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November 4, 1933

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Tito Francona

1933Tito Francona, American baseball player (died 2018)[†]

John Patsy Francona was a Major League Baseball player, an outfielder and first baseman for nine teams. As a child, he was nicknamed "Tito" by his father.

Charles K. Kao

1933Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)[†]

Sir Charles Kao Kuen was a Hong Kong physicist and Nobel laureate who contributed to the development and use of fibre optics in telecommunications. In the 1960s, Kao created various methods to combine glass fibres with lasers in order to transmit digital data, which laid the groundwork for the evolution of the Internet and the eventual creation of the World Wide Web.

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

1933C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian colonel and politician, President of Biafra (died 2011)[†]

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was a Nigerian military officer and political figure who served as President of Biafra from 1967 to 1970. As the military governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, which he declared as the independent state of Biafra, Ojukwu led the Biafran forces during the Nigerian Civil War against the Nigerian government forces.