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Luuk de Jong

Prolific Dutch striker known for his aerial ability

Did you know? He comes from a talented sporting family; both of his parents were international volleyball players for the Netherlands.

Luuk de Jong (Dutch pronunciation:; born 27 August 1990) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker. Born in Switzerland, he played for the Netherlands national team.

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Sebastian Kurz

Former Chancellor of Austria and leader of the People's Party

Did you know? When he first took office at the age of thirty-one, he became the youngest head of government in the world.

Sebastian Kurz (born 27 August 1986) is an Austrian former politician who served twice as Chancellor of Austria, first from 2017 to 2019 and then again from 2020 to 2021. Kurz was born and raised in Meidling, Vienna.

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Sulley Muntari

Ghanaian midfielder who won the Champions League with Inter Milan

Did you know? During the 2014 World Cup, he was seen handing out money to local people in a poor neighbourhood in Brazil.

Suleyman Ali "Sulley" Muntari (born 27 August 1984) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his career in Italy, playing for clubs such as Udinese, Inter Milan, and AC Milan.

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Jamala

Ukrainian singer who won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest

Did you know? Her winning song, 1944, was inspired by her great-grandmother's experiences during the deportation of the Crimean Tatars.

Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova (born 27 August 1983), known professionally as Jamala, is a Ukrainian singer. She represented Ukraine and won the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with her song "1944".

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Bergüzar Korel

Turkish actress and daughter of Tarık Akan who became famous across the Middle East in the drama Binbir Gece

Did you know? Binbir Gece, known abroad as One Thousand and One Nights, was one of the first Turkish series to become a hit in the Arab world.

Bergüzar Gökçe Korel Ergenç (née Korel; Turkish pronunciation:) is a Turkish actress.

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Aaron Paul

American actor famous for playing Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad

Did you know? He worked as an usher at a cinema in Hollywood before his acting career took off.

Aaron Paul (born Aaron Paul Sturtevant; August 27, 1979) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Jesse Pinkman in the AMC series Breaking Bad (2008–2013) for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series three times.

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Deco

Midfielder who won the Champions League with two different European clubs

Did you know? Although he represented the Portugal national team, he was born in Brazil and did not move to Europe until he was twenty.

Anderson Luís de Souza (born 27 August 1977), also known as Deco (Portuguese pronunciation:), is a former professional footballer who primarily played as an attacking or central midfielder. Born and raised in Brazil, he played for the Portugal national team.

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Mark Webber

Australian racing driver who won nine Formula One Grands Prix

Did you know? He began his racing career in karting and later survived two spectacular airborne crashes during the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Mark Alan Webber (born 27 August 1976) is an Australian former racing driver, broadcaster, and driver manager who competed in Formula One from 2002 to 2013. Webber won nine Formula One Grands Prix across twelve seasons.

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Carlos Moyá

Former world number one tennis player and coach to Rafael Nadal

Did you know? He was the first Spanish man to reach the top of the world rankings since they were introduced.

Carlos Moyá Llompart (Spanish:; born 27 August 1976) is a Spanish former professional tennis player and coach. He was ranked as the world No.

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Dado Coletti

Riccardo Broccoletti (born 27 August 1974), known by his stage name Dado Coletti, is an Italian actor and host of radio and television programs.

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The Great Khali

Professional wrestler and first Indian-born WWE World Heavyweight Champion

Did you know? Before his career in the ring, he served as an officer for the Punjab State Police in India.

Dalip Singh Rana (born 27 August 1972), better known by his ring name The Great Khali, is an Indian-born American former professional wrestler, promoter, and actor. He is best known for his tenure with WWE, where he became the first Indian-born world champion.

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Paul Reubens

Comedian and actor who created the character Pee-wee Herman

Did you know? He was a member of the famous Groundlings comedy troupe where he first developed the persona that would make him an international star.

Paul Reubens (né Rubenfeld; August 27, 1952 – July 30, 2023) was an American actor and comedian, widely known for creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman.

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Roger Stone

Roger Jason Stone Jr. (born Roger Joseph Stone Jr.; August 27, 1952) is an American conservative political consultant and lobbyist.

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Cesária Évora

Grammy Award-winning singer known as the "Barefoot Diva"

Did you know? She earned her nickname by performing without shoes as a sign of solidarity with the poor people of Cape Verde.

Cesária Évora GCIH (Portuguese pronunciation:; 27 August 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a Cape Verdean singer known for singing morna, a genre of music from Cape Verde, in her native Cape Verdean Creole. Her songs were often devoted to themes of love, homesickness, nostalgia, and the history of the Cape Verdean people.

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Chinmoy Kumar Ghose

Indian spiritual teacher who promoted meditation and peace worldwide

Did you know? He advocated for physical fitness as part of spiritual growth and frequently held public weightlifting demonstrations in his later years.

Chinmoy Kumar Ghose (27 August 1931 – 11 October 2007), better known as Sri Chinmoy, was an Indian spiritual leader who taught meditation in the United States after moving to New York City in 1964.

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Osamu Shimomura

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who discovered green fluorescent protein

Did you know? To gather enough material for his research, he and his family reportedly caught hundreds of thousands of glowing jellyfish in the wild.

Osamu Shimomura (下村 脩, Shimomura Osamu; August 27, 1928 – October 19, 2018) was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and professor emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine.

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Norman Foster Ramsey

American physicist whose research helped create the first atomic clocks

Did you know? During the Second World War, he worked on radar technology and was also a key figure in the development of the atomic bomb.

Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (August 27, 1915 – November 4, 2011) was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method (see Ramsey interferometry), which had important applications in the construction of atomic clocks.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

36th US President who signed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act but escalated the Vietnam War

Did you know? Early in his career, he worked as a teacher for impoverished children at a small school in south Texas.

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He served as the 37th vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 to 1963, before assuming the presidency upon Kennedy's assassination.

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Man Ray

Artist and photographer who was a key figure in Surrealism

Did you know? He often created images without a camera by placing objects directly onto light-sensitive paper and exposing them to light.

Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American-born, French-naturalized visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal.

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Vincent Auriol

French politician who became the first president of the Fourth Republic

Did you know? During the Second World War, he worked with the French Resistance before fleeing to London to join the Free French.

Vincent Jules Auriol (French:; 27 August 1884 – 1 January 1966) was President of France from 1947 to 1954. A member of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), he was the first president elected under the Fourth Republic.

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Carl Bosch

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who pioneered industrial high-pressure chemistry

Did you know? His work on mass-producing nitrogen fertiliser is estimated to have helped sustain the lives of billions of people.

Carl Bosch (German pronunciation:; 27 August 1874 – 26 April 1940) was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world's largest chemical company.

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Theodore Dreiser

Naturalist novelist known for the classic American book Sister Carrie

Did you know? He once engaged in a physical altercation with fellow author Sinclair Lewis after being accused of plagiarism during a public dinner.

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.

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Charles G. Dawes

Nobel Peace Prize winner and 30th US Vice President

Did you know? He was a self-taught musician who composed a melody that eventually became a number-one pop hit.

Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 under President Calvin Coolidge. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925 for his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations, and a member of the Republican Party.

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Giuseppe Peano

Italian mathematician who developed the foundations of symbolic logic

Did you know? He created a simplified version of Latin called Latino sine flexione, which removed all grammar and inflections.

Giuseppe Peano (Italian:; 27 August 1858 – 20 April 1932) was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation, for instance, notations of set operations.

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