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Pau Cubarsí

Spanish footballer playing as a defender for Barcelona and Spain

Did you know? He became the youngest defender ever to start a Champions League knockout match during his breakthrough season.

Pau Cubarsí Paredes (born 22 January 2007) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team. He is considered one of the best young defenders in the world.

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Netta Barzilai

Israeli singer and winner of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest

Did you know? She spent part of her childhood living in Nigeria while her father was working there on a major construction project.

Netta Barzilai (Hebrew: נטע ברזילי; born 22 January 1993), also known mononymously as Netta, is an Israeli singer. After winning the fifth season of HaKokhav HaBa, she went on to represent her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.

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Vincent Aboubakar

Professional footballer and captain of the Cameroon national team

Did you know? He scored the winning goal in the final of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations to secure victory for his country.

Vincent Paté Aboubakar (born 22 January 1992) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as striker for TFF 1. Lig club Bodrum and captains the Cameroon national team.

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Hidetoshi Nakata

Influential Japanese midfielder who played in three World Cups

Did you know? Since retiring from football, he has become a global fashion icon and a prominent promoter of traditional Japanese sake.

Hidetoshi Nakata, OSSI (中田 英寿, Nakata Hidetoshi; born 22 January 1977) is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Joseph Muscat

youngest Maltese prime minister who liberalised society before resigning amid corruption allegations linked to a journalist's assassination

Joseph Muscat (born 22 January 1974) is a Maltese politician who served as the 13th prime minister of Malta from 2013 to 2020 and leader of the Labour Party from 2008 to 2020. Muscat was first elected Prime Minister in March 2013 with 54.83% and re-elected in June 2017 with 55.04%.

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Diane Lane

American actress known for films such as Unfaithful and Lonesome Dove

Did you know? She turned down the role of Vivian Ward in the film Pretty Woman, which eventually helped launch the career of Julia Roberts.

Diane Lane (born January 22, 1965) is an American actress. Lane started her career as a child actor before establishing herself as a leading actor in film.

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Jim Jarmusch

Independent filmmaker known for Stranger Than Paradise and Paterson

Did you know? His hair, which became a signature part of his look, began turning prematurely white when he was only fifteen.

James Robert Jarmusch ( JAR-məsh; born January 22, 1953) is an American filmmaker and musician.

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Alveda King

Alveda Celeste King (born January 22, 1951) is an American activist, author, and former state representative for the 28th District in the Georgia House of Representatives. She is a niece of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

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John Hurt

Acclaimed British actor known for The Elephant Man and Alien

Did you know? He was an accomplished painter and originally planned to become an art teacher before turning to acting.

Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor. Regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation and described as having the "most distinctive voice in Britain", he was referred to by David Lynch as "simply the greatest actor in the world".

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Alan J. Heeger

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and chemist known for developing conductive polymers

Did you know? He has successfully transitioned his academic research into the business world by helping to launch several technology companies.

Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936) is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.

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Piper Laurie

Oscar-nominated actress known for Carrie and The Hustler

Did you know? She took a fifteen-year break from acting to raise her family before making a successful comeback in the horror classic Carrie.

Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; January 22, 1932 – October 14, 2023) was an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), and the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).

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Sam Cooke

Pioneering singer and songwriter known as the King of Soul

Did you know? He was one of the first major Black artists to found his own record label and music publishing business.

Samuel Cooke (né Cook; January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964) was an American soul singer and songwriter.

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Bruno Kreisky

Long-serving Chancellor of Austria from 1970 to 1983

Did you know? He was the first Jewish head of government in Austrian history and oversaw a period of significant social reform.

Bruno Kreisky (German:; 22 January 1911 – 29 July 1990) was an Austrian social democratic politician who served as foreign minister from 1959 to 1966 and as chancellor from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72, he was the oldest chancellor after World War II.

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U Thant

Burmese diplomat who served as the third UN Secretary-General

Did you know? He played a crucial role in de-escalating the Cuban Missile Crisis by acting as a mediator between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Thant (Burmese: သန့်, MLCTS: san., pronounced; 22 January 1909 – 25 November 1974), known honorifically as U Thant, was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first Asian to hold the position. He held the office for a record 10 years and one month.

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Lev Landau

Nobel Prize-winning Soviet physicist who studied superfluidity and condensed matter

Did you know? He survived a severe car accident that left him in a coma for several months before recovering.

Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian: Лев Дави́дович Ланда́у; 22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.

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Robert E. Howard

American author who created the fictional character Conan the Barbarian

Did you know? He was a prolific writer for pulp magazines and is often credited as the father of the sword and sorcery literary subgenre.

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author, known for writing pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.

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Antonio Gramsci

Italian Marxist thinker who co-founded the Italian Communist Party and wrote his influential Prison Notebooks in Mussolini's jails

Did you know? He wrote his most famous political theories in over thirty notebooks while imprisoned by Mussolini's fascist government.

Antonio Francesco Gramsci (UK: GRAM-shee, US: GRAHM-shee; Italian:; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist and politician. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party.

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Hjalmar Schacht

German economist and banker who served as President of the Reichsbank

Did you know? He was acquitted of all charges at the Nuremberg trials following the Second World War.

Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht (German:; 22 January 1877 – 3 June 1970) was a German economist, banker, politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank during the Weimar Republic.

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D. W. Griffith

Pioneering American director of silent films and cinematic epics

Did you know? He co-founded United Artists alongside legendary film stars Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.

David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, he pioneered many aspects of film editing and expanded the art of the narrative film.

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Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant

French diplomat and winner of the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize

Did you know? He was a tireless advocate for international arbitration and helped establish the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague.

Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque (22 November 1852 – 15 May 1924), was a French diplomat and politician, advocate of international arbitration and winner of the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize.

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August Strindberg

Swedish dramatist whose naturalistic and expressionist plays transformed modern theatre, though his novels and essays also shaped Swedish literature

Johan August Strindberg (Swedish:; 22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.

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Lord Byron

English Romantic poet of Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, famous for his scandalous life and death in the Greek war of independence

Did you know? Forbidden from keeping a dog at Cambridge University, he kept a tame bear in his rooms instead.

George Noel Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets.

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German Enlightenment dramatist and critic of Nathan the Wise and Minna von Barnhelm, a champion of religious tolerance

Did you know? He was a major figure of the Enlightenment and wrote plays that championed the idea of religious tolerance between Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (German:; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic. He was a representative of the Enlightenment.

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Pierre Gassendi

French philosopher and scientist who revived the theory of atomism

Did you know? He was the first person to record an observation of a transit of the planet Mercury across the Sun.

Pierre Gassendi (French:; also Pierre Gassend or Petrus Gassendus; 22 January 1592 – 24 October 1655) was a French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician.

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