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Ester Expósito

Spanish actress who became an international star as Carla in the Netflix teen drama Elite

Did you know? She won Best Actress at the Madrid Theatre Awards as a teenager.

Ester Expósito Gayoso (born 26 January 2000) is a Spanish actress. She is best known for her starring role as Carla Rosón Caleruega in the Netflix teen drama series Elite (2018–2021).

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Moonbin

South Korean singer and dancer in the boy group Astro, who began as a child actor in Boys Over Flowers

Did you know? His younger sister Moon Sua is a member of the girl group Billlie.

Moon Bin (Korean: 문빈; January 26, 1998 – April 19, 2023), also known professionally as Moonbin, was a South Korean singer, actor, and dancer under the label Fantagio. He was a member of the South Korean boy group Astro and its sub-unit Moonbin & Sanha.

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Alex Sandro

Brazilian defender who won several league titles with Juventus

Did you know? Before moving to Italy, he won the most prestigious club trophy in South American football alongside his friend Neymar.

Alex Sandro Lobo Silva (born 26 January 1991), better known as Alex Sandro (Brazilian Portuguese:) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo.

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Gojko Kačar

Serbian international footballer who played in the German Bundesliga

Did you know? He comes from a family of elite athletes, as both of his uncles won Olympic boxing medals for the former Yugoslavia.

Gojko Kačar (Serbian Cyrillic: Гојко Качар, pronounced; born 26 January 1987) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Kim Jae-joong

South Korean singer who rose to fame with TVXQ, co-founded JYJ and helped change rules on idol contracts

Did you know? He was adopted as a baby and grew up with eight older sisters.

Kim Jae-joong (Korean: 김재중; born January 26, 1986), also known mononymously as Jaejoong in South Korea and Jejung/J-Jun (ジェジュン) in Japan, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, actor and director.

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Volha Kavalkova

Olga Kovalkova, also known as Volha Kavalkova (Belarusian: Вольга Аляксандраўна Кавалькова, romanized: Voĺha Aliaksandraŭna Kavaĺkova, Russian: Ольга Александровна Ковалькова; born 26 January 1984), is a Belarusian activist and a member of the presidium of the Coordination Council of Belarus that was formed by the…

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Brendan Rodgers

Football manager known for leading Leicester City and Celtic

Did you know? He was forced to retire from playing professional football at the age of twenty due to a genetic knee condition.

Brendan Rodgers (born 26 January 1973) is a Northern Irish professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Saudi Pro League side Al Qadsiah.

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Kevin McCarthy

Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Did you know? He made history by becoming the first speaker ever to be removed from the position by a vote of the House.

Kevin Owen McCarthy (born January 26, 1965) is an American politician who served as the 55th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from January to October 2023.

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José Mourinho

Portuguese manager known as the Special One who won the Champions League with Porto and Inter and league titles in four countries

Did you know? He is one of the few managers to have won league titles in four different European countries, including England and Spain.

José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix (European Portuguese pronunciation:; born 26 January 1963) is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of La Liga club Real Madrid. Nicknamed "The Special One", he is one of the most decorated managers of all time.

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Wayne Gretzky

Record-breaking ice hockey player and all-time leading scorer in the NHL

Did you know? He was so dominant that his jersey number, 99, was retired across the entire National Hockey League upon his retirement.

Wayne Douglas Gretzky ( GRET-skee; born January 26, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and head coach. He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999.

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Carol Yager

Carol Ann Yager (January 26, 1960 – July 18, 1994) was an American woman who is the heaviest woman ever recorded and one of the most severely obese people in history.

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Ellen DeGeneres

American television host and comedian known for her long-running chat show

Did you know? She is a distant cousin of Catherine, Princess of Wales, as they both share a common ancestor from the fifteenth century.

Ellen Lee DeGeneres ( də-JEN-ər-əs; born January 26, 1958) is an American comedian, actress, television host, writer, and producer. She began her career in stand-up comedy in the early 1980s, gaining national attention with a 1986 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

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Eddie Van Halen

Pioneering rock guitarist and co-founder of the band Van Halen

Did you know? He never learned to read music and instead played entirely by ear, even when performing complex classical-style pieces.

Edward Lodewijk Van Halen ( van HAY-lən; Dutch:; January 26, 1955 – October 6, 2020) was an American musician and songwriter.

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Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Former Prime Minister of Denmark and Secretary General of NATO

Did you know? He was the first former head of government to hold the position of Secretary General in the history of the NATO alliance.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Danish:; born 26 January 1953) is a Danish politician who was the prime minister of Denmark from November 2001 to April 2009 and the secretary general of NATO from August 2009 to October 2014.

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Jörg Haider

Far-right Austrian politician and leader of the Freedom Party

Did you know? His party's success in the nineteen nineties led to the European Union imposing diplomatic sanctions on Austria.

Jörg Haider (German:; 26 January 1950 – 11 October 2008) was an Austrian politician. He was Governor of Carinthia on two occasions, the long-time leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and later Chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (Bündnis Zukunft Österreich, BZÖ), a breakaway party from the FPÖ.

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Angela Davis

American political activist, philosopher and university professor

Did you know? She was once on the FBI's most wanted list but was later acquitted of all charges in court.

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, author. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Roger Vadim

French film director who directed And God Created Woman

Did you know? He was famously married to Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda, and had a child with Catherine Deneuve.

Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (French:; 26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director, and producer, as well as an author, artist, and occasional actor.

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Paul Newman

Award-winning actor known for films including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Did you know? He was a professional racing driver who successfully competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing second in his class.

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, filmmaker, racecar driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He has been described as "one of the last of the great 20th-century movie stars".

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Akio Morita

Japanese entrepreneur and co-founder of the Sony Corporation

Did you know? He personally oversaw the development of the Walkman because he wanted a portable way to listen to opera during his frequent flights.

Akio Morita (盛田 昭夫, Morita Akio; January 26, 1921 – October 3, 1999) was a Japanese entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka.

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Nicolae Ceaușescu

Communist dictator of Romania for 24 years who was overthrown and executed with his wife in the 1989 revolution

Did you know? His long period of authoritarian rule ended abruptly when he was overthrown and executed on Christmas Day during a popular uprising.

Nicolae Ceaușescu (8 February 1918 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian politician who was the second and last leader of Communist Romania as general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 until his overthrow and execution in 1989.

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Polykarp Kusch

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who measured the magnetic moment of electrons

Did you know? Born in Germany, he moved to the United States as a child and later worked on the Manhattan Project.

Polykarp Kusch (German:; January 26, 1911 – March 20, 1993) was a German–American physicist who shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate determination that the electron magnetic moment was greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of and innovations in…

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Seán MacBride

Irish statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Did you know? He is one of the very few individuals to have been awarded both the Nobel Peace Prize and the Lenin Peace Prize.

Seán MacBride (26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988) was an Irish republican activist, politician, and diplomat who served as Minister for External Affairs from 1948 to 1951, Leader of Clann na Poblachta from 1946 to 1965 and Chief of Staff of the IRA from 1936 to 1937. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1947 to 1957.

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Edward Sapir

American linguist who studied the structure of indigenous languages

Did you know? He was a composer and pianist who believed that music and language were deeply interconnected.

Edward Sapir (January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, and one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States.

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Douglas MacArthur

American five-star general who led Allied forces in the Pacific, ran post-war Japan and commanded UN troops in Korea

Did you know? He was the only person ever to be a field marshal in the Philippine Army and received the Medal of Honor for his leadership.

Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American general.

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