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September 15, 1937

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Joey Carew

1937Joey Carew, Trinidadian cricketer (died 2011)[†]

Michael Conrad "Joey" Carew was a West Indian cricketer who played in 19 Tests from 1963 to 1972.

Fernando de la RĂșa

1937Fernando de la RĂșa, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (died 2019)[†]

Fernando de la RĂșa was an Argentine politician who served as the President of Argentina from 1999 until his resignation in 2001. A member of the Radical Civic Union, he previously served as national senator for Buenos Aires across non-consecutive terms from 1973 to 1996, national deputy for Buenos Aires from 1991 to 1992, the first Chief of Government of Buenos Aires between 1996 and 1999, and President of the National Committee of the Radical Civic Union from 1997 to 1999.

King Curtis Iaukea

1937King Curtis Iaukea, American wrestler (died 2010)[†]

Curtis Piehu Iaukea III was an American professional wrestler better known as King Curtis Iaukea. Iaukea won championships in several of the major regional U.S. promotions, both as a single and in various tag team combinations, during the 1960s. He then competed in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) where he won the WWF Tag Team Championship with Baron Scicluna. He was also later The Master of the Dungeon of Doom in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Under the name "Iau Kea" he appeared in the film The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze with Moe Howard declaring "That's not a man! That's a committee!".

Robert Lucas Jr.

1937Robert Lucas Jr., American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)[†]

Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. was an American economist at the University of Chicago. Widely regarded as the central figure in the development of the new classical approach to macroeconomics, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1995 "for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy". N. Gregory Mankiw characterized him as "the most influential macroeconomist of the last quarter of the 20th century". In 2020, he ranked as the 10th most cited economist in the world.

Pino Puglisi

1937Pino Puglisi, Italian priest and martyr (died 1993)[†]

Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who openly challenged the Sicilian Mafia controlling his Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio. The Mafia killed him on his 56th birthday. His life story has been retold in a book, Pino Puglisi, il prete che fece tremare la mafia con un sorriso (2013), and portrayed in a film, Come into the Light in 2005. He was the first Mafia victim to be beatified by the Catholic Church.