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Dani Ceballos

Spanish midfielder who has played for Real Madrid and Arsenal

Did you know? He was named the best player of the tournament at the European Under-21 Championship before joining Real Madrid.

Daniel Ceballos Fernández (born 7 August 1996) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for La Liga club Real Betis. Ceballos started his career at Real Betis, where he helped them win the Segunda División.

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Wout Weghorst

Dutch international striker who played for Manchester United and Burnley

Did you know? At nearly two metres tall, he is known for his height and scored two goals as a late substitute against Argentina in the 2022 World Cup.

Wout François Maria Weghorst (born 7 August 1992) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Eredivisie club Twente and the Netherlands national team. Weghorst began his professional career in the second tier of Dutch football with Emmen.

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Yun Hyon-seok

South Korean poet and activist for LGBT rights

Did you know? His pen name, Yuk Wu-dang, translates to 'home of six friends' and refers to the items he kept in his room.

Yun Hyon-seok (Korean: 윤현석; Hanja: 尹賢碩; August 7, 1984 – April 26, 2003) was a South Korean LGBT poet, writer, and activist. He wrote under the pen names Yuk Wu-dang (육우당, 六友堂, home of six friends) and Seolheon (설헌; 雪軒), and was also known by his nickname Midong (미동; 美童, beautiful boy) or Donghwa (동화; 童花, Boy flower).

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Abbie Cornish

Australian actress known for Bright Star and Limitless

Did you know? Outside of acting, she is an accomplished rapper and performed under the stage name MC Dusk.

Abbie Cornish (born 7 August 1982) is an Australian actress and rapper. In film, Cornish is known for her roles as Heidi in Somersault (2004), Fanny Brawne in Bright Star (2009), Sweet Pea in Sucker Punch (2011), Lindy in Limitless (2011), Clara Murphy in RoboCop (2014), and Sarah Wilson in Geostorm (2017).

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Seiichiro Maki

Japanese international footballer who played as a forward

Did you know? He surprised many by being selected for the 2006 World Cup squad over the more famous striker Kazuyoshi Miura.

Seiichiro Maki (巻 誠一郎, Maki Seiichirō; born 7 August 1980) is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He played for the Japan national team.

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Charlize Theron

South African-American actress who won an Oscar for Monster and played Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road

Did you know? She was originally a trained ballet dancer but had to stop after suffering a severe knee injury at nineteen.

Charlize Theron (born 7 August 1975) is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, her accolades include an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three BAFTAs and two Emmy Awards.

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Michael Shannon

Academy Award-nominated actor known for intense character roles

Did you know? He is the lead singer and songwriter of the folk-rock band Corporal, which he formed in New York.

Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor. Known for his forceful and intense style of acting, he has twice received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Revolutionary Road (2008) and Nocturnal Animals (2016).

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Domino Harvey

Domino Harvey (7 August 1969 – 27 June 2005) was an English bounty hunter in the United States. She came from a well-to-do background, and was the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey and fashion model Paulene Stone.

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Jimmy Wales

American internet entrepreneur who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001, the free online encyclopedia written by volunteers

Did you know? Before entering the tech industry, he earned a living as a successful options trader at a firm in Chicago.

Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 8, 1966) is an American and British internet entrepreneur and former financial trader. He is best known for co-founding Wikipedia, a non-profit free encyclopedia, and Fandom (formerly Wikia), a for-profit wiki hosting service.

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Bruce Dickinson

Lead singer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden

Did you know? He is a licensed commercial pilot and has famously flown the band's own customised Boeing jet on their world tours.

Paul Bruce Dickinson (born 7 August 1958) is an English musician who is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Dickinson has performed in the band across two stints, from 1981 to 1993 and from 1999 to the present day.

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Wayne Knight

Actor famous for playing Newman in the television sitcom Seinfeld

Did you know? He also provided the voice for the toy collector Al McWhiggin in the animated film Toy Story 2.

Wayne Elliot Knight (born August 7, 1955) is an American actor.

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James P. Allison

Immunologist who won the Nobel Prize for cancer research

Did you know? Away from the lab, he is a talented harmonica player and has performed on stage with country music legend Willie Nelson.

James Patrick Allison (born August 7, 1948) is an American immunologist and Nobel laureate who holds the position of professor and chair of immunology and executive director of immunotherapy platform at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Allison is Regental Professor and Founding-Director of James P.

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Sofia Rotaru

Renowned Ukrainian singer with a massive career across Eastern Europe

Did you know? She holds the record for the most appearances on the popular Soviet and Russian televised music competition Pesnya goda.

Sofiia Mykhailivna Yevdokymenko-Rotaru (Ukrainian: Софія Михайлівна Євдокименко-Ротару; Russian: София Михайловна Евдокименко-Ротару; née Rotaru; born 7 August 1947), known simply as Sofia Rotaru, is a Ukrainian singer.

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John C. Mather

Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who studied the cosmic microwave background

Did you know? He served as the senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope during its long development and successful launch.

John Cromwell Mather (born August 7, 1946) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. He shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Smoot for the "for their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".

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Robert Mueller

Former Director of the FBI and Department of Justice Special Counsel

Did you know? He was awarded the Bronze Star and a Purple Heart for his service as a Marine Corps officer during the Vietnam War.

Robert Swan Mueller III (August 7, 1944 – March 20, 2026) was an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013. A graduate of Princeton University and New York University, Mueller served as a U.S.

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Elinor Ostrom

First woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Did you know? Her research challenged conventional wisdom by showing how local communities can successfully manage shared resources without government intervention.

Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy.

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Abebe Bikila

Olympic marathon champion who won gold while running barefoot

Did you know? He was a member of the Ethiopian Imperial Guard and was discovered while training at high altitude for his military duties.

Shambel Abebe Bikila (Amharic: ሻምበል አበበ ቢቂላ; August 7, 1932 – October 25, 1973) was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He was the first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, winning his first gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while running barefoot.

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James Randi

Magician and investigator who debunked claims of the paranormal

Did you know? He famously offered a prize of one million dollars to anyone who could prove supernatural abilities under controlled scientific conditions.

James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author, and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.

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Ralph Bunche

Diplomat who was the first Black Nobel Peace Prize winner

Did you know? He played a significant role in drafting the United Nations Charter and was a key mediator in the Middle East.

Ralph Johnson Bunche ( BUNCH; August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in the Arab–Israeli conflict. He was the first Black Nobel laureate.

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Louis Leakey

Paleoanthropologist who discovered early human remains in Africa

Did you know? He was born and raised in Kenya by British missionary parents and grew up speaking Kikuyu as his first language.

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey.

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Mata Hari

Dutch dancer executed for spying during the First World War

Did you know? Her stage name, which she adopted while living in Paris, means eye of the day in Malay.

Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle, Dutch:; 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari ( MAH-tə HAR-ee, Dutch:; Indonesian for 'sun', lit. 'eye of the day'), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I.

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Emil Nolde

German Expressionist painter noted for his intense use of colour

Did you know? Although he was an early supporter of the Nazi party, they later condemned his work and included it in their degenerate art exhibition.

Emil Nolde (born Hans Emil Hansen; 7 August 1867 – 13 April 1956) was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of the early 20th century to explore color.

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Carl Ritter

Prussian scholar and a founding father of modern geography

Did you know? Although he wrote a massive nineteen-volume study of the world, he spent almost all of his life in Europe and never saw the Americas.

Carl Ritter (August 7, 1779 – September 28, 1859) was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of modern geography, as they established it as an independent scientific discipline.

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John Dryden

Influential English poet who became the first official Poet Laureate

Did you know? He was so dominant in the literary scene that the era of his career is often called the Age of Dryden.

John Dryden (19 August 1631 – 12 May 1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate.

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