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Alessia Rovegno

Alessia Rovegno Cayo is a Peruvian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Peru 2022. Rovegno represented Peru at Miss Universe 2022 and reached the Top 16.

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José María Giménez

Uruguayan footballer who plays as a defender for Atlético Madrid

Did you know? He made his debut for the national team at just eighteen and went on to represent Uruguay at multiple World Cups.

José María Giménez de Vargas (Spanish pronunciation:; born 20 January 1995) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club Deportivo A Coruña, on loan from Atlético Madrid, and captains the Uruguay national team.

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Evan Peters

Actor known for American Horror Story and Dahmer

Did you know? Early in his career, he appeared in numerous television commercials for major brands including Kellogg's and Sony before finding fame on screen.

Evan Thomas Peters (born January 20, 1987) is an American actor. He made his acting debut in the 2004 drama film Clipping Adam and starred in the ABC science fiction series Invasion from 2005 to 2006.

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Owen Hargreaves

Midfielder who won the Champions League with Bayern Munich and Manchester United

Did you know? Born and raised in Canada, he chose to represent England internationally through his father's nationality.

Owen Lee Hargreaves (born 20 January 1981) is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played with Calgary Foothills as a youth before beginning his professional football career in Germany with Bayern Munich.

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Omar Sy

French actor best known for starring in The Intouchables and Lupin

Did you know? He became the first Black actor to win a César Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film The Intouchables.

Omar Sy (French pronunciation:; Fula: 𞤌𞤥𞤢𞤪 𞤅𞤭, romanized: Omar Si; born 20 January 1978) is a French actor. Sy was initially best known in France for his comedy sketches with Fred Testot on the Service après-vente des émissions television show on Canal+ (2005–2012).

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Volodymyr Hroisman

Ukrainian politician who served as the nation's Prime Minister

Did you know? He began his political career at an exceptionally young age, becoming the mayor of his hometown when he was only twenty-eight.

Volodymyr Borysovych Groysman (Ukrainian: Володимир Борисович Гройсман, pronounced; born 20 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and businessman who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2016 to 2019.

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Nikki Haley

American politician who served as the Governor of South Carolina

Did you know? She made history as the first female governor of her home state and the first Indian American to serve in a presidential cabinet.

Nimarata Nikki Haley (née Randhawa; born January 20, 1972) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 116th governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017 and as the 29th U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2018.

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Fareed Zakaria

Journalist, author and host of the CNN show GPS

Did you know? He was appointed as the managing editor of Foreign Affairs magazine when he was only twenty-eight years old.

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-born American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post.

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Bill Maher

American comedian and host of the political show Real Time

Did you know? He was a regular on television game shows during the eighties before finding fame as a political commentator.

William Maher (born January 20, 1956) is an American television host, comedian, actor and political commentator. Known for his political satire, he is the host of the HBO political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher (2003–present) and podcast Club Random (2022–present).

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Jeffrey Epstein

American financier and convicted sex offender

Did you know? Before entering finance, he spent two years teaching physics and mathematics at a prestigious private school in Manhattan.

Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School in New York City, before entering the banking and finance sector.

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Göran Persson

Former Prime Minister of Sweden who led the Social Democrats

Did you know? After retiring from national politics, he took on a prominent role as the chairman of one of Sweden's largest banks.

Hans Göran Persson (Swedish:; born 20 January 1949) is a Swedish former politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and as Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007. Since 2019, he has served as chairman of the banking group Swedbank.

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David Lynch

Filmmaker known for his surrealist works such as Twin Peaks

Did you know? He has practiced Transcendental Meditation twice daily for many decades and established a foundation to bring the technique into schools.

David Keith Lynch (January 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025) was an American filmmaker and artist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian".

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David Lee

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered superfluidity in helium-3

Did you know? He took up a new teaching position at Texas A&M University at the age of seventy-eight.

David Morris Lee (born January 20, 1931) is an American physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert C.

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Buzz Aldrin

Apollo 11 astronaut and lunar module pilot who became the second person to walk on the Moon, after Neil Armstrong

Did you know? He was the first person to take a selfie in outer space during a spacewalk in the mid-sixties.

Apollo 11 lunar module pilot and the second person to walk on the Moon.

Patricia Neal

Oscar-winning actress known for Hud and The Day the Earth Stood Still

Did you know? She suffered three massive strokes while pregnant and had to relearn how to walk and talk before returning to her successful film career.

Patricia Neal (born Patsy Louise Neal; January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen.

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Federico Fellini

Italian director of La Strada, La Dolce Vita and 8½ whose dreamlike films won four Oscars for best foreign-language film

Did you know? Before finding fame in cinema, he earned a living as a caricature artist and once opened a shop making sketches for American soldiers.

Federico Fellini (Italian:; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness.

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George Burns

American entertainer whose award-winning career spanned over seventy years

Did you know? He enjoyed a late career resurgence and won an Academy Award for his performance in the 1975 film The Sunshine Boys.

George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum; January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996) was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer, and one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television. His arched eyebrow and cigar-smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

Author of the dystopian science fiction novel We

Did you know? His most famous book was the first work to be banned by the Soviet censorship board and directly inspired George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Russian: Евге́ний Ива́нович Замя́тин, IPA:; 1 February 1884 – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamiatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire.

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Johannes V. Jensen

Nobel Prize-winning Danish author known for his epic poetry and novels

Did you know? He was a major proponent of evolutionary theory and spent decades writing a series of novels tracing human development.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (Danish pronunciation:; 20 January 1873 – 25 November 1950) was a Danish author, known as one of the great Danish writers of the first half of 20th century.

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Vladimir Bekhterev

Russian neurologist who discovered the role of the hippocampus in memory

Did you know? He was a long-time professional rival of Ivan Pavlov and founded the first Russian laboratory for experimental psychology.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (Russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Бе́хтерев, IPA:; 20 January 1857 – 24 December 1927) was a Russian neurologist and the father of objective psychology. He is best known for noting the role of the hippocampus in memory, his study of reflexes, and Bekhterev's disease.

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Eugène Sue

French novelist who pioneered the serialised fiction genre

Did you know? His work The Mysteries of Paris was so popular that people would queue to read new instalments in the newspapers.

Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue (French pronunciation:; 26 January 1804 – 3 August 1857) was a French novelist. He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular and widely imitated The Mysteries of Paris, which was published in a newspaper from 1842 to 1843.

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André-Marie Ampère

French physicist who founded electrodynamics; the ampere, the unit of electric current, is named after him

Did you know? A child prodigy, he reportedly worked out complex mathematical sums using pebbles and biscuits before he could write.

André-Marie Ampère (20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as electrodynamics. He made also important contributions in chemistry and philosophy.

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Charles III of Spain

King of Spain who implemented significant Enlightenment-era reforms

Did you know? He was a passionate amateur archaeologist who helped fund the early excavations of the buried Roman cities Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Charles III (Spanish: Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain from 1759 until his death in 1788. He was also Duke of Parma and Piacenza as Charles I (1731–1735), King of Naples as Charles VII and King of Sicily as Charles III (or V) (1735–1759).

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Sebastian of Portugal

Portuguese king whose death in battle sparked a national legend

Did you know? His disappearance led to a cult belief that he would return from the mist to save his people in their darkest hour.

Sebastian (Portuguese: Sebastião I; 20 January 1554 – 4 August 1578) was King of Portugal from 11 June 1557 to 4 August 1578 and the penultimate Portuguese monarch of the House of Aviz. He was the only child of João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, and Joanna of Austria.

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