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Rolene Strauss

Rolene Strauss (born 22 April 1992) is a South African beauty queen who won Miss South Africa 2014 and was later crowned Miss World 2014. She is the third South African woman to be crowned Miss World, after Penelope Anne Coelen in 1958 and Anneline Kriel in 1974, as well as the first since the end of Apartheid.

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Machine Gun Kelly

Cleveland-raised rapper turned pop-punk star whose album Tickets to My Downfall went straight to number one in the US

Did you know? His stage name comes from his fast rapping style.

Colson Baker (born April 22, 1990), known professionally as MGK (stylized in all lowercase) and formerly Machine Gun Kelly, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. His original stage name "Machine Gun Kelly" was derived from the nickname of Prohibition-era gangster George Kelly Barnes.

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Jasper Cillessen

Dutch international goalkeeper who played for Ajax and Barcelona

Did you know? He made history at the 2014 World Cup when he was substituted off specifically for a tactical penalty shootout.

Jacobus Antonius Peter Johannes "Jasper" Cillessen (born 22 April 1989) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. Cillessen joined NEC's youth team in 2001, making his professional debut for them in 2010, and signed for Ajax for €3 million a year later.

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David Luiz

Brazilian footballer who won the Champions League with Chelsea

Did you know? He initially played as an attacking midfielder before moving into defence during his time in the Brazilian youth leagues.

David Luiz Moreira Marinho (born 22 April 1987) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Cypriot First Division club Pafos. He is primarily a centre-back, but has also been deployed as a defensive midfielder.

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Mikel John Obi

Nigerian footballer who played as a midfielder for Chelsea

Did you know? His transfer to the Premier League was the subject of a high-profile legal dispute between Manchester United and Chelsea.

Mikel John Obi (born John Michael Nchekwube Obinna; 22 April 1987), also known as John Obi Mikel, is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Mikel began his career with local club Plateau United, before joining Norwegian club Lyn at the age of 17 in 2004.

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Amber Heard

American actress who starred in Aquaman and The Rum Diary

Did you know? She is a keen collector of classic cars and has personally worked on the restoration of her 1968 Ford Mustang.

Amber Laura Heard (born April 22, 1986) is an American actress. She had her first leading role in the horror film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), and went on to star in films such as The Ward (2010), Drive Angry (2011), and London Fields (2018).

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Sam Altman

American entrepreneur and chief executive of OpenAI

Did you know? He became the president of the startup accelerator Y Combinator when he was still in his twenties.

Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and investor who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019.

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Kaká

Brazilian footballer who won the Ballon d'Or in 2007

Did you know? He survived a serious swimming pool accident as a teenager that left him with a fractured vertebra.

Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (Brazilian Portuguese:; born 22 April 1982), commonly known as Kaká (Brazilian Portuguese: ) or Ricardo Kaká, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

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Mark van Bommel

Dutch football manager and former midfielder for Bayern Munich

Did you know? He was the first non-German player to be appointed as the club captain of the prominent team Bayern Munich.

Mark Peter Gertruda Andreas van Bommel (born 22 April 1977) is a Dutch football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the head coach of the Belgian national team.

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Kenichi Uemura

Japanese international footballer and J-League defender

Did you know? He was part of the Japan squad that achieved a shock victory over Brazil at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

Kenichi Uemura (上村 健一, Uemura Kenichi; born April 22, 1974) is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for the Japan national team.

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Shavo Odadjian

Shavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian (Armenian: Շավարշ "Շավո" Օդաջյան; born April 22, 1974) is an Armenian-American musician, best known as the bassist of the alternative metal band System of a Down. He also plays bass in a trap group called North Kingsley and in the metal band Seven Hours After Violet.

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Vahagn Khachatryan

Armenian politician serving as the fifth President of Armenia

Did you know? He previously served as the mayor of the nation's capital city during the period following its independence from the Soviet Union.

Vahagn Garniki Khachaturyan (Armenian: Վահագն Գառնիկի Խաչատուրյան, pronounced; born 22 April 1959) is an Armenian economist and politician who has served as the fifth and current president of Armenia since 2022.

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Donald Tusk

Polish prime minister and co-founder of Civic Platform who served as President of the European Council from 2014 to 2019

Did you know? He was an active member of the Solidarity movement which campaigned against Communist rule in Poland during the 1980s.

Donald Franciszek Tusk (born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician and historian who has served as the prime minister of Poland since 2023, previously holding the office from 2007 to 2014. Tusk was President of the European Council from 2014 to 2019 and led the European People's Party from 2019 to 2022.

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Louise Glück

American poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? Much of her work was influenced by her personal experiences, and she published her first collection of poems titled Firstborn in the sixties.

Louise Elisabeth Glück ( GLIK; April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".

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Jack Nicholson

American actor of Chinatown and The Shining who won three Oscars, including for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Did you know? He grew up believing his grandmother was his mother and only discovered the truth about his parentage when he was in his thirties.

John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American retired actor and filmmaker. Nicholson is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, often playing charismatic rebels fighting against the social structure.

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Michael Atiyah

Award-winning mathematician known for work in geometry and topology

Did you know? He received both the Fields Medal and the Abel Prize, two of the highest honours available to mathematicians.

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry. His contributions include the Atiyah–Singer index theorem and co-founding topological K-theory.

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Estelle Harris

Actress known for playing George Costanza’s mother in Seinfeld

Did you know? She provided the distinctive shrill voice for the character of Mrs Potato Head in the Toy Story film franchise.

Estelle Harris (née Nussbaum; April 22, 1928 – April 2, 2022) was an American actress and comedian, known for her exaggeratedly shrill voice. She was best known for her role as Estelle Costanza on Seinfeld.

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Donald J. Cram

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who helped develop the field of host-guest chemistry

Did you know? He spent much of his spare time as an avid surfer and continued to ride the waves well into his seventies.

Donald James Cram (April 22, 1919 – June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J.

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Yehudi Menuhin

World-renowned violinist and conductor who founded a famous music school

Did you know? He was a dedicated yoga practitioner and famously credited the discipline with helping him maintain his physical ability to play the violin.

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 1916 – 12 March 1999), was an American-born British and Swiss violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century.

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Rita Levi-Montalcini

Nobel Prize-winning Italian neurobiologist who discovered nerve growth factor

Did you know? During the Second World War, she set up a secret laboratory in her bedroom to continue her research after being banned from academia.

Rita Levi-Montalcini (born Rita Levi; 22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian neurobiologist. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.

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Alexander Kerensky

Leader of the Russian Provisional Government during the 1917 Revolution

Did you know? After fleeing Russia, he lived in the United States and spent many years teaching at Stanford University.

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (4 May 1881 – 11 June 1970) was a Russian politician, lawyer and revolutionary who led the Russian Provisional Government and the short-lived Russian Republic for three months from late July to early November 1917 (N.S.).

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Robert Bárány

Nobel Prize-winning doctor who studied the human balance system

Did you know? He was held as a prisoner of war when he received his Nobel Prize.

Robert Bárány (Hungarian: Bárány Róbert, pronounced; 22 April 1876 – 8 April 1936) was an Austrian-born otologist. He received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus.

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Vladimir Lenin

Bolshevik revolutionary who led the 1917 October Revolution in Russia and founded the Soviet state and its Communist Party

Did you know? His preserved body has been on public display in a mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square for a century.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.

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