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Lil Tecca

Queens rapper whose catchy single Ransom reached the top five of the Billboard Hot 100

Did you know? He grew up playing basketball and once hoped to play professionally.

Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe (born August 26, 2002), known professionally as Lil Tecca, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. Lil Tecca rose to mainstream prominence with the release of the 2019 single "Ransom", which peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Jeon Soyeon

South Korean rapper and producer who leads the girl group I-dle and writes most of its hits

Did you know? She writes and produces most of her group's lead singles.

Jeon So-yeon (Korean: 전소연; born August 26, 1998), known mononymously as Soyeon, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer, under Cube Entertainment.

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Dylan O'Brien

Actor best known for the Teen Wolf series and Maze Runner films

Did you know? He began his career by uploading original comedic sketches to his own YouTube channel before being cast in his breakout television role.

Dylan Rhodes O'Brien (born August 26, 1991) is an American actor. His first major role was as Stiles Stilinski in the MTV supernatural series Teen Wolf (2011–2017).

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James Harden

Prolific NBA basketball player and former league MVP

Did you know? He started growing his iconic beard in 2009 because he felt he was simply too lazy to shave.

James Edward Harden Jr. (born August 26, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Ksenia Sukhinova

Ksenia Vladimirovna Sukhinova (Russian: Ксе́ния Влади́мировна Сухи́нова; born 26 August 1987) is a Russian television host, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 2008. She was the second Russian woman to win the Miss World title and had previously been crowned Miss Russia 2007.

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Cassie Ventura

R&B singer behind the 2006 hit Me & U whose lawsuit against Sean Combs led to his high-profile federal trial

Did you know? She worked as a model before her music career.

Casandra Elizabeth Ventura ( ven-TUU-rə; born August 26, 1986) known mononymously as Cassie, is an American singer, dancer, actress, and model. Born in New London, Connecticut, she began her musical career in 2004 after meeting producer Ryan Leslie, who signed her to his record label, NextSelection Lifestyle Group.

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Chris Pine

American actor who plays Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek films and Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman

Did you know? Acting runs in his family; both his father and mother were actors, as was his grandmother.

Christopher Whitelaw Pine (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as James T. Kirk in the Star Trek reboot film series (2009–2016) and Steve Trevor in the DC Extended Universe films Wonder Woman (2017) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020).

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Macaulay Culkin

Child star known for playing Kevin McCallister in Home Alone

Did you know? He is the godfather of Michael Jackson's children and remains a close friend of the family.

Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin (born Macaulay Carson Culkin; August 26, 1980 (1980-08-26)) is an American actor and musician. Considered one of the most successful child actors of the 1990s, Culkin has received several accolades including a Golden Globe Award nomination.

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Zemfira

Popular Russian rock musician and songwriter

Did you know? Before finding fame in music, she was a talented athlete and served as the captain of the Russian girls' junior basketball team.

Zemfira Talgatovna Ramazanova (Russian: Земфира Талгатовна Рамазанова, Tatar: Земфира Тәлгать кызы Рамазанова; born 26 August 1976), mononymously knowm as Zemfira, is a Russian rock musician. She has been performing since 1998 and has been popular in Russia and other former Soviet republics.

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Thalía

Mexican singer and actress often called the Queen of Latin Pop

Did you know? She gained worldwide fame starring in a series of soap operas known as the Maria trilogy, which were broadcast in over 180 countries.

Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda (Spanish pronunciation: /aˈɾjaðna taˈli.a ˈsoði miˈɾanda/; born 26 August 1971) is a Mexican singer and actress. Recognized for her enduring influence on Spanish-language music and television, she has been dubbed the "Queen of Latin Pop" and the "Queen of Telenovelas".

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Melissa McCarthy

Comedy actress known for Bridesmaids and the series Mike & Molly

Did you know? She performed as a drag queen named Miss Y in New York City before finding fame on television.

Melissa Ann McCarthy (born August 26, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, and producer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, and nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.

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Mehriban Alieva

First Vice President and First Lady of Azerbaijan

Did you know? Before entering politics, she trained as an ophthalmologist and worked at a research institute for eye diseases in Moscow.

Mehriban Arif gizi Aliyeva Azerbaijani: Mehriban Arif qızı Əliyeva; born 26 August 1964) is an Azerbaijani politician and former physician who is the First Vice President and First Lady of Azerbaijan. She is married to Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan.

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Daphne Caruana Galizia

Maltese investigative journalist known for her work exposing political corruption

Did you know? Her personal blog was so popular that it often recorded more daily readers than all of the newspapers in Malta combined.

Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia (née Vella; 26 August 1964 – 16 October 2017) was a Maltese writer, journalist, blogger and anti-corruption activist who reported on political events in Malta. She was known internationally for her investigation of the Panama Papers and her subsequent assassination by a car bomb.

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Nichi Vendola

Italian left-wing politician and former President of Apulia

Did you know? He was the first openly gay head of a regional government in Italy and is also an accomplished poet and journalist.

Nicola "Nichi" Vendola (Italian pronunciation:; born 26 August 1958) is an Italian left-wing politician and LGBT activist who was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Apulia from 1992 to 2005 and President of Apulia from 2005 to 2015. Since 2023, he has been the President of the Italian Left.

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Michael Jeter

Character actor known for The Green Mile and Sesame Street

Did you know? He won an Emmy Award for his role as an assistant football coach in the popular 1990s sitcom Evening Shade.

Michael Jeter (August 26, 1952 – March 30, 2003) was an American actor. Known for his career on stage and screen, Jeter played diverse characters.

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Edward Witten

Renowned theoretical physicist and pioneer of string theory

Did you know? Before focusing on science, he earned a degree in history and worked for a time on a political campaign.

Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to string theory, topological quantum field theory, general relativity and various areas of mathematics. He is a professor emeritus in the school of natural sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester

Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Richard Alexander Walter George; born 26 August 1944), is a member of the British royal family.

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Prem Tinsulanonda

Thai statesman who served as Prime Minister and military chief

Did you know? He held the position of President of the Privy Council for over twenty years, acting as a key advisor to the Thai monarchy.

Prem Tinsulanonda (Thai: เปรม ติณสูลานนท์, RTGS: Prem Tinnasulanon, pronounced; 26 August 1920 – 26 May 2019) was a Thai military officer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th prime minister of Thailand from 1980 to 1988.

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Katherine Johnson

NASA mathematician who calculated trajectories for early space flights

Did you know? John Glenn famously requested that she personally double-check the electronic computer's calculations before his historic orbital mission.

Creola Katherine Johnson (née Coleman, previously Goble; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician and human computer whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.

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Julio Cortázar

Argentine author known for his experimental novel Hopscotch

Did you know? He was a passionate amateur jazz trumpeter and often included musical themes and structures in his short stories.

Julio Florencio Cortázar (Latin American Spanish:; 26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator.

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Mother Teresa

Albanian-born Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, won the Nobel Peace Prize and was declared a saint

Did you know? She was born in modern-day North Macedonia and taught at a school in Kolkata before serving the poor.

Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Albanian:; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic saint.

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Yun Po-sun

Second president of South Korea who served in the early 1960s

Did you know? He studied at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland before returning home to become a leader in the Korean independence movement.

Yun Po-sun (Korean: 윤보선, pronounced or; 26 August 1897 – 18 July 1990) was a South Korean politician and activist who served as the second president of South Korea from 1960 to 1962.

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James Franck

Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for the Franck-Hertz experiment

Did you know? During the Second World War, he courageously led a petition urging the United States not to use the atomic bomb on Japanese cities.

James Franck (German:; 26 August 1882 – 21 May 1964) was a German–American physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom." Franck completed his doctorate in 1906 and his habilitation in 1911 at the Frederick…

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Guillaume Apollinaire

French poet of Alcools and Calligrammes who championed Picasso and Cubism and coined the word surrealism

Did you know? He was once arrested and questioned by police as a suspect in the famous theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre.

Guillaume Apollinaire ( ə-POL-in-AIR, French:; born Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Aleksander Apolinary Kostrowicki; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a Polish-French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Polish, Swiss and Italian descent.

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