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Giovanni Di Lorenzo

Italian international footballer and captain of Napoli

Did you know? He worked his way up from the third tier of Italian football to winning the European Championship in 2021.

Giovanni Di Lorenzo (born 4 August 1993) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Serie A club Napoli, which he captains, and the Italy national team.

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Antonio Valencia

Ecuadorian footballer who won two league titles with Manchester United

Did you know? He was the first player from Ecuador to win the Premier League and once held the record for the world's fastest footballer.

Luis Antonio Valencia Mosquera (Spanish pronunciation:; born 4 August 1985) is an Ecuadorian former professional footballer who played primarily as a right-sided player throughout his career, initially as a right winger, before developing into a right-back.

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Mark Milligan

Former Australian international footballer and national team captain

Did you know? He is one of the few players to be named in four consecutive Australian World Cup squads between 2006 and 2018.

Mark Daniel Milligan (born 4 August 1985) is an Australian former professional soccer player and the current head coach of Newcastle Jets. Having started his career as a defender, he spent much of his later career playing as a midfielder.

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Greta Gerwig

Director and screenwriter of the films Lady Bird and Barbie

Did you know? She originally intended to become a playwright but turned to acting after being rejected from several graduate writing programmes.

Greta Celeste Gerwig ( GUR-wig; born August 4, 1983) is an American actress and filmmaker. She was initially known for working on various mumblecore films, such as Baghead (2008) and Yeast (2008), in which she became an important figure in the movement.

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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

American actress and member of the British royal family

Did you know? As a child, she wrote a letter to a consumer goods company that successfully prompted them to change a sexist television advertisement.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (born Rachel Meghan Markle, August 4, 1981), is an American member of the British royal family, media personality, entrepreneur, and actress. She is married to Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, the younger son of King Charles III. Meghan was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

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Muqtada al-Sadr

Influential Iraqi Shia cleric and political leader

Did you know? He is the son of a highly respected Grand Ayatollah who was a leading figure in the resistance against Saddam Hussein.

Muqtada al-Sadr (born 4 August 1974) is an Iraqi cleric, politician and former militia leader. A leading Shia Muslim figure, he inherited the leadership of the Sadrist Movement from his father, and founded the now-dissolved Mahdi Army militia in 2003 that resisted the American occupation of Iraq.

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Jeff Gordon

Highly successful NASCAR driver and four-time series champion

Did you know? He started racing in competitive events as a young child and had already won hundreds of races before he reached adulthood.

Jeffery Michael Gordon (born August 4, 1971) is an American stock car racing executive and former professional stock car racing driver who currently serves as the vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports. He raced full-time from 1993 to 2015, driving the No.

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Fredrik Reinfeldt

Former Prime Minister of Sweden and leader of the Moderate Party

Did you know? Before entering politics, he worked as a local councillor and later became a prominent figure in Swedish football administration.

John Fredrik Reinfeldt (Swedish:; born 4 August 1965) is a Swedish economist and former politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014 and as Leader of the Moderate Party from 2003 to 2015. He was the last rotating President of the European Council in 2009.

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Barack Obama

44th President of the United States and its first African American president, who passed the Affordable Care Act and won the Nobel Peace Prize

Did you know? He won two Grammy Awards for the spoken word recordings of his memoirs.

44th President of the United States and the first African American to hold the office.

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Pumpuang Duangjan

Thai singer and actress known as the Queen of Luk Thung

Did you know? Despite being unable to read or write, she memorised thousands of song lyrics simply by listening to them.

Ramphueng Chithan (Thai: รำพึง จิตร์หาญ; 4 August 1961 – 13 June 1992), known professionally as Pumpuang Duangjan (Thai: พุ่มพวง ดวงจันทร์; RTGS: Phumphuang Duangchan), was a Thai singer and actress. Honored as the "Queen of Luk Thung", she is one of the most celebrated luk thung vocalists in Thailand.

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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Former Prime Minister of Spain who served two terms

Did you know? His government was the first in Spanish history to have an equal number of male and female ministers.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (Spanish:; born 4 August 1960) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was the Prime Minister of Spain being elected for two terms, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections.

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Meg Whitman

American business executive who served as the CEO of eBay

Did you know? She spent several years working as a senior executive at The Walt Disney Company before leading the online auction giant.

Margaret Cushing Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is an American business executive, diplomat and politician. She served as the United States ambassador to Kenya from July 2022 to November 2024 under President Joe Biden.

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Billy Bob Thornton

Oscar-winning screenwriter and actor known for Sling Blade

Did you know? Before finding fame in Hollywood, he pursued a career in music and worked as a roadie for the band Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter.

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Antonio Tajani

Italian politician and former President of the European Parliament

Did you know? Before entering politics, he worked as a professional journalist and was a correspondent for a major Italian newspaper.

Antonio Tajani (Italian pronunciation:; born 4 August 1953) is an Italian politician who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Foreign Affairs since 22 October 2022.

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Giorgio Parisi

Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for studying complex systems

Did you know? His work on starlings helped explain how thousands of birds can fly in perfect synchrony without ever colliding.

Giorgio Parisi (Italian:; born 4 August 1948) is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems.

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Abdurrahman Wahid

First democratically elected President of Indonesia

Did you know? Widely known by his nickname Gus Dur, he was also a highly respected leader of the largest independent Islamic organisation in the world.

Abdurrahman Wahid ( AHB-doo-RAHKH-mahn wah-HEED; Indonesian:; né ad-Dakhil, 7 September 1940 – 30 December 2009), more colloquially known as Gus Dur (Indonesian: ), was an Indonesian politician and Islamic religious leader who served as the fourth president of Indonesia, from his election in 1999 until he was removed…

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Raoul Wallenberg

Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust

Did you know? Following his disappearance at the end of the war, he was posthumously made an honorary citizen of several countries including the United States.

Raoul Wallenberg (4 August 1912 – disappeared 17 January 1945) was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. He saved thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian fascists during the later stages of World War II.

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Witold Gombrowicz

Polish writer and dramatist known for his philosophical and satirical works

Did you know? He lived in Argentina for over twenty years, where he worked as a bank clerk while continuing to write his avant-garde novels.

Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor.

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Louis Armstrong

New Orleans jazz trumpeter and singer known as Satchmo, famous for his gravelly voice and What a Wonderful World

Did you know? He was one of the first popular performers to cross racial boundaries in America and became a global ambassador for jazz.

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist. Among the most influential figures in jazz, his career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of the genre.

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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Queen consort of George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II

Did you know? She refused to leave London during the Blitz, famously remarking that she could finally look the East End in the face after Buckingham Palace was bombed.

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI.

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Knut Hamsun

Norwegian novelist of Hunger and Growth of the Soil who won the Nobel Prize but disgraced himself by supporting the Nazis

Did you know? Despite his literary success, his reputation was severely damaged after the Second World War due to his support for the Nazis.

Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel Growth of the Soil. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment.

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John Venn

Mathematician and logician who created the Venn diagram

Did you know? In addition to his logic work, he designed a machine for bowling cricket balls that successfully dismissed a professional player.

John Venn, FRS, FSA (4 August 1834 – 4 April 1923) was an English mathematician, logician and philosopher noted for introducing Venn diagrams, which are used in logic, set theory, probability, statistics, and computer science.

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William Rowan Hamilton

Irish mathematician who formulated the theory of quaternions

Did you know? He famously carved his fundamental mathematical formula into the stone of a bridge when the discovery suddenly occurred to him.

Sir William Rowan Hamilton (4 August 1805 – 2 September 1865) was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made numerous major contributions to algebra, classical mechanics, and optics.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

English Romantic poet of Ozymandias and Ode to the West Wind, husband of Mary Shelley, who drowned in Italy at 29

Did you know? He was expelled from Oxford University for co-authoring a controversial pamphlet that defended the existence of atheism.

Percy Bysshe Shelley ( BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets.

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