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Presnel Kimpembe

World Cup-winning French defender who played for Paris Saint-Germain

Did you know? He is a talented amateur beatboxer and frequently showcased his skills to entertain his teammates during the 2018 World Cup.

Presnel Kimpembe (born 13 August 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Qatari Second Division side Al Kharaitiyat. A product of the Paris Saint-Germain Youth Academy, Kimpembe made his debut for Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in 2014.

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Andrea Meza

Alma Andrea Meza Carmona (Spanish pronunciation:; born 13 August 1994) is a Mexican beauty pageant titleholder best known for winning the title of Miss Universe 2020. The third Mexican contestant to win the title, Meza holds the record for the shortest complete reign in Miss Universe history to date.

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Lucas Moura

Brazilian footballer known for playing as a winger for Tottenham Hotspur

Did you know? He scored a dramatic second-half hat-trick against Ajax to send Tottenham to their first Champions League final in 2019.

Lucas Rodrigues Moura da Silva (born 13 August 1992), known as Lucas Moura (Brazilian Portuguese:), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club São Paulo and the Brazil national team.

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MØ

Danish electropop singer whose voice on Major Lazer and DJ Snake's Lean On made it one of the decade's biggest songs

Did you know? She began her career in a punk band before turning to electropop.

Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen (Danish pronunciation:; born 13 August 1988), known professionally as MØ (pronounced ) is a Danish singer and songwriter.

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Niko Kranjčar

Croatian midfielder known for his spells at Portsmouth and Tottenham

Did you know? His father was a famous footballer and manager who coached him while he was playing for the Croatian national team.

Niko Kranjčar (pronounced; born 13 August 1984) is a Croatian former professional footballer. He primarily played as an attacking midfielder, but could also operate as a winger or second striker.

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Sebastian Stan

Actor known for playing Bucky Barnes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Did you know? He spent a summer working at a cinema as a teenager, where he frequently watched movies and sold popcorn before finding fame.

Sebastian Stan (born August 13, 1982) is a Romanian and American actor. He has built a prolific screen career spanning blockbusters and independent films since the 2000s, with a global box-office gross exceeding $7 billion.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Republican politician who was Donald Trump's White House press secretary and became Governor of Arkansas in 2023

Did you know? She and her father are the first father and daughter to have both served as governor of Arkansas.

Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders (née Huckabee; born August 13, 1982) is an American politician serving as the 47th governor of Arkansas since 2023. Sanders is the daughter of Ambassador Mike Huckabee, who served from 1996 to 2007 as Arkansas's 44th governor.

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Alan Shearer

Former professional footballer and record-breaking Premier League goalscorer

Did you know? He famously turned down the chance to join Manchester United twice to play for his hometown club, Newcastle United.

Alan Shearer (born 13 August 1970) is an English football pundit and former professional player who played as a striker. With 260 goals, Shearer is the Premier League's all-time record goalscorer.

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Sridevi

Highly influential Indian actress and Bollywood's first female superstar

Did you know? She began her acting career as a child at age four and went on to appear in around 300 films.

Sridevi Kapoor (née Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan; 13 August 1963 – 24 February 2018), known mononymously as Sridevi, was an Indian actress who worked in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada language films.

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Manuel Valls

Former Prime Minister of France and Spanish-born politician

Did you know? After his time in French government, he crossed the border to run for the office of mayor in Barcelona.

Manuel Carlos Valls Galfetti (born 13 August 1962) is a French–Spanish politician who served as Minister of the Overseas in the Bayrou government and first Lecornu government from 2024 to 2025.

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Kristalina Georgieva

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and Bulgarian economist

Did you know? She is the first person from an emerging market nation to lead the International Monetary Fund.

Kristalina Ivanova Georgieva-Kinova (Bulgarian: Кристалина Иванова Георгиева-Кинова; née Georgieva; born 13 August 1953) is a Bulgarian economist who has served as the 12th managing director of the International Monetary Fund since 2019. She is the first person from an emerging market economy to lead the institution.

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Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit (French pronunciation:; born 13 August 1949) is a French highwire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized highwire walks between the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and of Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1973, as well as between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on…

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Janet Yellen

First woman to serve as the United States Secretary of the Treasury

Did you know? She is the first person to have headed the Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the Council of Economic Advisers.

Janet Louise Yellen (born August 13, 1946) is an American economist who served as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury from 2021 to 2025 and as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018.

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Hissène Habré

Former President of Chad convicted of crimes against humanity

Did you know? His trial in Senegal was the first time an African head of state was convicted of human rights abuses by another African nation.

Hissène Habré (Arabic: حسين حبري Ḥusaīn Ḥabrī, Chadian Arabic: pronounced; French pronunciation:; 13 August 1942 – 24 August 2021), also spelled Hissen Habré, was a Chadian politician and convicted war criminal who served as the fifth president of Chad from 1982 until he was deposed in 1990.

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Gyoji Matsumoto

Japanese goalkeeper who played for the national team

Did you know? He is remembered for his long coaching career at Urawa Ichijo High School, where he helped develop several future professional players.

Gyoji Matsumoto (松本 暁司, Matsumoto Gyōji; August 13, 1934 – September 2, 2019) was a Japanese footballer who played for the national team. He later became a coach.

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Fidel Castro

Cuban revolutionary who overthrew Batista in 1959 and ruled Cuba as a communist state for nearly half a century

Did you know? He currently holds the record for the longest speech ever delivered at the United Nations, which lasted over four hours.

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011. He served as prime minister from 1959 to 1976, president from 1976 to 2008, and first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011.

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Frederick Sanger

Biochemist who was awarded two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry

Did you know? He is one of only two people to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, once for protein research and once for DNA sequencing.

Frederick Sanger (13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was a British biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.

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Makarios III

Archbishop and first president of the Republic of Cyprus

Did you know? He survived multiple assassination attempts and a military coup during his turbulent time leading the Mediterranean island nation.

Makarios III (born Michael Christodoulou Mouskos; 13 August 1913 – 3 August 1977) was a Greek Cypriot prelate and politician who served as Archbishop of the Church of Cyprus from 1950 to 1977 and as the first president of Cyprus between 1960 and July 1974, with a second term between December 1974 and 1977.

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Salvador Luria

Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist who pioneered the study of viral genetics

Did you know? When he first arrived in the United States, he was helped by Albert Einstein, who recommended him for a research fellowship.

Salvador Edward Luria ( LOOR-ee-ə; born Salvatore Luria, Italian:; August 13, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an Italian microbiologist, later a naturalized U.S. citizen.

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Alfred Hitchcock

British director known as the Master of Suspense for thrillers including Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window and The Birds

Did you know? He never won an Oscar for Best Director, despite being nominated five times for films including Psycho and Rear Window.

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of cinema.

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John Logie Baird

Scottish inventor who gave the first public demonstration of television

Did you know? He also invented an early version of the video recorder and a pair of glass-fibre socks to prevent cold feet.

John Logie Baird (13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926.

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Richard Willstätter

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who identified the structure of chlorophyll

Did you know? He resigned from the University of Munich in the 1920s to protest against rising antisemitism.

Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE (German pronunciation:, 13 August 1872 – 3 August 1942) was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

Physicist and mathematician known for his work on fluid dynamics

Did you know? He held the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge, a prestigious position also held by Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking.

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet ( STOHKS; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903), was a British mathematician and physicist, born in County Sligo, Ireland, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Anders Jonas Ångström

Swedish physicist and one of the founders of spectroscopy

Did you know? He has a unit of length named after him, which is commonly used to measure the wavelengths of light and chemical bond lengths.

Anders Jonas Ångström (Swedish:; 13 August 1814 – 21 June 1874) was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy. Ångström is also well known for his studies of astrophysics, heat transfer, terrestrial magnetism, and the aurora borealis.

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