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Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange

Princess and heir apparent to the Dutch throne

Did you know? On reaching adulthood, she wrote to the Dutch Prime Minister to waive her right to an annual income until she began full-time royal duties.

Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange (Dutch pronunciation:; Catharina-Amalia Beatrix Carmen Victoria; born 7 December 2003) is the heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the constituent countries of Aruba, Curaçao, the Netherlands, and Sint Maarten.

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Amina Tyler

Amina Tyler (Arabic: أمينة تايلر; born 7 December 1994 as Amina Sboui, أمينة السبوعي) is a Tunisian student, women's rights activist, anarchist and a former member of the feminist group Femen.

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Nicholas Hoult

British actor known for About a Boy and the X-Men films

Did you know? As a child, he was hit by a bus during a filming break and remarkably walked away with only minor bruising.

Nicholas Caradoc Hoult (born 7 December 1989) is an English actor. His filmography includes work in big-budget mainstream productions and starring roles in independent projects in American and British films.

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Kelly Piquet

Kelly Tamsma Piquet Souto Maior (born 7 December 1988) is a Brazilian and Dutch model, columnist, blogger, and public relations professional.

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Aaron Carter

Florida-born pop singer and younger brother of Nick Carter whose album Aaron's Party made him a teen idol

Did you know? He was the younger brother of Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter.

Aaron Charles Carter (December 7, 1987 – November 5, 2022) was an American singer and rapper. He rose to fame as a teen pop singer in the late 1990s and established himself as a star among preteen and teenage audiences during the early 2000s.

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Jakov Milatović

Montenegrin politician serving as the President of Montenegro

Did you know? He completed part of his higher education in the United Kingdom at the University of Oxford.

Jakov Milatović (Cyrillic: Јаков Милатовић, pronounced; born 7 December 1986) is a Montenegrin politician and economist who is the incumbent president of Montenegro, serving since May 2023.

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John Terry

Former Chelsea and England captain who played as a defender

Did you know? He is Chelsea's most successful captain, leading the club to five Premier League titles and a Champions League trophy.

John George Terry (born 7 December 1980) is an English professional football coach and former player who played as a centre-back. He was previously captain of Chelsea, the England national team and Aston Villa.

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Robert Abela

Maltese politician and current Prime Minister of Malta

Did you know? Before entering the world of politics, he was a competitive bodybuilder and took part in several national championships during his youth.

Robert Abela (born 7 December 1977) is a Maltese lawyer and politician who has served as prime minister of Malta and leader of the Malta Labour Party since 2020, following the resignation of Joseph Muscat on 13 January that year. The son of former president George Abela, he was elected to Parliament in 2017.

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Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca

Former President of Malta and social activist

Did you know? She was the youngest person ever to be elected to the office of President in her country's history.

Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, (born 7 December 1958) is a Maltese politician who was president of Malta from 2014 to 2019. She has been president of Eurochild since 2019.

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Larry Bird

Legendary NBA basketball player for the Boston Celtics

Did you know? He was a highly talented baseball player during his youth and was reportedly scouted by several professional teams while in high school.

Larry Joe Bird (born December 7, 1956) is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and executive in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Hick from French Lick" and "Larry Legend", Bird is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

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Iveta Radičová

First female Prime Minister of Slovakia

Did you know? Before entering politics, she was a respected sociology professor and a television talk show host.

Iveta Radičová (née Karafiátová; born 7 December 1956) is a Slovak sociologist and former politician who served as prime minister of Slovakia from 2010 to 2012. The first woman to hold the position, Radičová led a coalition government as a member of the SDKÚ-DS.

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Tom Waits

American singer-songwriter known for his gravelly voice and experimental style

Did you know? He spent part of his early career working as a doorman at a folk music club in Los Angeles.

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, composer and actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underbelly and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice.

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Ellen Burstyn

Oscar-winning actress known for The Exorcist and Requiem for a Dream

Did you know? She became the first woman to win a Tony and an Oscar in the same year for different performances.

Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly; December 7, 1932) is an American actress. Known for her portrayals of complex women in dramas, she is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Noam Chomsky

American linguist who revolutionised the study of language with his theory of universal grammar and became a leading political critic

Did you know? He has been a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over sixty years.

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.

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Mário Soares

Former President and Prime Minister known as the father of Portuguese democracy

Did you know? He spent several years in exile and was arrested numerous times for his opposition to the authoritarian Estado Novo regime.

Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares (European Portuguese:; 7 December 1924 – 7 January 2017) was a Portuguese statesman who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985 and subsequently as the president of Portugal from 1986 to 1996.

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Eli Wallach

Prolific character actor known for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Did you know? He served as a medical administrative officer in the US Army during the Second World War before finding success on Broadway.

Eli Herschel Wallach ( EE-ly WOL-ək; December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television, and stage actor from New York City. Known for his character actor roles, his entertainment career spanned over six decades.

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Gerard Kuiper

Dutch-American astronomer who discovered the Kuiper belt

Did you know? He predicted the existence of a ring of icy objects beyond Neptune before it was confirmed by observation decades later.

Gerard Peter Kuiper ( KY-pər; born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper, Dutch:; 7 December 1905 – 23 December 1973) was a Dutch astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. The Kuiper belt is named after him.

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Gabriel Marcel

French philosopher and playwright who founded Christian existentialism

Did you know? He was a talented musician and critic who used drama to explore the spiritual challenges of the modern age.

Gabriel Honoré Marcel (7 December 1889 – 8 October 1973) was a French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist. The author of over a dozen books and at least thirty plays, Marcel's work focused on the modern individual's struggle in a technologically dehumanizing society.

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Akiko Yosano

Influential Japanese feminist poet and author of Tangled Hair

Did you know? She was a prolific writer who gave birth to thirteen children while campaigning for women's rights and social reforms in Japan.

Yosano Shō (与謝野 志やう; née Hō (鳳); 7 December 1878 – 29 May 1942), known by her pen name Yosano Akiko (Shinjitai: 与謝野 晶子, Kyūjitai: 與謝野 晶子, Japanese pronunciation:), was a Japanese author, poet, feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji era as well as the Taishō and early Shōwa eras of Japan.

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Willa Cather

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist known for My Ántonia

Did you know? For much of her early career, she worked as a journalist and editor for a prominent magazine in New York City.

Willa Sibert Cather (born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.

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Johan Huizinga

Dutch historian who helped establish the field of cultural history

Did you know? His most famous work, Homo Ludens, explored the theory that play is a primary condition of the generation of human culture.

Johan Huizinga (Dutch:; 7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.

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Pietro Mascagni

Italian composer known for the opera Cavalleria rusticana

Did you know? He conducted the premiere of his most famous work himself and became an international sensation almost overnight.

Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music.

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Leopold Kronecker

Prussian mathematician known for his work in number theory and algebra

Did you know? He believed that only integers were created by God, and that all other numbers were the work of mankind.

Leopold Kronecker (German:; 7 December 1823 – 29 December 1891) was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, abstract algebra and logic, and criticized Georg Cantor's work on set theory.

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Theodor Schwann

German physiologist who extended cell theory to animals

Did you know? He discovered pepsin, which was the first animal enzyme to be isolated and identified from living tissue.

Theodor Schwann (German pronunciation:; 7 December 1810 – 11 January 1882) was a German medical doctor and physiologist. His most significant contribution to biology is considered to be the extension of cell theory to animals.

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