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Asa Butterfield

British actor known for leading roles in Hugo and Sex Education

Did you know? He was only ten years old when he played the lead role in the historical drama The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

Asa Bopp Farr Butterfield ( AY-sə; born 1 April 1997) is an English actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, he first achieved recognition as the lead of the historical drama film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008).

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Logan Paul

Logan Alexander Paul (born April 1, 1995) is an American influencer, professional wrestler, entrepreneur, boxer, singer and actor. He has over 23 million subscribers on his YouTube channel Logan Paul Vlogs and has ranked on the Forbes list for the highest-paid YouTube creators in 2017, 2018, and 2021.

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Randy Orton

Randal Keith Orton (born April 1, 1980) is an American professional wrestler. He has been signed to WWE since 2000, where he performs on the SmackDown brand.

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Clarence Seedorf

Dutch midfielder who won four UEFA Champions League titles

Did you know? He remains the only player to have won the UEFA Champions League with three different clubs.

Clarence Clyde Seedorf (Dutch:; born 1 April 1976) is a Dutch former professional football manager and player. He is currently working primarily remotely as a senior sports advisor and senior consultant for Esteghlal Tehran Football Club of the Persian Gulf Pro League.

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Rachel Maddow

American television host and political commentator for MSNBC

Did you know? She was the first openly gay anchor to host a major prime-time news programme in the United States.

Rachel Anne Maddow ( MAD-oh; born April 1, 1973) is an American television news program host and liberal political commentator. She hosts The Rachel Maddow Show, a weekly television show on MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), and serves as the cable network's special event co-anchor.

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Alexander Stubb

Current President of Finland and former Prime Minister

Did you know? He is a dedicated athlete who has completed numerous Ironman triathlons and frequently posts about his training on social media.

Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb (born 1 April 1968) is a Finnish politician serving as the president of Finland since 2024. A member of the National Coalition Party, he previously served as prime minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015 and has held several senior ministerial posts since 2008.

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Jenni Williams

Jenni Williams (born 1962) is a Zimbabwean human rights activist and a founder of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA). A prominent critic of President Robert Mugabe's government, she was described by The Guardian in 2009 as "one of the most troublesome thorns in Mugabe's side".

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Susan Boyle

Scottish singer who rose to fame on Britain's Got Talent

Did you know? Her debut album became the fastest-selling debut for a female artist in UK chart history at the time of its release.

Susan Magdalane Boyle (born 1 April 1961) is a Scottish singer. She rose to fame in 2009 as a contestant on the third series of the television talent competition Britain's Got Talent, where she finished as runner-up.

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Wangari Muta Maathai

Kenyan environmentalist who founded the Green Belt Movement and became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Did you know? She founded the Green Belt Movement, which has helped plant tens of millions of trees across Kenya to combat deforestation.

Wangarĩ Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on planting trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights.

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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Nobel Prize winner who developed techniques for cooling and trapping atoms

Did you know? He was born in French Algeria and moved to Paris in 1953 to study at the École Normale Supérieure.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (French pronunciation:; born 1 April 1933) is a French physicist at the École normale supérieure in Paris. He is known for his experiments in laser cooling.

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Debbie Reynolds

American actress and singer who starred in Singin' in the Rain

Did you know? She was a leading collector of Hollywood memorabilia and once owned Dorothy’s ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz.

Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer and dancer. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer with her portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film Three Little Words.

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Milan Kundera

Czech-born French novelist of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Joke, who explored love and politics under communism

Did you know? After his citizenship was revoked by the communist government in Czechoslovakia, he lived in exile in France for over forty years.

Milan Kundera (UK: KU(U)N-dər-ə; Czech:; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981.

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Ferenc Puskás

Hungarian footballer and star goalscorer for Real Madrid

Did you know? He represented both Hungary and Spain at the World Cup, having taken Spanish citizenship while playing for Real Madrid.

Ferenc Puskás (né Purczeld; 1 April 1927 – 17 November 2006) was a Hungarian professional footballer and manager. Nicknamed the "Galloping Major", Puskás is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, the greatest Hungarian footballer of all time, and the sport's first international superstar.

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Toshirō Mifune

Japanese actor of Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, famed for his intense collaborations with Akira Kurosawa

Did you know? Before finding fame on screen, he spent his military service working in an aerial photography unit for the Japanese Imperial Army.

Toshiro Mifune (三船 敏郎, Mifune Toshirō; 1 April 1920 – 24 December 1997) was a Japanese actor and producer. The recipient of numerous awards and accolades over a lengthy career, he is widely considered one of the greatest actors of all time.

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Joseph Murray

Surgeon who performed the first successful human kidney transplant

Did you know? He shared a Nobel Prize for his work on organ transplantation, which he pioneered while working at a hospital in Boston.

Joseph Edward Murray (April 1, 1919 – November 26, 2012) was an American plastic surgeon who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with E.

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Abraham Maslow

Psychologist who developed the hierarchy of needs theory

Did you know? He initially studied law at City College of New York to please his parents before switching his focus to psychology and human behaviour.

Abraham Harold Maslow ( MAZ-loh; April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.

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Edgar Wallace

Prolific British crime writer and co-creator of the original King Kong

Did you know? It was once famously claimed that one out of every four books read in Britain was written by him.

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer of crime and adventure fiction. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12.

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Edmond Rostand

French poet and playwright best known for Cyrano de Bergerac

Did you know? At the age of thirty-three, he became the youngest person ever to be elected to the Académie Française.

Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (UK:, US:, French:; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac.

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Ferruccio Busoni

Italian composer and virtuoso pianist known for his Bach transcriptions

Did you know? He was a child prodigy who began touring as a pianist at the age of seven.

Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher.

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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who studied colloids

Did you know? He invented the slit-ultramicroscope, which allowed scientists to see particles far too small for a standard microscope.

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (Hungarian: Zsigmondy Richárd Adolf; 1 April 1865 – 23 September 1929) was an Austrian-born chemist. He was known for his research in colloids, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925, as well as for co-inventing the slit-ultramicroscope, and different membrane filters.

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Otto von Bismarck

Prussian statesman who unified Germany through three wars in 1871 and served as the first chancellor of the German Empire

Did you know? He introduced the first modern welfare state, including national healthcare and pensions, to counter socialist movements.

Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), was a German statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany and served as its first chancellor from 1871 to 1890.

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Sophie Germain

French mathematician and physicist who studied elasticity

Did you know? She used a male pseudonym to study at a prestigious university that did not admit female students at the time.

Marie-Sophie Germain (French:; 1 April 1776 – 27 June 1831) was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher.

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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

French lawyer and politician who wrote The Physiology of Taste

Did you know? He is famously credited with the aphorism: "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (French pronunciation:; 2 April 1755 – 2 February 1826) was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste), became celebrated for his culinary reminiscences and reflections on the craft and science of cookery and the art of eating.

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Joseph de Maistre

Diplomat and philosopher who was a key figure of counter-enlightenment

Did you know? He spent over a decade living in Saint Petersburg while serving as an envoy for the King of Sardinia.

Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821), was a Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, and political philosopher. He is chiefly remembered as one of the intellectual forefathers of modern conservatism.

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