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Michael Olise

Professional footballer who plays as a winger for Bayern Munich

Did you know? Despite being born in London, he chose to represent France at international level through his mother's heritage.

Michael Akpovie Olise (o-LEE-say; Urhobo:; French:; born 12 December 2001) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the France national team.

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Otto Warmbier

Otto Frederick Warmbier (December 12, 1994 – June 19, 2017) was an American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion. In June 2017, he was released by North Korea in a vegetative state, and died shortly thereafter.

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Victor Moses

Professional footballer who played for Chelsea and the Nigerian national team

Did you know? He lived in a foster home in London after arriving in the UK as an asylum seeker following the loss of his parents.

Victor Moses (born 12 December 1990) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Kazakhstan Premier League club Kaisar. He has also been deployed as a wing-back at times during his career.

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Seungri

Former youngest member of BIGBANG who retired in 2019 amid the Burning Sun scandal and was later convicted

Did you know? He was convicted on charges including procuring prostitution and illegal gambling.

Lee Seung-hyun (Korean: 이승현; born December 12, 1990), better known by the stage names Seungri (승리) and V.I, is a South Korean former singer-songwriter and was a member of the South Korean boy band BigBang formed by YG Entertainment.

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Daniel Agger

Danish footballer who played as a defender for Liverpool

Did you know? He is a qualified tattoo artist and famously had the initials of a Liverpool anthem tattooed on his knuckles.

Daniel Munthe Agger (Danish:; born 12 December 1984) is a Danish professional football coach and former player who is the assistant manager of the Danish national football team. As a player, he played as a centre-back for Brøndby and Liverpool and captained the Denmark national team.

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Mayim Bialik

Sitcom actress known for Blossom and The Big Bang Theory

Did you know? She is a real-life neuroscientist who earned a PhD from UCLA after taking a break from her acting career.

Mayim Chaya Bialik ( MY-im bee-AH-lik; born December 12, 1975) is an American actress and former game show host. From 1991 to 1995, she played the title character of the NBC sitcom Blossom.

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Aisha Yesufu

Aisha Somtochukwu Yesufu (born 12 December 1973), is a Nigerian political activist and businesswoman. She is the co-founder of #BringBackOurGirls movement, which brought attention to the abduction of over 200 girls from a secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria on the 14 April 2014, by the terrorist group Boko Haram.

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Jennifer Connelly

Academy Award-winning actress known for A Beautiful Mind

Did you know? She started her career as a child model and made her film debut in Sergio Leone's gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America.

Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American actress. She began her career as a child model before making her acting debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America.

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Rajinikanth

Iconic Indian superstar known for his roles in Tamil cinema

Did you know? Before finding fame as an actor, he worked as a bus conductor in Bangalore.

Shivaji Rao Gaikwad (born 12 December 1950), known professionally as Rajinikanth, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. In a career spanning over five decades, he has done 170 films that includes films in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Bangla, and Malayalam.

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Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa

President of Portugal known for his informal and accessible style

Did you know? He is often spotted by citizens while swimming at public beaches or doing his own shopping at local supermarkets.

Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa (born 12 December 1948) is a Portuguese politician and academic who served as the president of Portugal from 2016 to 2026. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, though he suspended his party membership for the duration of his presidency.

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Emerson Fittipaldi

Brazilian racing driver and double Formula One world champion

Did you know? He held the record for being the youngest driver to win a Formula One world title for more than thirty years.

Emerson Fittipaldi (Brazilian Portuguese:; born 12 December 1946) is a Brazilian former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1970 to 1980.

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Dionne Warwick

Legendary American singer of Walk On By and Heartbreaker

Did you know? She is the cousin of Whitney Houston and ranks among the most-charted female vocalists in the history of the US singles charts.

Marie Dionne Warwick ( dee-ON WOR-wik; née Warrick; born December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress, and television host.

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Connie Francis

American singer known for hits such as Who's Sorry Now?

Did you know? She recorded her hit songs in several different languages, including Japanese and Yiddish, to appeal to her global audience.

Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero ( FRANG-koh-NEER-oh; December 12, 1937 – July 16, 2025), known professionally as Connie Francis, was an American singer and actress.

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Chingiz Aĭtmatov

Renowned Kyrgyz author who wrote in both Kyrgyz and Russian

Did you know? He served as the Soviet ambassador to Luxembourg and later represented independent Kyrgyzstan in various European nations.

Chinghiz Torekulovich Aitmatov (12 December 1928 – 10 June 2008) was a Kyrgyz author who wrote mainly in Russian, but also in Kyrgyz. He is one of the best-known figures in Kyrgyz literature.

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Frank Sinatra

American singer and actor nicknamed Ol' Blue Eyes, famous for My Way, who won an Oscar for From Here to Eternity

Did you know? He was famously rejected from the US military during the Second World War because of a perforated eardrum sustained at birth.

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, conductor, and actor. Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the most influential entertainers of the 20th century.

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Yasujirō Ozu

Influential Japanese film director of Tokyo Story

Did you know? He was famous for his signature low-angle camera style, which was typically positioned just above the floor to mimic the view of someone sitting.

Yasujirō Ozu (小津 安二郎, Ozu Yasujirō; 12 December 1903 – 12 December 1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s.

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Edward G. Robinson

Hollywood actor famous for playing tough-talking gangster characters

Did you know? Despite his on-screen persona as a hard man, he was a cultured art collector and spoke seven different languages fluently.

Edward Goldenberg Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was an American actor who was popular during Hollywood's Golden Age.

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Gerd von Rundstedt

Senior German Field Marshal during the Second World War

Did you know? He came from an aristocratic Prussian family with a military tradition that stretched back several centuries.

Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt (12 December 1875 – 24 February 1953) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany and Oberbefehlshaber West (Commander-in-Chief in the West) during World War II.

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Alfred Werner

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who founded the study of coordination compounds

Did you know? He was the first Swiss scientist to receive a Nobel Prize for Chemistry, awarded for his research into molecular structures.

Alfred Werner (12 December 1866 – 15 November 1919) was a Swiss chemist who was a student at ETH Zurich and a professor at the University of Zurich. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes.

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Edvard Munch

Norwegian Expressionist painter of The Scream, whose haunting, emotional images explore anxiety, love and death

Did you know? He painted four different versions of his most famous masterpiece using various mediums including oil and pastels.

Edvard Munch ( MUUNK; Norwegian:; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of the iconic and acclaimed images in all of Western art.

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Lydia Koidula

Estonian poet and playwright during the national awakening

Did you know? Her face appeared on the one-hundred krooni banknote before Estonia transitioned to using the Euro.

Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen (24 December 1843 – 11 August 1886), known by her pen name and sobriquet Lydia Koidula (Lydia of the Dawn), was an Estonian poet. She is also frequently referred to as Koidulaulik ('Singer of the Dawn').

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Gustave Flaubert

French novelist whose Madame Bovary, tried for obscenity in 1857, set new standards for realism and precise style

Did you know? He was notoriously meticulous about his writing, often spending an entire week perfecting a single page of text.

Gustave Flaubert (UK: FLOH-bair, US: floh-BAIR; French:; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad.

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Karl Bryullov

Russian painter known for his large-scale Romantic historical works

Did you know? His masterpiece, The Last Day of Pompeii, was so highly regarded that it earned him international fame across Europe.

Karl Pavlovich Bryullov (né Brüllo; Russian: Карл Па́влович Брюлло́в; 23 December 1799 – 23 June 1852) was a Russian painter and draughtsman during the Romantic period, remembered among the greatest visual artists in the history of Russian art.

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Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma

Empress of the French and second wife of Napoleon

Did you know? She was the grand-niece of Marie Antoinette and reluctantly married the man who had defeated her father in battle.

Marie Louise (Maria Ludovica Leopoldina Franziska Theresia Josepha Lucia; 12 December 1791 – 17 December 1847) was Duchess of Parma from 11 April 1814 until her death in 1847.

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