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Alan Walker

Masked British-Norwegian DJ and producer from Bergen whose melancholy electronic hit Faded became one of the most-streamed dance songs

Did you know? He taught himself music production by watching tutorials on YouTube.

Alan Olav Walker (born 24 August 1997) is a Norwegian DJ and record producer. His songs "Faded", "Sing Me to Sleep", "Alone", "All Falls Down", "Ignite", and "Darkside" have each been multi-platinum-certified and reached number 1 on the VG-lista chart in Norway.

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Amelia Windsor

Lady Amelia Sophia Theodora Mary Margaret Windsor (born 24 August 1995) is a British fashion model and a member of the extended British royal family. As of 2026, she is 45th in the line of succession to the British throne.

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Rupert Grint

Actor who played Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films

Did you know? Following the conclusion of the Harry Potter films, he bought an authentic ice cream van and drove it around his local villages.

Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint (born 24 August 1988) is an English actor. He rose to fame for his role as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series, for which he was cast at age eleven, having previously acted only in school plays and his local theatre group.

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Maya Yoshida

Japanese footballer and long-term captain of the national team

Did you know? He is one of the most capped players in Japanese history and has represented his country at three different World Cup tournaments.

Maya Yoshida (吉田 麻也, Yoshida Maya; born 24 August 1988) is a Japanese professional footballer who captains and plays as a centre-back for Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy. Yoshida formerly played for the Japan national team, making over 120 appearances.

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Chad Michael Murray

American actor best known for the teen drama series One Tree Hill

Did you know? Before becoming a successful actor, he worked as a fashion model for major international brands including Gucci and Tommy Hilfiger.

Chad Michael Murray (born August 24, 1981) is an American actor, writer, and model.

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John Green

Best-selling author of young adult novels including The Fault in Our Stars

Did you know? Before becoming a writer, he worked as a student chaplain at a children's hospital, an experience that influenced his later work.

John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author and YouTuber. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which is one of the best-selling books of all time.

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Robert Enke

German international goalkeeper who played for Hannover 96 and Benfica

Did you know? He was an animal rights activist who lived with many rescue dogs and worked on campaigns against the fur trade.

Robert Enke (24 August 1977 – 10 November 2009) was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for Mönchengladbach, Benfica, and Barcelona, but made most of his appearances for Bundesliga side Hannover 96.

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Takuya Yamada

right-sided defender nicknamed 'The Terminator' who captained Tokyo Verdy before becoming Tampa Bay Rowdies' longest-tenured player and 2012 NASL champion

Takuya Yamada (山田 卓也, Yamada Takuya; born August 24, 1974) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

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Marlee Matlin

First deaf actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actress

Did you know? She remains the youngest person to ever win the Academy Award for Best Actress, a record held since 1987.

Marlee Matlin (born August 24, 1965) an American actress, author, and advocate. Having been deaf since 18 months of age, she is known for her acting and for her activism on behalf of deaf individuals in Hollywood and other industries.

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Stephen Fry

English actor, writer, and former host of the quiz show QI

Did you know? In his youth, he spent several months in prison for credit card fraud before winning a scholarship to study at Cambridge University.

Sir Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and broadcaster.

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Orson Scott Card

Science fiction writer known for the novel Ender's Game

Did you know? He is the only author to win the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novel in two consecutive years.

Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986).

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Sauli Niinistö

Long-serving President of Finland between 2012 and 2024

Did you know? He and his son survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami by climbing a utility pole to escape the rising water.

Sauli Väinämö Niinistö (born 24 August 1948) is a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 2012 to 2024.

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Jean-Michel Jarre

Electronic music pioneer known for massive outdoor light and sound shows

Did you know? He holds several world records for the largest concert audiences ever, once performing for millions of people in Moscow.

Jean-Michel André Jarre (French:; born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient, and new-age genres, and is known for organising outdoor spectacles featuring his music, accompanied by vast laser displays, large projections and fireworks.

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Paulo Coelho

Brazilian novelist of The Alchemist, a fable about following your dreams that is one of the best-selling books of all time

Did you know? Before his literary success, he worked as a theatre director and wrote lyrics for several popular Brazilian rock stars.

Paulo Coelho de Souza ( KWEL-yoo, koo-EL-yoo, -⁠yoh, Portuguese:; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He has been a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002.

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Vince McMahon

Long-time chairman and promoter of World Wrestling Entertainment

Did you know? He appeared as an on-screen character for years before many fans realised he was actually the owner of the company.

Vincent Kennedy McMahon ( mək-MAN; born August 24, 1945) is an American businessman and former professional wrestling promoter. McMahon, along with his later-estranged wife Linda, is co-founder of the modern WWE, the world's largest professional wrestling promotion.

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Marsha P. Johnson

Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 3, 1992) was an American LGBTQ activist, sex worker and performer.

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Karen Uhlenbeck

First woman to receive the Abel Prize for mathematics

Did you know? Her work on soap bubble theory and minimal surfaces has significantly influenced both modern geometry and theoretical physics.

Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck ForMemRS (born August 24, 1942) is an American mathematician and one of the founders of modern geometric analysis. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she held the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair.

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A. S. Byatt

Booker Prize-winning novelist known for her book Possession

Did you know? She was the sister of fellow novelist Margaret Drabble, though the two famously had a strained relationship and rarely read each other's work.

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (née Drabble; 24 August 1936 – 16 November 2023), known professionally by her former married name, A. S. Byatt ( BY-ət), was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.

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Yasser Arafat

Leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization for 35 years who signed the Oslo Accords and shared the Nobel Peace Prize

Did you know? Before becoming a political leader, he studied civil engineering and ran a successful construction company in Kuwait.

Yasser Arafat (c. August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader.

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Ahmadou Ahidjo

Politician who served as the first President of independent Cameroon

Did you know? After leaving office, he spent the remainder of his life in exile in France and Senegal.

Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo (24 August 1924 – 30 November 1989) was a Cameroonian politician who was the first president of Cameroon from 1960 until 1982. He was previously the first Prime Minister from the country's independence in January 1960 until May of that same year following the creation of the presidency.

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Howard Zinn

American historian who wrote A People’s History of the United States

Did you know? He served as a bombardier during the Second World War, an experience that heavily influenced his later anti-war activism.

Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian and a veteran of World War II. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University.

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Fernand Braudel

Influential French historian who pioneered the Annales School

Did you know? He wrote his most famous work on the Mediterranean while being held as a prisoner of war in Germany.

Fernand Paul Achille Braudel (French:; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian. His scholarship focused on three main projects: The Mediterranean (1923–49, then 1949–66), Civilization and Capitalism (1955–79), and the unfinished Identity of France (1970–85).

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Jorge Luis Borges

Argentine writer of labyrinthine short stories and essays in Ficciones and The Aleph, a giant of 20th-century literature

Did you know? He served as the director of Argentina's national library despite being almost completely blind by the age of fifty-five.

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges ( BOR-hess; Spanish:; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl.

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Ferhat Abbas

Algerian political leader and a key figure in the independence movement

Did you know? Trained as a pharmacist, he was initially a moderate reformer who only turned to the cause of full independence after the Second World War.

Ferhat Abbas (Arabic: فرحات عباس‎; ALA-LC: Farḥāt ʿAbbās; 24 August 1899 – 24 December 1985) was an Algerian politician who acted in a provisional capacity as the then yet-to-become independent country's Prime Minister from 1958 to 1961, as well as the first President of the National Assembly and the first acting…

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