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Daesung

BIGBANG singer known for his warm vocals, trot songs and strong solo following in Japan

Did you know? He has released trot songs, a traditional Korean genre.

Kang Dae-sung (Korean: 강대성; born April 26, 1989), better known mononymously as Daesung and his Japanese stage name D-Lite, is a South Korean singer who made his musical debut in 2006 as a member of the South Korean boy band Big Bang.

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Indila

French singer and songwriter famous for the album Mini World

Did you know? Her debut single, Dernière danse, reached the top of the charts in several countries and has gained over one billion views on YouTube.

Adila Sedraïa (French pronunciation:; born 26 June 1984), known professionally as Indila (pronounced), is a French singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Channing Tatum

American actor known for Magic Mike and Step Up

Did you know? The plot of his film Magic Mike was loosely based on his real-life experiences working as a male stripper in Florida.

Channing Matthew Tatum (born April 26, 1980) is an American actor and film producer. He made his film debut in the drama Coach Carter (2005), and had his breakthrough with the sports comedy film She's the Man (2006) and the dance film Step Up (2006).

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Jordana Brewster

Actress best known for starring in the Fast & Furious film series

Did you know? She is the granddaughter of a former president of Yale University and graduated from the same institution herself.

Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is an American actress.

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Stana Katic

Actress best known for her lead role in the series Castle

Did you know? She speaks several languages fluently, including Serbian, French, Italian and Slovenian, alongside her native English.

Stana Katić (born (1978-04-26)April 26, 1978) is a Canadian and American actress. She played Kate Beckett on the ABC television romantic crime series Castle (2009–2016) and FBI Special Agent Emily Byrne in the psychological thriller series Absentia (2017–2020).

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Tom Welling

American actor best known for playing Clark Kent in Smallville

Did you know? Before his acting career took off, he was discovered by a fashion scout and worked as a model for brands like Tommy Hilfiger.

Thomas Joseph Welling (born April 26, 1977) is an American actor, director, and producer. He is best known for his role as Clark Kent in The WB (now The CW) superhero drama Smallville (2001–2011).

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Melania Trump

Slovenian-born former model and wife of Donald Trump, who has twice served as First Lady of the United States

Did you know? Born in Slovenia, she is only the second foreign-born First Lady and the first to be a naturalised citizen of the United States.

Melania Knauss Trump (born Melanija Knavs; April 26, 1970) is a Slovenian and American former model serving as the first lady of the United States since 2025, a role she previously held from 2017 to 2021 as the third wife of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States.

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Jet Li

Chinese martial arts champion turned film star of Once Upon a Time in China, Hero and Fearless

Did you know? As a child, he performed for President Richard Nixon, who asked the young martial artist to be his future bodyguard.

Jet Li Lianjie (courtesy name Yangzhong; born 26 April 1963) is a martial artist, actor, and philanthropist. With a career spanning more than forty years, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest Chinese film stars and most influential martial artists in cinema history.

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Giancarlo Esposito

Actor best known for his role as Gus Fring

Did you know? He made his Broadway debut aged eight, appearing in a musical alongside American singer and actress Shirley Jones.

Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (Italian:; born April 26, 1958) is an American actor and director. He is best-known for his portrayal of Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2009–2011), a role he reprised in the spin-off Better Call Saul (2017–2022).

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Giorgio Moroder

Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (Italian:, Austrian German:; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer and music producer. Dubbed the "Father of Disco", Moroder is credited with pioneering Euro disco and electronic dance music.

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Arno Allan Penzias

German-born physicist who discovered cosmic microwave background radiation

Did you know? He fled Nazi Germany as a child on the Kindertransport before settling in the United States.

Arno Allan Penzias (April 26, 1933 – January 22, 2024) was an American physicist and radio astronomer. He shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Woodrow Wilson "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation".

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Carol Burnett

American comedian and actress who hosted her own long-running variety show

Did you know? She famously ended every episode by tugging her ear, a secret signal to her grandmother that she was doing well.

Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American comedienne, actress, singer and writer. Burnett has played dramatic and comedic roles on stage and screen.

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Michael Smith

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who developed site-directed mutagenesis

Did you know? He donated his entire Nobel prize money to researchers working on schizophrenia and to support science communication in Canada.

Michael Smith (April 26, 1932 – October 4, 2000) was a British-Canadian biochemist and businessman. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kary Mullis for his work in developing site-directed mutagenesis.

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I. M. Pei

Architect famous for designing the glass pyramid at the Louvre

Did you know? He initially faced heavy criticism for his design of the Louvre pyramid before it became an iconic symbol of Paris.

Ieoh Ming Pei ( YOH ming PAY; Chinese: 貝聿銘; pinyin: Bèi Yùmíng; April 26, 1917 – May 16, 2019) was a Chinese-American architect. Born in Guangzhou into a Chinese family, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the garden villas at Suzhou, the traditional retreat of the scholar-gentry to which his family belonged.

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Charles Francis Richter

Seismologist who co-developed the scale for measuring earthquake magnitude

Did you know? He was a keen naturist who frequently visited nudist camps and once described himself as a "soloist" in his scientific work.

Charles Francis Richter (April 26, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an American seismologist and physicist. He is one of the creators of the Richter scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, was widely used to quantify the size of earthquakes.

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Vicente Aleixandre

Nobel Prize-winning Spanish poet of the Generation of '27

Did you know? Despite winning literature's highest honour, he originally studied law and business at university.

Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (Spanish pronunciation:; 26 April 1898 – 14 December 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville.

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Rudolf Hess

High-ranking Nazi official who flew to Scotland during World War II

Did you know? He spent the final decades of his life as the only prisoner held in Spandau Prison in Berlin.

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician, convicted war criminal, and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Germany.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Austrian-British philosopher whose Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations transformed the philosophy of language, logic and mind

Did you know? He attended the same school as Adolf Hitler in Linz, and the two boys were the same age.

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( VIT-gən-s(h)tyne; Austrian German:; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austro-British philosopher who worked in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. Wittgenstein was born in Vienna into one of Europe's richest families.

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Owen Willans Richardson

British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for thermionic emission

Did you know? His research into how electrons are emitted from hot metals was essential for the development of early television and radio technology.

Sir Owen Willans Richardson (26 April 1879 – 15 February 1959) was a British physicist who received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission and for the discovery of Richardson's law.

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Finnish painter best known for illustrating the national epic, the Kalevala

Did you know? He designed the first uniforms and medals for the Finnish military following the nation's independence from Russia.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (born Axel Waldemar Gallén; 26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter and a leading figure of Finnish romantic nationalism around the turn of the 20th century.

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Eugène Delacroix

French Romantic painter of Liberty Leading the People, famed for his dramatic use of colour and movement

Did you know? His famous painting Liberty Leading the People was inspired by the July Revolution that overthrew King Charles X.

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( DEL-ə-krwah, -⁠KRWAH; French:; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.

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Ludwig Uhland

German poet and prominent figure in the Swabian school of lyricism

Did you know? As a politician, he famously refused a title of nobility because he believed it would distance him from the common people.

Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 November 1862) was a German poet, philologist, literary historian, lawyer and politician.

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John James Audubon

Artist and naturalist renowned for his book The Birds of America

Did you know? To ensure his illustrations were life-sized, he used a complex system of wires to prop up birds he had hunted.

John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin, April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American artist, entrepreneur, naturalist, explorer, and ornithologist. His combined interests in painting and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America.

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David Hume

Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and historian whose sceptical works on causation, religion and morality influenced Kant and modern thought

Did you know? He was twice rejected for professorships at Scottish universities because his religious views were considered too controversial at the time.

David Hume (born David Home; 7 May 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist who is known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical scepticism and metaphysical naturalism.

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