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Isra Hirsi

Isra Hirsi (born February 22, 2003) is an American environmental activist. She co-founded and served as the co-executive director of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike.

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Ximena Navarrete

Jimena "Ximena" Navarrete Rosete (Spanish pronunciation:; born February 22, 1988) is a Mexican actress, TV host, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 2010. She was previously named as Nuestra Belleza México 2009.

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Sergio Romero

Argentine goalkeeper and his country's most capped player in the position

Did you know? He helped his national team reach the 2014 World Cup final by saving two penalties during the semi-final shootout against the Netherlands.

Sergio Germán "Chiquito" Romero (Spanish pronunciation:; born 22 February 1987) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Romero made his debut with Racing Club in the Argentine Primera División in 2007 and then transferred to Dutch club AZ at the end of the season.

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Branislav Ivanović

Serbian defender who played for Chelsea and the national team

Did you know? He is the most capped player in the history of the Serbian national team, making over one hundred appearances.

Branislav Ivanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранислав Ивановић, pronounced; born 22 February 1984) is a Serbian former professional footballer. A versatile defender, he operated mainly as a right-back.

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Élodie Yung

Paris-born actress and karate black belt who played Elektra in Daredevil and leads The Cleaning Lady

Did you know? She holds a black belt in karate and studied law before acting.

Élodie Yung (French:) is a French actress and director. She is best known for her roles as Elektra Natchios in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2016–present), as well as Thony De La Rosa on the Fox series The Cleaning Lady (2022–2025).

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Drew Barrymore

American actress and producer who rose to fame in E.T

Did you know? She was chosen as a goddaughter by filmmaker Steven Spielberg and actress Sophia Loren.

Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress. A member of the Barrymore family of actors, she has received multiple awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy Award, and an Actor Award.

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James Blunt

British singer-songwriter who rose to fame with You're Beautiful

Did you know? Before his music career, he served as a reconnaissance officer in the British Army during the Kosovo War.

James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, 22 February 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He is known for his songs "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover".

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Steve Irwin

Australian conservationist and television personality known as The Crocodile Hunter

Did you know? He named his daughter Bindi after his favourite crocodile at the zoo and a family pet dog.

Stephen Robert Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006) was an Australian conservationist, environmentalist, zookeeper, television personality, and wildlife educator. Nicknamed the "Crocodile Hunter", he is regarded as an Australian cultural icon, and as one of the greatest conservationists.

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Romas Kalanta

Romas Kalanta (22 February 1953 – 14 May 1972) was a 19-year-old Lithuanian high school student who killed himself by self-immolation in an act of protest against the Soviet regime in Lithuania. His death provoked the largest post-war riots in Lithuania and inspired similar self-immolations.

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K. P. Sharma Oli

Three-time Prime Minister of Nepal and communist party leader

Did you know? He spent over a decade in prison during the 1970s and 1980s for his involvement in political activities against the monarchy.

Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli (born 22 February 1952) is a Nepali politician who served as three terms as the prime minister of Nepal, from 2015 to 2016, 2018 to 2021, and 2024 to 2025. He has served as the chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) since 2014.

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Niki Lauda

Triple Formula One world champion and aviation entrepreneur

Did you know? He famously returned to racing just six weeks after nearly dying in a horrific crash at the Nürburgring in 1976.

Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (22 February 1949 – 20 May 2019) was an Austrian racing driver, motorsport executive, and aviation entrepreneur, who competed in Formula One from 1971 to 1979 and from 1982 to 1985.

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Jonathan Demme

Director who won an Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs

Did you know? Before making big-budget Hollywood films, he began his career directing low-budget exploitation movies for producer Roger Corman.

Robert Jonathan Demme ( DEM-ee; February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker. His career of directing, producing, and screenwriting spanned more than 30 years and 70 feature films, documentaries, and television productions.

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Horst Köhler

Former President of Germany and head of the IMF

Did you know? He was born in Nazi-occupied Poland and spent part of his childhood living in various refugee camps.

Horst Köhler (German:; 22 February 1943 – 1 February 2025) was a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2004 to 2010.

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Eduard Limonov

Eduard Veniaminovich Limonov (né Savenko; 22 February 1943 – 17 March 2020) was a Russian writer, poet, publicist, political dissident and politician. Limonov is best known for his novel ‘’It's me, Eddie’’, released in 1979.

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Christine Keeler

Christine Margaret Keeler (22 February 1942 – 4 December 2017) was an English model and showgirl. Her meeting at a dance club with society osteopath Stephen Ward drew her into fashionable circles.

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Ted Kennedy

Long-serving United States Senator for Massachusetts

Did you know? He was the youngest of nine siblings and the only one of the four brothers to survive into his seventies.

Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second-most-senior member of the Senate when he died.

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Jean-Bedel Bokassa

Military leader who became the self-proclaimed Emperor of Central Africa

Did you know? He spent a huge portion of his nation’s annual budget on a lavish coronation ceremony that was inspired by his hero, Napoleon.

Jean-Bédel Bokassa (22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996) was a Central African politician and military officer who served as the second president of the Central African Republic (CAR) and Emperor of the Central African Empire (CAE) as Bokassa I, ruling these two states from 1966 to 1979.

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Robert Wadlow

Tallest person in recorded history

Did you know? Known as the Alton Giant, he required custom-made leg braces to walk and wore shoes that were nearly half a metre long.

Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man known for being the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. Wadlow was born and raised in Alton, Illinois, a small city near St.

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Renato Dulbecco

Virologist and Nobel laureate who studied cancer-causing viruses

Did you know? He was an early advocate for the Human Genome Project, suggesting it was essential to understand the genetic causes of cancer.

Renato Dulbecco ( dul-BEK-oh, Italian:; February 22, 1914 – February 19, 2012) was an Italian–American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect animal cells.

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Luis Buñuel

Spanish filmmaker and pioneer of surrealist cinema

Did you know? His first film, a short made with Salvador Dalí, featured a famous and shocking scene involving a razor and an eye.

Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish:; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish and Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for her lyrical and feminist verse

Did you know? She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and was a prominent figure in Greenwich Village.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright.

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Jules Renard

French author and playwright known for the novel Poil de carotte

Did you know? He kept detailed journals for over twenty years that were published after his death to great acclaim.

Pierre-Jules Renard (pronounced; 22 February 1864 – 22 May 1910) was a French novelist, playwright, and diarist. He was a member of the Académie Goncourt and is acclaimed for Poil de carotte (Carrot Top, 1894), a bitterly ironical account of his own childhood.

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Heinrich Hertz

German physicist who proved the existence of radio waves in 1887; the unit of frequency, the hertz, honours him

Did you know? The standard unit of frequency was named in his honour to recognise his pioneering work in the field of electromagnetism.

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz ( hurts; German:; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves proposed by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism.

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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

British Army officer who founded the Scout and Guide movements

Did you know? He was a talented artist who often illustrated his own books and scout manuals with his own sketches.

Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941), was a British Army officer, writer, founder of The Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of The Girl Guides Association.

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