Org-mode properties for Emacs diary anniversaries?

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I am trying to have the "Birthday" property of an Org-mode contact entry added to the agenda automatically:

* John
  :PROPERTIES:
  :Name: John
  :Birthday: 5 4 1900
  :END:

This can be done manually for each entry using:

%%(diary-anniversary 5 4 1900) John's birthday

But I don't want to type the date twice. I would like to use the org-entry-get functionality to make diary-anniversary take the values of the Birthday and Name (see the bold text above) properties.

This is how I get the correct property values.

%%(org-entry-get nil "Name")
%%(org-entry-get nil "Birthday")

But after several attempts, I still haven't managed to put the values in variables and pass them correctly to diary-anniversary. Any ideas how to do it?

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