Born in Riga

Riga is the capital of Latvia and the largest city of the Baltics. Name these famous persons, which are born in the city of Riga.

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Russian-born American tailor and inventor of modern jeans	1834	Jacob W. Davis
Baltic German chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, one of the founders of the field of physical chemistry	1853	Wilhelm Ostwald
Soviet director, "October" "Battleship Potemkin"	1898	Sergei Eisenstein
Computer scientist, he received the Turing Award in 1993	1928	Juris Hartmanis
First female President of Latvia from 1999 to 2007	1937	Vaira Vike-Freiberga
President of Latvia from 1993 to 1999	1939	Guntis Ulmanis
Russian-American actor, known for playing Peter Parker's landlord in the "Spider-Man" films	1950	Elya Baskin
Prime Minister of Latvia from 1990 to 1993 and again from 2007 to 2009	1951	Ivars Godmanis
President of Latvia from 2019 to 2023 and former member of the European Court of Justice from 2004 to 2019	1955	Egils Levits
President of Latvia from 2007 to 2011	1955	Valdis Zatlers
Prime Minister of Latvia from 2004 to 2007 and current President of the Latvian Ice Hockey Federation	1966	Aigars Kalvitis
Former Ice Hockey player, he has played the most games and scored the most points in the history of the Latvian national team	1970	Leonids Tambijevs

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Prime Minister of Latvia from 2009 to 2014	1971	Valdis Dombrovskis
Former Latvian International football player, he holds the record for the most games played for the Latvian national team	1971	Vitalijs Astafjevs
Former ice hockey player who played in the NHL for ten seasons and died aged 31 from heart failure during a game	1972	Sergei Zholtok
Former ice hockey player who played in the NHL for twelve seasons and died aged 37 in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash	1974	Karlis Skrastins
Prime minister of Latvia since 2023	1975	Evika Silina
Former basketball player (Golden State Warriors)	1986	Andris Biedrins
Director of "Flow" and one of the two first Latvians to win an Academy Award	1994	Gints Zilbalodis
Ice hockey goaltender, Columbus Blue Jackets	1994	Elvis Merzlikins
Ice hockey player who plays for the Vancoucer Canucks	1994	Teddy Blueger
Ice hockey player and highest-drafted Latvian in NHL history who plays for the Tampa Bay Lightning	1994	Zemgus Girgensons
Tennis player and French Open champion 2017	1997	Jelena Ostapenko

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