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Marco Mengoni

Italian pop singer and winner of the talent show X Factor

Did you know? He has represented Italy twice at the Eurovision Song Contest, achieving a top-ten finish on both occasions.

Marco Mengoni (Italian:; born 25 December 1988) is an Italian singer-songwriter who rose to fame in 2009 after winning the third season of the Italian talent show X Factor.

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Yulia Svyrydenko

Ukrainian politician serving as First Deputy Prime Minister

Did you know? Before entering politics, she worked in the private sector and specialised in the economic development of regional areas.

Yulia Anatoliivna Svyrydenko (born 25 December 1985) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the 19th prime minister of Ukraine from 2025 to 2026.

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Nadiya Hussain

Nadiya Jamir Hussain (née Begum; born 25 December 1984) is a British television chef, author and television personality. She rose to fame after winning the sixth series of BBC's The Great British Bake Off in 2015.

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Armin van Buuren

Influential trance DJ and host of A State of Trance

Did you know? Despite his global success in electronic music, he is a qualified lawyer who completed his degree during his music career.

Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren OON (born 25 December 1976) is a Dutch DJ, musician and record producer. Since 2001, he has hosted A State of Trance (ASOT), a weekly radio show, which is broadcast to nearly 40 million listeners in 84 countries on over 100 FM radio stations.

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Justin Trudeau

Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025, son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau

Did you know? Before entering politics, he worked as a high school teacher in Vancouver.

Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025. He led the Liberal Party from 2013 until his resignation in 2025 and was the member of Parliament (MP) for Papineau from 2008 until 2025.

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Dido

British singer-songwriter known for the albums No Angel and Life for Rent

Did you know? Her career reached global heights after Eminem sampled her song Thank You for his hit single Stan.

Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong (born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong, 25 December 1971), known mononymously as Dido ( DY-doh), is an English singer and songwriter.

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Ingrid Betancourt

Colombian politician held hostage in the jungle for six years

Did you know? She was rescued by Colombian special forces in a daring operation that involved agents posing as aid workers and journalists.

Íngrid Betancourt Pulecio (Spanish pronunciation:; born 25 December 1961) is a Colombian-French politician, former senator, and anti-corruption activist.

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Annie Lennox

Scottish singer who achieved global fame as part of the Eurythmics

Did you know? She holds the record for the most Brit Awards won by a female artist, having received the honour eight times.

Ann Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics.

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Nawaz Sharif

Politician who served three non-consecutive terms as Prime Minister of Pakistan

Did you know? Outside of his political career, he is a passionate cricket fan and once played a first-class match for the Pakistan Railways team.

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who thrice served as the prime minister of Pakistan, from 1990 to 1993, from 1997 to 1999 and later from 2013 to 2017.

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Sissy Spacek

Oscar-winning actress known for her role in the horror film Carrie

Did you know? Before her acting career began, she attempted a career as a singer and recorded a novelty single under the name Rainy Day.

Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer.

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Jairzinho

Brazilian footballer who won the 1970 World Cup

Did you know? He remains the only player to have scored in every single match of a winning World Cup finals tournament.

Jair Ventura Filho (born 25 December 1944), better known as Jairzinho (Portuguese pronunciation:), is a Brazilian former professional footballer.

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Hanna Schygulla

German actress known for her work in the New German Cinema

Did you know? She collaborated on over twenty different projects with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, becoming his most prominent cinematic muse.

Hanna Schygulla (German:; born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer best known for her work with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She first worked with Fassbinder in 1965 and became an active participant in the New German Cinema.

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Ram Narayan

Virtuoso musician who made the sarangi a solo Hindustani concert instrument

Did you know? He started his career as an accompanist for singers before fighting to establish the sarangi as a respected solo instrument in its own right.

Ram Narayan (IPA:; 25 December 1927 – 9 November 2024), often referred to with the title Pandit, was an Indian musician who popularised the bowed instrument sarangi as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music and became the first internationally successful sarangi player.

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Carlos Castañeda

Author known for books on shamanism and indigenous Mexican culture

Did you know? Despite his fame, he lived a private life and rarely allowed himself to be photographed or recorded.

Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925– April 27, 1998) was a Peruvian-American writer, trained as an anthropologist. Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe alleged training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named Don Juan Matus.

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Anwar Sadat

Egyptian president who launched the 1973 war, then made peace with Israel at Camp David, won the Nobel Peace Prize and was assassinated

Did you know? He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Menachem Begin in 1978 for their roles in the historic Camp David Accords.

Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who was the third president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.

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Ahmad ibn Billah

First president of independent Algeria and a key revolutionary leader

Did you know? In his youth, he was a talented footballer who made an appearance for the professional French club Olympique de Marseille.

Ahmed Ben Bella (Arabic: أحمد بن بلّة, romanized: Aḥmad bin Billah; 1916 – 11 April 2012) was an Algerian politician, soldier and revolutionary who served as the head of government of Algeria from 27 September 1962 to 15 September 1963 and then the first president of Algeria from 15 September 1963 until his overthrow…

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Louise Bourgeois

French-American artist and sculptor famous for her giant spider installations

Did you know? She worked in relative obscurity for decades before receiving major critical recognition in her seventies with a retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French:; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker.

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Ernst Ruska

German physicist who designed the first electron microscope

Did you know? Although he invented the device in the early thirties, he did not receive his Nobel Prize for it until over fifty years later.

Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (German pronunciation:; 25 December 1906 – 27 May 1988) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.

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Gerhard Herzberg

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and chemist who pioneered molecular spectroscopy

Did you know? After fleeing Nazi Germany, he settled in Canada where he became one of the country's most respected and influential scientists.

Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, (German:; December 25, 1904 – March 3, 1999) was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free…

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Humphrey Bogart

American actor of Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep who won an Oscar for The African Queen

Did you know? He was a gifted chess player who used to play for money in New York parks before finding fame as an actor.

Humphrey DeForest Bogart ( BOH-gart; December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor. Often known for his leading roles as both gangsters and detectives in film noirs, his performances in classic Hollywood cinema made him an American cultural icon.

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Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Lawyer and leader of the All-India Muslim League who founded Pakistan in 1947 and served as its first Governor-General

Did you know? He initially trained as a barrister in London and was once the youngest Indian to be called to the bar.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai; 25 December 1876 – 11 September 1948) was a barrister, statesman, and the founder of Pakistan.

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Adolf Windaus

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who researched sterols and their link to vitamins

Did you know? His discovery of the chemical structure of vitamin D was crucial in developing a cure for the bone disease rickets.

Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (German pronunciation:; 25 December 1876 – 9 June 1959) was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939.

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Alexander Scriabin

Russian composer and pianist known for his innovative harmonic style

Did you know? He experienced a form of synesthesia that led him to associate specific musical notes and keys with distinct colours.

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (6 January 1872 – 27 April 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist. Initially influenced by Frédéric Chopin, he composed in a relatively tonal, late-Romantic idiom.

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Pius VI

Pope who reigned during the French Revolution and died in captivity

Did you know? He was the longest-serving pope of the eighteenth century and oversaw the drainage of the Pontine Marshes.

Pope Pius VI (Italian: Pio VI; born Count Angelo Onofrio Melchiorre Natale Giovanni Antonio called Giovanni Angelo or Giannangelo Braschi, 25 December 1717 – 29 August 1799) was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 15 February 1775 to his death in August 1799.

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