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Ander Herrera

Spanish midfielder who played for Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain

Did you know? He was named man of the match in the 2017 Europa League final after helping Manchester United win the competition.

Ander Herrera Agüera (Spanish pronunciation:; born 14 August 1989) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Zaragoza in the Primera Federación – Group 2. Herrera began his career at Zaragoza, before moving to Athletic Bilbao in 2011 and then to Manchester United for €36 million in 2014.

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Kayla Mueller

Kayla Jean Mueller (August 14, 1988 – February 6, 2015) was an American human rights activist and humanitarian aid worker from Prescott, Arizona. She was taken captive in August 2013 in Aleppo, Syria, after leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital.

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Giorgio Chiellini

Italian defender who captained his country to the Euro 2020 title

Did you know? He graduated with a master's degree in business administration from the University of Turin, completing his final thesis on the business model of Juventus.

Giorgio Chiellini (Italian pronunciation:; born 14 August 1984) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or left-back.

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Robin Söderling

Swedish tennis player who reached two French Open finals

Did you know? He was the first person ever to defeat Rafael Nadal at the French Open, ending the Spaniard's long unbeaten run.

Robin Bo Carl Söderling (Swedish pronunciation:; born 14 August 1984) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No.

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Mila Kunis

Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis (born August 14, 1983) is an American actress. Born in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, and raised in Los Angeles, she began acting with minor television roles in the early 1990s.

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Spencer Pratt

Spencer William Pratt (born August 14, 1983) is an American reality television personality. In 2007, he began dating Heidi Montag, a primary cast member of the reality television series The Hills and came to prominence after being cast in the series.

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Jay-Jay Okocha

Skilled Nigerian playmaker known for his dribbling and trickery

Did you know? He is so highly regarded in Germany that he once won the Goal of the Year award for a solo effort against Oliver Kahn.

Augustine Azuka "Jay-Jay" Okocha ( ə-KOTCH-ə; born 14 August 1973) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He had 73 caps for the Nigeria national team between 1993 and 2006, scoring 14 goals, and was a member of three FIFA World Cup squads.

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Jay Manuel

Jay Manuel (born August 14, 1972) is a Canadian TV host, creative director, make-up artist, and author. He is most recognizable as the creative director on the popular reality television show America's Next Top Model for the first eighteen seasons.

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Halle Berry

American actress who became the first Black woman to win the best actress Oscar, for Monster's Ball, and played Storm in X-Men

Did you know? She was the first African American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Halle Maria Berry (born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and beauty contestant, becoming Miss Ohio USA in 1986, finishing as first runner-up at Miss USA 1986, and placing sixth at Miss World 1986.

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Emmanuelle Béart

French actress known for the film Manon des Sources

Did you know? For her role in the 1992 film Un cœur en hiver, she spent an entire year learning how to play the violin.

Emmanuelle Béart (French:; born 14 August 1963) is a French actress who has appeared in over 60 film and television productions since 1972. An eight-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Manon des Sources.

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Satoshi Tsunami

Japanese international footballer and professional manager

Did you know? He was a key member of the Japan squad that won the 1992 Asian Cup, the country's first major international title.

Satoshi Tsunami (都並 敏史, Tsunami Satoshi; born 14 August 1961) is a Japanese football manager and former player. He is currently manager of Japan Football League club, Briobecca Urayasu.

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Sarah Brightman

English soprano who created Christine in The Phantom of the Opera and sang Time to Say Goodbye with Andrea Bocelli

Did you know? She was once a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip and had a hit disco record called I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper.

Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano singer and actress. Brightman began her career as a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip and released several disco singles as a solo performer.

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Magic Johnson

Legendary basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers

Did you know? After retiring from sports, he became a highly successful businessman with a huge portfolio of cinemas and cafes.

Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is an American businessman and former professional basketball player.

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Marcia Gay Harden

Oscar-winning actress known for Pollock and Miller's Crossing

Did you know? In the same year, she won both an Academy Award and a Tony Award for two different performances.

Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress. Her breakthrough came in 1990 with the Coen brothers' film Miller's Crossing.

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Dani Rodrik

Turkish-born Harvard economist known for his work on globalisation, trade and development, including The Globalization Paradox

Did you know? He proposed a theory suggesting that it is impossible to simultaneously pursue democracy, national sovereignty, and hyper-globalisation.

Dani Rodrik (born August 14, 1957) is a Turkish economist and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was formerly the Albert O.

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James Horner

Oscar-winning film composer who wrote the score for Titanic

Did you know? He was a trained pilot who died while flying his own short-range turboprop aircraft in a remote area of California.

James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American film composer and conductor. He is known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations, and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music.

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Danielle Steel

Prolific American author of numerous bestselling romance novels

Did you know? She is known for her intense work ethic, sometimes writing for up to twenty hours a day to complete her novels.

Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling living author and the fourth-best-selling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold.

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Wim Wenders

Acclaimed German film director and photographer

Did you know? He has received multiple Academy Award nominations for his documentary films, including Buena Vista Social Club and The Salt of the Earth.

Wim Wenders (German:; born Wilhelm Ernst Wenders; 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and photographer.

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Steve Martin

American comedian and actor known for The Jerk and Parenthood

Did you know? He is a highly skilled banjo player who has released several successful bluegrass albums and won multiple Grammy Awards.

Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician.

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David Crosby

American singer-songwriter and founding member of The Byrds

Did you know? He is a two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with two different legendary bands.

David Van Cortlandt Crosby (August 14, 1941 – January 18, 2023) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Richard Ernst

Swiss chemist who won a Nobel Prize for developing NMR spectroscopy

Did you know? He was a passionate collector of Tibetan art and amassed one of the world's most significant private collections of traditional paintings.

Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933 – 4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate. Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy while at Varian Associates and ETH Zurich.

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Stanley Milgram

American social psychologist known for his controversial experiments on obedience

Did you know? He was the first person to test the 'six degrees of separation' theory through his famous small-world experiment.

Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist who conducted controversial experiments on obedience in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale University.

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Lina Wertmüller

Italian film director and first woman nominated for an Oscar

Did you know? She originally worked as a puppeteer and a stage actress before moving into the film industry as an assistant director.

Arcangela Felice Assunta "Lina" Wertmüller (Italian:; 14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 1970s art house films Seven Beauties, The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, and Swept Away.

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René Goscinny

French writer who co-created the Asterix comic book series

Did you know? He spent much of his childhood in Argentina and later worked in New York, where he met his future artistic collaborator.

René Goscinny (French:; Polish:; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the Asterix comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo.

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