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Niki

Indonesian singer-songwriter signed to the Asian-focused label 88rising

Did you know? She opened for Taylor Swift's concert in Jakarta in 2014.

Nicole Zefanya (born January 24, 1999), known professionally as Niki (stylized in all caps), is an Indonesian singer-songwriter. Having garnered global recognition for her songwriting and musicianship, she is currently based in the United States and signed with the record label 88rising.

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Luis Suárez

Uruguayan striker who is his country's record goalscorer and starred for Ajax, Liverpool and Barcelona

Did you know? He worked as a street cleaner as a teenager to save enough money to visit his future wife in Spain.

Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz (Spanish pronunciation:; born 24 January 1987) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Major League Soccer club Inter Miami. He is regarded as one of the best players of his generation and one of the greatest strikers of all time.

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Mischa Barton

Actress best known for starring in the teen drama The O.C

Did you know? One of her earliest screen roles was playing the ghost of a young girl in the supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense.

Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born 24 January 1986) is a British and American film, television, and stage actress. She began her career on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushner's Slavs!

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Yetnebersh Nigussie

Yetnebersh Nigussie (Amharic: የትነበርሽ ንጉሴ; born 24 January 1982) is an Ethiopian lawyer and disability rights activist.

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Alicia Keys

classical piano foundation and soulful voice that produced hits like 'Fallin'' and 'No One', plus humanitarian work with Keep a Child Alive

Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. A classically trained pianist, Keys began composing songs at the age of 12 and was signed by Columbia Records at 15.

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Maria Elena Boschi

Italian politician and former Minister for Constitutional Reforms

Did you know? She is a qualified lawyer and began her political career as a local official in the city of Florence.

Maria Elena Boschi (Italian pronunciation:; born 24 January 1981) is an Italian lawyer and politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2013. A Roman catholic, among her supporters she is widely known by the acronym MEB.

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Nik Wallenda

Nikolas Wallenda (born January 24, 1979) is an American acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, high wire artist, and author. He is known for his high-wire performances without a safety net.

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Matthew Lillard

Actor best known for playing Shaggy in the Scooby-Doo films

Did you know? He was selected to become the official voice of Shaggy in cartoons following the retirement of the original actor.

Matthew Lyn Lillard (born January 24, 1970) is an American actor, director, and producer. His early film roles include the black comedy Serial Mom (1994) and the crime thriller Hackers (1995).

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Nastassja Kinski

German actress known for roles in Tess and Paris, Texas

Did you know? A famous photograph of her posed with a large Burmese python became one of the most iconic images of the nineteen-eighties.

Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (German:; née Nakszynski, Polish:; born 24 January 1961) is a German actress and former model. She has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States.

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Guido Buchwald

German footballer who won the World Cup as a defender

Did you know? He earned the nickname 'Diego' after successfully marking Diego Maradona out of the 1990 World Cup final.

Guido Ulrich Buchwald (born 24 January 1961) is a German former professional football player. Throughout his career he played as a defender.

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Moon Jae-in

Former President of South Korea who served from 2017 to 2022

Did you know? Before entering politics, he served in the South Korean special forces and worked as a human rights lawyer.

Moon Jae-in (Korean: 문재인, pronounced; born 24 January 1953) is a South Korean politician and lawyer who served as the 12th president of South Korea from 2017 to 2022.

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Daniel Auteuil

Award-winning French actor and director

Did you know? He was born in Algeria while his parents, who were both opera singers, were performing on tour there.

Daniel Auteuil (French:; born 24 January 1950) is a French actor and director who has appeared in a wide range of film genres, including period dramas, romantic comedies, and crime thrillers.

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John Belushi

Comedic actor and original cast member of Saturday Night Live

Did you know? On a single weekend in 1978, he had the number one film, the top-rated television show and a chart-topping music album.

John Adam Belushi ( bə-LOO-shee; January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and musician. He was one of seven Saturday Night Live cast members of the first season.

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Michio Kaku

Theoretical physicist and science communicator specialising in the future of technology

Did you know? As a teenager, he built a working particle accelerator in his parents' garage for a school science fair.

Michio Kaku (born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular science. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.

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Sharon Tate

American actress and fashion icon of the nineteen sixties

Did you know? She was nominated for a Golden Globe for her breakout role in the film adaptation of Valley of the Dolls.

Sharon Marie Tate Polanski (January 24, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American actress and model. During the 1960s, she appeared in advertisements and small television roles before appearing in films as well as working as a model.

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Dan Shechtman

Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered the existence of quasicrystals

Did you know? His discovery was initially so controversial that his lab head told him to go back and read the textbooks before asking him to leave.

Dan Shechtman (Hebrew: דן שכטמן; born January 24, 1941) is an Israeli chemist, the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University.

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Neil Diamond

American singer-songwriter behind hits like Sweet Caroline

Did you know? He attended New York University on a fencing scholarship before dropping out to pursue a career as a songwriter.

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 56.5 million records in the US alone, making him one of the best-selling musicians in history.

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Joachim Gauck

Former President of Germany and anti-communist civil rights activist

Did you know? Before entering politics, he was a Lutheran pastor who led weekly prayers for peace in East Germany during the late eighties.

Joachim Wilhelm Gauck (German:; born 24 January 1940) is a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2012 to 2017. A former Lutheran pastor, he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.

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Ernest Borgnine

Oscar-winning actor known for Marty and The Dirty Dozen

Did you know? He served in the United States Navy for ten years before pursuing an acting career following the end of the Second World War.

Ernest Borgnine ( BORG-nyne; born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades. He was noted for his gruff but relaxed voice and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin.

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Walter Model

German field marshal noted for his defensive strategies during World War II

Did you know? Often called Hitler's Fireman, he was frequently sent to stabilise failing front lines during the latter half of the conflict.

Otto Moritz Walter Model (IPA:; 24 January 1891 – 21 April 1945) was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. Although he was a hard-driving, aggressive panzer commander early in the war, Model became best known as a practitioner of defensive warfare.

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Edith Wharton

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Age of Innocence

Did you know? She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was also a highly regarded landscape architect and interior designer.

Edith Newbold Wharton (née Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.

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Nikolay Dobrolyubov

Influential Russian literary critic and revolutionary philosopher

Did you know? Despite dying at the age of twenty-five, his radical writings became essential reading for future political leaders like Vladimir Lenin.

Nikolay Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov (Russian: Николай Александрович Добролюбов, IPA:; 5 February 1836 – 29 November 1861) was a Russian poet, literary critic, journalist, and prominent figure of the Russian revolutionary movement. He was a literary hero to both Karl Marx and Lenin.

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E. T. A. Hoffmann

German author of the story that inspired The Nutcracker ballet

Did you know? He was a multi-talented artist who also worked as a judge, a music critic, and a professional composer.

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist.

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Gustav III of Sweden

Swedish monarch who re-established absolute rule and promoted the arts

Did you know? He was fatally wounded by an assassin during a masquerade ball, an event that inspired Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Un ballo in maschera.

Gustav III (24 January 1746 – 29 March 1792), also called Gustavus III, was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden.

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