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Joao Grimaldo

Peruvian international footballer who plays as a winger

Did you know? He made his professional debut for Sporting Cristal at the age of seventeen before moving to European football.

Joao Alberto Grimaldo Ubidia (born February 20, 2003) is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a winger for Czech club Sparta Prague and the Peru national team.

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Erika Vikman

Tampere-born singer who modernised Finnish schlager with hits like Cicciolina and represented Finland at Eurovision 2025

Did you know? Cicciolina, her 2020 song, became a hit in Finland.

Erika Susanna Vikman (Finnish:; born 20 February 1993) is a Finnish singer and songwriter. Beginning her career as a Finnish tango singer, Vikman first received recognition after winning Tangomarkkinat in 2016.

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Ciro Immobile

Prolific Italian striker and Lazio's all-time leading goalscorer

Did you know? In 2020, he equalled the record for the most goals scored in a single Italian top-flight season, netting 36 times.

Ciro Immobile (born 20 February 1990) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is widely regarded as one of the most prolific and clinical goalscorers of his generation.

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Rihanna

Robyn Rihanna Fenty ( ree-AN-ə; born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, songwriter, businesswoman, and actress. An influential figure in popular culture, she is known for her multifaceted career, artistic reinventions, and eclectic fashion style.

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Miles Teller

American actor known for Whiplash and Top Gun: Maverick

Did you know? Before finding fame, he was involved in a serious car accident that left him with permanent facial scars from being thrown through a window.

Miles Teller (born February 20, 1987) is an American actor. He made his feature film debut with the independent drama Rabbit Hole (2010), and gained wider recognition for his roles in the coming-of-age film The Spectacular Now (2013) and the Divergent film trilogy (2014–2016).

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Julia Volkova

Moscow-born singer who formed half of the pop duo t.A.T.u., famous for All the Things She Said

Did you know? t.A.T.u. performed at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Yulia Olegovna Volkova (Russian: Юлия Олеговна Волкова; born 20 February 1985), better known by the alternative spelling of Julia, is a Russian singer best known for being a member of the Russian girl group t.A.T.u., along with Lena Katina.

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Jari Litmanen

Former professional footballer widely considered Finland's greatest player

Did you know? He is the only male footballer to have represented his national team across four different decades.

Jari Olavi Litmanen (pronounced; born 20 February 1971) is a Finnish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or a second striker. He was the first-choice captain of the Finland national team between 1996 and 2008 in an international career that ran from 1989 to 2010.

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Siniša Mihajlović

Serbian footballer and manager known for his exceptional free-kick ability

Did you know? He holds the record for the most goals scored from free-kicks in Serie A history, once scoring a hat-trick of them.

Siniša Mihajlović (Serbian Cyrillic: Синиша Михајловић, pronounced; 20 February 1969 – 16 December 2022) was a Serbian football manager and player. Though starting out as a midfielder, he spent the majority of his illustrious playing career in defence.

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Kurt Cobain

Singer and guitarist of Nirvana whose song Smells Like Teen Spirit and album Nevermind brought grunge to the mainstream

Did you know? He had a keen interest in art and created the collage on the back of the album In Utero using plastic models.

Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994) was an American musician and songwriter. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana.

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David Herman

American actor and comedian known for the film Office Space

Did you know? He is a versatile voice actor who has provided the voices for many characters in the animated series Futurama, including Scruffy the Janitor.

David Herman (born February 20, 1967) is an American actor and comedian. He was an original cast member on MADtv from 1995 to 1997 and played Michael Bolton in Office Space.

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Cindy Crawford

Iconic American supermodel who dominated the fashion industry in the 1990s

Did you know? She was the valedictorian of her high school and earned a scholarship to study chemical engineering at university before pursuing modelling full-time.

Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966) is an American model, actress, and television personality. One of the most popular supermodels of the 1980s and 1990s, she achieved a ubiquitous presence on magazine covers, runways, and fashion campaigns.

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Charles Barkley

American basketball player and television sports commentator

Did you know? He won two Olympic gold medals as a member of the United States men's basketball team.

Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player who is a television analyst on TNT Sports and CBS Sports. Nicknamed "Sir Charles", "the Chuckster", and "the Round Mound of Rebound", Barkley played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Elizaveta Glinka

Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka (née Poskryobysheva, Russian: Елизавета Петровна Глинка), also known as Dr. Liza (Russian: Доктор Лиза; 20 February 1962 – 25 December 2016), was a Russian medical doctor and public figure who founded the Spravedlivaya Pomoshch (Fair Care) charity.

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Gordon Brown

James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. Previously, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007 under Tony Blair.

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Ivana Trump

Businesswoman and socialite who was the first wife of Donald Trump

Did you know? She was an accomplished skier in her youth and was reportedly selected as an alternate for the Czechoslovakian Olympic team.

Ivana Marie Trump (née Zelníčková; February 20, 1949 – July 14, 2022) was a Czech and American businesswoman, socialite, and model. She lived in Canada in the 1970s, before relocating to the United States and marrying Donald Trump in 1977.

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George F. Smoot

Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who studied the early universe

Did you know? He appeared as himself in an episode of the popular sitcom The Big Bang Theory, where he ended up mocking Sheldon Cooper.

George Fitzgerald Smoot III (February 20, 1945 – September 18, 2025) was an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. He shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John C. Mather "for their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".

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Mitch McConnell

Longest-serving Senate Republican leader in United States history

Did you know? As a young child, he survived a battle with polio that required years of physical therapy to recover his mobility.

Addison Mitchell McConnell III (born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and attorney who has been a United States senator from Kentucky since 1985 and has been Kentucky's senior U.S. senator since 1999.

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Robert Huber

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who studied the structure of photosynthetic proteins

Did you know? He was the first to use X-ray crystallography to reveal the complex structure of a protein involved in photosynthesis.

Robert Huber (German pronunciation:; born 20 February 1937) is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate. known for his work crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis and subsequently applying X-ray crystallography to elucidate the protein's structure.

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Sidney Poitier

First Black performer to win the Academy Award for Best Actor

Did you know? He was born unexpectedly in Miami while his parents were visiting from the Bahamas, which granted him automatic American citizenship.

Sidney Poitier ( PWAH-tyay; February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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Richard Matheson

Horror and science fiction author of I Am Legend

Did you know? He wrote several classic episodes of The Twilight Zone, including the famous story about a monster on an airplane wing.

Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, who worked primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. Matheson is best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 science fiction horror novel that has been adapted for the screen three times.

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Robert Altman

Film director known for MASH and the mystery film Gosford Park

Did you know? He served as a bomber pilot during the Second World War before starting his career making industrial films in Kansas City.

Robert Bernard Altman ( AWLT-mən; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American filmmaker. He is considered an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, known for directing subversive and satirical films with overlapping dialogue and ensemble casts.

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Pierre Boulle

French novelist who wrote Planet of the Apes

Did you know? He was awarded the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for The Bridge on the River Kwai, despite not being able to write in English.

Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French author. He is best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning films.

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Ansel Adams

Renowned landscape photographer known for his black-and-white images of nature

Did you know? He originally trained to be a concert pianist before deciding to pursue photography full-time in his twenties.

Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West.

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Mohamed Naguib

First President of Egypt after the 1952 revolution

Did you know? Despite his high rank, he was later forced out of power and spent eighteen years under house arrest during the presidency of his successor.

Major General Mohamed Bey Naguib Youssef Qutb El-Qashlan (Arabic: محمد بيه نجيب يوسف قطب القشلان; 19 February 1901 – 28 August 1984), known simply as Mohamed Naguib (Arabic: محمد نجيب), was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who, along with Gamal Abdel Nasser, was one of the two principal leaders of the…

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