Beautiful Soup: Accessing elements from with no id

Question

I am trying to scrape the people who have birthdays from this Wikipedia page

Here is the existing code:

hdr = {\'User-Agent\': \'Mozilla/5.0\'}
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Answer 1

Find the Births section:

section = soup.find('span', id='Births').parent

And then find the next unordered list:

births = section.find_next('ul').find_all('li')