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Hailee Steinfeld

Actress and singer known for True Grit and Pitch Perfect

Did you know? She was only fourteen years old when she received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in her debut film.

Hailee Steinfeld (born December 11, 1996) is an American actress and singer. She had her breakthrough with the western film True Grit (2010), which earned her various accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award and an Actor Award.

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Gen Shōji

Japanese international defender who played in the 2018 World Cup

Did you know? He was the only player from the Japanese domestic league to start every match for his country at the 2018 World Cup.

Gen Shōji (昌子 源, Shōji Gen; born 11 December 1992) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for J1 League club, Machida Zelvia. A strong and physical centre-back, Shoji is known for his pace, positioning, and ability to handle one-on-one defensive situations.

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Natalia Gordienko

Chișinău-born pop singer who represented Moldova at Eurovision twice, most recently with the 2021 finalist Sugar

Did you know? Her 2020 Eurovision entry was cancelled because of the pandemic, so she returned in 2021.

Natalia Gordienko (also spelled Gordienco; Ukrainian: Наталія Гордієнко; born 11 December 1987) is a Moldovan singer and dancer. Alongside Arsenium and Connect-R, she represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song "Loca" and placed 20th.

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Leighton Baines

Former England international footballer and long-serving Everton defender

Did you know? He is a passionate fan of indie music and once interviewed the band Arctic Monkeys.

Leighton John Baines (born 11 December 1984) is an English professional football coach and former player who played as a left-back. He is the assistant manager of Premier League club Everton.

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Javier Saviola

Prolific Argentine striker who played for River Plate and Barcelona

Did you know? He earned the nickname "The Rabbit" early in his career and remains one of the youngest players to ever represent Argentina.

Javier Pedro Saviola Fernández (Spanish pronunciation:; born 11 December 1981), better known as El Conejo (The Rabbit), is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was trained in River Plate's academy and made his debut for the club in 1998.

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Colleen Hoover

American novelist whose books, including It Ends with Us and Verity, became huge bestsellers thanks to TikTok

Did you know? She was working as a social worker when she wrote her first book.

Margaret Colleen Hoover (née Fennell; born December 11, 1979) is an American author who primarily writes novels in the romance and young adult fiction genres. She is best known for her 2016 novel It Ends with Us.

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Rey Mysterio

pioneering lucha libre in American wrestling with his high-flying masked style, becoming a multi-time world champion and cruiserweight legend

Óscar Gutiérrez Rubio (born December 11, 1974), better known by his ring name Rey Mysterio, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand.

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Viswanathan Anand

Indian chess grandmaster and former undisputed world champion

Did you know? Known for his incredible speed of play, he was the first recipient of India's highest sporting honour.

Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Anand is a four-time undisputed World Chess Champion, a FIDE World Chess Champion, a 13-time World Rapid Chess Champion, and a World Blitz Chess Champion.

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Emmanuelle Charpentier

Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist who co-developed CRISPR gene-editing technology

Did you know? She has lived and worked in five different countries, holding various academic positions across Europe and North America throughout her scientific career.

Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (French pronunciation:; born 11 December 1968) is a French academic, microbiologist, geneticist, and biochemist. She has served as a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin since 2015.

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Macky Sall

Fourth President of Senegal who served for twelve years

Did you know? He is a trained geological engineer and worked in the oil industry before holding various government positions and eventually the presidency.

Macky Sall (French pronunciation:, Wolof: Maki Sàll, Pulaar: 𞤃𞤢𞤳𞤭 𞤅𞤢𞤤‎, romanized: Maki Sal; born 11 December 1961) is a Senegalese politician who served as the fourth president of Senegal from 2012 to 2024.

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Pushpa Kamal Dahal

Former Prime Minister of Nepal and leader of the Maoist movement

Did you know? His revolutionary name Prachanda means the fierce one, a title he used during the years he led a guerrilla insurgency against the state.

Pushpa Kamal Dahal (born Ghanashyam Dahal; 11 December 1954), popularly known as Prachanda, is a Nepalese politician. He is a member of House of Representatives elected from Eastern Rukum.

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John Kerry

Vietnam veteran and Massachusetts senator who was the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and later Secretary of State

Did you know? He is a highly decorated veteran who received several medals for his service as a naval officer during the Vietnam War.

John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician, diplomat, and former naval officer who served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 in the administration of President Barack Obama.

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Pranab Mukherjee

Senior politician who served as the thirteenth President of India

Did you know? Over a career spanning five decades, he held almost every major ministerial post including finance, defence, and foreign affairs.

Pranab Mukherjee (Bengali: Praṇaba Kumāra Mukhārjī, pronounced; 11 December 1935 – 31 August 2020) was an Indian politician who served as the president of India from 2012 until 2017. He was the first person from West Bengal to hold the office.

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Osho

Indian mystic and founder of the Rajneesh spiritual movement

Did you know? He once amassed a collection of nearly one hundred Rolls-Royces, which were gifted to him by his followers.

Osho (pronounced; born Chandra Mohan Jain; 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Acharya Rajneesh, and simply Rajneesh, was an Indian godman, and founder of the new religious movement, the Rajneesh movement.

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Rita Moreno

Award-winning actress known for the musical film West Side Story

Did you know? She is one of the few performers to have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony award during her lengthy career.

Rita Moreno (born Rosa Dolores Alverío Marcano; December 11, 1931) is a Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer. With a career spanning eight decades, she is known for her roles on stage and screen, and is one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Jean-Louis Trintignant

French actor known for films like Amour and Z

Did you know? Aside from his acting career, he was a passionate racing driver and once competed in the famous Le Mans endurance race.

Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (French pronunciation:; 11 December 1930 – 17 June 2022) was a French actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russian writer and Gulag survivor whose One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago exposed Soviet camps

Did you know? He served as a captain in the Red Army during the Second World War before being arrested for criticising Joseph Stalin.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system.

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Jean Marais

Influential French actor and long-term collaborator of director Jean Cocteau

Did you know? He was a multi-talented artist whose paintings and sculptures were praised by his contemporary Pablo Picasso.

Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), known professionally as Jean Marais (French:), was a French actor, theatre director, painter, sculptor, visual artist, writer and photographer.

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Carlo Ponti

Prolific Italian film producer and husband of actress Sophia Loren

Did you know? He was a pioneer of international co-productions and helped launch the careers of many famous European directors.

Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit.

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Naguib Mahfouz

Egyptian novelist of the Cairo Trilogy who became the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? He spent most of his life working as a civil servant and wrote only in his spare time.

Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Carlos Gardel

Singer and actor who became the most famous figure in tango

Did you know? His birthplace is a subject of historical debate, with both France and Uruguay claimed as his country of origin.

Carlos Gardel (born Charles Romuald Gardès; 11 December 1890 – 24 June 1935) was a French-born Argentine singer, composer and actor, and the most prominent figure in the history of tango. He was one of the most influential interpreters of popular music in the first half of the 20th century.

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Max Born

German-British physicist who gave the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics and won the Nobel Prize

Did you know? He is the grandfather of the famous British-Australian singer and actress Olivia Newton-John.

Max Born (German:; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German–British theoretical physicist who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics, and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Annie Jump Cannon

American astronomer who developed the modern system for classifying stars

Did you know? She was nearly deaf for most of her career, yet manually classified hundreds of thousands of stars by observing their light spectra.

Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C.

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Robert Koch

German doctor who identified the bacteria causing tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine

Did you know? He began his groundbreaking medical research using a microscope given to him as a birthday present by his wife.

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( KOKH; German:; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis".

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