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Raphaël Varane

World Cup-winning French footballer and long-serving Real Madrid defender

Did you know? As a teenager, he famously hung up the phone on football legend Zinedine Zidane because he was busy revising for his exams.

Raphaël Xavier Varane (French:; born 25 April 1993) is a French former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Varane played for French club Lens at youth level and, ahead of the 2010–11 season, began training with the senior team and appeared on the bench in several league matches.

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Germán Garmendia

Germán Alejandro Garmendia Aranis (Spanish pronunciation:; born April 25, 1990) is a Chilean YouTuber, singer-songwriter, comedian and writer. He became famous for his YouTube channel HolaSoyGerman, which uploaded humorous videos about everyday situations.

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Jonathan Bailey

Olivier-winning English actor who played Anthony in Bridgerton and the prince Fiyero in the film musical Wicked

Did you know? He founded the Shameless Fund, a charity supporting LGBTQ+ causes.

Jonathan Stuart Bailey (born 25 April 1988) is an English actor known for his dramatic, comedic, and musical roles on stage and screen. His accolades include a Laurence Olivier Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award and four Actor Awards.

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Jay Park

Seattle-born rapper, dancer and former 2PM member who founded the Korean hip-hop labels AOMG and H1ghr Music

Did you know? He was a b-boy dancer in Seattle before moving to Korea.

Jay Park (born April 25, 1987), Korean name Park Jae-beom (박재범), is an American rapper, singer-songwriter and dancer based in South Korea.

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Felipe Massa

Brazilian racing driver who won eleven Formula One Grands Prix

Did you know? He won the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix but lost the world championship title by a single point seconds later.

Felipe Massa (Brazilian Portuguese:; born 25 April 1981) is a Brazilian racing driver, who competes in the Stock Car Pro Series for TMG and in the IMSA SportsCar Championship for Riley.

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Manal al-Sharif

Manal al-Sharif (Arabic: منال الشريف, romanized: Manāl Aš-Šarīf, pronounced; born 25 April 1979) is a Saudi women's rights activist who helped start a right-to-drive campaign in 2011. Wajeha al-Huwaider filmed al-Sharif driving a car as part of the campaign.

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Tim Duncan

Five-time NBA champion who played for the San Antonio Spurs

Did you know? He originally trained as a competitive swimmer but took up basketball after a hurricane destroyed the only Olympic-sized pool in his hometown.

Timothy Theodore Duncan (born April 25, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player and coach who spent his entire 19-year career with the San Antonio Spurs in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Renée Zellweger

Multi-award-winning actress known for Bridget Jones's Diary and Judy

Did you know? To prepare for her role as Bridget Jones, she worked undercover for three weeks as a trainee in a London publishing house.

Renée Kathleen Zellweger ( rə-NAY ZEL-weg-ər; born April 25, 1969) is an American actress. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.

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Hank Azaria

Actor and comedian known for voicing various characters on The Simpsons

Did you know? He based the voice of Moe the bartender on the gravelly tones of legendary film star Al Pacino.

Henry Albert Azaria ( ə-ZAIR-ee-ə; born April 25, 1964) is an American actor and producer.

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David Moyes

Football manager known for long spells at Everton and West Ham

Did you know? As a young player in Iceland, he once played in the same team as the father of future star Eidur Gudjohnsen.

David William Moyes (born 25 April 1963) is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Everton. He was the 2003, 2005 and 2009 League Managers Association Manager of the Year.

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Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

Former President of Burkina Faso from 2015 to 2022

Did you know? Before entering politics, he had a successful career in the financial sector, eventually serving as the director of a major bank.

Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (French pronunciation:; born 25 April 1957) is a Burkinabé banker and politician who served as the President of Burkina Faso from 2015 until he was deposed in 2022.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn

French politician and former managing director of the International Monetary Fund

Did you know? Before his career in international finance, he was a professor of economics and served as the French Minister of Economy and Finance.

Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn (French:; born 25 April 1949), also known as DSK, is a French economist and politician who served as the tenth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and was a member of the French Socialist Party.

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Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and coach who won three Ballons d'Or, embodied Total Football and built Barcelona's passing style

Did you know? He has a signature move named after him, involving a deceptive feint to bypass defenders during a football match.

Hendrik Johannes Cruijff (25 April 1947 – 24 March 2016), internationally known as Johan Cruyff was a Dutch professional football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest players in history and as the greatest Dutch footballer ever, he won the Ballon d'Or three times, in 1971, 1973, and 1974.

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Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Controversial Russian politician and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party

Did you know? He was known for his eccentric and aggressive behaviour, once famously throwing water at a political rival during a live televised debate.

Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky (Russian: Владимир Вольфович Жириновский, IPA:, né Eidelstein, Russian: Эйдельштейн; 25 April 1946 – 6 April 2022) was a Russian right-wing populist politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) from its creation in 1992 until his death in 2022.

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Talia Shire

Actress famous for her roles in Rocky and The Godfather

Did you know? She is a member of a famous filmmaking dynasty and is the aunt of the actor Nicolas Cage.

Talia Rose Shire (née Coppola; born April 25, 1946) is an American actress and member of the Coppola family. She is best known for her roles as Connie Corleone in The Godfather trilogy (1972–1990) and Adrian Pennino Balboa in the Rocky series (1976–1990).

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Björn Ulvaeus

Singer-songwriter and member of the Swedish pop group ABBA

Did you know? He is a prominent campaigner for a cashless society in Sweden, motivated partly by a robbery involving his son.

Björn Kristian Ulvaeus (Swedish:; born 25 April 1945) is a Swedish musician, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as a member of the musical group ABBA. He is also the co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! He co-produced the films Mamma Mia!

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Al Pacino

American actor famed as Michael Corleone in The Godfather and Tony Montana in Scarface, who won an Oscar for Scent of a Woman

Did you know? Before finding fame, he worked several odd jobs to support himself, including a stint as a furniture mover and a bicycle messenger.

Alfredo James Pacino ( pə-CHEE-noh; Italian:; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor. Known for his intense performances on stage and screen, Pacino is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time.

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Jim Peebles

Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who shaped modern cosmology

Did you know? He predicted the existence of cosmic microwave background radiation years before it was accidentally detected by other researchers.

Phillip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25, 1935) is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who gained the Albert Einstein Professorship in Science, emeritus, at Princeton University.

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Albert Uderzo

Illustrator and co-creator of the Asterix comic book series

Did you know? He was born with an extra finger on each hand and was colour-blind, yet he still became one of the most famous comic artists.

Alberto Aleandro Uderzo (Italian:; 25 April 1927 – 24 March 2020), better known as Albert Uderzo (French:), was a French comic book artist and scriptwriter. He is best known as the co-creator and illustrator of the Astérix series in collaboration with René Goscinny.

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Ella Fitzgerald

American jazz singer known as the First Lady of Song

Did you know? She was the first African American woman to win a Grammy Award, receiving two trophies at the first ceremony.

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter and composer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella".

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Wolfgang Pauli

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who pioneered quantum mechanics

Did you know? The 'Pauli effect' was a humorous superstition among his colleagues that equipment would break or malfunction simply because he was nearby.

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and a pioneer of quantum mechanics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle".

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Stefania Turkevych-Lukiianovych

Ukraine's first recognised female composer and musicologist

Did you know? Despite her talent, her compositions were banned from performance in the Soviet Union for several decades.

Stefania Ivanivna Turkewich-Lukianovych (Ukrainian: Стефанія Іванівна Туркевич-Лукіянович; 25 April 1898 – 8 April 1977) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and musicologist. She is recognized as Ukraine's first woman composer.

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Guglielmo Marconi

Italian inventor who pioneered long-distance radio, sent the first transatlantic wireless signal and shared the Nobel Prize in Physics

Did you know? He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909 for his pioneering contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.

Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess of Marconi (25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937), was an Italian electrical engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system.

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Felix Klein

Mathematician known for his work on the Klein bottle

Did you know? He devised the Erlangen programme, an influential approach that used group theory to classify various different types of geometry.

Felix Christian Klein (German:; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician, mathematics educator and historian of mathematics, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and the associations between geometry and group theory.

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