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Shin Yu-na

South Korean singer and dancer in the girl group Itzy

Did you know? She is the youngest member of Itzy.

Shin Yu-na (Korean: 신유나; born December 9, 2003), known mononymously as Yuna, is a South Korean singer, dancer, rapper, and actress. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Itzy, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2019.

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Hikaru Nakamura

American chess grandmaster and five-time United States champion

Did you know? He became the youngest American to earn the title of Grandmaster, breaking a record previously held by Bobby Fischer.

Christopher Hikaru Nakamura (Japanese: 中村光; born December 9, 1987) is an American chess grandmaster, internet personality, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the 2022 World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he earned his grandmaster title at the age of 15, the youngest American at the time to do so.

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Simon Helberg

Actor best known for playing Howard Wolowitz in The Big Bang Theory

Did you know? He is an accomplished pianist in real life and performed all his own piano playing in the film Florence Foster Jenkins.

Simon Maxwell Helberg (born December 9, 1980) is an American actor and comedian. He is widely known for playing Howard Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019) and won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for the role.

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Srirasmi Suwadee

Srirasmi Suwadee (Thai: ศรีรัศมิ์ สุวะดี; RTGS: Sirat Suwadi; born 9 December 1971), formerly Princess Srirasmi, Royal Consort to the Crown Prince of Thailand, is a former member of the royal family of Thailand.

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Bixente Lizarazu

Former French footballer who won the 1998 World Cup

Did you know? Since retiring from football, he has become a champion in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, winning a European title in his age category.

Bixente Jean Michel Lizarazu (Basque pronunciation:, born 9 December 1969) is a French former professional footballer who played as a left-back. Known for his pace, elite athleticism with sharp defensive intelligence; he is widely regarded as one of the greatest full-backs in the history of the sport.

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Empress Masako

Empress of Japan and wife of Emperor Naruhito

Did you know? Before marrying into the imperial family, she was a high-flying diplomat who spoke several languages fluently.

Masako (Japanese: 雅子; born Masako Owada (小和田雅子, Owada Masako); 9 December 1963) is Empress of Japan as the wife of Emperor Naruhito. Born in Minato, Tokyo, Masako was educated at Belmont High School in Massachusetts, United States, before attending Harvard College.

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Bárbara Palacios Teyde

Bárbara Palacios Teyde de Manrique (born 9 December 1963) is a Spanish-Venezuelan television host, writer and beauty queen. She is the winner of Miss Universe 1986.

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Felicity Huffman

Emmy-winning actress known for the television series Desperate Housewives

Did you know? She is one of the few performers to have won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award in the same year.

Felicity Kendall Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Lynette Scavo in the ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives and her role as Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne, a transgender woman, in the film Transamerica (2005).

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Jean-Claude Juncker

Long-serving prime minister of Luxembourg and former European Commission president

Did you know? He is one of the longest-serving democratically elected leaders in the world, having held high political office for over thirty years.

Jean-Claude Juncker (born 9 December 1954) is a Luxembourgish politician who was prime minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013 and president of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019. He was also Luxembourg's Finance Minister from 1989 to 2009 and President of the Eurogroup from 2005 to 2013.

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John Malkovich

Multi-award-winning actor known for Dangerous Liaisons and Being John Malkovich

Did you know? He is a dedicated fashion designer and launched his own menswear line called Technobohemian in 2011.

John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor.

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Sonia Gandhi

Long-serving President of the Indian National Congress party

Did you know? Born in Italy, she declined the office of Prime Minister of India in 2004 despite her political party winning the general election.

Sonia Gandhi (Hindi:, Italian:; née Maino; born 9 December 1946) is an Italian-born Indian politician. She is the longest-serving president of the Indian National Congress, a big-tent liberal political party, which has governed India for most of its post-independence history.

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Christine Delphy

Christine Delphy (born 1941) is a French feminist sociologist, writer and theorist.

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Judi Dench

Renowned British actress of stage and screen known for playing M

Did you know? She has won numerous awards including an Oscar for a performance that lasted only eight minutes on screen.

Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress. Widely considered one of Britain's greatest actresses, she is noted for her versatile roles on stage and screen.

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Bob Hawke

Long-serving Prime Minister of Australia who led four election wins

Did you know? He was once a record holder for drinking a yard of ale while studying at Oxford University.

Robert James Lee Hawke (9 December 1929 – 16 May 2019) was the 23rd prime minister of Australia, serving from 1983 to 1991.

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John Cassavetes

American actor and director considered a pioneer of independent cinema

Did you know? To fund his own directorial projects, he often took acting roles in big-budget Hollywood films like The Dirty Dozen.

John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was a Greek-American filmmaker and actor. He began as an actor in film and television before helping to pioneer modern American independent cinema as a writer and director, often self-financing, producing, and distributing his own films.

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Henry Way Kendall

American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering quarks

Did you know? He was an avid mountain climber and tragically died during a diving accident while exploring an underwater cave in Florida.

Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E.

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Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Italian statesman who served as President and Prime Minister

Did you know? Before entering politics, he spent several decades working at the Bank of Italy, eventually rising to become its governor.

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (Italian:; 9 December 1920 – 16 September 2016) was an Italian politician, statesman and banker who was the president of Italy from 1999 to 2006 and prime minister of Italy from 1993 to 1994.

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William Lipscomb

Nobel Prize-winning chemist known for his work on boron compounds

Did you know? Outside of his scientific research, he was an accomplished clarinettist who performed with several orchestras and chamber music groups.

William Nunn Lipscomb Jr. (December 9, 1919 – April 14, 2011) was a Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry.

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James Rainwater

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who investigated the structure of atomic nuclei

Did you know? During the Second World War, he worked on the Manhattan Project, focusing on the development of the first atomic weapons.

Leo James Rainwater (December 9, 1917 – May 31, 1986) was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei. During World War II, he worked on the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bombs.

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Kirk Douglas

Hollywood legend known for his starring role in Spartacus

Did you know? He helped end the Hollywood blacklist by insisting that the formerly banned writer Dalton Trumbo received full screen credit.

Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck.

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Broderick Crawford

Academy Award-winning actor known for All the King's Men

Did you know? Before his acting career took off, he spent several years working as a stevedore on the docks of New York City.

William Broderick Crawford (December 9, 1911 – April 26, 1986) was an American actor.

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Grace Hopper

Computer science pioneer and high-ranking United States Navy officer

Did you know? She is often credited with popularising the term debugging after a moth was found stuck inside an early computer.

Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming.

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Dolores Ibárruri

Spanish Republican politician famous for the slogan They Shall Not Pass

Did you know? She earned her famous nickname Pasionaria while writing for a miners' newspaper under a pseudonym in the early twentieth century.

Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (Spanish:; 9 December 1895 – 12 November 1989), also known as Pasionaria ("the passionate one" or Passion flower"), was a Spanish Republican politician during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and a communist. She is renowned for her slogan ¡No Pasarán!

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Fritz Haber

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who developed a method for synthesising ammonia

Did you know? His work on fertilisers helped feed billions, yet he is also known as the father of chemical warfare for his wartime inventions.

Fritz Jakob Haber (German:; 9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.

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