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Manabu Saito

Japanese professional footballer who plays as a winger

Did you know? He spent more than a decade with Yokohama F. Marinos and represented Japan at the 2014 World Cup.

Manabu Saitō (齋藤 学, Saitō Manabu; born 4 April 1990) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Japan Football League club Azul Claro Numazu. He spent the majority of his career with Yokohama F. Marinos.

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Sami Khedira

World Cup-winning German midfielder who played for Real Madrid

Did you know? In 2014, he became one of the very few players to win the Champions League and the World Cup in the same year.

Sami Khedira (German:; Arabic: سامي خضيرة; born 4 April 1987) is a German former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. He is currently the assistant coach of La Liga club Real Madrid.

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Amanda Righetti

Utah-born actress known for playing agent Grace Van Pelt in The Mentalist and starring in the Friday the 13th remake

Did you know? She starred in the 2009 remake of Friday the 13th.

Amanda Righetti (born April 4, 1983) is an American actress. She is known for playing Grace Van Pelt on The Mentalist and her roles in Friday the 13th, The O.C. and Colony.

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Heath Ledger

Australian actor of Brokeback Mountain who won a posthumous Oscar for his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight

Did you know? Before finding fame in Hollywood, he was a champion junior chess player in his native Western Australia.

Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian actor. Known for his versatility across independent and major studio films, his work consisted of 20 films in a variety of genres.

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Irene Skliva

Irene Skliva (Irini Skliva; Greek: Ειρήνη Σκλήβα; born 4 April 1978, in Athens, Greece) is a Greek model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 1996 in India. She was the first Greek to win the Miss World title, and the only Greek to win as of now.

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Robert Downey Jr.

American actor whose resurrection as Iron Man made him one of cinema's highest-grossing stars after overcoming public addiction battles

Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor and producer.

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Masakuni Yamamoto

Japanese football manager and former national team player

Did you know? He led the Japanese national under-23 team during the 2004 Olympic Games held in Athens.

Masakuni Yamamoto (山本 昌邦, Yamamoto Masakuni; born April 4, 1958) is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.

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Aki Kaurismäki

Award-winning Finnish film director and screenwriter

Did you know? He famously boycotted the Academy Awards in 2003 to protest against the invasion of Iraq.

Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (Finnish pronunciation:; born 4 April 1957) is a Finnish filmmaker. He is best known for films such as Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989), Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011), The Other Side of Hope (2017), and Fallen Leaves (2023).

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Joaquín Guzmán

Notorious former leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel

Did you know? He famously escaped from a maximum-security prison in 2015 through a mile-long tunnel that featured its own lighting and ventilation systems.

Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (Spanish:; born 4 April 1957), commonly known as "El Chapo" (Spanish pronunciation:), is a Mexican former drug lord and the former top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Nobel Prize winner who discovered the atomic structure of the ribosome

Did you know? He served as the President of the Royal Society, becoming the first person born in India to hold the prestigious position.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is an Indian origin British-American structural biologist. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath for research on the structure and function of ribosomes.

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Gary Moore

Influential Northern Irish guitarist known for his blues and rock music

Did you know? He began his career in the band Skid Row alongside Phil Lynott, whom he later joined in Thin Lizzy.

Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011) was a Northern Irish musician. Over the course of his career, he played in various groups and performed a range of music, including blues, blues rock, hard rock, heavy metal, and jazz fusion.

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Abdullah Öcalan

Founding member and leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party

Did you know? He has been imprisoned on İmralı Island since 1999, where for many years he was the only inmate.

Abdullah Öcalan ( OH-jə-lahn; Turkish:; born 4 April 1948 or 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish; Kurdish for "uncle"), is a founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Öcalan was based in Syria from 1979 to 1998.

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Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Leader of the May 1968 student protests in France

Did you know? He later served for twenty years in the European Parliament, representing both German and French Green parties.

Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (French:; German:; born 4 April 1945) is a French-German politician. Born stateless to a German-Polish Ashkenazi Jewish family, Daniel Cohn-Bendit obtained German citizenship in 1959 and French citizenship in 2015.

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Andrei Tarkovsky

Filmmaker who directed movies such as Solaris and Stalker

Did you know? He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his first feature film, Ivan's Childhood.

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, pronounced; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin. He is widely considered one of the greatest directors in cinema history.

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Anthony Perkins

American actor best known for playing Norman Bates in Psycho

Did you know? He was also a talented singer who released several pop albums and had a hit single in the late fifties called Moonlight Swim.

Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor. He is best known for portraying Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho.

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Maya Angelou

American poet and memoirist of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings who read her poem at Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration

Did you know? She was the first black female cable car conductor in San Francisco, a job she secured at the age of sixteen.

Maya Angelou ( AN-jə-loh; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist.

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Marguerite Duras

French novelist and filmmaker known for her book The Lover

Did you know? During the Second World War, she was an active member of the French Resistance alongside future president François Mitterrand.

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (French:, 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (French:), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker.

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Muddy Waters

Musician who pioneered the electric blues sound of post-war Chicago

Did you know? His stage name was inspired by a childhood habit of playing in a muddy creek near his grandmother's house.

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

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Tristan Tzara

Romanian-born poet who was a founding figure of Dadaism

Did you know? He was a talented chess player and once famously played a match against the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin in a Zurich café.

Tristan Tzara (French:; Romanian:; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; 28 April 1896 – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist.

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Isoroku Yamamoto

Japanese naval commander who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor

Did you know? He spent time studying at Harvard University and served as a naval attaché in Washington, D.C. before the war.

Isoroku Yamamoto (山本 五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku; April 4, 1884 – April 18, 1943) was an admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander of the Combined Fleet during World War II.

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Remy de Gourmont

French Symbolist poet, novelist and influential literary critic

Did you know? A disfiguring skin condition led him to live as a semi-recluse for much of his life, though he remained a prolific writer.

Remy de Gourmont (4 April 1858 – 27 September 1915) was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille.

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Comte de Lautréamont

French poet whose writings were rediscovered by the Surrealists

Did you know? He died at the age of twenty-four during the Siege of Paris, but the exact cause of his death remains unknown.

Comte de Lautréamont (French:) was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870), a French poet, born in Uruguay. His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern arts and literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists.

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Maria II of Portugal

Twice Queen of Portugal and only European monarch born in Brazil

Did you know? Born in Rio de Janeiro, she remains the only European monarch to have been born in the Americas.

Dona Maria II (Maria da Glória Joana Carlota Leopoldina da Cruz Francisca Xavier de Paula Isidora Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga de Habsburgo-Lorena e Bragança; 4 April 1819 – 15 November 1853) also known as "the Educator" (Portuguese: a Educadora) or as "the Good Mother" (a Boa Mãe), was Queen of Portugal from 1826…

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Thomas Mayne Reid

Irish-American novelist who wrote adventure stories set on the frontier

Did you know? His writing was so popular in Russia that he became a major influence on authors like Vladimir Nabokov.

Thomas Mayne Reid (4 April 1818 – 22 October 1883) was an Irish British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour, and the lives of American Indians.

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