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Ángela Ponce

Ángela María Ponce Camacho (born 18 January 1991) is a Spanish model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Spain 2018. Ponce made history on 29 June 2018 as the first openly transgender woman to be crowned Miss Spain.

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Nacho

Spanish footballer known for his long career at Real Madrid

Did you know? He has lived with type 1 diabetes since childhood but never let the condition hinder his professional sporting career.

José Ignacio Fernández Iglesias (Spanish pronunciation:; born 18 January 1990), known as Nacho Fernández or simply Nacho (Spanish pronunciation:), is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Saudi Pro League club Al-Qadsiah.

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Angelique Kerber

Three-time Grand Slam tennis champion and former world number one

Did you know? Though she plays tennis with her left hand, she is naturally right-handed for almost every other daily task.

Angelique Kerber (German:; born 18 January 1988) is a German former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No.

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Makoto Hasebe

Japanese footballer who captained his country at three World Cups

Did you know? He wrote a popular self-help book about mental health and composure that sold over a million copies in his home country.

Makoto Hasebe (長谷部 誠, Hasebe Makoto; born 18 January 1984) is a Japanese professional football coach and former player who played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder. He is currently the assistant coach of Japan national team.

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Jason Segel

Actor best known for playing Marshall Eriksen in How I Met Your Mother

Did you know? He is an accomplished puppeteer and wrote the screenplay for the 2011 film The Muppets.

Jason Jordan Segel ( SEE-gal; born January 18, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother from 2005 to 2014.

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Leo Varadkar

Irish politician who served as Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael

Did you know? Before entering politics full-time, he qualified as a medical doctor and worked as a general practitioner.

Leo Eric Varadkar ( və-RAD-kər; born 18 January 1979) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 2017 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2024, as Tánaiste from 2020 to 2022, and as leader of Fine Gael from 2017 to 2024.

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Roberta Metsola

Maltese politician serving as President of the European Parliament

Did you know? In 2022, she became the youngest person ever to be elected as president of the institution.

Roberta Metsola (née Tedesco Triccas; born 18 January 1979) is a Maltese politician who has served as the president of the European Parliament since January 2022. She is a member of Malta's Nationalist Party (PN) and the European People's Party (EPP).

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Paulo Ferreira

Portuguese defender who won two Champions League titles

Did you know? He is part of an elite group of footballers who have won the Champions League with two different clubs.

Paulo Renato Rebocho Ferreira (Portuguese pronunciation:; born 18 January 1979) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a full-back. After starting out at Estoril, he went on to spend the vast majority of his 16-year career with Porto and Chelsea, signing with the latter in 2004 for €20 million.

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Pep Guardiola

Highly successful football manager known for his time at Manchester City

Did you know? As a player, he was a defensive midfielder for Barcelona and later helped the club win their first ever European Cup.

Josep "Pep" Guardiola Sala (Catalan:; born 18 January 1971) is a Catalan football manager and former player from Spain. He is the global ambassador of the City Football Group and was most recently manager of Premier League club Manchester City.

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Dave Bautista

Actor and former professional wrestler known for Guardians of the Galaxy

Did you know? He holds the record for the longest reign as World Heavyweight Champion in WWE history.

David Michael Bautista Jr. (born January 18, 1969) is an American actor and retired professional wrestler.

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Anjem Choudary

Anjem Choudary (born 18 January 1967), also known as Abu Luqman, is a British Islamist who has been described as "the face" of militant Islamism or the "best known" Islamic extremist in Britain. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2024 after being found guilty of directing a terror organisation.

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José Antonio Kast

Chilean politician and former presidential candidate

Did you know? He is the youngest of nine siblings and his father was a former soldier in the German army during the Second World War.

José Antonio Kast Rist (Latin American Spanish:; born 18 January 1966) is a Chilean lawyer and politician who has served as the 38th president of Chile since 2026. Kast previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2002 to 2018, representing districts in the Santiago Metropolitan Region.

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Kevin Costner

American actor of The Untouchables and The Bodyguard who won Oscars for directing Dances with Wolves and starred in Yellowstone

Did you know? A chance meeting with Richard Burton on a flight home from his honeymoon encouraged him to pursue acting as a full-time career.

Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, and musician. In a career spanning more than five decades, he has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for three British Academy Film Awards.

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Veerappan

Koose Munisamy Veerappan (18 January 1952 – 18 October 2004) was an Indian brigand who was active for 36 years, and kidnapped major politicians for ransom. He was charged with sandalwood smuggling and poaching of elephants in the scrub lands and forests in the states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.

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Takeshi Kitano

Japanese filmmaker and actor known for hosting Takeshi's Castle

Did you know? He began his career in a comedy duo called Two Beat, performing in strip clubs in Tokyo.

Takeshi Kitano (北野 武, Kitano Takeshi; born 18 January 1947), also known as Beat Takeshi (ビートたけし, Bīto Takeshi) in Japan, is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker.

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Alexander Van der Bellen

Current President of Austria and former leader of the Green Party

Did you know? He spent many years as a respected professor of economics and earned the nickname Sascha due to his family's Russian heritage.

Alexander "Sascha" Van der Bellen (born 18 January 1944), also referred to by the abbreviation VdB, is an Austrian politician serving as the president of Austria since 2017. He was previously a professor of economics at the University of Vienna, and after joining politics, the spokesman of the Austrian Green Party.

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Paul Keating

Former Prime Minister of Australia who led during the nineties

Did you know? He is a passionate collector of antique French clocks and is known for his deep interest in classical music and architecture.

Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) is an Australian former politician and trade unionist who served as the 24th prime minister of Australia and leader of the Labor Party from 1991 to 1996.

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Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens

Sociologist known for his influential Third Way political theory

Did you know? His ideas were highly influential on the New Labour movement and he served as a key advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is the author of more than 34 books and was listed, in 2007, as the fifth most cited author in the humanities.

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John Hume

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Northern Irish politician

Did you know? He was a founding member of a credit union in his hometown, helping local people to gain financial independence.

John Hume (18 January 1937 – 3 August 2020) was an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

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Chun Doo-hwan

Military leader who served as the President of South Korea

Did you know? After leaving office, he was later sentenced to death for his role in a 1980 military crackdown, though he was eventually pardoned.

Chun Doo-hwan (Korean: 전두환; pronounced; 18 January 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a South Korean army general and politician who served as the fifth president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988.

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Gilles Deleuze

Influential French philosopher and theorist of the late twentieth century

Did you know? He famously collaborated with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari on the two-volume work Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death, wrote on a variety of subjects including ontology, social critique, film theory, and fine art.

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Yoichiro Nambu

Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his work on subatomic particles

Did you know? He was one of the early founders of string theory, proposing that hadrons could be modelled as vibrating strings.

Yoichiro Nambu (南部 陽一郎, Nanbu Yōichirō; 18 January 1921 – 5 July 2015) was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago.

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Danny Kaye

Actor and comedian known for physical comedy and rapid-fire novelty songs

Did you know? He was a licensed pilot who flew himself to charity events and was the first person to receive the UNICEF Maurice Pate Award.

Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, dancer, singer and comedian. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs.

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Cary Grant

Debonair leading man of Hollywood’s Golden Age

Did you know? Born Archibald Leach in Bristol, he began his career as an acrobat and stilt walker with a travelling troupe.

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; 18 January 1904 – 29 November 1986) was a British-American actor. Known for his blended British and American accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men.

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