...
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- Oct 2, 1854
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James Young
James Young (13 July 1811 – 13 May 1883) was a Scottish chemist best known for his method of distilling paraffin from coal.
James Young was born in the Drygate area of Glasgow, the son of John Young, a cabinetmaker and joiner. He became his father's...
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- Nov 14, 1949 (age 62 years)
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Colin Maclaurin
Colin Maclaurin (February 1698 – 14 June 1746) was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra. The Maclaurin series, a special case of the Taylor series, are named after him.
Owing to changes in orthography...
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- Feb 1698
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Charles Piazzi Smyth
Charles Piazzi Smyth FRSE FRS FRAS FRSSA (3 January 1819 – 21 February 1900), was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888, well known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of...
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1819
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James Gregory
James Gregory FRS (November 1638 – October 1675) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He described an early practical design for the reflecting telescope – the Gregorian telescope – and made advances in trigonometry, discovering infinite...
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- Nov 1638
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Thomas Brown
Thomas Brown FRSE (9 January 1778 – 2 April 1820) was a Scottish metaphysician.
He was born at Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, where his father Rev. Samuel Brown was parish clergyman. He was a wide reader and an eager student. Educated at several...
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- Jan 9, 1778
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Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE (1757–1834) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder.
Telford was born on 9 August 1757 at Glendinning, a hill farm 3 miles west of Eskdalemuir Kirk, in the rural...
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- Aug 9, 1757
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James David Forbes
James David Forbes FRS FRSE FGS (20 April 1809 – 31 December 1868) was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. Forbes was a resident of Edinburgh for most of his life, educated at the...
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- Apr 20, 1809
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Robert Noble
Robert Laing Noble, OC, FRSC (February 3, 1910 – December 11, 1990) was a Canadian physician who was involved in the discovery of vinblastine.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received his M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1934 and a Ph.D. in 1937...
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- Feb 3, 1910 (age 102 years)
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith (baptised 16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790 [OS: 5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790]) was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Principles...
Date of birth:
- Jun 16, 1723
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David Hume
David Hume (7 May [O.S. 26 April] 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of...
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- Apr 26, 1711
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John Byrne
John Byrne (born 6 January 1940) is a Scottish playwright and artist.
John Byrne was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire where he grew up in the Ferguslie Park housing scheme and educated at the town's St Mirin's Academy before attending Glasgow School of...
Date of birth:
- Jan 6, 1940 (age 72 years)
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William Jardine
Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet of Applegirth, Dumfriesshire (23 February 1800, Edinburgh to 21 November 1874, Sandown, Isle of Wight) was a Scottish naturalist.
Jardine made natural history available to all levels of Victorian society by editing...
Date of birth:
- Feb 23, 1800
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John James Richard Macleod
John James Rickard Macleod FRS (6 September 1876 – 16 March 1935) was a Scottish physician and physiologist. He was noted as one of the co-discoverers of insulin and awarded the Nobel Prize for this discovery.
Macleod was born at Clunie, Perthshire,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 6, 1876 (age 135 years)
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Alexander Murray
Alexander Murray, CMG (2 June 1810 – 18 December 1884) was a Scottish geologist.
Murray was born in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. He worked as a geologist in the United Kingdom and Canada, before coming to Newfoundland in 1864 to become the first...
Date of birth:
- Jun 2, 1810
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Adam Ferguson
Adam Ferguson FRSE, also known as Ferguson of Raith (20 June 1723 (O.S.) (1 July, N.S.) - 22 February 1816) was a Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment. Ferguson was sympathetic to traditional societies, such as the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1, 1723
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James Ivory
James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer...
Date of birth:
- Jun 7, 1928 (age 84 years)
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Mungo Park
Mungo Park (11 September 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of the African continent. He was credited as being the first Westerner to encounter the Niger River.
Mungo Park was born in Selkirkshire, Scotland at Foulshiels on the Yarrow Water, near...
Date of birth:
- Sep 11, 1771
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Williamina Fleming
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (May 15, 1857 – May 21, 1911) was an American astronomer. During her career, she helped develop a common designation system for stars and catalogued thousands of stars and other astronomical phenomena. Fleming is...
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- May 15, 1857
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Thomas Brisbane
Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet GCH, GCB, FRS, FRSE (23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860) was Governor of New South Wales (1821-25), as recommended by the Duke of Wellington, with whom he had seen military service.
A keen...
Date of birth:
- Jul 23, 1773
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Robert Brown
Robert Brown FRSE FRS FLS MWS (21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope. His contributions include the discovery of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 21, 1773
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Johann von Lamont
Johann von Lamont (December 13, 1805 – August 6, 1879) was a Scottish-German astronomer and physicist.
Von Lamont was born John Lamont at Corriemulzie near Inverey in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The son of Robert Lamont (forester to James Duff) and...
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- Dec 13, 1805
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Robert Adam
Robert Adam FRSE FRS FSA(Scot) FSA (3 July 1728 – 3 March 1792) was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), the country's foremost architect of the time, and trained...
Date of birth:
- Jul 3, 1728
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Robert Colquhoun
Robert Colquhoun (20 December 1914 – 20 September 1962) was a Scottish painter, printmaker and theatre set designer.
Colquhoun was born in Kilmarnock and was educated at Kilmarnock Academy. He won a scholarship to study at the Glasgow School of Art,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 20, 1914 (age 97 years)
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John Anderson
John Anderson (1 November 1893 – 6 July 1962) was a Scottish-born Australian philosopher who occupied the post of Challis Professor of Philosophy at Sydney University in the years 1927-1958. He founded the empirical brand of philosophy known as...
Date of birth:
- Nov 1, 1893 (age 118 years)
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John Richardson
Sir John Richardson (5 November 1787 – 5 June 1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.
Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled...
Date of birth:
- Nov 5, 1787
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Jack Vettriano
Jack Vettriano OBE born Jack Hoggan (born 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter.
Jack Vettriano grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. He left school at 16 and later became an apprentice mining engineer. Vettriano did not take up...
Date of birth:
- Nov 17, 1951 (age 60 years)
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William Maclure
William Maclure, American - British social experimenter on new types of community life together with British social reformer Robert Owen, (1771–1854), in Indiana State, U. S. A.. Maclure, (Born 1763 in Ayr, Scotland – March 23, 1840), aged 77, at...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1763
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David Brewster
Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA(Scot) FSSA MICE (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.
David Brewster was born at the Canongate in Jedburgh,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 11, 1781
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Joseph John Thomson
Sir Joseph John "J. J." Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate. He is credited with discovering electrons and isotopes, and inventing the mass spectrometer. Thomson was awarded the 1906 Nobel...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1856
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James Alfred Ewing
Sir James Alfred Ewing KCB FRS FRSE MInstitCE (27 March 1855 - 7 January 1935) was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 27, 1855
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, CH, FRS (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who received the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cloud chamber.
Wilson was born in the parish of Glencorse,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 14, 1869 (age 143 years)
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Mary Somerville
Mary Fairfax Somerville (26 December 1780 – 28 November 1872) was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was discouraged. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and was the second woman scientist to...
Date of birth:
- Dec 26, 1780
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Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish-American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, and producer. He is the host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, an Emmy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning late...
Date of birth:
- May 17, 1962 (age 50 years)
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Hugh Falconer
Hugh Falconer MD FRS (29 February 1808 – 31 January 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna, and geology of India, Assam, and Burma, and was the first to suggest the modern...
Date of birth:
- Feb 29, 1808
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Stanley Baxter
Stanley Baxter (born 24 May 1926) is an award winning Scottish actor and impressionist, best known for his highly popular British television comedy shows. In a long career he has worked with some highly celebrated colleagues in a wide range of...
Date of birth:
- May 24, 1926 (age 86 years)
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Robert Watson-Watt
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, KCB, FRS, FRAeS (13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973) is considered by many to be the "inventor of radar". (The hyphenated name is used herein for consistency, although this was not adopted until he was knighted in 1942...
Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1892 (age 120 years)
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John Leslie
Sir John Leslie (10 April 1766 – 3 November 1832) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best remembered for his research into heat.
Leslie gave the first modern account of capillary action in 1802 and froze water using an air-pump in 1810, the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 10, 1766
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Greg Hemphill
Gregory "Greg" Hemphill (born December 14, 1969) is a Scottish actor and comedian. He has also presented on television and radio. Along with his comedy partner, Ford Kiernan, he is best known in the United Kingdom for his appearances in Still Game...
Date of birth:
- Dec 14, 1969 (age 42 years)
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE, (28 October 1925 - 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.
Finlay was born in Nassau, Bahamas, of Scottish parents. He was educated in Scotland at Dollar Academy. At the age of 13, with the outbreak...
Date of birth:
- Oct 28, 1925 (age 86 years)
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Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time.
Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1771
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Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming FRSE, FRS, FRCS(Eng) (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1881 (age 130 years)
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James Dewar
Sir James Dewar FRS (20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923) was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He is probably best-known today for his invention of the Dewar flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases....
Date of birth:
- Sep 20, 1842
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Eric Temple Bell
Eric Temple Bell (February 7, 1883 – December 21, 1960), was a mathematician and science fiction author born in Scotland who lived in the U.S. for most of his life. He published his non-fiction under his given name and his fiction as John Taine.
He...
Date of birth:
- Feb 7, 1883 (age 129 years)
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William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay KCB FRSE FRS (1852–1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" (along with...
Date of birth:
- Oct 2, 1852
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Carlos Finlay
Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3, 1833 – August 20, 1915) was a Cuban physician and scientist recognized as a pioneer in yellow fever research.
Finlay was born Juan Carlos Finlay y Barres, in Puerto Príncipe (now Camagüey), Cuba, of French and...
Date of birth:
- Dec 3, 1833
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James Nasmyth
James Hall Nasmyth (sometimes spelled Naesmyth, Nasmith, or Nesmyth) (19 August 1808 –7 May 1890) was a Scottish engineer and inventor famous for his development of the steam hammer. He was the co-founder of Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company...
Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1808
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Colen Campbell
Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer, credited as a founder of the Georgian style. He spent most of his career in Italy and England.
A descendent of the Campbells of Cawdor...
Date of birth:
- Jun 15, 1676
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Ronni Ancona
Ronni Ancona (born 4 July 1968, Troon, Ayrshire) is a Scottish actress, impressionist and author. Ancona won the Best TV Comedy Actress award at the 2003 British Comedy Awards for her work in Big Impression.
Ancona made a one-off appearance on Blue...
Date of birth:
- Jul 4, 1968 (age 43 years)
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Henry Home, Lord Kames
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696 – 27 December 1782) was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founder member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in...
Date of birth:
- 1696
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William Murdoch
William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish engineer and long-term inventor.
Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton and Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten...
Date of birth:
- Aug 21, 1754
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James Hutton
James Hutton FRSE (Edinburgh, 3 June 1726 OS (14 June 1726 NS) – 26 March 1797) was a Scottish physician, geologist, naturalist, chemical manufacturer and experimental agriculturalist. His work helped to establish the basis of modern geology. His...
Date of birth:
- Jun 14, 1726
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John Napier
John Napier of Merchiston (1550 – 4 April 1617) – also signed as Neper, Nepair – named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer & astrologer, and also the 8th Laird of Merchistoun. He was the son of Sir Archibald...
Date of birth:
- 1550
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John Law
John Law (baptised 21 April 1671 – died 21 March 1729) was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade. He was appointed Controller...
Date of birth:
- Apr 21, 1671
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William Cullen
William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE FPSG (15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790) was a Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist, and one of the most important professors at the Edinburgh Medical School, during its heyday as the leading center of medical...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1710
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James Clerk Maxwell
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- Jun 13, 1831
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Doon Mackichan
Doon Mackichan (born Sarah-Doon Mackichan in August 1962) is a British comedian and actress.
Mackichan was born in London and raised in Surrey until age nine, when she and her family moved to Upper Largo, Fife. A Manchester University graduate, she...
Date of birth:
- 1962 (age 50 years)
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Duns Scotus
John (Johannes, Ioannes) Duns Scotus, O.F.M. (c. 1256 – November 18, 1308) was one of the more important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages. He was given the medieval accolade Doctor Subtilis (Subtle Doctor) for his penetrating and...
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- 1266
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Thomas James Henderson
Thomas James Alan Henderson (28 December 1798 – 23 November 1844) was a Scottish astronomer noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, and for being the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 28, 1798
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Ford Kiernan
Ford John Kiernan (born 10 January 1962) is a Scottish actor and comedian. Along with his comedy partner, Greg Hemphill, he is best known in the United Kingdom for his appearances in Still Game and Chewin' The Fat.
Born in Dennistoun, Glasgow,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 10, 1962 (age 50 years)
