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June 13, 1928

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Giacomo Biffi

1928Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (died 2015)[†]

Giacomo Biffi was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, having served as archbishop there from 1984 to 2003. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1985.

1928Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (died 2009)[†]

Renée Morisset, was a Canadian pianist. She and her husband, Victor Bouchard, were one of the foremost piano duos in Canadian classical music.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

1928John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)[†]

John Forbes Nash Jr., known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten were awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. In 2015, Louis Nirenberg and he were awarded the Abel Prize for their contributions to the field of partial differential equations.