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Carlos Soler

Spanish international midfielder who played for Valencia and Paris Saint-Germain

Did you know? He began his footballing journey as a prolific striker, scoring hundreds of goals for his youth team before moving into a midfield role.

Carlos Soler Barragán (born 2 January 1997) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Sociedad and the Spain national team. Soler began his professional career at Valencia, making 226 appearances, scoring 36 goals and winning the Copa del Rey in 2019.

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Viktor Claesson

Swedish professional footballer who plays for FC Copenhagen

Did you know? He scored the decisive goal that helped Sweden qualify for the 2018 World Cup during a play-off.

Viktor Johan Anton Claesson (Swedish pronunciation:; born 2 January 1992) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a left winger for IFK Värnamo, which he captains. He is known for his passing and set piece abilities.

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Loïc Rémy

French striker who played for Chelsea and Newcastle United

Did you know? A medical examination early in his career revealed a heart defect, but specialists eventually cleared him to play professionally.

Loïc Alex Teliére Hubert Rémy (born 2 January 1987) is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward. Rémy began his career playing for a local youth club in his home city of Lyon, before joining the biggest club in the city, Lyon, joining their youth academy.

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Kate Bosworth

American actress who starred in the surfing film Blue Crush

Did you know? She was born with heterochromia, a condition that means her right eye is hazel while her left eye is blue.

Catherine Anne Bosworth (born January 2, 1983) is an American actress. Following minor roles in the films The Horse Whisperer (1998) and Remember the Titans (2000), she had a leading role in the movie Blue Crush (2002).

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Maxi Rodriguez

Argentine footballer who played for Liverpool and Atletico Madrid

Did you know? He scored a memorable long-range volley against Mexico that was voted the best goal of the 2006 World Cup.

Maximiliano Rubén Rodríguez (Spanish pronunciation:; born 2 January 1981) is an Argentine former professional footballer. Nicknamed La Fiera (The Beast in English), he was commonly used as a winger on both flanks but could also operate as an attacking midfielder.

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Kemi Badenoch

British politician and leader of the Conservative Party

Did you know? She spent much of her childhood in Nigeria and worked at a McDonald's as a teenager while studying for her A-levels.

Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke "Kemi" Badenoch (née Adegoke; born 2 January 1980) is a British politician who has served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2024. Badenoch previously worked in the Cabinet for prime ministers Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak from 2022 to 2024.

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Davit Mujiri

Retired Georgian footballer who played for the national team

Did you know? His father was also a professional footballer who played for the same club in Georgia.

Davit Mujiri (Georgian: დავით მუჯირი born 2 January 1978) is a Georgian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Mujiri made 26 appearances for the Georgia national football team.

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Paz Vega

Spanish actress known for Sex and Lucia and Spanglish

Did you know? She was once a competitive swimmer and studied journalism at university before deciding to pursue an acting career.

María de la Paz Campos Trigo (born 2 January 1976), known professionally as Paz Vega (Spanish:), is a Spanish actress. She became popular for her performance in comedy television series 7 vidas.

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Oleksandr Shovkovskyi

Long-serving Dynamo Kyiv and Ukraine national team goalkeeper

Did you know? He was the first goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet in a World Cup penalty shootout during the 2006 tournament.

Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Shovkovskyi (Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Володи́мирович Шовко́вський; born 2 January 1975) is a Ukrainian professional football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He was most recently in charge of Ukrainian Premier League club Dynamo Kyiv.

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Elena Gorolová

Elena Gorolová (born 2 January 1969) is a Czech Romani human rights defender and women's reproductive rights activist. After being forcefully sterilized at the age of 21, Gorolová began campaigning for Romani women's rights to bodily autonomy and for compensation for victims of forced sterilization.

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Cuba Gooding Jr.

Oscar-winning actor known for Jerry Maguire and Boyz n the Hood

Did you know? Before his acting career began, he performed as a breakdancer at the closing ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor.

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Tia Carrere

American actress and singer known for the film Wayne's World

Did you know? She first gained national attention as a teenager when she appeared as a contestant on the television talent show Star Search.

Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo (born January 2, 1967), known professionally as Tia Carrere, is an American actress and singer who got her first big break as a regular on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.

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Basile Boli

French footballer who scored the winning goal in a Champions League final

Did you know? His powerful header secured Marseille's victory over AC Milan in 1993, making them the first French club to win the tournament.

Basile Boli (born 2 January 1967) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender, and currently television sports presenter.

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Jan Fischer

Czech politician who served as the Prime Minister from 2009 to 2010

Did you know? A respected statistician, he previously spent several years as the head of the Czech Statistical Office.

Jan Fischer (Czech pronunciation:; born 2 January 1951) is a Czech politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from April 2009 to July 2010, heading a caretaker government. Later he was the minister of Finance from July 2013 to January 2014 in another interim government of Jiří Rusnok.

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Slobodan Praljak

Bosnian Croat general and politician convicted of war crimes

Did you know? Before the Yugoslav Wars, he worked as a successful writer and film director, producing several documentaries and features.

Slobodan Praljak (Croatian pronunciation:; 2 January 1945 – 29 November 2017) was a Bosnian Croat general found guilty by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of committing violations of the laws of war, crimes against humanity, and breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the…

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Toshiki Kaifu

Former Prime Minister of Japan during the early 1990s

Did you know? He was known for his collection of over two thousand patterned neckties, which became a trademark during his political career.

Toshiki Kaifu (海部 俊樹, Kaifu Toshiki; 2 January 1931 – 9 January 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991. Born in Nagoya, Kaifu graduated from Waseda University and was first elected to the Diet in 1960 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

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Isaac Asimov

American science-fiction writer of the Foundation series and I, Robot, who formulated the Three Laws of Robotics

Did you know? Despite writing many stories about space travel, he suffered from a severe fear of flying and preferred travelling by cruise ship or train.

Isaac Asimov ( AZ-im-ov; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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Kane Tanaka

Japanese supercentenarian once verified as the world's oldest living person

Did you know? She lived through the reigns of five different Japanese emperors and enjoyed solving mathematical puzzles and drinking fizzy beverages well into her later years.

Kane Tanaka (田中 カ𛄧, Tanaka Kane; née Ōta (太田); 2 January 1903 – 19 April 2022) was a Japanese supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 119 years, 107 days, was the world's oldest verified living person, following the death of Chiyo Miyako on 22 July 2018.

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Folke Bernadotte

Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of prisoners in World War II

Did you know? He was a member of the Swedish royal family and worked as a mediator for the United Nations.

Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (Swedish:; 2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. In World War II, he negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners of many nations from the Nazi German Theresienstadt Ghetto.

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Osip Mandelstam

Influential Russian poet and critic of the Soviet regime

Did you know? He was arrested and exiled after writing a poem that compared Joseph Stalin's fingers to fat worms and his moustache to cockroaches.

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (Russian: Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам, IPA:; 14 January 1891 – 27 December 1938) was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school.

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Thérèse of Lisieux

French Catholic saint known as the Little Flower of Jesus

Did you know? She died at the age of twenty-four and is now one of only four women recognised as a Doctor of the Church.

Thérèse of Lisieux (born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin; 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), religious name Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face was a French Discalced Carmelite.

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Ernst Barlach

German Expressionist sculptor, printmaker and playwright

Did you know? Many of his sculptures were confiscated by the Nazi government and declared degenerate art because of their sombre and anti-war themes.

Ernst Heinrich Barlach (2 January 1870 – 24 October 1938) was a German expressionist sculptor, medallist, printmaker and writer.

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Rudolf Clausius

Physicist who formulated the second law of thermodynamics

Did you know? He coined the term entropy to describe the loss of energy available for work in a physical system.

Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (German pronunciation:; 2 January 1822 – 24 August 1888) was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founding fathers of the science of thermodynamics.

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Osman III

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire during the mid-eighteenth century

Did you know? He spent nearly fifty years in a secluded palace confinement called the Kafes before finally ascending to the throne.

Osman III (Ottoman Turkish: عثمان ثالث Osmān-i sālis;‎ 2 January 1699 – 30 October 1757) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 to 1757.

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