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Ahed Al-Tamimi

Ahed Tamimi (Arabic: عهد التميمي, romanized: ‘Ahad at-Tamīmī, also romanized Ahd; born 31 January 2001) is a Palestinian activist from the village of Nabi Salih in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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Julián Alvarez

Argentine footballer who won the World Cup and Champions League

Did you know? He earned the nickname 'El Arana' because of his ability to keep control of the ball while appearing to have multiple legs.

Julián Alvarez (Spanish pronunciation:; born 31 January 2000) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Argentina national team.

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Nikita Dragun

Nikita Nguyen (born January 31, 1996), known professionally as Nikita Dragun, is an American internet personality, YouTuber, make-up artist, and model.

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Nina Sublati

Georgian singer and model who won Georgian Idol and sang Warrior for Georgia at Eurovision 2015

Did you know? Her debut album became the best-selling album of all time in Georgia.

Nino Sulaberidze (Georgian: ნინო სულაბერიძე, born 31 January 1995), better known by her stage name Nina Sublatti (Georgian: ნინა სუბლატი), is a Georgian singer, songwriter, and model.

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Fabio Quagliarella

Italian striker known for scoring spectacular long-range goals

Did you know? He was once forced to leave his home town club after being targeted by a stalker who sent him thousands of threatening letters.

Fabio Quagliarella (Italian pronunciation:; born 31 January 1983) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a forward. Throughout his career, Quagliarella played for eight different Italian clubs, winning three consecutive Serie A titles from the 2011–12 to 2013–14 seasons with Juventus.

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Helena Paparizou

Greek singer who won the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest

Did you know? She is the only person to secure a Eurovision victory for Greece as a solo artist.

Helena Paparizou (Greek: Έλενα Παπαρίζου; born 31 January 1982) is a Swedish-born Greek singer and television personality. Born and raised in Sweden to Greek parents, she launched her singing career in 1999 as a member of the musical duo Antique, alongside her friend Nikos Panagiotidis.

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Justin Timberlake

Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer.

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Kerry Washington

American actress who starred in the television drama Scandal

Did you know? She attended the same high school as Jennifer Lopez and they shared the same dance teacher.

Kerry Marisa Washington (born January 31, 1977) is an American actress and producer. She has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two Tony Awards.

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Preity Zinta

Indian actress known for her roles in Hindi cinema

Did you know? Before turning to acting, she earned university degrees in English honours and criminal psychology.

Preity G. Zinta (pronounced; born 31 January 1975) is an Indian actress and entrepreneur primarily known for her work in Hindi films. After graduating with degrees in English honours and criminal psychology, Zinta made her acting debut in Dil Se in 1998, followed by a role in Soldier in the same year.

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Portia de Rossi

Actress known for her roles in Arrested Development and Ally McBeal

Did you know? She chose her stage name at the age of fifteen, taking the name Portia from a character in The Merchant of Venice.

Portia Lee James DeGeneres (born Amanda Lee Rogers; 31 January 1973), known professionally as Portia de Rossi, is an Australian-American former actress.

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Nils Muižnieks

Nils Muižnieks (born 31 January 1964 in the United States) is a Latvian human rights defender, European affairs expert and political scientist. He served as the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights between 2012 and 2018, succeeding Thomas Hammarberg (2006–2012) and Álvaro Gil-Robles (1999–2006).

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John Lydon

Lead singer of the Sex Pistols known as Johnny Rotten

Did you know? He was invited to join the band after he was spotted in a London shop wearing a T-shirt held together with safety pins.

John Joseph Lydon ( LY-dən; born 31 January 1956), also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter, author, and television personality.

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Artur Mas

Catalan politician who served as President of the Government of Catalonia

Did you know? He originally worked in the private sector within the electronics and clothing industries before entering regional politics.

Artur Mas i Gavarró (Catalan pronunciation:; born 31 January 1956) is a Catalan politician from Spain. He was president of the Government of Catalonia from 2010 to 2015 and acting president from September 2015 to 12 January 2016.

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Guido van Rossum

Computer scientist who created the Python programming language

Did you know? He named the language after the British comedy troupe Monty Python rather than the snake.

Guido van Rossum (Dutch:; born 31 January 1956) is a Dutch programmer. He is the creator of the Python programming language, for which he was the "benevolent dictator for life" (BDFL) until he stepped down from the position on 12 July 2018.

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Beatrix of the Netherlands

Queen of the Netherlands who reigned for thirty-three years

Did you know? She is an accomplished sculptor and several of her works have been cast in bronze and displayed in public locations.

Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, Dutch pronunciation:; born 31 January 1938) is a member of the Dutch royal house who reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until her abdication in 2013.

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Philip Glass

American composer known for his minimalist musical style

Did you know? He worked as a taxi driver and a plumber in New York even after his famous opera premiered.

Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century.

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Suzanne Pleshette

American actress known for The Birds and The Bob Newhart Show

Did you know? She provided the voice for the character Yubaba in the English-language version of the Oscar-winning animated film Spirited Away.

Suzanne Pleshette (January 31, 1937 – January 19, 2008) was an American actress known for her roles in theatre, film, and television. She was nominated for three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.

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Kenzaburō Ōe

Japanese novelist of A Personal Matter and Hiroshima Notes, a campaigner against nuclear weapons, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? Much of his writing was inspired by his relationship with his son, who was born with a brain injury and became a composer.

Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎, Ōe Kenzaburō; 31 January 1935 – 3 March 2023) was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature.

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Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer

Physicist who discovered the recoil-free emission and absorption of gamma rays

Did you know? He made his groundbreaking discovery while still a doctoral student, leading to a Nobel Prize when he was only thirty-two.

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (German:; 31 January 1929 – 14 September 2011) was a German physicist who shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Hofstadter for his discovery of the Mössbauer effect, which is the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.

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Jean Simmons

British actress known for roles in Guys and Dolls and Hamlet

Did you know? She was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Ophelia opposite Laurence Olivier.

Jean Merilyn Simmons (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was a British actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets", she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards.

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Norman Mailer

American writer known for the novel The Naked and the Dead

Did you know? He co-founded the influential Village Voice newspaper and twice won the Pulitzer Prize.

Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer, journalist, and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II.

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Jackie Robinson

First African American to play in modern Major League Baseball

Did you know? He was a gifted multi-sport athlete at university, becoming the first person to win varsity letters in four different sports at UCLA.

Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.

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Baba Vanga

Bulgarian mystic and herbalist who claimed to have prophetic abilities

Did you know? Her followers believe she predicted many major global events, including the rise of the Islamic State and the Chernobyl disaster.

Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova (née Surcheva; Bulgarian: Вангелия Пандева Гущерова, née Сурчева,; 3 October 1911 – 11 August 1996), commonly known as Baba Vanga (Bulgarian: Баба Ванга, lit. 'Grandmother Vanga'), was a Bulgarian attributed mystic and healer who claimed to have foreseen the future.

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Alva Myrdal

Swedish diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize

Did you know? She and her husband Gunnar are the first married couple to have both won Nobel Prizes in different fields.

Alva Myrdal ( MUR-dahl, MEER-, Swedish:; née Reimer; 31 January 1902 – 1 February 1986) was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician. She was a prominent leader of the disarmament movement.

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