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Abigail Breslin

American actress who starred in the comedy Little Miss Sunshine

Did you know? She made her film debut at just five years old in the thriller Signs, playing the daughter of Mel Gibson's character.

Abigail Breslin (born April 14, 1996) is an American actress. Following a string of film parts as a young child, she rose to prominence at age 10 after playing Olive Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006), for which Breslin received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Melisa Aslı Pamuk

Melisa Aslı Yazıcı (née Pamuk, Turkish:; born 14 April 1991) is a Dutch-Turkish actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. Her family is from İskenderun, Hatay, Turkey.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar

American actress famous for starring in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Did you know? She was scouted by an agent at the age of four while eating in a restaurant in New York City.

Sarah Michelle Prinze (née Gellar GHEL-ər; born April 14, 1977) is an American actress. She is known for portraying strong female characters in film and television, and is regarded as a scream queen for her work in the horror genre.

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Adrien Brody

Youngest actor to win the Best Actor Oscar for The Pianist

Did you know? To prepare for his Oscar-winning role, he gave up his apartment, sold his car, and disconnected his phones to experience true isolation.

Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor known for portraying intense, emotionally charged characters in both leading and supporting roles. In 2025, Time magazine listed him as one of the world's 100 most influential people.

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Roberto Ayala

Argentine defender who captained his national team and played for Valencia

Did you know? He earned more than one hundred caps for Argentina and helped his country win a gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games.

Roberto Fabián Ayala (born 14 April 1973), nicknamed El Ratón ("The Mouse"), is an Argentine former footballer who played as a centre-back for the Argentina national football team, as well as Valencia and Real Zaragoza in Spain, Milan and Napoli in Italy, and Ferro Carril, River Plate and Racing Club in his native…

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Anthony Dod Mantle

Anthony Dod Mantle (born 14 April 1955) is an English cinematographer, known as a pioneer of digital filmmaking through his collaborations with directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Danny Boyle, and Kevin Macdonald. During the 1990s, he was a figure in the Dogme 95 movement.

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Ritchie Blackmore

English guitarist and founding member of the band Deep Purple

Did you know? He left the world of hard rock to perform traditional medieval and Renaissance-inspired folk music with his wife in the band Blackmore's Night.

Richard Hugh Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is an English guitarist, who was a co-founding member of Deep Purple, Rainbow and Blackmore's Night.

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Nguyễn Phú Trọng

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam

Did you know? He was the first person to hold the offices of President and General Secretary simultaneously since the era of Ho Chi Minh.

Nguyễn Phú Trọng (Vietnamese: new-yen foo chong; 14 April 1944 – 19 July 2024) was a Vietnamese politician and political theorist who served as general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 2011 until his death.

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Julie Christie

Oscar-winning British actress known for Darling and Doctor Zhivago

Did you know? She was born in British India and famously turned down the lead role in the classic horror film Rosemary's Baby.

Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is a British actress. Christie's accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

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Erich von Däniken

Swiss author of the bestselling book Chariots of the Gods?

Did you know? He wrote his most famous book while working as a manager at a Swiss hotel.

Erich Anton Paul von Däniken (German:; 14 April 1935 – 10 January 2026) was a Swiss author of several pseudoscientific books which made claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, including the best-selling Chariots of the Gods?, published in 1968.

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Alan MacDiarmid

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who co-discovered conductive polymers

Did you know? He grew up in a household without electricity and worked as a part-time delivery boy to help fund his early education.

Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS (14 April 1927 – 7 February 2007) was a New Zealand-American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.

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Rod Steiger

Oscar-winning actor known for In the Heat of the Night

Did you know? He turned down the title role in the film Patton, a decision he later described as his greatest career mistake.

Rodney Stephen Steiger ( STY-gər; April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters.

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Thomas Schelling

Nobel Prize-winning economist known for his work on game theory

Did you know? His theories on strategy and conflict were used to help prevent nuclear war between world powers during the Cold War.

Thomas Crombie Schelling (April 14, 1921 – December 13, 2016) was an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute.

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Robert Doisneau

French photographer known for his candid images of life in Paris

Did you know? His most famous photograph, featuring a couple kissing in Paris, was actually a staged shot using paid actors.

Robert Doisneau (French:; 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris.

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François Duvalier

Long-term dictator and President of Haiti known as Papa Doc

Did you know? Before entering politics, he was a physician who helped eliminate several contagious diseases across the Haitian countryside.

François Duvalier (14 April 1907 – 21 April 1971), also known as Papa Doc, was a Haitian politician, dictator and physician who served as president of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971.

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King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

King of Saudi Arabia who implemented significant social and economic reforms

Did you know? He is credited with the formal abolition of slavery in Saudi Arabia during the first decade of his reign.

Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (14 April 1906 – 25 March 1975) was King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 until his assassination in 1975. Before his ascension, he served as Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964, and he was briefly regent to his half-brother King Saud in 1964.

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John Gielgud

Oscar-winning British actor and director of stage and screen

Did you know? He was part of a prestigious acting dynasty and was the great-nephew of the celebrated Victorian stage actress Ellen Terry.

Sir Arthur John Gielgud ( GHEEL-guud; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director. With his contemporaries Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson, he made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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B. R. Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and politician who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau.

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Arnold J. Toynbee

Influential British historian and philosopher of global civilisations

Did you know? He spent decades writing a massive twelve-volume work titled A Study of History, which examined the rise and fall of major societies.

Arnold Joseph Toynbee (14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College London.

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Moritz Schlick

German philosopher and a founder of the Vienna Circle

Did you know? He was tragically shot and killed on the steps of the University of Vienna by one of his former students.

Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick (German:; 14 April 1882 – 22 June 1936) was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. He was murdered by a former student, Johann Nelböck, in 1936.

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Peter Behrens

German architect and pioneer of modern industrial design

Did you know? His studio in Berlin served as a training ground for other legendary architects, including Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s.

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Pyotr Stolypin

Russian Prime Minister known for his major agrarian reforms

Did you know? He survived numerous assassination attempts before being fatally shot at the Kyiv Opera House in front of the Tsar.

Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (Russian: Пётр Арка́дьевич Столы́пин, IPA:; 14 April 1862 – 18 September 1911) was a Russian statesman who served as the third prime minister and the interior minister of the Russian Empire from 1906 until his assassination in 1911.

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Adolphe Thiers

Statesman who served as the first president of the Third Republic

Did you know? Beyond his political career, he was a respected historian who wrote a celebrated multi-volume account of the French Revolution.

Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers ( tee-AIR; French:; 15 April 1797 – 3 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian who served as President of France from 1871 to 1873. He was the second elected president and the first of the Third French Republic.

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Denis Fonvizin

Russian playwright of the Enlightenment whose satirical comedy The Minor is the oldest Russian play still regularly performed

Did you know? His most famous play, The Minor, was so successful that it became a staple of Russian school curricula for over two centuries.

Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (Russian: Денис Иванович Фонвизин, IPA:; 14 April 1745 – 12 December 1792) was a Russian playwright during the Age of Enlightenment. He was one of the founders of literary comedy in Russia.

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