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Famous Births and Deaths on this day in history

Births

1941 – Anneke Wills

Anneke Wills (born Anna Katarina Willys) is an English actress, best known for her role as the Doctor Who companion Polly in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Age 76

1971 – Dannii Minogue

Dannii Minogue is an Australian singer, dancer, songwriter, model, fashion designer, and actress. Dannii rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian television talent show Young Talent Time with another known fellow Australian Tina Arena and the soap opera Home and Away, before beginning her career as a pop singer in the early 1990s. Minogue achieved early success with hits such as “Love and Kisses”, “This is It”, “Jump to the Beat” and “Baby Love”, though by the release of her second album, her popularity as a singer had declined, leading her to make a name for herself with award-winning performances in musicals with Grease and also in Notre Dame De Paris, as well as other acting credits in The Vagina Monologues and as Lady Macbeth. The late 1990s saw a brief return to music after Minogue reinvented herself as a dance artist with “All I Wanna Do”, her first number one UK Club hit.

Age 46

1980 – Niall Matter

Niall Matter is a Canadian actor.

Following recovery from a serious accident sustained whilst working on Canadian oil rigs, Matter chose to pursue a full-time acting career. He received his first significant break in 2007, with a main role in teen drama The Best Years. Later in the same year, he joined the cast of Eureka as bad-boy genius Zane Donovan. In 2009 he had a small supporting role in Zack Snyder’s film Watchmen. He went on to star as Evan Cross in the short-lived 2012 series Primeval: New World. His career subsequently moved away from science fiction, seeing him star in several television movies, as well as joining Canadian series such as Remedy, Arctic Air and When Calls the Heart.

Age 37

1983 – Alona Tal

Alona Tal is an Israeli singer and actress. She is known for her roles in Veronica Mars as cheerleader Meg Manning and Supernatural as Jo Harvelle.

Age 34

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Famous Births and Deaths on this day in history

Births

1967 – Michalis Vlachos

Michalis Vlachos is a Greek football former professional player.

Vlachos began his career with Apollon Smyrni, where he was first called up for the Greek national football team in 1989. He later represented both Olympiakos and AEK, winning the Greek championship with the latter. During the 1994–95 season, Vlachos appeared for AEK in the UEFA Champions League, scoring in a 1–3 loss to Casino Salzburg in the group stage.

In 1998, Vlachos joined English First Division club Portsmouth, for whom he made over 50 league appearances as a midfielder and sweeper in two years. He joined Walsall in February 2000, making 12 appearances for the club prior to relegation in May of the same year.

Vlachos returned to Greece in the summer of 2000, joining Ionikos. He finished his career with his first club Apollon, retiring in 2003.

Age 50

1977 – Stefani Miglioranzi

Stefani Miglioranzi is a retired Brazilian-American footballer.

Age 40

1978 – Charlie Weber

Charles Alan “Charlie” Weber, Jr. is an American actor and former model. In 2014, Weber began starring as Frank Delfino in the ABC legal drama series, How to Get Away with Murder.

Age 39

1979 – Sean Davis

Sean Davis is an English former footballer who played for clubs such as Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur, Portsmouth and Bolton Wanderers.

Age 38

1986 – Aldis Hodge

Aldis Alexander Basil Hodge is an Award-winning American actor, best known for his portrayal of Alec Hardison on the TNT series Leverage, MC Ren in the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton, Levi Jackson in the 2016 Academy Award-nominated film Hidden Figures, and as Noah in the WGN America series Underground.

Age 31

1995 – Sammi Hanratty

Samantha Lynne “Sammi” Hanratty is an American actress. In 2007, she began her acting career portraying the young version of Charlotte “Chuck” Charles on the ABC series Pushing Daisies. Hanratty’s first lead role took place in 2009, portraying Chrissa Maxwell in An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong. In 2011, she played the role Whitney Brown in the film The Greening of Whitney Brown. Hanratty is considered a Celebrity Friend for the Starlight Children’s Foundation.

Age 22

Deaths

1988 – Roy Kinnear

Born: 8 January 1934

Roy Mitchell Kinnear was an English actor. He is known for his roles in films directed by Richard Lester; including Algernon in Help! (1965); Clapper in How I Won the War (1967); and Planchet in The Three Musketeers (1973), reprising the latter role in the 1974 and 1989 sequels. He is also known for playing Henry Salt in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Died Aged 54

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