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Dušan Vlahović

Serbian striker who plays for Juventus and his national team

Did you know? He became the youngest player ever to appear in a Belgrade derby match for Partizan.

Dušan Vlahović (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Влаховић; born 28 January 2000) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Süper Lig club Beşiktaş and the Serbia national team. Graduating from Partizan's youth system, Vlahović made his first-team debut in 2016, winning a league title and two Serbian Cups.

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Maluma

Medellín-born reggaeton star known for romantic hits, collaborations with Shakira and Madonna, and the film Marry Me

Did you know? He played youth football for Atlético Nacional before turning to music.

Juan Luis Londoño Arias (born 28 January 1994), known professionally as Maluma, is a Colombian rapper, singer-songwriter, and actor. Born and raised in Medellín, he developed an interest in music at a young age, recording songs since age sixteen.

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Will Poulter

British actor known for We're the Millers and The Revenant

Did you know? He won the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2014, beating a strong field of nominees including Lupita Nyong'o and George MacKay.

William Jack Poulter (born 28 January 1993) is an English actor. Known for his work in film and television, his accolades include a British Academy Film Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Shruti Haasan

Chennai-born actress and singer from the Haasan film family, known for Gabbar Singh, Srimanthudu and Salaar

Did you know? She sang on film soundtracks as a child, including songs composed by Ilaiyaraaja.

Shruti Haasan (born 28 January 1986) is an Indian actress and singer who predominantly works in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. One of the highest paid actresses in South Indian cinema, Haasan is the recipient of various accolades, including two Filmfare Awards South and seven SIIMA Awards.

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J. Cole

North Carolina rapper and producer behind 2014 Forest Hills Drive and KOD, and founder of the Dreamville record label

Did you know? He graduated magna cum laude from St. John's University in New York.

Jermaine Lamarr Cole (born January 28, 1985) is an American rapper and record producer. Born on a military base in Germany and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Cole initially gained attention as a rapper following the release of his debut mixtape, The Come Up, in early 2007.

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Cynthia Olavarría

Cynthia Enid Olavarría Rivera (born January 28, 1982 in Santurce) is a Puerto Rican actress, fashion model, TV host and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2005 and placed 1st Runner-Up at Miss Universe 2005.

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Elijah Wood

Actor best known for playing Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings

Did you know? He made his film debut as a young boy with a small role in the science fiction sequel Back to the Future Part II.

Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor and producer.

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Yasuhito Endo

Japanese footballer who is the most capped player for his country

Did you know? He spent more than two decades playing for the same club, Gamba Osaka, where he became a legendary figure in the Japanese game.

Yasuhito Endō (遠藤 保仁, Endō Yasuhito; born 28 January 1980) is a Japanese former footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently the assistant manager of J1 League club, Gamba Osaka.

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Nick Carter

Youngest member of the Backstreet Boys, the boy band behind I Want It That Way and the record-breaking album Millennium

Did you know? His younger brother Aaron Carter also became a pop star as a child.

Nickolas Gene Carter (born January 28, 1980) is an American singer and a lead vocalist of the vocal group Backstreet Boys.

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Gianluigi Buffon

Italian goalkeeper who won the 2006 World Cup, ten Serie A titles with Juventus and earned 176 caps for Italy

Did you know? He spent two decades playing for Juventus and holds the record for the most appearances in the history of Serie A.

Gianluigi "Gigi" Buffon (Italian pronunciation:; born 28 January 1978) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Jamie Carragher

Liverpool defender who made over seven hundred appearances for the club

Did you know? Despite becoming a club legend at Liverpool, he was a devoted supporter of local rivals Everton during his childhood.

James Lee Duncan Carragher ( KARR-ə-ghər; born 28 January 1978) is an English football analyst and former player who played as a defender. A one-club man, he was Liverpool's vice-captain for ten years and has made the second-most appearances for the club, the most in the Premier League era.

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Nicolas Sarkozy

Centre-right politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012 and was later convicted in corruption cases

Did you know? He is married to the Italian-born singer and former fashion model Carla Bruni.

Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa ( sar-KOH-zee; French:; born 28 January 1955) is a French former politician who served as the president of the French Republic from 2007 to 2012. Sarkozy was born in Paris.

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Hamad II of Bahrain

King of Bahrain who transformed the country from an emirate

Did you know? He is a keen sportsman and has served as the president of the Bahrain Amateur Athletics Association.

Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa (Arabic: حمد بن عيسى بن سلمان آل خليفة; born 28 January 1950) is King of Bahrain, having reigned since 2002, and was previously Emir of Bahrain since 1999.

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Carlos Slim

Mexican business magnate and former world's richest person

Did you know? Despite his vast wealth and ownership of telecommunications giants, he famously does not use a computer and prefers to keep paper records.

Carlos Slim Helú (Spanish:; born 28 January 1940) is a Mexican business oligarch, investor and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by Forbes business magazine.

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Tomas Lindahl

Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered how cells repair damaged DNA

Did you know? Although born and educated in Sweden, he spent over thirty years leading a research laboratory at a cancer charity in the United Kingdom.

Tomas Robert Lindahl (born 28 January 1938) is a Swedish-British scientist specialising in cancer research. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

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Ismail Kadare

Albanian novelist and winner of the International Booker Prize

Did you know? He frequently used myths and historical allegories to subtly criticise the repressive political regime in his home country.

Ismail Kadare (Albanian:; 28 January 1936 – 1 July 2024) was an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright.

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Alan Alda

American actor best known for the television series M*A*S*H

Did you know? He is the only person to win Emmys for acting, directing and writing for the same television series.

Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo (born January 28, 1936), known professionally as Alan Alda, is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Robert W. Holley

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who sequenced transfer RNA

Did you know? It took his team seven years of intensive research to determine the sequence of just 77 nucleotides in a molecule of yeast.

Robert William Holley (January 28, 1922 – February 11, 1993) was an American biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 (with Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall Warren Nirenberg) for describing the structure of alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis.

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Jackson Pollock

American Abstract Expressionist painter famous for dripping and pouring paint onto canvases laid on the floor

Did you know? Before finding fame as an artist, he worked as a janitor at a museum in New York City.

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, he was noted for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles.

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Arthur Rubinstein

Polish-American classical pianist known for his interpretations of Chopin

Did you know? He gave his first public performance at the age of seven and continued performing internationally until he was eighty-nine.

Arthur Rubinstein (Polish: Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 1887 – 20 December 1982) was a Polish and American pianist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of his day, he received international acclaim for his interpretations of classical music compositions, particularly Chopin.

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Colette

French author known for writing Gigi and the Claudine novels

Did you know? Before becoming a literary success, she spent years performing as a mime artist in music halls across Paris.

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (French:; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette or as Colette Willy, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist.

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José Martí

Cuban national hero, poet and leader of the independence movement

Did you know? The lyrics of the famous song Guantanamera were adapted from one of his most celebrated collections of poetry.

José Julián Martí Pérez (Spanish:; 28 January 1853 – 19 May 1895) was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the liberation of his country from Spain.

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Henry Morton Stanley

Explorer known for finding David Livingstone in Africa

Did you know? He fought on both sides of the American Civil War, serving in the Confederate Army before joining the Union Navy.

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author, and politician famous for his exploration of Central Africa and search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

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George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen

British Prime Minister during the early years of the Crimean War

Did you know? He was a dedicated scholar of ancient Greece and was often referred to as 'the Athenian' by his peers.

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in foreign affairs.

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