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Luka Jović

Serbian professional footballer who played as a striker for Real Madrid

Did you know? At the age of sixteen, he became the youngest goalscorer in the history of the Serbian club Red Star Belgrade.

Luka Jović (Serbian Cyrillic: Лука Јовић; born 23 December 1997) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Super League Greece club AEK Athens and the Serbia national team. He began his youth career at Red Star Belgrade before making his senior debut in May 2014.

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Taťána Kuchařová

Taťána Kuchařová, formerly Taťána Gregor Brzobohatá (Czech pronunciation:; born 23 December 1987) is a Czech model and beauty queen who won the title of Miss Czech Republic and Miss World 2006.

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Wael Ghonim

Wael Ghonim (Arabic: وائل غنيم; born 23 December 1980) is an Internet activist and computer engineer with an interest in social entrepreneurship.

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Nikolay Alexeyev

Nikolay Alexandrovich Alexeyev (also spelled as Alekseyev, Alekseev, or Alexeev (Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Алексе́ев) born 23 December 1977) is a Russian former LGBT rights activist, lawyer and journalist.

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Eddie Vedder

Lead singer and lyricist of the American rock band Pearl Jam

Did you know? He is a dedicated surfer and has often used his fame to support environmental causes related to ocean conservation.

Eddie Jerome Vedder (born Edward Louis Severson III, December 23, 1964) is an American musician who is the lead vocalist and primary lyricist for the rock band Pearl Jam. He was previously a guest vocalist for supergroup Temple of the Dog, a tribute band dedicated to singer Andrew Wood.

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Donna Tartt

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch and The Secret History

Did you know? She is known for her slow writing process, typically taking around ten years to complete each of her novels.

Donna Louise Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American novelist. She wrote the novels The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a 2019 film of the same name.

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Paula-Mae Weekes

First female President of Trinidad and Tobago

Did you know? She held a high-ranking judicial role in the Turks and Caicos Islands before taking office as president.

Paula-Mae Weekes (born 23 December 1958) is a Trinidadian politician and jurist who was the sixth president of Trinidad and Tobago from 2018 to 2023.

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Dave Murray

Guitarist for the influential heavy metal band Iron Maiden

Did you know? He is one of only two members to have appeared on every one of the band's studio albums.

David Michael Murray (born 23 December 1956) is an English guitarist, best known as a member of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. He joined Iron Maiden early in its history, and is the second-longest serving member of the band after founder Steve Harris.

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Vicente del Bosque

Football manager who won the World Cup and European Championship

Did you know? He is the only manager to have won the World Cup, the European Championship, and the Champions League.

Vicente del Bosque González, 1st Marquess of Del Bosque (Spanish pronunciation:; born 23 December 1950) is a Spanish former football manager and player.

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Adly Mansour

Former interim President of Egypt and senior judge

Did you know? He served as the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court both before and after his time as the nation's leader.

Adly Mahmoud Mansour (Arabic: عدلى محمود منصور, romanized: ʻAdlī Maḥmūd Manṣūr, pronounced; born 23 December 1945) is an Egyptian judge and politician who served as the president (or chief justice) of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt.

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Queen Silvia of Sweden

Long-serving Queen consort and wife of King Carl XVI Gustaf

Did you know? She met her future husband while working as a hostess and interpreter at the Summer Olympics in Munich.

Silvia (born Silvia Renate Sommerlath; 23 December 1943) is Queen of Sweden as the wife of King Carl XVI Gustaf. She has held this title since her marriage to Carl XVI Gustaf in 1976.

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Mamnoon Hussain

Industrialist who served as the twelfth President of Pakistan

Did you know? Born in Agra, his family relocated to Karachi following the partition of India and Pakistan in the late nineteen-forties.

Mamnoon Hussain (23 December 1940 – 14 July 2021) was a Pakistani politician, industrialist and statesman who served as the 12th president of Pakistan from 2013 to 2018.

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Akihito

Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019 who became the first Japanese monarch in two centuries to abdicate

Did you know? He is a published expert on fish biology and has written numerous scientific papers specifically on the classification of goby species.

Akihito (born 23 December 1933) is a member of the Imperial House of Japan who reigned as the 125th emperor of Japan from 7 January 1989 until his abdication on 30 April 2019. The era of his rule was named the Heisei era, Heisei being an expression of achieving peace worldwide.

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Chet Baker

Influential American jazz trumpeter and vocalist

Did you know? He lost several front teeth in a fight during the late sixties, which forced him to completely relearn his trumpet technique.

Chesney Henry Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist.

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Helmut Schmidt

Social Democrat chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 who steered it through oil shocks and terrorism

Did you know? He was an accomplished pianist who recorded several albums of classical concertos by composers such as Mozart and Bach.

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (German:; 23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.

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Dino Risi

Influential Italian director of the commedia all'italiana film genre

Did you know? Before finding success in the film industry, he originally studied and qualified as a psychiatrist.

Dino Risi (23 December 1916 – 7 June 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy, and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of commedia all'italiana.

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Niels Kaj Jerne

Nobel Prize-winning immunologist who proposed the network theory of immune systems

Did you know? His Nobel-winning research was influenced by his interest in linguistics, leading him to describe the immune system as a biological language.

Niels Kaj Jerne, FRS (23 December 1911 – 7 October 1994) was a Danish immunologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Georges J. F.

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Charan Singh

Former Prime Minister of India and champion of peasant rights

Did you know? He was the first Indian Prime Minister to leave office without ever facing a vote of confidence in Parliament.

Chaudhary Charan Singh (23 December 1902 – 29 May 1987) was an Indian politician, peasant leader, author and an independence activist who briefly served as the prime minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980.

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Italian author who wrote the famous historical novel The Leopard

Did you know? His masterpiece was published posthumously after being rejected by two major publishing houses during his lifetime.

Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE (23 December 1896 – 23 July 1957), known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Italian pronunciation:), was a Sicilian writer, as well as the last generation of Tomasi Princes of Lampedusa before the family's and their titles' extinction (although his uncle…

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Juan Ramón Jiménez

Nobel Prize-winning Spanish poet and author

Did you know? He was extremely sensitive to noise and had his study walls lined with cork to ensure he could write in total silence.

Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (Spanish pronunciation:; 23 December 1881 – 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistic purity".

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Madam C. J. Walker

Pioneer entrepreneur and America's first female self-made millionaire

Did you know? She built her business empire by developing and marketing a line of cosmetics and hair care products specifically for Black women.

Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919), Mrs. Charles Joseph Walker upon her third marriage, was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist.

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Samuel Smiles

Scottish author who wrote the influential self-help book Self-Help

Did you know? He originally trained as a doctor before finding fame as a writer and campaigner for social reform.

Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904) was a British author and government reformer. Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, he promoted the idea that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws.

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Joseph Smith

American religious leader who founded the Latter Day Saint movement and published the Book of Mormon in 1830

Did you know? He was running a campaign to become President of the United States at the time of his death in an Illinois jail.

Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious and political leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Influential nineteenth-century French literary critic and writer

Did you know? He pioneered a biographical approach to criticism, believing a writer's work could not be understood without knowing their personal life.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (French:; 23 December 1804 – 13 October 1869) was a French literary critic.

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