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Luka Dončić

Slovenian basketball star and multiple-time NBA All-Star

Did you know? Before moving to the United States, he became the youngest player ever to win the EuroLeague MVP award while playing for Real Madrid.

Luka Dončić ( LOO-kə DON-chitch; Slovene:; born February 28, 1999) is a Slovenian professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a Rookie of the Year, six-time NBA All-Star, six-time All-NBA First Team member and a two-time NBA Scoring Champion.

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Arkadiusz Milik

Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Juventus

Did you know? He became the first Polish player to score a goal in a European Championship finals during the 2016 tournament.

Arkadiusz Krystian Milik (pronounced; born 28 February 1994) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Juventus. Milik began his career as a footballer in the Rozwój Katowice youth squad.

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Emmelie de Forest

Danish singer who won the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest

Did you know? For many years, she claimed to be a direct descendant of the British monarch Queen Victoria through a fictionalised family lineage.

Emmelie Charlotte-Victoria de Forest (born 28 February 1993) is a Danish-Swedish singer and songwriter. She represented Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with the song "Only Teardrops" and went on to win the competition.

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Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari

Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari (Arabic: خالد بن محسن الشاعري; born 28 February 1991) is a Saudi Arabian man, who in August 2013 was found to be the heaviest living person, and the second-heaviest person in recorded history at 610 kg (1,340 lb; 96 st), behind Jon Brower Minnoch.

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Olivia Palermo

American socialite and fashion entrepreneur known as a style icon after the MTV series The City

Did you know? She is often listed among the best-dressed women in the world.

Olivia Palermo (born February 28, 1986) is an American socialite, fashion influencer, entrepreneur, model and television personality.

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Jelena Janković

Former professional tennis player who was ranked world number one

Did you know? She is one of only a few players to reach the top world ranking without ever winning a Grand Slam title.

Jelena Janković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Јанковић, Serbian pronunciation:; born 28 February 1985) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No.

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Natalia Vodianova

Russian supermodel who rose from a market stall to fashion's top campaigns and founded the Naked Heart Foundation

Did you know? As a teenager she sold fruit at a market stall in Nizhny Novgorod.

Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova (Russian: Наталья Михайловна Водянова, IPA:; born 28 February 1982) is a Russian fashion model and philanthropist. In 2012, Forbes determined that she was the third highest-paid model in the world and has been declared a supermodel by numerous outlets.

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Ali Larter

American actress famous for her roles in Heroes and Final Destination

Did you know? She rose to prominence after being featured as a fake model in an elaborate magazine hoax.

Alison Elizabeth Larter (born February 28, 1976), is an American actress and former model. She portrayed fictional model Allegra Coleman in a 1996 Esquire magazine hoax and took on guest roles on several television shows in the 1990s.

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Philip Reeve

British author known for the Mortal Engines quartet

Did you know? He worked in a bookshop for several years before his writing career took off and he also performed in a comedy sketch troupe.

Philip Reeve (born 28 February 1966) is an English author and illustrator of children's books, primarily known for the 2001 book Mortal Engines and its sequels (the 2001 to 2006 Mortal Engines Quartet). His 2007 novel, Here Lies Arthur, based on the legendary King Arthur, won the Carnegie Medal.

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Charles Randolph

Charles Randolph (born February 28, 1963) is an American screenwriter and producer for film and television. In 2015, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay along with Adam McKay for co-writing The Big Short.

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Natalya Estemirova

Natalya Khusainovna Estemirova (Russian: Наталья Хусаиновна Эстемирова, Chechen: Наталья Хусайнан йоI Эстемирова; 28 February 1958 – 15 July 2009) was a Russian human rights activist and board member of the Russian human rights organization Memorial.

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John Turturro

American actor celebrated for his roles in Coen brothers films

Did you know? He received a scholarship to study at the Yale School of Drama and has since directed several of his own feature films.

John Michael Turturro ( tər-TOOR-oh, Italian:; born February 28, 1957) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his varied roles in independent films, as well as his frequent collaborations with the Coen brothers and Spike Lee.

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Gilbert Gottfried

Comedian and actor known for his distinctively loud, raspy voice

Did you know? He provided the voice for the parrot Iago in the Disney animated classic Aladdin.

Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried (February 28, 1955 – April 12, 2022) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was best known for his exaggerated shrill voice, strong New York dialect, his squint, and his edgy, often controversial sense of humor.

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Paul Krugman

American economist, Nobel laureate, and New York Times columnist

Did you know? He was inspired to study economics by Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels, wanting to become a real-life version of a "psychohistorian".

Paul Robin Krugman ( KRUUG-mən; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024.

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Steven Chu

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and former US Secretary of Energy

Did you know? He shared the Nobel Prize for developing methods to cool and trap atoms using laser light, reaching temperatures near absolute zero.

Steven Chu (Chinese: 朱棣文; born February 28, 1948) is an American physicist and former government official. He is a Nobel laureate and was the 12th U.S. secretary of energy.

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Dino Zoff

Italian goalkeeper who captained his country to World Cup victory

Did you know? At the age of forty, he became the oldest ever winner of a FIFA World Cup final.

Dino Zoff (Italian pronunciation:; born 28 February 1942) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Brian Jones

Founder and original leader of the rock band the Rolling Stones

Did you know? He was a talented multi-instrumentalist who played the sitar, recorder and marimba on some of the band's most famous recordings.

Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician and one of the founders of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, he went on to play electric guitar, sing backing vocals and play a wide variety of instruments on Rolling Stones recordings and in concerts.

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Mario Andretti

Successful racing driver and Formula One World Champion

Did you know? He is one of only two drivers to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, NASCAR and World Sportscar.

Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is an American former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1968 to 1982, and IndyCar from 1964 to 1994. Andretti won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1978 with Lotus, and won 12 Grands Prix across 14 seasons.

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Daniel C. Tsui

Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for the fractional quantum Hall effect

Did you know? He was born in a small village in China and only left his rural home to attend secondary school in Hong Kong.

Daniel Chee Tsui (Chinese: 崔琦; pinyin: Cuī Qí, born February 28, 1939) is an American physicist. He is currently serving as the Professor of Electrical Engineering, emeritus, at Princeton University.

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Leon Cooper

Physicist who shared a Nobel Prize for explaining superconductivity

Did you know? The "Cooper pair," a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics involving bound electrons, is named after him.

Leon N. Cooper (né Kupchik; February 28, 1930 – October 23, 2024) was an American theoretical physicist and neuroscientist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on superconductivity.

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Frank Gehry

Architect known for designing the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

Did you know? He once designed a range of furniture made entirely from corrugated cardboard that was surprisingly strong and durable.

Frank Owen Gehry ( GAIR-ee; né Goldberg; February 28, 1929 – December 5, 2025) was a Canadian and American architect and designer known for his postmodern designs and use of unconventional forms and materials.

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Svetlana Alliluyeva

Only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin who defected to America

Did you know? She burned her Soviet passport and denounced her father's regime after arriving in the United States.

Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (née Stalina; 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva.

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Peter Medawar

Nobel Prize-winning biologist known as the father of transplantation

Did you know? He was a gifted writer who won a prestigious literary award for his autobiography, Memoirs of a Thinking Radish.

Sir Peter Brian Medawar (28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a Brazilian-born biologist and writer of Lebanese-British descent who, from a succession of research and teaching posts (Oxford through the Royal Institution), and senior U.K.

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Sergey Mikhalkov

Author who wrote the lyrics for the Russian national anthem

Did you know? He is the father of two famous film directors and was also well known for writing popular children's poetry.

Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov (Russian: Сергей Владимирович Михалков; 13 March 1913 – 27 August 2009) was a Russian author of children's books and satirical fables. He wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems.

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