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Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

Georgian professional footballer who plays as a winger

Did you know? His impressive dribbling skills earned him the nickname Kvaradona from fans during his time playing in Italy for Napoli.

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Georgian: ხვიჩა კვარაცხელია; pronounced; born 12 February 2001) is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and captains the Georgia national team. He is regarded as one of the best players in the world.

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Nicolás Otamendi

Argentine footballer and World Cup winner who played for Manchester City

Did you know? He is known for his large collection of tattoos, which include portraits of characters from television shows like Breaking Bad and Peaky Blinders.

Nicolás Hernán Gonzalo Otamendi (born 12 February 1988) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for and captains Argentine Primera División club River Plate.

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Gihan Ibrahim

Gigi Ibrahim (also mentioned as Gihan Ibrahim, born December 2, 1986) is an Egyptian-American citizen journalist and activist. During the Egyptian revolution in 2011, she reported events about the protests and became a face of the events for much of the Western media.

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Christina Ricci

American actress known for her role in The Addams Family

Did you know? She made her film debut at the age of ten in Mermaids, playing the daughter of the singer Cher.

Christina Ricci ( REE-chee; born February 12, 1980) is an American actress. Known for playing unusual characters with a dark edge, Ricci works mostly in independent productions, but she has also appeared in numerous box-office hits.

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Juan Carlos Ferrero

Spanish tennis player and former world number one

Did you know? He currently works as the coach of tennis star Carlos Alcaraz, helping him reach the world number one ranking.

Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat (Spanish:; born 12 February 1980) is a Spanish sports coach and a former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No.

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Darren Aronofsky

Film director known for Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream

Did you know? He studied social anthropology and filmmaking at Harvard University before making his low-budget directorial debut with the film Pi.

Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American filmmaker. His films are noted for their surreal, dramatic, and often disturbing elements, frequently in the form of psychological realism.

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Josh Brolin

Actor known for The Goonies and playing Thanos in Marvel films

Did you know? Outside of acting, he found success as a professional stock market trader and even co-founded a financial news website.

Josh James Brolin (born February 12, 1968) is an American actor. A son of actor James Brolin, he gained fame in his youth for his role in the adventure film The Goonies (1985).

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David Graeber

American anthropologist and leading figure in the Occupy Wall Street movement

Did you know? He was the author of several influential books, including an exploration of the history of debt and its social impact.

David Rolfe Graeber (February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist social and political activist.

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Sakine Cansız

Sakine Cansız (Turkish pronunciation:; Kurdish: Sakîne Cansiz, IPA:; 1958 – 10 January 2013) was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A Kurdish activist and in the 1980s, she was arrested and tortured by Turkish police.

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Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale

Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (Punjabi:; born Jarnail Singh Brar; 2 June 1947– 6 June 1984) was a Sikh militant. After Operation Bluestar, he posthumously became the leading figure for the Khalistan movement, although he did not personally advocate for a separate Sikh nation.

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Ehud Barak

Former Prime Minister of Israel and highly decorated military general

Did you know? He is an accomplished classical pianist and once appeared on television to perform a piece by Chopin.

Ehud Barak (Hebrew: אֵהוּד בָּרָק; born Ehud Brog; 12 February 1942) is an Israeli former general and politician who served as the prime minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001. He was leader of the Labor Party between 1997 and 2001 and between 2007 and 2011.

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Ray Manzarek

Keyboardist and co-founder of the American rock band The Doors

Did you know? He initially met Jim Morrison on Venice Beach in California before the pair decided to form their legendary band.

Raymond Daniel Manzarek Jr. ( man-ZAYR-ik; né Manczarek; February 12, 1939 – May 20, 2013) was an American keyboardist, vocalist, and music producer.

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Bill Russell

Eleven-time NBA champion and legendary Boston Celtics centre

Did you know? He became the first Black head coach in the history of major American professional sports when he took over the Boston Celtics.

William Felton Russell (February 12, 1934 – July 31, 2022) was an American professional basketball player who played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1956 to 1969.

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Franco Zeffirelli

Italian director of stage and screen famous for Romeo and Juliet

Did you know? He served in the Italian Senate for two terms representing the city of Catania.

Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli (Italian pronunciation:; 12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019) was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician.

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Pran

Iconic Indian actor celebrated for playing legendary film villains

Did you know? He was so convincing in his antagonistic roles that the name Pran became notably unpopular for newborn children in India for many years.

Pran Krishan Sikand (pronounced; 12 February 1920 – 12 July 2013), better known mononymously as Pran, was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi cinema.

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Julian Seymour Schwinger

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who contributed to quantum field theory

Did you know? He was so academically gifted that he graduated from high school at fourteen and finished his PhD by age twenty-one.

Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist.

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Omar Bradley

Senior United States Army officer during World War II

Did you know? During World War II, he was known as the G.I.'s General because of his concern for the soldiers under his command.

Omar Nelson Bradley (12 February 1893 – 8 April 1981) was a senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II, rising to the rank of General of the Army. He was the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the U.S. military's policy-making in the Korean War.

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Julius Streicher

Founder of the anti-Semitic Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer

Did you know? He was one of the few people executed at the Nuremberg trials despite not having a direct role in the military or government.

Julius Sebastian Streicher (12 February 1885 – 16 October 1946) was a German publicist, politician, and convicted war criminal. A member of the Nazi Party, he served as the Gauleiter (regional leader) of Franconia and a member of the Reichstag, the national legislature.

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Max Beckmann

German Expressionist painter known for his powerful symbolic self-portraits

Did you know? After his art was labelled "degenerate" by the Nazis, he lived in exile in Amsterdam for ten years before moving to the United States.

Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement.

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Anna Pavlova

Russian prima ballerina and one of the world’s most celebrated dancers

Did you know? She was so popular during her global tours that a famous meringue and fruit dessert was created and named in her honour.

Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (born Anna Matveyevna Pavlova; 12 February 1881 – 23 January 1931) was a Russian prima ballerina.

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Thubten Gyatso

The 13th Dalai Lama who declared Tibetan independence from China

Did you know? He was the first Dalai Lama to travel to the West and oversaw the modernisation of Tibet's postal and currency systems.

The 13th Dalai Lama (born Thubten Gyatso; full spiritual name: Ngawang Lobsang Thupten Gyatso Jigdral Chokley Namgyal; Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: Thub Bstan Rgya Mtsho) (12 February 1876 – 17 December 1933) was the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet enthroned during a turbulent modern era.

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Lou Andreas-Salomé

Pioneering psychoanalyst known for her relationships with major European thinkers

Did you know? She was a close friend and muse to Friedrich Nietzsche and had a long-standing relationship with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

Lou Andreas-Salomé (born either Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé or Lioulia von Salomé, Russian: Луиза Густавовна Саломе; 12 February 1861 – 5 February 1937) was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and a well-traveled author, narrator, and essayist from a French Huguenot-German family.

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George Meredith

Victorian novelist and poet known for The Egoist

Did you know? He worked as a reader for a publishing house and notably rejected the first novel written by Thomas Hardy.

George Meredith (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a reputation as a novelist.

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Abraham Lincoln

16th US President who led the Union through the Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation and gave the Gettysburg Address

Did you know? He was a highly successful wrestler in his youth and was eventually inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

16th President of the United States who led the nation through the Civil War and abolished slavery.