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Ed Sheeran

English singer-songwriter known for global hits like Shape of You

Did you know? Before finding fame, he worked as a guitar technician for the band Nizlopi and was once an extra in a TV drama.

Edward Christopher Sheeran ( SHEER-ən; born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk, he began writing songs around the age of eleven.

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Bonnie Wright

English actress best known for playing Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter

Did you know? Beyond her acting career, she is an ambassador for Greenpeace and has directed several short films and music videos.

Bonnie Francesca Wright (born 17 February 1991) is an English actress, filmmaker, and environmental activist. She is best known for her role as Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter film series.

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Adriano

Powerful Brazilian striker nicknamed The Emperor who played for Inter Milan

Did you know? He won the Golden Boot and the Golden Ball awards at the 2005 Confederations Cup after helping Brazil win the tournament.

Adriano Leite Ribeiro (born 17 February 1982) is a Brazilian former professional footballer. He had four prolific seasons in Italy with Italian clubs Parma and Inter Milan, being considered one of the best strikers in the world during this time and earning the nickname of L'Imperatore ("the Emperor").

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Paris Hilton

American hotel heiress and star of The Simple Life who turned celebrity into a business and campaigns against abusive youth facilities

Did you know? She is a great-granddaughter of the founder of the Hilton hotel chain and was once a childhood friend of Kim Kardashian.

Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American socialite, media personality, entertainer, and businesswoman. Born in New York City, she is a great-granddaughter of Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Actor and filmmaker known for Inception and 500 Days of Summer

Did you know? He founded the online collaborative media platform HitRecord, which allows creators to share and develop creative projects together.

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received various accolades, including nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his leading performances in 500 Days of Summer (2009) and 50/50 (2011).

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Billie Joe Armstrong

Lead singer and primary songwriter for the rock band Green Day

Did you know? He wrote his first song when he was only five years old and recorded it for a local label.

Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is an American musician, songwriter and actor. He is best known for being the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt in 1987.

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Denise Richards

American actress known for Starship Troopers and The World Is Not Enough

Did you know? Before finding fame in Hollywood, she worked as a model and once appeared in a music video for the rock band Poison.

Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress, model and television personality. She rose to prominence with roles in the science fiction film Starship Troopers (1997), the erotic thriller film Wild Things (1998) and the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999).

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Wu'erkaixi

Örkesh Dölet (Uyghur: ئۆركەش دۆلەت; Chinese: 吾尔开希·多莱特, born 17 February 1968), commonly known by his pinyin name Wu'er Kaixi, is a Uyghur political commentator known for his leading role during the Tiananmen protests of 1989.

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Michael Bay

American director known for big-budget action films and the Transformers series

Did you know? He began his career directing music videos for famous artists including Meat Loaf and Tina Turner.

Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions.

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Michael Jordan

American basketball player who won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls and is widely seen as the greatest ever

Did you know? He briefly retired from professional basketball in the mid-1990s to pursue a career in minor league baseball.

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials MJ, is an American businessman, former professional basketball player, and former baseball player. He played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) between 1984 and 2003, winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.

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Larry the Cable Guy

American stand-up comedian and voice of Mater in Cars

Did you know? Despite his thick Southern accent on stage, he was actually born and raised in Nebraska.

Daniel Lawrence Whitney (born February 17, 1963), known professionally as Larry the Cable Guy, is an American stand-up comedian, actor and former radio personality.

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Mo Yan

Chinese novelist of Red Sorghum and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? His pen name translates to 'don't speak', a nickname he adopted as a reminder to avoid causing trouble in his home country.

Mo Yan (born Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè; born 5 March 1955), is a Chinese writer.

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Rene Russo

American actress and former high-fashion model

Did you know? She was discovered by a talent scout at a Rolling Stones concert when she was only eighteen years old.

Rene Marie Russo (born February 17, 1954) is an American actress and model. She began her career as a fashion model in the 1970s, appearing on magazine covers such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan.

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Huey P. Newton

Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African American revolutionary and political activist who co-founded the Marxist–Leninist political and militant organization the Black Panther Party with fellow activist Bobby Seale in 1966.

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Hal Holbrook

Actor famous for his long-running stage portrayal of Mark Twain

Did you know? At the time of his nomination for the film Into the Wild, he was the oldest man ever nominated for an Academy Award.

Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021) was an American actor.

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Hans Morgenthau

Influential political scientist and theorist of international relations

Did you know? After fleeing Nazi Germany, he moved to the United States where his work became a cornerstone for the realist school of political thought.

Hans Joachim Morgenthau (February 17, 1904 – July 19, 1980) was a German-American jurist and political scientist who was one of the major 20th-century figures in the study of international relations.

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Sadegh Hedayat

Iranian writer and translator who wrote the novel The Blind Owl

Did you know? He was a leading figure in Persian modernist literature and spent much of his life living and working in Paris.

Sadegh Hedayat (Persian: صادق هدایت, Persian pronunciation:; 17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951) was an Iranian writer, translator, satirist, and poet. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career.

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Ronald Fisher

British scientist who founded modern statistical science and population genetics

Did you know? He was a lifelong advocate of eugenics and held controversial views regarding race and human intelligence throughout his career.

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an English polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic.

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Otto Stern

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who developed the molecular beam method

Did you know? He was forced to leave Germany in the 1930s due to his Jewish heritage, eventually settling in the United States to continue his research.

Otto Stern (German:; 17 February 1888 – 17 August 1969) was a German–American experimental physicist. He is the second most nominated person for a Nobel Prize, with 82 nominations during the years 1925–1945.

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Álvaro Obregón

General and president who led Mexico after the Mexican Revolution

Did you know? He famously joked about losing his right arm in battle, claiming he located the limb by waving a gold coin in the air.

Álvaro Obregón Salido (Spanish pronunciation:; 19 February 1880 – 17 July 1928) was a Mexican general, inventor and politician who served as the 46th President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924. Obregón was re-elected to the presidency in 1928 but was assassinated before he could take office.

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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Major Spanish Romantic poet and short story writer

Did you know? He died in poverty at a young age, and most of his famous works were published posthumously by his friends.

Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida (17 February 1836 – 22 December 1870), better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Spanish pronunciation:), was a Spanish Romantic poet and writer (mostly short stories), also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing.

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William III of the Netherlands

Long-reigning King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Did you know? He was the last male monarch to rule the Netherlands for over a century until King Willem-Alexander took the throne in 2013.

William III (Dutch: Willem III, French: Guillaume III; 19 February 1817 – 23 November 1890) was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1849 until his death in 1890, and was also the Duke of Limburg from 1849 until the abolition of the duchy in 1866.

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Karl Ernst von Baer

Naturalist considered a founding father of the study of embryology

Did you know? He made the significant discovery of the mammalian egg cell and established that embryos develop through a series of specific stages.

Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn (Russian: Карл Макси́мович Бэр; 28 February 1792 – 28 November 1876) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology.

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René Laennec

French doctor who invented the stethoscope

Did you know? He was inspired to create the device after watching children use a hollow stick to listen to sounds at the end of a wooden beam.

René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (French:; 17 February 1781 – 13 August 1826) was a French medical doctor and musician. His skill at carving his own wooden flutes led him to invent the stethoscope in 1816, while working at the Hôpital Necker.

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