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April 14, 1933

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Paddy Hopkirk

1933Paddy Hopkirk, Northern Irish racing driver (died 2022)[โ€ ]

Patrick Barron Hopkirk was a rally driver from Northern Ireland, he was considered to be one of the finest rally drivers that Ireland ever produced. Following his retirement from competing he became well known for his charity work and for running his successful automotive accessories business and driving school.

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

1933Boris Strugatsky, Russian author (died 2012)[โ€ ]

The brothers Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky were Soviet and Russian science-fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers.

Yuri Oganessian

1933Yuri Oganessian, Armenian-Russian nuclear physicist[โ€ ]

Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian is an Armenian and Russian nuclear physicist who is best known as a researcher of superheavy elements. He has led the discovery of multiple chemical elements. He succeeded Georgy Flyorov as director of the Flyorov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in 1989 and is now its scientific director. The heaviest known element, oganesson, is named after him, only the second time that an element was named after a living person.