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Aurélien Tchouaméni

French international footballer who plays for Real Madrid

Did you know? He was inspired to pursue a career in sports by his father, who was an amateur footballer and corporate executive.

Aurélien Djani Tchouaméni (French pronunciation:; born 27 January 2000) is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or a centre-back for La Liga club Real Madrid and the France national team. Tchouaméni began his senior career with Bordeaux before joining Monaco in 2020.

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Marat Safin

Former world number one tennis player and two-time Grand Slam champion

Did you know? He once estimated that he had smashed more than one thousand rackets during his professional tennis career.

Marat Mubinovich Safin (Russian: Мара́т Муби́нович Са́фин, IPA:; Tatar: Марат Мөбин улы Сафин, romanized: Marat Möbin ulı Safin; born 27 January 1980) is a Russian former professional tennis player and current coach. He was ranked as the world No.

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Rosamund Pike

British actress known for Gone Girl and Die Another Day

Did you know? An accomplished musician, she is a talented cellist and is fluent in both German and French.

Rosamund Mary Ellen Pike (born 1979) is a British actress and producer.

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Ole Einar Bjørndalen

Highly successful Norwegian biathlete with multiple Winter Olympic medals

Did you know? He was so dedicated to hygiene that he famously vacuumed his own hotel rooms to avoid getting sick before important races.

Ole Einar Bjørndalen (Norwegian pronunciation:; born 27 January 1974) is a retired Norwegian professional biathlete and coach, often referred to by the nickname, the "King of Biathlon". With 14 Winter Olympic Games medals, he is second on the list of multiple medalists behind Marit Bjørgen who has won 15 medals.

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Bridget Fonda

American actress known for Single White Female and Jackie Brown

Did you know? She is part of a famous acting dynasty, being the daughter of Peter Fonda and the granddaughter of the legendary Henry Fonda.

Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an American retired actress known for her roles in films such as The Godfather Part III (1990), Single White Female (1992), Singles (1992), Point of No Return (1993), It Could Happen to You (1994), Balto (1995), City Hall (1996), Jackie Brown (1997), A Simple Plan (1998),…

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Samia Suluhu Hassan

Sixth President of Tanzania and the country's first female leader

Did you know? Before entering politics, she worked as a clerk and served as a development officer for the World Food Programme.

Samia Suluhu Hassan ( SAH-mee-ah soo-LOO-hoo HA-san; born 27 January 1960) is a Tanzanian politician and the sixth president of Tanzania, serving since 19 March 2021.

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John Roberts

Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Did you know? During his legal career, he argued thirty-nine cases before the Supreme Court before being appointed to lead it.

John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American jurist who has served since 2005 as the 17th chief justice of the United States.

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Asma Jahangir

Asma Jilani Jahangir (Urdu: عاصمہ جہانگیر, romanized: ʿĀṣimah Jahāṉgīr; 27 January 1952 – 11 February 2018) was a Pakistani human rights lawyer and social activist who co-founded and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and AGHS Legal Aid Cell.

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Mikhail Baryshnikov

Renowned Soviet-born ballet dancer and actor

Did you know? He defected to Canada while on tour in 1974 to seek more creative freedom in Western dance.

Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (born January 27, 1948) is a Latvian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor. He was the preeminent male classical ballet dancer of the 1970s and 1980s.

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Mairead Maguire

Northern Irish peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner

Did you know? She was the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize at the time of her award.

Mairead Maguire (born 27 January 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland.

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Tasuku Honjo

Nobel Prize-winning immunologist who discovered the PD-1 protein

Did you know? His research paved the way for modern cancer treatments that use the body's own immune system to fight tumours.

Tasuku Honjo (本庶 佑, Honjo Tasuku; born January 27, 1942) is a Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist. He won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and is best known for his identification of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1).

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Samuel C. C. Ting

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who co-discovered the J/psi subatomic particle

Did you know? He serves as the principal investigator for a massive particle detector experiment mounted on the International Space Station.

Chao Chung Ting (Chinese: 丁肇中; pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng, born January 27, 1936), also known by his English name Samuel, is a Taiwanese-American particle physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 with Burton Richter for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle.

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Barry C. Barish

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who detected gravitational waves in space

Did you know? He led the international project that successfully proved Albert Einstein’s century-old theory about ripples in the fabric of spacetime.

Barry Clark Barish (born January 27, 1936) is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate. He is a Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at California Institute of Technology and a leading expert on gravitational waves.

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Édith Cresson

First female Prime Minister of France

Did you know? She held the office of Prime Minister for less than a year, which is one of the shortest tenures in modern French history.

Édith Jeanne Thérèse Cresson (French:; née Campion; born 27 January 1934) is a French politician of the Socialist Party. She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992, the first woman to do so and only woman until Élisabeth Borne's appointment in 2022.

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Donna Reed

Oscar-winning actress known for It's a Wonderful Life

Did you know? During the Second World War, she became a popular pin-up girl and personally answered thousands of letters from soldiers.

Donna Reed (born Donna Belle Mullenger; January 27, 1921 – January 14, 1986) was an American actress. Her career spanned more than 40 years and included appearances in over 40 films.

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John Carew Eccles

Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist who studied the human brain

Did you know? He shared the Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning the chemical means by which signals are transmitted between nerve cells.

Sir John Carew Eccles (27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.

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Soong Ching-ling

Prominent Chinese political figure known as the Mother of Modern China

Did you know? She was one of three famous sisters who each married one of the most powerful and influential men in modern Chinese history.

Soong Ch'ing-ling (27 January 1893 – 29 May 1981; Christian name Rosamonde or Rosamond) was a Chinese politician and activist. She was the wife of Sun Yat-sen, therefore known by Madame Sun Yat-sen and the "Mother of Modern China".

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Wilhelm II

Last German Emperor and King of Prussia, whose aggressive policies helped lead to the First World War and who abdicated in 1918

Did you know? He was a first cousin of both the British King George V and the Russian Tsar Nicholas II.

Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor from 1888 until his abdication in 1918. His fall from power marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 400-year rule over Prussia.

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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Austrian writer whose name inspired the term masochism

Did you know? Although best known for his novel Venus in Furs, he also wrote extensively about the folklore and history of his native Galicia.

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (Austrian German:; 27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name, invented by his contemporary, the Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing.

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Lewis Carroll

Oxford mathematician who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and the nonsense poem Jabberwocky

Did you know? Under his real name, Charles Dodgson, he was a mathematician and logician who taught at Oxford University.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon.

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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Architect who restored medieval landmarks including Notre-Dame de Paris

Did you know? He designed the internal iron framework of the Statue of Liberty to ensure it could withstand high winds.

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (French:; 27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879) was a French architect and writer, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Major figure in German idealism and Romantic philosophy

Did you know? He shared a room with fellow philosopher Hegel and the poet Friedrich Hölderlin during their time as university students.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (German:; 27 January 1775 – 20 August 1854) was a German philosopher.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian child prodigy turned composer of more than 600 works, including The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni and the Requiem

Did you know? He once had a pet starling that could reportedly whistle a theme from one of his piano concertos.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a Classical composer and musician.

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Abbas the Great

Powerful Shah of Iran who strengthened the Safavid dynasty

Did you know? He established a professional standing army to reduce the power of tribal factions, significantly modernising his nation's military forces.

Abbas I (Persian: عباس یکم, romanized: Abbâs-e Yekom; 27 January 1571 – 19 January 1629), commonly known as Abbas the Great (Persian: عباس بزرگ, romanized: Abbâs-e Bozorg), was the fifth Safavid shah of Iran from 1588 to 1629.

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