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Jannik Sinner

Italian professional tennis player and Grand Slam champion

Did you know? He was a champion skier in his youth before deciding to focus entirely on tennis at the age of thirteen.

Jannik Sinner (born 16 August 2001) is an Italian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No.

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Young Thug

Atlanta rapper whose elastic voice shaped modern trap and who founded YSL Records, home of artists such as Gunna

Did you know? He wore a dress on the cover of his 2016 mixtape Jeffery.

Jeffery Lamar Williams II (born August 16, 1991), known professionally as Young Thug, is an American rapper and singer-songwriter. Known for his eccentric vocal style and fashion, he is considered an influential figure in modern hip-hop and trap music, and a popularizer of the mumble rap microgenre.

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Moussa Sissoko

French international footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur

Did you know? The versatile midfielder earned over seventy caps for France and was a key part of the squad that reached the Euro 2016 final.

Moussa Sissoko (born 16 August 1989) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Greek Super League club Panathinaikos. He is a box-to-box midfielder in the centre of the pitch, and is capable of playing as a defensive midfielder, or even as an attacking midfielder, right winger or right-back.

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Roque Santa Cruz

Paraguayan striker and his country's all-time leading goalscorer

Did you know? Beyond his sporting success, he once recorded a hit song in Germany with his teammates during his time at Bayern Munich.

Roque Luis Santa Cruz Cantero (locally; born 16 August 1981) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Paraguayan Primera División club Nacional.

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Taika Waititi

New Zealand filmmaker who directed Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit

Did you know? He won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, making history as the first person of Maori descent to win in that category.

Taika David Cohen (born 16 August 1975), known professionally as Taika Waititi ( TY-kə WY-tee-tee), is a New Zealand filmmaker, writer, actor, and comedian.

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Tomasz Frankowski

Tomasz Frankowski (Polish pronunciation:; born 16 August 1974) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a striker. With 168 goals in 302 matches in Polish Ekstraklasa he is the league's third all-time scorer and was top league goalscorer four times.

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Saif Ali Khan

Bollywood actor and film producer known for varied lead roles

Did you know? He is the son of a famous Indian cricket captain and holds a formal title as the hereditary head of a former princely state.

Saif Ali Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi (born Sajid Ali Khan Pataudi; 16 August 1970) is an Indian actor and film producer who primarily works in Hindi films. The titular head of the Pataudi family since 2011, he is the son of actress Sharmila Tagore and cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.

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Manisha Koirala

Award-winning actress who stars in Indian and Nepali cinema

Did you know? Coming from a family of three prime ministers, she has also worked as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations.

Manisha Koirala (born 16 August 1970) is a Nepalese actress who works in Indian cinema, predominantly in Hindi and Tamil films. Born into the politically prominent Koirala family, she is the daughter of Prakash Koirala and the granddaughter of B. P. Koirala.

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Ulla Weigerstorfer

Ulla Weigerstorfer (born Ulrike Weigerstorfer 16 August 1967 in Bad Aussee) is an Austrian TV host, model and beauty queen who won Miss World 1987 in London representing Austria. She became the second titleholder from her country, after Eva Rueber-Staier of Austria in 1969.

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Steve Carell

Comedian and actor best known for starring in The Office

Did you know? He once worked as a postman in Massachusetts but left the job because he found it difficult to deliver the mail fast enough.

Steven John Carell (born August 16, 1962) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He starred as Michael Scott in the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2011, 2013), and also worked at several points as a producer, executive producer, writer, and director.

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Timothy Hutton

Youngest person to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Did you know? He dedicated his Oscar to his father, actor Jim Hutton, who had died of cancer less than a year before the ceremony.

Timothy Hutton (born August 16, 1960) is an American actor and film director. He is the youngest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at age 20 for Ordinary People (1980).

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Madonna

American singer known as the Queen of Pop, whose hits from Like a Virgin to Vogue and constant reinventions made her a global icon

Did you know? Before finding fame as a solo artist, she played drums and sang for a short-lived New York rock band called the Breakfast Club.

Madonna Louise Ciccone ( chih-KOH-nee, Italian:; born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Dubbed the "Queen of Pop", she is known for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, songwriting, and visual presentation.

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Angela Bassett

Oscar-nominated actress who portrayed Tina Turner and Queen Ramonda

Did you know? She was the first Black woman to win the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received various accolades, including an Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards.

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Anne L'Huillier

French physicist and Nobel laureate who studied electron dynamics

Did you know? She was only the fifth woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on extremely short pulses of light.

Anne Geneviève L'Huillier (French:; born 16 August 1958) is a French physicist. She is a professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden.

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James Cameron

James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian and New Zealand filmmaker and explorer. His films combine cutting-edge film technology with classical filmmaking techniques and have grossed over $10 billion worldwide, making him the second highest-grossing film director of all time.

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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Former President of Nigeria who sought to reform electoral systems

Did you know? He was the first Nigerian leader to publicly declare his personal assets before taking office.

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (16 August 1951 – 5 May 2010) was a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2007 until his death in May 2010. He won the Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 2007.

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Masoud Barzani

Kurdish leader and first President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Did you know? He was born in the short-lived Republic of Mahabad, where his father served as a military commander.

Masoud Barzani (Kurdish: مەسعوود‌ بارزانی, romanized: Mesûd Barzanî; born 16 August 1946) is a Kurdish politician who has been leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) since 1979, and was President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq from 2005 to 2017.

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Pierre Richard

French comic actor known for playing clumsy and distracted characters

Did you know? In addition to his acting career, he is a dedicated winemaker who owns an estate in the south of France.

Pierre Richard (born Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays; 16 August 1934) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films.

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Bill Evans

Influential jazz pianist known for his subtle and lyrical style

Did you know? He played on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, which became the best-selling jazz album of all time.

William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio.

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Charles Bukowski

American poet and novelist known for his gritty depictions of life

Did you know? He worked as a letter carrier for the United States Postal Service for over a decade before finding literary success.

Henry Charles Bukowski ( boo-KOW-skee; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, German:; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles.

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Menachem Begin

Prime Minister of Israel and co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

Did you know? Before entering politics, he led a militant Zionist group and was once a wanted man by British authorities.

Menachem Begin (16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician who founded the political parties Herut and Likud and served as prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983.

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Wendell Meredith Stanley

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who was the first to crystallise a virus

Did you know? His research showed that the tobacco mosaic virus was made of protein and could be crystallised like a mineral.

Wendell Meredith Stanley (August 16, 1904 – June 15, 1971) was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Stanley's work contributed to lepracidal compounds, diphenyl stereochemistry, and the chemistry of the sterols.

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Andrei Platonov

Soviet novelist and short story writer known for The Foundation Pit

Did you know? Much of his work was banned by Joseph Stalin and only reached a wide audience decades after the author's death.

Andrei Platonovich Platonov (Russian: Андрей Платонович Платонов, IPA:; né Klimentov; 28 August 1899 – 5 January 1951) was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet.

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T. E. Lawrence

British officer and writer known as Lawrence of Arabia

Did you know? He died following a motorcycle crash near his home in Dorset while trying to avoid two boys on bicycles.

Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War.

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