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Mario Gómez

German international striker who won the Champions League with Bayern Munich

Did you know? He held dual citizenship and was eligible to play for Spain through his father before choosing to represent Germany.

Mario Gómez García (German pronunciation:; born 10 July 1985) is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker. He represented the Germany national team over a period of 11 years between 2007 and 2018.

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Golshifteh Farahani

Acclaimed Iranian actress who starred in Body of Lies and Paterson

Did you know? She was the first actress living in Iran to appear in a major Hollywood film since the late 1970s.

Rahavard Farahani (Persian: رهاورد فراهانی; born 10 July 1983), known professionally as Golshifteh Farahani (گلشیفته فراهانی), is an Iranian actress.

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Jessica Simpson

American singer and fashion designer with a global retail empire

Did you know? She famously auditioned for The Mickey Mouse Club as a child but failed to get a part alongside Britney Spears.

Jessica Ann Johnson (née Simpson; born July 10, 1980) is an American singer, actress, and fashion designer. After performing in church choirs as a child, Simpson signed with Columbia Records in 1997 at age seventeen.

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Chiwetel Ejiofor

British actor nominated for an Oscar for 12 Years a Slave, also acclaimed for Othello on stage and Dirty Pretty Things

Did you know? He survived a serious car accident in Nigeria as a child which left him with distinctive scars on his forehead.

Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor (born 10 July 1977) is a British actor and director. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards.

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Stefán Karl Stefánsson

Icelandic actor who played the antagonist in the series LazyTown

Did you know? His performance inspired a massive internet following and a viral video campaign that raised money for his medical care.

Stefán Karl Stefánsson ( STEF-ən STEF-ən-sən, Icelandic:; 10 July 1975 – 21 August 2018) was an Icelandic actor and singer. He was best known for portraying Robbie Rotten, the antagonist of the children's television series LazyTown.

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Ashin Wirathu

Wirathu (born Win Khaing Oo; 10 July 1968) is a Burmese Buddhist monk and militant who is the leader of the 969 Movement in Myanmar. Dubbed the "face of Buddhist terror", he has incited the persecution of Muslims in Myanmar, especially the Rohingya minority, through his speeches.

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Tô Lâm

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam

Did you know? He served as the President of Vietnam before being appointed to the nation's most powerful political role as General Secretary.

Tô Lâm (Vietnamese:; born 10 July 1957) is a Vietnamese politician and former police officer who since 2024 has served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), the highest-ranked position of the Vietnamese politics, and as the current President of Vietnam since 2026.

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Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Lee Sheehan (née Miller; born July 10, 1957) is an American anti-war activist, whose son, U.S. Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed by enemy action during the Iraq War.

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Rajnath Singh

Senior Indian politician serving as the Minister of Defence

Did you know? Before joining politics, he worked as a physics lecturer at a college in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh.

Rajnath Singh (Hindi pronunciation:; born 10 July 1951) is an Indian politician and lecturer who is serving as the 29th Minister of Defence since 2019 and as the Deputy Leader of the House, Lok Sabha since 2014. He is a Member of Parliament from Lucknow since 2014.

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Prokopis Pavlopoulos

President of Greece from twenty-fifteen to twenty-twenty and legal scholar

Did you know? Before entering politics, he was a prominent professor of administrative law at the University of Athens.

Prokopios "Prokopis" Pavlopoulos (Greek: Προκόπιος "Προκόπης" Παυλόπουλος, pronounced; born 10 July 1950) is a Greek retired politician, who served as the president of Greece from 2015 to 2020. A member of New Democracy, he previously was Minister of the Interior from 2004 to 2009.

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Arthur Ashe

American tennis champion and winner of three Grand Slam singles titles

Did you know? He was the first black man to win the singles titles at Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australian Open.

Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was an American professional tennis player.

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Ronnie James Dio

Heavy metal singer for Black Sabbath, Rainbow and his own band

Did you know? He is widely credited with popularising the 'devil horns' hand gesture in rock and metal music.

Ronald James Padavona (July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010), known professionally as Ronnie James Dio, was an American singer and musician. He fronted numerous bands throughout his career, including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and Heaven & Hell.

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Alice Munro

Canadian short-story writer of Dance of the Happy Shades and Runaway, hailed as a master of the form and a Nobel laureate

Did you know? She opened a bookshop with her first husband in Victoria, British Columbia, which is still in business today.

Alice Ann Munro ( mən-ROH; née Laidlaw; 10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, with integrated short story cycles.

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Mahathir Mohamad

Malaysian prime minister for 22 years who transformed the economy and returned to power at 92 in 2018

Did you know? At the age of ninety-two, he became the oldest serving world leader after coming out of retirement to win a general election.

Mahathir bin Mohamad (Jawi: محاضر بن محمد; Malay:; born 10 July 1925) is a Malaysian politician, physician and author who served as the fourth and seventh prime minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and again from 2018 to 2020.

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Owen Chamberlain

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped discover the antiproton

Did you know? Before his award-winning research, he worked as part of the team on the Manhattan Project during the Second World War.

Owen Chamberlain (July 10, 1920 – February 28, 2006) was an American physicist who shared with Emilio Segrè the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle.

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Kurt Alder

Nobel Prize-winning chemist known for the Diels-Alder reaction

Did you know? The chemical reaction he co-discovered is essential for the modern manufacture of many medicines, pesticides, and synthetic materials.

Kurt Alder (German pronunciation:; 10 July 1902 – 20 June 1958) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

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Carl Orff

German composer best known for the dramatic cantata Carmina Burana

Did you know? He developed a widely used method of music education for children that focuses on the connection between rhythm and movement.

Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (German:; 10 July 1895 – 29 March 1982) was a German composer and music educator who is best known for composing the cantata Carmina Burana and formulating concepts of his Schulwerk (lit. 'schoolwork'), which became influential for children's music education.

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Giorgio de Chirico

Artist who founded the influential Metaphysical school of painting

Did you know? His eerie, dreamlike depictions of deserted Italian squares and mannequins were a major influence on the development of the Surrealist movement.

Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( KIRR-ik-oh; Italian:; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was a Greek-Italian artist and writer born in Volos, Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists.

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Marcel Proust

French novelist whose vast In Search of Lost Time, sparked by the taste of a madeleine, explores memory and time

Did you know? He lived in a cork-lined bedroom to block out noise and dust while writing his massive literary masterpiece.

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( PROOST; French:; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu (translated into English as In Search of Lost Time, earlier Remembrance of Things Past), which was published in…

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Prince Maximilian of Baden

German statesman who served as the last Imperial Chancellor

Did you know? He took it upon himself to announce the Kaiser's abdication to the public before the monarch had actually agreed to step down.

Maximilian, Margrave of Baden (Maximilian Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm; 10 July 1867 – 6 November 1929), also known as Max von Baden, was a German aristocrat, general and politician.

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Nikola Tesla

Serbian-American inventor who developed the alternating-current electrical system and the induction motor that power the modern world

Did you know? He had an extreme obsession with the number three and would only stay in hotel rooms with numbers divisible by it.

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

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James McNeill Whistler

Painter known for the portrait popularly called Whistler's Mother

Did you know? He was expelled from the West Point military academy after failing chemistry, later remarking that if silicon were a gas he would be a general.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".

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Camille Pissarro

Danish-French Impressionist painter born in the Virgin Islands

Did you know? He was the only artist to exhibit his work at all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions in Paris.

Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( piss-AR-oh; French:; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies).

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George M. Dallas

Eleventh Vice President of the United States and diplomat

Did you know? The city of Dallas in Texas is widely believed to have been named in his honour while he was serving as Vice President.

George Mifflin Dallas (July 10, 1792 – December 31, 1864) was an American politician and diplomat who served as the 11th vice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849. He also served as the mayor of Philadelphia from 1828 to 1829, and as the U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom from 1856 to 1861.

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