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Xavi Simons

Dutch professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder

Did you know? He was named after legendary Spanish midfielder Xavi Hernandez and spent nine years training at Barcelona's famous La Masia academy.

Xavi Quentin Shay Simons (Dutch:; born 21 April 2003) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Netherlands national team.

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Mikel Oyarzabal

Spanish footballer who captains Real Sociedad

Did you know? He scored the winning goal for Spain in the final of the 2024 European Championship against England.

Mikel Oyarzabal Ugarte (born 21 April 1997) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Real Sociedad, which he captains, and the Spain national team. He has spent his entire professional career with Real Sociedad, making more than 400 appearances and scoring over 130 goals.

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Luisa Neubauer

Luisa-Marie Neubauer (born 21 April 1996) is a German climate activist, politician, and author. She is one of the main organizers of the school strike for climate movement in Germany, where it is commonly referred to under its alternative name Fridays for Future.

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Isco

Spanish footballer known for playing as an attacking midfielder

Did you know? He named his beloved pet dog Messi after the Argentine superstar, claiming the player was the best in the world.

Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez (Spanish pronunciation:; born 21 April 1992), commonly known as Isco, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for La Liga club Real Betis, which he captains, and the Spain national team.

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María Gabriela Isler

María Gabriela de Jesús Isler Morales (Spanish pronunciation:; born 21 March 1988) is a Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder who gained international recognition by winning the titles of Miss Venezuela 2012 and Miss Universe 2013. She passed on her Miss Universe crown in early 2015.

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James McAvoy

Scottish actor known for roles in Atonement and X-Men

Did you know? He initially considered joining the priesthood as a teenager before deciding to pursue a career in acting instead.

James McAvoy (born 21 April 1979) is a Scottish actor and director. He made his acting debut as a teen in The Near Room (1995) and appeared mostly on television until 2003, when his film career began.

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Narges Mohammadi

Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner

Did you know? She was serving a prison sentence in Tehran when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work against oppression.

Narges Mohammadi (Persian: نرگس محمدی; born 21 April 1972) is an Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Between 1998 and October 2023, Mohammadi was arrested 13 times and sentenced to 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.

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Robert Smith

Lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Cure

Did you know? He served as the lead guitarist for Siouxsie and the Banshees for several years while also fronting his own band.

Robert James Smith (born 21 April 1959) is an English musician who is the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the Cure, a post-punk band formed in 1976.

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Andie MacDowell

Star of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Groundhog Day

Did you know? Her voice was entirely dubbed by Glenn Close in the film Greystoke because her Southern accent was considered unsuitable.

Rosalie Anderson MacDowell (born April 21, 1958) is an American actress and former fashion model. MacDowell is known for her starring film roles in romantic comedies and dramas.

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Faustin-Archange Touadéra

President of the Central African Republic and former Prime Minister

Did you know? He is a trained mathematician who holds two doctorates in the subject from universities in France and Cameroon.

Faustin-Archange Touadéra (French:; born 21 April 1957) is a Central African politician and mathematician who has been president of the Central African Republic since March 2016, and was previously its prime minister from 2008 to 2013.

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Iggy Pop

American singer and frontman of the influential rock band The Stooges

Did you know? He is often credited with popularising the stage dive after leaping into the crowd during a performance in Detroit in the late sixties.

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor who was the lead vocalist of the proto-punk band the Stooges.

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Masao Uchino

Japanese football player and manager for the national team

Did you know? He represented Japan at the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia.

Masao Uchino (内野 正雄, Uchino Masao; April 21, 1934 – April 2013) was a Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.

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Silvana Mangano

Italian film star and leading actress of the neorealist cinema movement

Did you know? Before her acting career took off, she won the Miss Rome beauty pageant and competed for the title of Miss Italy.

Silvana Mangano (Italian pronunciation:; 21 April 1930 – 16 December 1989) was an Italian film actress. She was one of a generation of actors who arose from the neorealist movement, and went on to become a major female star, regarded as a sex symbol for the 1950s and '60s.

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Elizabeth II

Queen of the United Kingdom for 70 years, the longest reign in British history, from 1952 until her death in 2022

Did you know? During the Second World War, she trained as a mechanic and truck driver while serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service.

Queen of the United Kingdom for 70 years, the longest reign of any British monarch.

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Anthony Quinn

Actor known for his starring role in Zorba the Greek

Did you know? He was a talented painter and sculptor whose artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums all over the world.

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican and American actor. He was known for his portrayal of earthy, passionate characters "marked by a brutal and elemental virility" in over 100 film, television and stage roles between 1936 and 2001.

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Paul Karrer

Swiss organic chemist who won the Nobel Prize for vitamin research

Did you know? He was the first person to successfully determine the chemical structure of vitamin A.

Paul Karrer (21 April 1889 – 18 June 1971) was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins. He and British chemist Norman Haworth won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937.

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Percy Williams Bridgman

Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his research on high pressures

Did you know? He was a pioneer in operationalism and died by suicide after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Percy Williams Bridgman (April 21, 1882 – August 20, 1961) was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of science.

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Kartini

Javanese activist who campaigned for women's education

Did you know? Her birthday is now celebrated as a national holiday in Indonesia to honour her advocacy for gender equality and women's rights.

Raden Adjeng Kartini, also known as Raden Ayu Kartini (21 April 1879 – 17 September 1904), was a prominent Indonesian advocate of women's rights and female education. She was born into an aristocratic Javanese family in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia).

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Max Weber

German sociologist and economist who wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and helped found modern sociology

Did you know? His wife Marianne was a prominent feminist who edited and published his major works after his death.

Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (German:; 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally. His ideas continue to influence social theory and research.

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John Muir

Scottish-born naturalist known as the Father of the National Parks

Did you know? He once survived a massive windstorm in the Sierra Nevada by climbing to the top of a tall tree to experience the swaying.

John Muir ( MURE; April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.

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Fredrik Bajer

Danish politician and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Did you know? He served as the first president of the International Peace Bureau and was a former military officer turned pacifist.

Fredrik Bajer (21 April 1837 – 22 January 1922) was a Danish writer, teacher, and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908 together with Klas Pontus Arnoldson.

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Hippolyte Taine

French historian and critic who influenced the naturalist movement in literature

Did you know? His influential theory proposed that every individual is shaped by three factors: their race, their surroundings and the historical moment.

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.

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Charlotte Brontë

English novelist of Jane Eyre, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived childhood, who wrote under the name Currer Bell

Did you know? She and her sisters originally published their poetry and novels under male pseudonyms to avoid prejudice from contemporary critics.

Charlotte Nicholls (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known by her maiden name Charlotte Brontë (commonly ), was an English novelist and poet, and was the elder sister of Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which was first published under the pseudonym Currer Bell.

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Friedrich Fröbel

German educator who created the concept of the kindergarten

Did you know? He designed a set of geometric blocks that famously influenced the work of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel or Froebel (German:; 21 April 1782 – 21 June 1852) was a German pedagogue, a student of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities.

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