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Rachel Gupta

Rachel Gupta (born 23 January 2004) is an Indian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Grand International 2024, the first Indian to win Miss Grand International. Her reign concluded in May 2025 prematurely after her internal issues with the organization.

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XXXTentacion

Influential American rapper and pioneer of the SoundCloud rap movement

Did you know? His stage name includes the Roman numerals for thirty and a reference to the Spanish word for temptation.

Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy (January 23, 1998 – June 18, 2018), professionally known as XXXTentacion, was an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer.

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Ryōta Ōshima

Japanese midfielder who has won multiple titles with Kawasaki Frontale

Did you know? He represented Japan at the 2018 World Cup and was a key part of the squad that won Asian Games gold.

Ryota Oshima (大島 僚太, Ōshima Ryōta; born 23 January 1993) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Kawasaki Frontale.

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Michael Stevens

Michael David Stevens (born January 23, 1986) is an American educator, public speaker, entertainer, and editor best known for creating and hosting the education YouTube channel Vsauce.

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Arjen Robben

Dutch footballer famous for his pace and skill at Bayern Munich

Did you know? During his career, he won league titles in four different countries: the Netherlands, England, Spain and Germany.

Arjen Robben (Dutch pronunciation:; born 23 January 1984) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a winger. Known for his dribbling skills, speed, and long-range shots, he is regarded as one of the best players of his generation and one of the greatest wingers of all time.

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Magdalena Andersson

First female Prime Minister in the history of Sweden

Did you know? In her youth, she was an elite competitive swimmer, winning several medals at the Swedish national junior championships.

Eva Magdalena Andersson (born 23 January 1967) is a Swedish politician and economist who has served as Leader of the Opposition since 2022 and as Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party since 2021. She has served as a Member of the Riksdag for Stockholm County since 2014.

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Robert Golob

Slovenian politician serving as the Prime Minister of Slovenia

Did you know? He holds a doctorate in electrical engineering and spent time as a visiting researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Robert Golob (born 23 January 1967) is a Slovenian businessman, engineer and politician, serving as Prime Minister of Slovenia from 2022 to 2026 and leader of the Freedom Movement since 2022.

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Joss Whedon

Creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and director of The Avengers

Did you know? He is a third-generation television writer, following in the footsteps of both his father and grandfather.

Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon ( WEE-dən; born June 23, 1964) is an American filmmaker, comic book writer, and composer.

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Elisa Loncon

Elisa Loncón Antileo (born 23 January 1963) is a Mapuche linguist and indigenous rights activist in Chile. In 2021, Loncón was elected as one of the representatives of the Mapuche people for the Chilean Constitutional Convention.

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Megawati Soekarnoputri

First female president of Indonesia and daughter of the nation's founder

Did you know? She was studying psychology at university when her father was removed from power, forcing her to abandon her education.

Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Sukarnoputri (Indonesian:; born 23 January 1947) is an Indonesian politician who served as the fifth president of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004 and the eighth vice president under President Abdurrahman Wahid from 1999 to 2001.

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Boris Berezovsky

Russian businessman and influential political figure during the 1990s

Did you know? Before entering the world of business and politics, he was a distinguished mathematician and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Russian: Борис Абрамович Березовский, Hebrew: בוריס ברזובסקי; 23 January 1946 – 23 March 2013), also known as Platon Elenin, was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician.

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Rutger Hauer

Dutch actor famous for his role in the film Blade Runner

Did you know? He improvised the famous tears in rain speech delivered by his character at the end of Ridley Scott's science fiction masterpiece.

Rutger Oelsen Hauer (Dutch:; 23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019) was a Dutch actor, with a career that spanned over 170 roles across nearly 50 years, beginning in 1969. In 1999, he was named by the Dutch public as the Best Dutch Actor of the Century.

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Derek Walcott

Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright from Saint Lucia

Did you know? He was also a talented painter and often included his own artwork on his book covers.

Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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John Polanyi

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who studied chemical reaction dynamics

Did you know? His father, Michael Polanyi, was also a world-renowned chemist and philosopher who made significant contributions to the field of physical chemistry.

John Charles Polanyi (Hungarian: Polányi János Károly; born 23 January 1929) is a German-born Hungarian-Canadian chemist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in chemical reaction dynamics.

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Jeanne Moreau

Leading actress of the French New Wave cinema

Did you know? She performed her own stunts in several films and was the first woman ever elected to the French Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Jeanne Moreau (French:; 23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française.

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Marija Gimbutas

Archaeologist known for her theories on Neolithic European culture

Did you know? She proposed the Kurgan hypothesis, which identified the origins of the Proto-Indo-European people in the Pontic-Caspian steppe.

Marija Gimbutas (Lithuanian: Marija Birutė Alseikaitė-Gimbutienė, pronounced; January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994) was a Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European…

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Gertrude B. Elion

Biochemist who shared a Nobel Prize for developing new drugs

Did you know? She was inspired to enter the medical field after her grandfather died of cancer, leading her to develop the first chemotherapy drugs.

Gertrude "Trudy" Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their use of innovative methods of rational drug design for the development of new drugs.

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Arthur Lewis

First black person to win the Nobel Prize in Economics

Did you know? He completed his entire school curriculum in seven years and won a scholarship to the London School of Economics at eighteen.

Sir William Arthur Lewis (23 January 1915 – 15 June 1991) was a Saint Lucian economist and the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. Lewis remains the only black person to have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Django Reinhardt

Virtuoso jazz guitarist who pioneered the Gypsy jazz genre

Did you know? He developed a unique playing technique using only two fingers after his hand was severely burned in a fire.

Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django (French: or), was a French jazz guitarist and composer. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe and has been hailed as one of its most significant exponents.

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Hideki Yukawa

Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹, Yukawa Hideki; né Ogawa; 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces."

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Subhas Chandra Bose

Indian nationalist leader who campaigned for independence from British rule

Did you know? He was the first person to address Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation during a radio broadcast.

Subhas Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan left a legacy vexed by authoritarianism, antisemitism, and military…

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Kliment Voroshilov

Soviet military commander and politician under Joseph Stalin

Did you know? The heavy KV tank series used by the Red Army during the Second World War was named in his honour.

Kliment Yefremovich "Klim" Voroshilov (Russian: Климент Ефремович Ворошилов ) (4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin era (1924–1953).

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Otto Diels

German chemist who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering the Diels-Alder reaction

Did you know? His discovery became a fundamental tool in organic chemistry, used widely in the manufacture of medicines and synthetic materials.

Otto Paul Hermann Diels (German:; 23 January 1876 – 7 March 1954) was a German chemist. His most notable work was done with Kurt Alder on the Diels–Alder reaction, a method for cyclohexene synthesis.

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Paul Langevin

French physicist who developed the Langevin equation and Langevin dynamics

Did you know? During the First World War, he pioneered the use of ultrasound waves to detect enemy submarines.

Paul Langevin (23 January 1872 – 19 December 1946) was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an anti-fascist organization created after the 6 February 1934 far right riots.

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