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Tamannaah Bhatia

Mumbai-born actress who became a star of Telugu and Tamil cinema and appeared in the epic Baahubali: The Beginning

Did you know? Her dance number Kaavaalaa from Jailer became a viral hit in 2023.

Tamanna Santosh Bhatia (born 21 December 1989), better known as Tamannaah Bhatia (pronounced ), is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films.

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Emmanuel Macron

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. He has been a member of Renaissance since founding the party in 2016.

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Charles Michel

Belgian politician and former President of the European Council

Did you know? When he became Prime Minister of Belgium at thirty-eight, he was the country's youngest leader in over a century.

Charles Michel (French:; born 21 December 1975) is a Belgian politician who served as the president of the European Council from 2019 to 2024. He previously served as the prime minister of Belgium between 2014 and 2019.

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Bart De Wever

Belgian politician and leader of the New Flemish Alliance

Did you know? He rose to national prominence in Belgium after demonstrating his vast general knowledge as a contestant on a popular television quiz show.

Bart Albert Liliane De Wever (Dutch:; born 21 December 1970), also known as BDW, is a Belgian politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Belgium since February 2025. From 2004 to 2025, De Wever had been the leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a political party advocating Flemish independence.

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Julie Delpy

French-American actress and filmmaker known for the Before film trilogy

Did you know? She made her film debut at the age of fourteen after being discovered by the influential French director Jean-Luc Godard.

Julie Delpy (French:; born 21 December 1969) is a French actress, screenwriter, film director, and musician.

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Mikheil Saakashvili

Pro-Western reformer who led Georgia's Rose Revolution and served as president before being jailed after his return

Did you know? He is one of the few people to have held high-ranking government positions in two different sovereign nations.

Mikheil Saakashvili (born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian-Ukrainian politician.

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Kiefer Sutherland

Actor best known for playing Jack Bauer in the series 24

Did you know? He is the grandson of Tommy Douglas, the Canadian politician credited with introducing the country's publicly funded healthcare system.

Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland (born 21 December 1966) is a British and Canadian actor.

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William Ruto

Kenyan politician serving as the fifth President of Kenya

Did you know? Before entering politics, he sold chickens on the roadside to help support his family.

William Kipchirchir Samoei Arap Ruto (born 21 December 1966) is a Kenyan politician who is the fifth and current president of Kenya since 13 September 2022. Prior to becoming president, he served as the first elected deputy president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022.

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Andy Dick

American comedian and actor known for NewsRadio

Did you know? He provided the voice for the villainous character Nuka in the Disney animated sequel The Lion King II: Simba's Pride.

Andrew Roane Dick (born Andrew Thomlinson, December 21, 1965) is an American actor and comedian. Dick was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and joined The Second City and studied improvisational theater.

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Florence Griffith Joyner

American track and field athlete who set multiple sprinting world records

Did you know? Known for her unique personal style, she often competed in one-legged bodysuits and wore extremely long, decorated fingernails while racing.

Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner (née Griffith; December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete who set world records in the 100m and 200m in 1988.

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Chris Evert

Record-breaking tennis player who won eighteen Grand Slam singles titles

Did you know? She was the first female athlete to earn over one million dollars in prize money during her professional career.

Christine Marie Evert (born December 21, 1954) is an American former professional tennis player. One of the most successful players of all time, she was ranked as the world No.

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Thomas Sankara

Revolutionary leader and first president of Burkina Faso

Did you know? An accomplished guitarist, he composed the national anthem for his country and famously sold off the government's fleet of luxury cars.

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabé military officer, politician, Marxist and pan-Africanist revolutionary who served as the first president of Burkina Faso from 1983 until his assassination in 1987.

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Samuel L. Jackson

Highly prolific American actor known for Pulp Fiction and Marvel films

Did you know? He overcame a severe childhood stutter by using a particular swear word that later became his cinematic trademark.

Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and film producer. He is one of the most widely recognized actors of his generation.

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Paco de Lucía

Influential Spanish flamenco guitarist and composer

Did you know? Despite being a world-renowned virtuoso, he famously could not read a single note of sheet music for most of his professional career.

Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gómez (Spanish:; 21 December 1947 – 25 February 2014), known as Paco de Lucía (Spanish:), was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer, and record producer. A leading proponent of the new flamenco style, he was one of the first flamenco guitarists to branch into classical and jazz.

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Hu Jintao

Chinese Communist Party leader and President of China from 2002 to 2012, a decade of rapid growth and the Beijing Olympics

Did you know? During his time as a student, he was an enthusiastic ballroom dancer and often performed in university shows.

Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a retired Chinese politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, president of China from 2003 to 2013, chairman of the Party Central Military Commission (CMC) from 2004 to 2012 and chairman of the State Central Military…

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Frank Zappa

American composer and guitarist who led the Mothers of Invention and released more than 60 albums of satirical, experimental music

Did you know? He was a vocal opponent of music censorship and testified before the US Senate against record labelling.

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, songwriter, guitarist, conductor, actor, satirist, filmmaker, and activist.

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Jane Fonda

American actress who won Oscars for Klute and Coming Home, launched a fitness video empire and campaigned on climate

Did you know? Her successful series of home workout videos became some of the most popular and best-selling VHS tapes ever released.

Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress and activist. Fonda's work spans several genres and over seven decades of film and television.

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Kurt Waldheim

Former UN Secretary-General and President of Austria

Did you know? His political career was overshadowed by a major international scandal regarding his hidden past in the German military during wartime.

Kurt Josef Waldheim (Austrian German:; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the secretary-general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and the president of Austria from 1986 to 1992.

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Heinrich Böll

German novelist of Billiards at Half-Past Nine and The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, a Nobel laureate and moral voice

Did you know? He refused to join the Hitler Youth as a teenager and was later drafted into the German army during the war.

Heinrich Theodor Böll (German:; 21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post–World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972).

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Dziga Vertov

Documentary filmmaker who directed Man with a Movie Camera

Did you know? His pseudonym is a Ukrainian phrase that translates roughly as "spinning top," reflecting his dynamic approach to cinema.

Denis Arkadyevich Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman; 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954), better known as Dziga Vertov, was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.

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Rebecca West

British author and journalist who wrote Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Did you know? She had a high-profile, ten-year romantic relationship with fellow writer H.G. Wells, with whom she had a son.

Dame Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer.

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Hermann Joseph Muller

American geneticist who won a Nobel Prize for studying radiation mutations

Did you know? He raised early public awareness about the long-term health risks of medical X-rays and nuclear fallout.

Hermann Joseph Muller (December 21, 1890 – April 5, 1967) was an American geneticist who was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation".

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Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

Russian composer and leader of the nationalist group The Five

Did you know? He was largely self-taught and helped mentor famous composers like Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov without ever receiving a formal conservatoire education.

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (UK: bə-LA(H)K-i-rev, US: BAH-lah-KEER-ef; Russian: Милий Алексеевич Балакирев, pronounced; 2 January 1837 – 29 May 1910) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian composers,…

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Benjamin Disraeli

Novelist turned Conservative prime minister who made Queen Victoria Empress of India and bought Britain's stake in the Suez Canal

Did you know? Aside from his long political career, he was a prolific novelist who continued to publish books even while serving in high office.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (born Benjamin D'Israeli; 21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881), was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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