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Jamie Margolin

Jamie Margolin is a Colombian-American climate justice activist. She is a co-founder of Zero Hour (USA), a climate-focused youth organization that is part of Future Coalition.

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Wilfried Bony

Ivorian striker who played for Swansea City and Manchester City

Did you know? He was the highest-scoring Premier League player during the 2014 calendar year, outperforming stars like Sergio Aguero.

Wilfried Guemiand Bony (born 10 December 1988) is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a striker. Having begun his career at Issia Wazy, Bony moved to Sparta Prague in 2007, helping them to the Czech First League title in 2009–10.

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Jalila Haider

Jalila Haider (Urdu/Hazaragi: جلیله حیدر; born 10 December 1988) is a Pakistani human rights attorney and political activist from Quetta in Balochistan, Pakistan. She is known to be the first woman lawyer from Quetta's Hazara minority, and an advocate for the rights of her persecuted community.

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Gonzalo Higuaín

Prolific striker who played for Real Madrid, Juventus and Argentina

Did you know? Although he represented Argentina internationally, he was actually born in France while his father was playing football there.

Gonzalo Gerardo Higuaín (Spanish:; born 10 December 1987) is an Argentine professional football coach and former player who played as a striker. He is a player development coach for Major League Soccer club Inter Miami.

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Sultan Kösen

Tallest living man as recorded by Guinness World Records

Did you know? He also holds the world record for the largest hands on a living person, measuring over twenty-eight centimetres.

Sultan Kösen (born 10 December 1982) is a Turkish farmer who holds the Guinness World Record for tallest living person at 251 cm (8 ft 2.82 in). Kösen's growth resulted from the conditions gigantism and acromegaly, caused by a tumour affecting his pituitary gland.

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Kenneth Branagh

Belfast-born actor and director famous for his Shakespearean films

Did you know? He holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations in different categories, spanning acting, directing, and writing.

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh ( BRAN-ə; born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Born in Belfast and raised primarily in Reading, Branagh trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and served as its president from 2015 to 2024.

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Cornelia Funke

German author of the Inkheart book series

Did you know? Before finding success as an author, she worked as a social worker for children from deprived backgrounds and trained as a book illustrator.

Cornelia Maria Funke (German:; born 10 December 1958) is a German author of children's fiction. Born in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia, she began her career as a social worker before becoming a book illustrator.

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Michael Clarke Duncan

American actor best known for his role in The Green Mile

Did you know? Before finding fame in Hollywood, he worked as a bodyguard for celebrities such as Will Smith and Jamie Foxx.

Michael Clarke Duncan (December 10, 1957 – September 3, 2012) was an American actor best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in The Green Mile (1999), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and other honors.

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Mohammad Shahabuddin

Sixteenth President of Bangladesh and former judge

Did you know? He was a freedom fighter during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 and later spent time as a prisoner after a coup.

Mohammed Shahabuddin (born 10 December 1949), also known as Chuppu, is a Bangladeshi politician, former jurist and journalist who served as the president of Bangladesh from 2023 to 2026. He was elected unopposed in the 2023 presidential election as the nominee of the then-ruling Awami League.

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Andris Bērziņš

Latvian politician who served as the President of Latvia

Did you know? Before entering politics, he spent over a decade as the president of one of the country's largest commercial banks.

Andris Bērziņš (born 10 December 1944) is a Latvian businessman and politician who was President of Latvia from 2011 to 2015. Bērziņš was the President of Unibanka from 1993 to 2004.

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Aritatsu Ogi

Japanese footballer and manager who played for the national team

Did you know? He won a bronze medal at the 1968 Olympics and was later inducted into the Japan Football Hall of Fame.

Aritatsu Ogi (小城 得達, Ogi Aritatsu; born December 10, 1942) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

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Howard Temin

Nobel Prize-winning virologist who discovered reverse transcriptase

Did you know? His discovery overturned the scientific belief of the time that genetic information could only ever travel from DNA to RNA.

Howard Martin Temin (December 10, 1934 – February 9, 1994) was an American geneticist and virologist. He discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore.

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Jorge Semprún

Spanish writer and politician who served as Minister of Culture

Did you know? He survived deportation to a concentration camp during the Second World War due to his involvement in the French Resistance.

Jorge Semprún Maura (Spanish pronunciation:; 10 December 1923 – 7 June 2011) was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French.

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Clarice Lispector

Highly acclaimed Brazilian novelist known for her introspective writing style

Did you know? She was born in Ukraine during a period of civil unrest and moved to South America with her family as a baby.

Clarice Lispector (Portuguese:; née Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector; December 10, 1920 – December 9, 1977) was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her distinctive and innovative works, which explore diverse narrative forms and themes of intimacy and introspection, have earned her international acclaim.

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Olivier Messiaen

Renowned French composer known for his complex twentieth-century works

Did you know? An expert ornithologist, he spent much of his life recording birdsong and incorporating the melodies into his musical compositions.

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (UK:, US:; French:; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. One of the major composers of the 20th century, he was also an outstanding teacher of composition and musical analysis.

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Antonín Novotný

Former President of Czechoslovakia and Communist Party leader

Did you know? His conservative leadership and reluctance to reform eventually led to his downfall and the rise of the liberalising Prague Spring movement.

Antonín Josef Novotný (Czech pronunciation:; 10 December 1904 – 28 January 1975) was a Czechoslovak politician who served as the President of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968, and as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968.

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Nelly Sachs

German-Jewish poet who escaped to Sweden in 1940 and won the 1966 Nobel Prize for her poetry of Holocaust grief

Did you know? She escaped Nazi Germany for Sweden just before the outbreak of war with the help of fellow writer Selma Lagerlöf.

Nelly Sachs (German pronunciation:; 10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a German–Swedish poet and playwright. Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews.

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Victor McLaglen

Oscar-winning actor known for his roles in John Ford films

Did you know? Before finding success in Hollywood, he was a professional boxer who once fought the world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson.

Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was a British-American actor and boxer. His film career spanned from the early 1920s through the 1950s, initially as a leading man, though he was better known for his character acting.

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C. Rajagopalachari

Indian independence leader, lawyer and writer who served as the only Indian Governor-General and later founded the Swatantra Party

Did you know? He was one of the first recipients of the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in India, for his service to the nation.

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (10 December 1878 – 25 December 1972), popularly known as Rajaji or C.R., also known as Mootharignar Rajaji (Rajaji, the Scholar Emeritus), was an Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and Indian independence activist.

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Adolf Loos

Austrian architect and influential theorist of modern architecture

Did you know? He famously wrote an essay arguing that adding decoration to buildings and objects was a sign of cultural immaturity.

Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (German:; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement.

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Pierre Louÿs

French writer and poet known for classical and erotic themes

Did you know? He was a close friend of the composer Claude Debussy and wrote the lyrics for several of his musical compositions.

Pierre-Félix Louÿs (French:; 10 December 1870 – 4 June 1925) was a Belgian poet and writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who sought to "express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection".

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Kanō Jigorō

Japanese educator and the founding father of judo

Did you know? He was the first Asian member of the International Olympic Committee and played a key role in bringing the Games to Tokyo.

Kanō Jigorō (嘉納 治五郎; 10 December 1860 – 4 May 1938) was a Japanese judoka, educator, politician, and the founder of judo.

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Emily Dickinson

Reclusive American poet whose nearly 1,800 poems, with their dashes and slant rhymes, were mostly published after her death

Did you know? Only ten of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime, and they were often edited to suit conventional standards.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical.

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George MacDonald

Scottish author who pioneered modern fantasy literature

Did you know? He was a mentor to Lewis Carroll and his children’s enthusiastic reaction convinced Carroll to publish the Alice in Wonderland stories.

George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Congregational minister. He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carroll.

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