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Tusse

Congolese-Swedish singer who represented Sweden at Eurovision with Voices

Did you know? He was the first Black artist to win Melodifestivalen.

Toussaint Michael Chiza (born 1 January 2002), better known as Tusse, is a Congolese-Swedish singer who represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.

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Mahrang Baloch

Mahrang Baloch (born 1 January 1993) is a Baloch political activist who is the founder and leader of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC). She is known for her campaigns against alleged enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and other human rights abuses in Balochistan, Pakistan.

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Jack Wilshere

English midfielder who spent most of his career at Arsenal

Did you know? He was the youngest player to ever make a league debut for Arsenal, breaking a record previously held by Cesc Fàbregas.

Jack Andrew Garry Wilshere (born 1 January 1992) is an English professional football manager and former player who is currently manager of EFL League One club Luton Town.

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Elin Nordegren

Elin Maria Pernilla Nordegren (Swedish pronunciation:; born 1 January 1980) is a Swedish former model and nanny. She was married to professional golfer Tiger Woods from 2004 until their divorce in 2010.

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Eiichiro Oda

Japanese artist who created the world-famous manga series One Piece

Did you know? He decided to become a manga artist at age four to avoid having to get a real job in adulthood.

Eiichiro Oda (Japanese: 尾田 栄一郎, Hepburn: Oda Eiichirō; born January 1, 1975) is a Japanese manga artist and the creator of the series One Piece, the best-selling manga in history and the best-selling comic series printed in volume.

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Eva Abu Halaweh

Eva Abu Halaweh (Arabic: إيفا أبو حلاوة born in 1975) is Palestinian-Jordanian a lawyer and human rights activist in Jordan, and was awarded the International Women of Courage Award presented by the US Department of State in 2011.

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Lilian Thuram

World Cup-winning French footballer and prominent anti-racism activist

Did you know? He was the long-time record holder for most appearances for the French national team, earning over one hundred and forty caps.

Ruddy Lilian Thuram-Ulien (French pronunciation:; born 1 January 1972) is a French author, philanthropist and former professional footballer who played as a defender. He was capable of playing both as a centre-back or as a right-back, and helped both offensively and defensively.

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Davor Šuker

Record-breaking Croatian striker and winner of the 1998 World Cup Golden Boot

Did you know? After retiring from play, he spent several years serving as the president of the Croatian Football Federation.

Davor Šuker (Croatian pronunciation:; born 1 January 1968) is a Croatian football administrator and former professional player who played as a striker. He served as the president of the Croatian Football Federation (HNS) from 2012 to 2021.

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Zahra Eshraghi

Zahra Eshraghi Khomeini (Persian: زهرا اشراقی, romanized: Zahrâ Eshrâqi) (born 1964) is an Iranian activist and former government official.

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Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine (born September 4, 1963) is a Jamaican-American poet, essayist, playwright, and the editor of several anthologies. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, two plays and various essays.

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Latifa Ibn Ziaten

Latifa Ibn Ziaten (Arabic: لطيفة بن زياتين born 1 January 1960 in Tétouan, Morocco) is a French-Moroccan activist. She is the mother of Imad ibn Ziaten, born in 1981, the first service member in Toulouse killed by Mohammed Merah on 11 March 2012.

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Salih Mahmoud Osman

Salih Mahmoud Osman (Arabic: صالح محمود عثمان, romanized: Ṣāliḥ Maḥmūd ʻUthmān; born 1957 in Darfur) is a Sudanese human rights lawyer. Osman is well known for having provided free legal representation to hundreds of victims of ethnic violence (human rights activist) in Sudan over more than two decades.

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Christine Lagarde

President of the European Central Bank and former IMF head

Did you know? As a teenager, she was a talented synchronised swimmer and competed as a member of the French national team.

Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde (French:; née Lallouette, IPA:; born 1 January 1956) is a French politician and lawyer who has been the president of the European Central Bank since 2019. She previously served as the 11th Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2011 to 2019.

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Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Former Emir of Qatar who founded the news network Al Jazeera

Did you know? He oversaw his country winning the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup before abdicating in favour of his son.

Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (Arabic: حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني; 1 January 1952 – 12 July 2026) was Emir of Qatar from 1995 until his abdication in 2013. He was also prime minister of Qatar from 1995 to 1996.

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Rivelino

Brazilian footballer who won the 1970 World Cup

Did you know? He is widely credited with perfecting the 'flip-flap' dribbling trick, a complex move later made famous by players like Ronaldinho.

Roberto Rivellino (Brazilian Portuguese:; born 1 January 1946), known mononymously as Rivellino, is a Brazilian football pundit and former player who was one of the key members of Brazil's 1970 FIFA World Cup-winning team.

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Omar al-Bashir

Former President of Sudan who ruled for thirty years

Did you know? He was the first sitting leader to be charged with genocide and war crimes by the International Criminal Court.

Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (born 1 January 1944) is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as head of state of Sudan under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état. He was subsequently imprisoned, tried and convicted on multiple corruption charges.

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Abdul Hamid

Longest-serving President of Bangladesh

Did you know? Before entering politics, he worked as a lawyer and was a prominent figure in the independence movement of his country.

Mohammad Abdul Hamid (born 1 January 1944) is a Bangladeshi retired politician and lawyer who served as president of Bangladesh from 2013 to 2023, making him the longest-serving president in the country's history.

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Alassane Ouattara

Ivorian politician serving as the President of Ivory Coast

Did you know? He previously held a high-ranking position as a director for the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C.

Alassane Dramane Ouattara (French pronunciation:; born 1 January 1942) is an Ivorian politician and economist who has been President of Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) since 2010.

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J. D. Salinger

American author of The Catcher in the Rye, narrated by Holden Caulfield, who withdrew from public life

Did you know? During the Second World War, he carried several chapters of his most famous book while landing on the beaches of Normandy.

Jerome David Salinger ( SAL-in-jər; January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine in 1940, before serving in World War II.

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Stepan Bandera

Leader of the radical wing of the Ukrainian nationalist movement

Did you know? He spent several years of the Second World War imprisoned by the Nazis in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Stepan Andriiovych Bandera (1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical militant faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B.

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J. Edgar Hoover

Long-serving director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Did you know? He remained the head of the FBI for nearly fifty years, serving under eight different American presidents.

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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Satyendra Nath Bose

Theoretical physicist known for his work on quantum mechanics

Did you know? He collaborated with Albert Einstein on a theory that predicted the existence of a unique fifth state of matter.

Satyendra Nath Bose (1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974) was an Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics, and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

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E. M. Forster

English author best known for writing the novel A Passage to India

Did you know? He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on more than a dozen occasions but never actually won the award.

Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924).

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George Washington Carver

Agricultural scientist who developed hundreds of products from peanuts

Did you know? He was born into slavery but went on to become the first African American student at Iowa State Agricultural College.

George Washington Carver (c. 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.

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