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Gavi

Spanish footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Barcelona

Did you know? He often plays with his laces untied because he never learned to tie them properly as a young child.

Pablo Martín Páez Gavira (born 5 August 2004), known as Gavi, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team.

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Mimi Keene

English actress known for her early role in EastEnders and for playing Ruby Matthews in Netflix's Sex Education

Did you know? She trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London.

Mimi Roshan Saeed (born 5 August 1998), better known as Mimi Keene, is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Cindy Williams on the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2013–2015), Ruby Matthews on the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education (2019–2023), and Natalie in the film After Everything (2023).

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Daichi Kamada

Japanese international midfielder who has played for Eintracht Frankfurt and Crystal Palace

Did you know? He was a key member of the Eintracht Frankfurt squad that won the UEFA Europa League title before he moved to the Premier League.

Daichi Kamada (鎌田 大地, Kamada Daichi/Dyche Kamada; born 5 August 1996) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the Japan national team.

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Pierre-Emile Højbjerg

Danish midfielder who played for clubs including Bayern Munich and Tottenham

Did you know? He became the youngest player to ever represent Bayern Munich in a Bundesliga match at the time of his debut.

Pierre-Emile Kordt Højbjerg (born 5 August 1995) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ligue 1 club Marseille and captains the Denmark national team. Højbjerg started his career as a youth for Danish clubs Skjold, KB and Brøndby, before joining German club Bayern Munich in 2012.

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Salomon Kalou

Ivorian footballer who won the Champions League with Chelsea

Did you know? He is a two-time winner of the Dutch Young Player of the Year award while playing for Feyenoord.

Salomon Armand Magloire Kalou (born 5 August 1985) is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a forward or winger. He started his career with local club ASEC Mimosas.

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Helene Fischer

Chart-topping German singer known as the Queen of Schlager

Did you know? She was born in Siberia and moved to Germany with her family when she was a young child.

Helene Fischer (born 5 August 1984) is a German schlager singer. Since her debut in 2005, she has won numerous awards, including 17 Echo awards, four "Die Krone der Volksmusik" awards, and three Bambi awards.

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Wayne Bridge

Former Premier League defender who played for Chelsea and Manchester City

Did you know? He appeared on the reality television show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2016.

Wayne Michael Bridge (born 5 August 1980) is an English former professional footballer who played as a left back.

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Kajol

Award-winning Indian actress celebrated for her roles in Hindi cinema

Did you know? She belongs to a prominent cinematic family, including her mother Tanuja and her grandmother, the legendary star Shobhna Samarth.

Kajol Devgan (née Mukherjee; born 5 August 1974), known mononymously as Kajol (Bengali:), is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films. Described in the media as one of the most successful actresses of Hindi cinema, she is the recipient of numerous accolades, including seven Filmfare Awards.

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Valdis Dombrovskis

Latvian politician and former Prime Minister of Latvia

Did you know? A former physicist, he worked as a research assistant in both the United States and Germany before starting his political career.

Valdis Dombrovskis (born 5 August 1971) is a Latvian politician serving as European Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, and Commissioner for Implementation and Simplification.

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Marine Le Pen

French politician who led the National Rally and reached the presidential run-off in 2017 and 2022

Did you know? Before entering politics full-time, she spent several years working as a public defender for people who could not afford lawyers.

Marion Anne Perrine "Marine" Le Pen (French:; Breton:; born 5 August 1968) is a French lawyer and politician who served as the president of the far-right National Rally (RN; known as the National Front or FN from 1972 to 2018) party from 2011 to 2021.

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James Gunn

American filmmaker who directed the Guardians of the Galaxy films

Did you know? He got his start in the film industry by writing the screenplay for the independent cult horror movie Tromeo and Juliet.

James Francis Gunn Jr. (born August 5, 1966) is an American filmmaker.

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Mark Strong

British actor known for playing villainous and authoritative roles

Did you know? He originally studied law in Germany before deciding to pursue an acting career in London.

Mark Strong (born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia; 5 August 1963) is an English actor. Strong is known for his starring roles on stage as well as for his villainous roles in historical dramas and franchise films.

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Hun Sen

Long-serving Prime Minister of Cambodia who held power for decades

Did you know? He lost an eye to shrapnel during the final battle for Phnom Penh just days before the Khmer Rouge took over.

Hun Sen (born 5 August 1952) is a Cambodian politician and former military officer who currently serves as the president of the Senate and acting head of state. He previously served as the prime minister of Cambodia (1985–1993), the second prime minister (1993–1998) and the prime minister again (1998–2023).

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Neil Armstrong

NASA astronaut who commanded Apollo 11 and became the first person to walk on the Moon in July 1969

Did you know? He had to perform a manual landing of the lunar module because the intended site was too rocky.

NASA astronaut and commander of Apollo 11, the first person to walk on the Moon.

Harold Holt

Australian Prime Minister who mysteriously disappeared while swimming at sea

Did you know? Despite his mysterious disappearance at sea, a public swimming centre in Melbourne was later named in his memory.

Harold Edward Holt (5 August 1908 – 17 December 1967) was the 17th prime minister of Australia, serving from 1966 until his disappearance and presumed death in 1967.

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John Huston

Director and screenwriter of classics like The Maltese Falcon

Did you know? He is part of a rare three-generation family of Oscar winners, alongside his father Walter and his daughter Anjelica.

John Marcellus Huston ( HEW-stən; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American and Irish filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning five decades, he wrote the screenplays for many of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics.

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Wassily Leontief

Nobel Prize-winning economist who developed input-output analysis

Did you know? He served as a personal consultant to the US government during the Second World War to help plan economic production.

Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Лео́нтьев; August 5, 1905 – February 5, 1999) was a Russian-American economist known for his research on input–output analysis and how changes in one economic sector may affect other sectors.

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Paul Claudel

French poet, dramatist and diplomat known for his verse plays

Did you know? He spent decades serving in various diplomatic posts across the globe including Japan, China, Brazil and the United States.

Paul Claudel (French:; 6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He is most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism, and for institutionalizing his sister.

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Joseph Merrick

Victorian man known as the Elephant Man

Did you know? He was a skilled craftsman who constructed a detailed cardboard model of Mainz Cathedral while living at the London Hospital.

Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890), sometimes erroneously referred to as John Merrick, was an English man known for his severe physical deformities.

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Guy de Maupassant

French master of the short story who wrote Boule de Suif and The Necklace and the novel Bel-Ami

Did you know? He reportedly ate lunch inside the Eiffel Tower daily because it was the only place in Paris where he could not see it.

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (UK:, US:; French:; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic…

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Deodoro da Fonseca

Military officer who became the first President of Brazil

Did you know? Despite leading the coup that ended the Brazilian monarchy, he had been a close personal friend of the deposed Emperor.

Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca (5 August 1827 – 23 August 1892) was a Brazilian politician and military officer who served as the head of provisional government and the first president of Brazil. He was born in Alagoas in a military family, followed a military career, and became a national figure.

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Ivar Andreas Aasen

Norwegian philologist and poet who created the Nynorsk language

Did you know? He spent years walking through the valleys of Norway to collect regional dialects, which he used to build a new national written standard.

Ivar Andreas Aasen (Norwegian pronunciation:; 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet. He is best known for having assembled one of the two official written versions of the Norwegian language, Nynorsk, from various dialects.

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Niels Henrik Abel

Norwegian mathematician known for his work on quintic equations

Did you know? He died in poverty from tuberculosis at twenty-six, just days before a letter arrived offering him a prestigious professorship in Berlin.

Niels Henrik Abel ( AH-bəl, Norwegian:; 5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.

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Fath-Ali Shah Qajar

Second Shah of Qajar Iran who reigned for thirty-seven years

Did you know? He was known for his exceptionally long beard and is said to have fathered hundreds of children with many wives.

Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (Persian: فتحعلى‌شاه قاجار, romanized: Fatḥ-ʻAli Šâh Qâjâr; 5 August 1772 – 24 October 1834) was the second Shah of Qajar Iran. He reigned from 17 June 1797 until his death on 24 October 1834.

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