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Wataru Endō

Japanese professional footballer and captain of his national team

Did you know? He is known for wearing a custom mouthguard during matches, a habit he began while playing in Germany to protect his teeth.

Wataru Endo (遠藤 航, Endō Wataru; born 9 February 1993) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or a centre-back for Premier League club Liverpool.

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Nasser Yassin

Nuseir Yassin (Arabic: نَصِير يَاسِين; Hebrew: נוּסַייר יַאסִין; born (1992-02-09)9 February 1992), known professionally as Nas Daily, is an Israeli-Palestinian vlogger, entrepreneur and media personality.

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Michael B. Jordan

American actor known for roles in Creed and Black Panther

Did you know? He spent much of his childhood as a model, featuring in advertisements for toys and sporting goods before pursuing a professional acting career.

Michael Bakari Jordan ( bah-KAR-ee; born February 9, 1987) is an American actor, producer, and director. His accolades include an Academy Award, three Actor Awards, and a Producers Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards.

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Tom Hiddleston

British actor best known for playing Loki in Marvel films

Did you know? He attended Eton College at the same time as Prince William and later studied Classics at the University of Cambridge.

Thomas William Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981) is a British actor. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award as well as two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

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Zhang Ziyi

Chinese actress known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Memoirs of a Geisha

Did you know? She spent several years training as a traditional dancer at the Beijing Dance Academy before being discovered by filmmaker Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Ziyi (Chinese: 章子怡; born 9 February 1979), sometimes credited as Ziyi Zhang, is a Chinese actress, known for playing independent and strong-willed characters. Born and raised in Beijing, Zhang was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama in 1996.

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Amber Valletta

Amber Valletta (born February 9, 1974) is an American model and actress. She began her career as a fashion model, landing her first of 17 American Vogue covers in February 1993.

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Makoto Shinkai

Acclaimed Japanese director of the animated film Your Name

Did you know? He started his career in the video game industry, creating opening sequences for various titles before focusing on feature films.

Makoto Niitsu (新津 誠, Niitsu Makoto; born February 9, 1973), known as Makoto Shinkai (新海 誠, Shinkai Makoto), is a Japanese filmmaker and novelist.

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Ernesto Valverde

Spanish football manager and former player for Barcelona

Did you know? He is a talented amateur photographer and has held exhibitions of his work featuring pictures taken during his travels in football.

Ernesto Valverde Tejedor (born 9 February 1964) is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a forward. Over ten seasons, he amassed La Liga totals of 264 games and 68 goals, adding 55 matches and nine goals in the Segunda División.

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Teesta Setalvad

Teesta Setalvad (born 9 February 1962) is an Indian civil rights activist and journalist. She is the secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), an organisation formed to advocate for the victims of 2002 Gujarat riots.

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Ali Bongo Ondimba

Former President of Gabon who served for fourteen years

Did you know? Before entering politics, he released a funk album in the late 1970s produced by the manager of James Brown.

Ali Bongo Ondimba (born Alain-Bernard Bongo; 9 February 1959) is a Gabonese former politician and dictator who was the third president of Gabon from 2009 until he was deposed in a coup in 2023.

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Filipe Nyusi

Former President of Mozambique who served for a decade

Did you know? Before entering politics, he worked for the state-owned railway company and eventually rose to become its executive director.

Filipe Jacinto Nyusi (Portuguese pronunciation:; born 9 February 1959) is a Mozambican politician who was the president of Mozambique from 2015 to 2025. He has also served as the Chairman of the Southern African Development Community from 2020 to 2022.

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Ruy Ramos

Brazilian-born footballer who represented the Japanese national team

Did you know? He became a naturalised Japanese citizen in the late 1980s and later coached their national beach football team.

Ruy Ramos (Japanese: ラモス 瑠偉, Hepburn: Ramosu Rui; born Ruy Gonçalves Ramos Sobrinho (Portuguese:); 9 February 1957) is a former football manager and player. He is currently active as a television personality and tarento, represented by Irving.

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Sócrates

Elegant Brazilian midfielder who captained his nation at the 1982 World Cup

Did you know? He was a qualified medical doctor and was famously known for his political activism and intellectual approach to the game.

Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira (19 February 1954 – 4 December 2011), simply known as Sócrates, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder. His medical degree and his political awareness, combined with style and quality of his play, earned him the nickname "Doctor Socrates".

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Mia Farrow

Golden Globe-winning actress known for Rosemary's Baby

Did you know? She travelled to India with her sister and the Beatles in 1968 to study transcendental meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Maria de Lourdes Villiers "Mia" Farrow ( mə-REE-ə dee LOORDZ VIL-yərz FARR-oh; born February 9, 1945) is an American actress and activist.

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Yoshinori Ohsumi

Nobel Prize-winning biologist who discovered mechanisms for autophagy

Did you know? His groundbreaking research involved observing how yeast cells break down and recycle their own components to survive.

Yoshinori Ohsumi (大隅 良典, Ōsumi Yoshinori; born February 9, 1945) is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components. Ohsumi is a professor at Institute of Science Tokyo's Institute of Innovative Research.

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Alice Walker

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel The Color Purple

Did you know? She was a close friend of Coretta Scott King and participated in the 1963 March on Washington.

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.

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Joseph Stiglitz

Nobel Prize-winning economist and former Chief Economist of the World Bank

Did you know? He is known for his work on the asymmetric information theory, which explains why markets often fail when one party has more knowledge.

Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979).

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Joe Pesci

Academy Award-winning actor known for Goodfellas and Home Alone

Did you know? Before becoming a full-time actor, he played guitar in several bands and released a lounge music album in 1968.

Joseph Frank Pesci ( PESH-ee Italian:; born February 9, 1943) is an American actor and singer.

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Carole King

American singer-songwriter and composer of the landmark album Tapestry

Did you know? Before her solo success, she co-wrote numerous hits for other artists, including Will You Love Me Tomorrow and The Loco-Motion.

Carole King Klein (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician renowned for her extensive contributions to popular music.

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J. M. Coetzee

South African-born novelist of Disgrace and Life & Times of Michael K who won two Booker Prizes and the Nobel

Did you know? He was the first person to win the Booker Prize twice, achieving the feat with his novels in different decades.

John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language.

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Gerhard Richter

Contemporary German artist known for his abstract and photorealistic paintings

Did you know? He escaped from East Germany just months before the Berlin Wall was built, leaving behind many of his early artworks.

Gerhard Richter (German:; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs and glass pieces.

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Thomas Bernhard

Influential Austrian novelist and playwright of the post-war era

Did you know? In his final will, he banned all performances and publications of his literary work within Austria for the duration of his copyright.

Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (German:; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era.

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Jacques Monod

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who studied genetic control of enzymes

Did you know? During the Second World War, he was an active member of the French Resistance and helped coordinate the liberation of Paris.

Jacques Lucien Monod (French:; 9 February 1910 – 31 May 1976) was a French biochemist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis" Monod and Jacob became famous for their work on the E.

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Carmen Miranda

Portuguese-born Brazilian entertainer famous for her elaborate fruit-topped hats

Did you know? At the height of her stardom, she was reported to be the highest-earning female performer in the United States.

Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha (9 February 1909 – 5 August 1955), known professionally as Carmen Miranda (Portuguese pronunciation:), was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress. Nicknamed "the Brazilian Bombshell," she was known for her signature fruit hat outfits that she wore in her American films.

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