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Sophia Kianni

Sophia Kianni is an Iranian American social entrepreneur. She is the founder of Phia, a shopping startup.

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Emma Corrin

English actor who played Princess Diana in the series The Crown

Did you know? They became the first non-binary star to appear on the cover of Vogue, advocating for better representation in the entertainment industry.

Emma Louise Corrin (born 13 December 1995) is an English actor who has worked on stage and screen.

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Taylor Swift

American singer-songwriter of story-driven hits who has won Album of the Year at the Grammys a record four times and led the record-breaking Eras Tour

Did you know? She grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania and learned to play the guitar from a computer repairman.

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. An influential figure in popular culture, Swift is known for her autobiographical songwriting and artistic reinventions.

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Kristen Dalton

Kristen Jeannine Dalton-Wolfe (born December 13, 1986) is an American actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA 2009 and represented the United States at the Miss Universe 2009 pageant.

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Santi Cazorla

Spanish international footballer who played for Arsenal and Villarreal

Did you know? He is naturally ambidextrous and is famous for being able to take set pieces with either foot.

Santiago Cazorla González (Spanish pronunciation:; born 13 December 1984) is a Spanish former professional footballer. Cazorla operated primarily as an attacking midfielder, but also played as a winger, central midfielder or as a deep-lying playmaker.

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Amy Lee

American singer, pianist and songwriter who co-founded Evanescence and fronted hits such as Bring Me to Life and My Immortal

Did you know? She is a classically trained pianist and has composed film scores for various independent movies.

Amy Lynn Lee (born December 13, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is the lead vocalist, keyboardist, lead songwriter, and co-founder of the rock band Evanescence.

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Carla Bruni

Singer-songwriter, former fashion model and First Lady of France

Did you know? She was one of the highest-paid models in the world during the 1990s before pursuing a career in music.

Carla Bruni-Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi; Italian pronunciation:; 23 December 1967) is an Italian and French singer, songwriter and fashion model who served as the first lady of France from 2008—when she married then president Nicolas Sarkozy—to 2012.

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Jamie Foxx

Academy Award-winning actor known for his portrayal of Ray Charles

Did you know? He chose a gender-neutral stage name because he noticed that female comedians were often called to perform earlier at comedy clubs.

Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, comedian, singer, and film producer. He gained his career breakthrough as a featured player in the sketch comedy show In Living Color from 1991 to 1994.

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Krišjānis Kariņš

Long-serving Prime Minister of Latvia and former Member of European Parliament

Did you know? Born and raised in Delaware, he was the first head of the Latvian government to hold dual citizenship with the United States.

Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš (Latvian:; born 13 December 1964) is a Latvian and American politician who served as the prime minister of Latvia from 2019 until 2023. A linguist and businessman by profession, he previously served as Latvia's minister of Economics and a Member of the European Parliament.

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Irene Sáez

Irene Lailin Sáez Conde (born 13 December 1961) is a Venezuelan politician and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1981. She has been a model, was the mayor of Chacao (a municipality of Caracas), governor of the state of Nueva Esparta and a presidential candidate in 1998.

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Steve Buscemi

Prolific American actor known for Fargo and Boardwalk Empire

Did you know? Before finding fame in Hollywood, he worked as a firefighter in New York and returned to help his old engine company after 9/11.

Steven Vincent Buscemi ( boo-SEH-mee, Italian:; born December 13, 1957) is an American actor. His accolades include two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and two Independent Spirit Awards.

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Ben Bernanke

American economist who served as Chair of the Federal Reserve

Did you know? He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2022 for his research on banks and financial crises.

Ben Shalom Bernanke ( bər-NANG-kee; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Federal Reserve, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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Aga Khan IV

Spiritual leader of the Nizari Ismaili Shia Muslims

Did you know? He was a talented alpine skier as a young man and represented Iran at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Prince Shah Karim al-Hussaini (13 December 1936 – 4 February 2025), known simply as Aga Khan IV, was the 49th Imam of Nizari Isma'ili Shia Islam from 1957 until his death in 2025.

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Christopher Plummer

Canadian actor famous for his role in The Sound of Music

Did you know? He initially disliked his role as Captain von Trapp so much that he referred to the famous film as 'The Sound of Mucus'.

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian actor. His career spanned seven decades, gaining him recognition for his performances in film, stage, and television.

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Dick Van Dyke

Award-winning actor and comedian known for Mary Poppins

Did you know? He famously received light-hearted criticism for his exaggerated Cockney accent in the 1964 musical film Mary Poppins.

Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, singer, dancer and writer. His work spans screen and stage, and his awards include six Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award.

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Philip W. Anderson

Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist who studied magnetic and disordered systems

Did you know? He was a certified master of the board game Go and credited the game with helping his scientific thinking.

Philip Warren Anderson (December 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020) was an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nevill Mott and John Van Vleck "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems." Anderson made contributions…

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George Shultz

US statesman who served as Secretary of State

Did you know? He is one of very few people to have held four different cabinet-level positions in the US government.

George Pratt Shultz ( SHUULTS; December 13, 1920 – February 6, 2021) was an American economist, businessman, diplomat, and statesman who served in various positions under presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.

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Trygve Haavelmo

Nobel Prize-winning economist and pioneer in the field of econometrics

Did you know? He initially studied law before switching to economics and conducted much of his groundbreaking research while living in the United States.

Trygve Magnus Haavelmo (13 December 1911 – 28 July 1999), born in Skedsmo, Norway, was an economist whose research interests centered on econometrics. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1989.

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Talcott Parsons

Influential American sociologist who developed the social action theory

Did you know? Before focusing on sociology, he studied biology and philosophy and later became a key figure in establishing the Department of Social Relations at Harvard.

Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Parsons is considered one of the most influential figures in sociology in the 20th century.

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George Pólya

Hungarian mathematician known for his work on problem-solving heuristics

Did you know? His book How to Solve It has sold millions of copies and remains a standard text for teaching mathematical logic.

George Pólya (Hungarian: Pólya György; December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985) was a Hungarian-American mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University.

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Mary Todd Lincoln

Wife of Abraham Lincoln and former First Lady of the United States

Did you know? She was from a wealthy slave-holding family in Kentucky, though several of her brothers fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Mary Ann Lincoln (née Todd; December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) was First Lady of the United States from 1861 until the assassination of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, in 1865.

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Werner von Siemens

German engineer who founded the international technology company Siemens

Did you know? He built the world's first electric passenger lift and designed one of the earliest electric railways.

Ernst Werner Siemens (von Siemens from 1888; SEEM-ənz; German:; 13 December 1816 – 6 December 1892) was a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist. Siemens's name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens.

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Heinrich Heine

German poet of the Book of Songs, whose lyrics were set by Schubert and Schumann, and a sharp political journalist in Paris exile

Did you know? His work was so popular in Germany that even the Nazis had to publish his poems as anonymous folk songs.

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic.

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Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner

German chemist who invented the first portable lighter

Did you know? He identified groups of three elements with similar properties, which was a significant step toward the creation of the modern periodic table.

Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (13 December 1780 – 24 March 1849) was a German chemist who is known best for work that was suggestive of the periodic law for the chemical elements, and for inventing the first lighter, which was known as the Döbereiner's lamp.

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