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Kim Chaewon

South Korean singer who leads the hit K-pop girl group Le Sserafim after first finding fame in Iz*One

Did you know? Her mother is the theatre actress Lee Ran-hee.

Kim Chaewon (Korean: 김채원; born August 1, 2000) is a South Korean singer. She is the leader of South Korean girl group Le Sserafim and a former member of the girl group Iz*One, having finished tenth in the reality competition series Produce 48 in 2018.

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Elizabeth Wathuti

Elizabeth Wanjiru Wathuti (born August 1, 1995) is a Kenyan environmentalist and climate activist and the founder and CEO of the Green Generation Initiative, which nurtures young people to love nature and be environmentally conscious at a young age and has now planted 6.8 million tree seedlings in Kenya.

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Tiffany Young

San Francisco-born singer of Girls' Generation who later pursued English-language solo music and starred in the musical Chicago

Did you know? She moved to Korea at 15 to train as an idol.

Stephanie Young Hwang (born August 1, 1989), known professionally as Tiffany or Tiffany Young, is an American singer-songwriter and actress of Korean descent.

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Nemanja Matić

Serbian footballer who played as a midfielder for Chelsea and Manchester United

Did you know? He has a reputation for generosity in his home country, having donated large sums to renovate schools and public buildings in his home village.

Nemanja Matić (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Матић, pronounced; born 1 August 1988) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie A club Sassuolo. Matić began his senior career at Kolubara, before joining Slovak side Košice in 2007.

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Iago Aspas

Prolific Spanish striker and captain of Celta Vigo

Did you know? He is the all-time leading goalscorer for Celta Vigo and has won multiple awards as the top Spanish scorer in La Liga.

Iago Aspas Juncal (Galician pronunciation:; born 1 August 1987) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a striker for and captains La Liga club Celta de Vigo. He has spent most of his career with Celta, appearing in 572 official games across 17 seasons and scoring 222 goals.

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Bastian Schweinsteiger

World Cup winning German midfielder who played for Bayern Munich

Did you know? In his youth, he was a talented skier and had to choose between pursuing a career on the slopes or the football pitch.

Bastian Schweinsteiger ( SHWYNE-shty-gər, German:; born 1 August 1984) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Earlier in his career, he primarily played as a wide midfielder before later switching to a central midfield role.

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Jason Momoa

American actor known for playing Aquaman and Khal Drogo

Did you know? He is a dedicated practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and once studied marine biology before pursuing an acting career.

Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa (born August 1, 1979) is an American actor and film producer.

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Iván Duque

Colombian politician who served as president from 2018 to 2022

Did you know? Before entering politics, he spent over a decade working at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC.

Iván Duque Márquez (Latin American Spanish pronunciation:; born 1 August 1976) is a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the president of Colombia from 2018 to 2022. He was elected as the candidate from the Democratic Centre Party in the 2018 Colombian presidential election.

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Nwankwo Kanu

Nigerian footballer who played as a striker for Arsenal

Did you know? He underwent life-saving heart surgery early in his career and later established a foundation to help African children with similar conditions.

Nwankwo Christian Kanu (born 1 August 1976) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a forward. A member of the Arsenal 'Invincibles', he was named by the club as one of its greatest ever players.

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Sam Mendes

Oscar-winning British director of American Beauty and Skyfall

Did you know? He was a talented cricketer in his youth and played for Cambridge University.

Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is a British filmmaker and stage director. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Years Honours List.

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Coolio

Grammy-winning American rapper known for the hit Gangsta's Paradise

Did you know? He appeared as a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK and finished in third place.

Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (August 1, 1963 – September 28, 2022), known by his stage name Coolio, was an American rapper, songwriter and record producer.

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Micheál Martin

Irish politician who served as Taoiseach and Tánaiste

Did you know? During his time as health minister, he introduced a pioneering ban on smoking in all enclosed workplaces in Ireland.

Micheál Martin (Irish:; born 16 August 1960) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician serving as Taoiseach since January 2025, having previously held the position from 2020 to 2022. Martin served as Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence from December 2022 to January 2025.

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Zoran Đinđić

Serbian Prime Minister who led the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević

Did you know? He was a philosophy student in Germany where he was mentored by the famous philosopher Jürgen Habermas.

Zoran Đinđić (1 August 1952 – 12 March 2003) was a Serbian politician and philosopher who served as the prime minister of Serbia from 2001 until his assassination in 2003.

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Kurmanbek Bakiyev

Politician who served as the second President of Kyrgyzstan

Did you know? After being ousted during a violent revolution in his home country, he was granted sanctuary by the President of Belarus and moved to Minsk.

Kurmanbek Sali uulu Bakiyev (born 1 August 1949) is a Kyrgyzstani politician who served as the second president of Kyrgyzstan from 2005 until his removal from office as a result of the Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010, forcing Bakiyev to flee the country.

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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (born 1 August 1949) is an Afghan politician, and former mujahideen commander and drug trafficker. He is the founder and current leader of the Hizb-i-Islami Afghanistan political party.

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Douglas Osheroff

Physicist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering superfluidity in helium-3

Did you know? He discovered the phenomenon while he was still a graduate student working at Cornell University.

Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson.

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Yves Saint Laurent

Influential French fashion designer who founded his own luxury label

Did you know? He became the head of the House of Dior at the age of just twenty-one after the death of Christian Dior.

Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008), better known as Yves Saint Laurent (also UK:, US:; French: ), was a French fashion designer who founded his eponymous fashion label in 1962. He was the last of the grand couturiers and is regarded as one of the foremost designers of the 20th century.

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Pierre Bourdieu

Influential French sociologist known for his theories on cultural capital

Did you know? He was a passionate activist who used his academic standing to support striking workers and protest against neoliberalism in later life.

Pierre Bourdieu (UK:, US:; French:; Gascon: Pèir Bordièu; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence in several related academic fields (e.g.

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Hafizullah Amin

Afghan revolutionary who briefly served as head of state in 1979

Did you know? He earned a master's degree from Columbia University in New York before returning home to become a leader in the communist movement.

Hafizullah Amin (Pashto: حفيظ الله امين;‎ 1 August 1929 – 27 December 1979) was an Afghan revolutionary and communist head of state, who served in that position for a little over three months, from September 1979 until his assassination.

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Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

King of Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2015, a son of Ibn Saud who led the National Guard and made cautious reforms

Did you know? He established a multi-billion dollar science university where men and women can study together, a significant change for the kingdom.

Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1 August 1924 – 23 January 2015) was King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 1 August 2005 until his death in 2015. Prior to his accession, he was Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 13 June 1982.

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Georges Charpak

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who developed advanced particle detectors

Did you know? During the Second World War, he served in the French Resistance before being imprisoned in a concentration camp.

Hersz Georges Charpak (French:; 1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 for his invention of the multiwire proportional chamber.

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Alexander of Greece

King of Greece whose short reign ended after a monkey bite

Did you know? His controversial marriage to Aspasia Manos, a commoner, caused a major constitutional crisis within the Greek royal family.

Alexander (Greek: Αλέξανδρος, romanized: Aléxandros; 1 August 1893 – 25 October 1920) was King of Greece from 11 June 1917 until his death on 25 October 1920. The second son of King Constantine I, Alexander was born in the summer palace of Tatoi on the outskirts of Athens.

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George de Hevesy

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who developed radioactive tracers

Did you know? During the Second World War, he dissolved the gold Nobel medals of two colleagues in acid to hide them from the Nazis.

George Charles de Hevesy (born György Bischitz; Hungarian: Hevesy György Károly; German: Georg Karl von Hevesy; 1 August 1885 – 5 July 1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such…

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Gaston Doumergue

French politician who served as President of France during the 1920s

Did you know? He was the first person of the Protestant faith to serve as the President of the French Republic.

Pierre Paul Henri Gaston Doumergue (French:; 1 August 1863 – 18 June 1937) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1924 to 1931.

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