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Maisie Williams

British actress best known for her role in Game of Thrones

Did you know? She is a trained dancer and originally focused on performing arts before her very first audition led to her being cast as Arya Stark.

Margaret Constance Williams (born 15 April 1997) is an English actress. Williams made her acting debut in 2011 as Arya Stark, a lead character in the HBO epic medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019).

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Emma Watson

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress. In the 2010s, she was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes and Vanity Fair, and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2015.

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Seth Rogen

Canadian actor and filmmaker known for popular comedy films

Did you know? He wrote the first draft of his hit movie Superbad with his friend Evan Goldberg when they were only teenagers.

Seth Aaron Rogen ( ROH-gən; born April 15, 1982) is a Canadian actor, comedian, filmmaker, and cannabis entrepreneur. Known primarily for his comedic leading man roles in films and on television, he has often collaborated with his writing partner, Evan Goldberg, and filmmaker and producer Judd Apatow.

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Seigō Narazaki

Long-serving Japanese international football goalkeeper

Did you know? He is the first goalkeeper to be named the J.League Most Valuable Player.

Seigo Narazaki (楢﨑 正剛, Narazaki Seigō; born 15 April 1976) is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for the Japan national team.

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Beata Szydło

Former Prime Minister of Poland and current European Parliament member

Did you know? Before leading the Polish government, she served as the mayor of a small town and managed a local cultural centre.

Beata Maria Szydło (née Kusińska; born 15 April 1963) is a Polish politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. A member of Law and Justice (PiS), she previously served as the prime minister of Poland from 2015 to 2017.

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Carol Greider

Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist who co-discovered the enzyme telomerase

Did you know? She initially struggled in school due to dyslexia but later credited the condition for helping her develop unique problem-solving skills in science.

Carolyn Widney Greider (born April 15, 1961) is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate. She is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Philippe of Belgium

King of the Belgians who ascended to the throne in 2013

Did you know? He broke royal tradition by being the first Belgian heir to attend a regular school rather than being educated privately.

Philippe Léopold Louis Marie (born 15 April 1960) is King of the Belgians, reigning since 21 July 2013. He is the eldest child of King Albert II and Queen Paola.

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Emma Thompson

Oscar-winning actress known for Sense and Sensibility and Love Actually

Did you know? She is the only person to have won Academy Awards for both acting and screenwriting.

Dame Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is an English actress and screenwriter. Her work spans over four decades of screen and stage, and her accolades include two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as a nomination for two Grammy Awards.

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Dodi Fayed

Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Mena'em "Dodi" Al-Fayed ( FY-ed; 15 April 1955 – 31 August 1997) was an Egyptian film producer and the eldest child of businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed. He was romantically involved with Diana, Princess of Wales, when they both died in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997.

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Alla Pugacheva

Russian pop singer and the biggest-selling star of the Soviet era, famous for A Million Scarlet Roses and Harlequino

Did you know? She was the last person ever to receive the title of People's Artist of the USSR before the Soviet Union was dissolved.

Alla Borisovna Pugacheva (Russian: Алла Борисовна Пугачёва, IPA:; born 15 April 1949) is a Russian-Israeli singer and songwriter. Her career began in 1965 and continues to this day, although she retired from performing in 2010 after the international concert tour "Dreams of Love".

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Kunishige Kamamoto

Record-breaking striker who is the all-time top scorer for Japan

Did you know? During the 1968 Summer Olympics, he finished as the tournament's top scorer, helping his nation secure a historic bronze medal.

Kunishige Kamamoto (釜本 邦茂, Kamamoto Kunishige; 15 April 1944 – 10 August 2025) was a Japanese football player, manager, and politician.

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Robert Lefkowitz

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist known for his research on cell receptors

Did you know? He originally trained as a medical doctor and served as a physician in the United States Public Health Service.

Robert Joseph Lefkowitz (born April 15, 1943) is an American physician (internist and cardiologist) and biochemist. He is best known for his discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family of G protein-coupled receptors, for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Brian Kobilka.

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Penelope Coelen

Penelope Anne Coelen (born 15 April 1940) is a South African former actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss World 1958. She was the second major international titleholder to come from Africa.

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Claudia Cardinale

Acclaimed Italian actress who starred in Once Upon a Time in the West

Did you know? She was born in Tunisia and originally spoke French as her first language, requiring her early Italian films to be dubbed.

Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale (Italian:; 15 April 1938 – 23 September 2025) was an Italian-Tunisian actress.

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Tomas Tranströmer

Nobel Prize-winning Swedish poet noted for his works about nature

Did you know? After a stroke took away his ability to speak, he became an accomplished pianist using only his left hand.

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (Swedish:; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long winters in Sweden, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature.

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Vigdís Finnbogadóttir

First woman in the world to be democratically elected as president

Did you know? She remains the longest-serving female head of state of any country, holding office for sixteen years.

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (Icelandic:; born 15 April 1930) is an Icelandic stateswoman and theatre director who served as the president of Iceland, from 1980 to 1996, the first woman to hold the position and the first in the world to be democratically elected president of a country.

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Richard von Weizsäcker

President of Germany during the country's reunification

Did you know? He gained international respect for a landmark speech in 1985 that addressed Germany's responsibility for the events of the Second World War.

Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker (German:; 15 April 1920 – 31 January 2015) was a German politician who served as President of Germany from 1984 to 1994. Born into the aristocratic Weizsäcker family, he took his first public offices in the Protestant Church in Germany.

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Kim Il-sung

Founder of North Korea who ruled from 1948 until his death, launched the Korean War and created a personality cult

Did you know? He was born on the same day that the Titanic sank, a coincidence often noted in his official biography.

Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean communist revolutionary, military officer, politician, and dictator who founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), also known as North Korea, in 1948, and led it until his death in 1994.

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Nikolaas Tinbergen

Nobel Prize-winning biologist who pioneered the study of animal behaviour

Did you know? He was the younger brother of Jan Tinbergen, who won the first-ever Nobel Prize in Economics.

Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen ( TIN-bur-gən, Dutch:; 15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988) was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior…

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Nikita Khrushchev

Soviet leader who denounced Stalin's crimes in 1956 and brought the world to the brink during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Did you know? He famously beat his shoe on a desk during a speech at the United Nations in 1960.

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April 1894 – 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.

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Johannes Stark

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered the splitting of spectral lines

Did you know? Despite his scientific achievements, he became a leading figure in the movement to promote 'German Physics' over theoretical concepts.

Johannes Stark (German:; 15 April 1874 – 21 June 1957) was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1919 for his discovery of the Stark effect.

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Émile Durkheim

French scholar who founded academic sociology, studied suicide statistically and wrote The Division of Labour in Society

Did you know? He established the first European department of sociology and founded one of the earliest academic journals dedicated to the subject.

David Émile Durkheim (French: or; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917) was a French sociologist. He formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber.

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Henry James

American-born author known for novels such as The Portrait of a Lady

Did you know? He lived in Europe for much of his life and became a British citizen during the First World War.

Henry James ((1843-04-15)15 April 1843 – (1916-02-28)28 February 1916) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

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Wilhelm Busch

German poet and artist who created the Max and Moritz stories

Did you know? His pioneering use of sequential illustrations is widely considered a major influence on the development of the modern comic strip.

Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (14 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. He published wildly innovative illustrated tales that remain influential to this day.

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