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Caroline Wozniacki

Danish tennis champion and former world number one

Did you know? She completed the New York City Marathon while she was still an active professional on the tennis tour.

Caroline Wozniacki (Danish:; born 11 July 1990) is a Danish former professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the world No.

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Yoann Gourcuff

French former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder

Did you know? During the early part of his career, his elegant playing style led many to label him the successor to Zinedine Zidane.

Yoann Miguel Gourcuff (born 11 July 1986) is a French former professional footballer who played mainly as an attacking midfielder. He could also be utilized as a withdrawn striker; he was described as a "playmaker of real quality", "an accomplished passer of the ball".

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Henrique Capriles

Venezuelan politician and two-time presidential candidate

Did you know? His maternal grandparents were Jewish refugees who fled Poland during the Second World War to escape the Holocaust.

Henrique Capriles Radonski (Spanish pronunciation:; born 11 July 1972) is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer, who served as the 36th Governor of Miranda from 2008 to 2017.

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies

Did you know? Although English is her first language, she has spent much of her recent career writing and publishing books in Italian.

Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (Bengali pronunciation:; born July 11, 1967) is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian.

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Jafar Panahi

Award-winning Iranian filmmaker known for his socially conscious cinema

Did you know? Despite facing a long-term ban on filmmaking in his home country, he has continued to produce acclaimed movies in secret.

Jafar Panahi (Persian: جعفر پناهی, pronounced; born 11 July 1960) is an Iranian filmmaker and actor. He is known internationally for his artistic contributions to post-1979 Revolution Iranian cinema, and he has been associated with the Iranian New Wave.

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Abdel Fattah al-Burhan

Sudanese military general and current de facto leader of Sudan

Did you know? He rose through the ranks of the Sudanese army after receiving military training in both Egypt and Jordan.

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman al-Burhan (born 11 July 1960) is a Sudanese military officer who has been the leader of Sudan since 2019.

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Tomoyuki Kajino

Japanese international footballer who played as a defender for his country

Did you know? His younger brother Akira was also a professional defender, and the two siblings once competed against each other in the Japanese top division.

Tomoyuki Kajino (梶野 智幸, Kajino Tomoyuki; born July 11, 1960) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

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Suzanne Vega

American singer-songwriter known for Luka and Tom's Diner

Did you know? Her song Tom's Diner was used by researchers to refine the MP3 compression format, earning her the nickname Mother of the MP3.

Suzanne Nadine Vega (née Peck; born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter of folk-inspired music. Vega's music career spans 40 years.

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Hugo Sánchez

Mexican striker who was a leading goalscorer for Real Madrid

Did you know? He is famous for his celebratory somersaults and qualified as a dentist while playing professional football.

Hugo Sánchez Márquez (born 11 July 1958) is a Mexican former professional footballer and manager, who played as a forward.

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Amitav Ghosh

Award-winning Indian novelist known for works such as The Sea of Poppies

Did you know? He was the first writer to be awarded the prestigious Jnanpith Award for a body of work written in English.

Amitav Ghosh (Bengali pronunciation:; born 11 July 1956) is an American writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour.

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Stephen Lang

Stephen Lang (born July 11, 1952) is an American stage and screen actor. He gained fame for his role as Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron's Avatar (2009), for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Nikolai Patrushev

Russian politician and former head of the Federal Security Service

Did you know? He worked alongside Vladimir Putin in the KGB during the 1970s and later succeeded him as the director of the FSB.

Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev (Russian: Николай Платонович Патрушев; born 11 July 1951) is a Russian politician, security officer and former intelligence officer who served as the secretary of the Security Council of Russia from 2008 to 2024.

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Howard Gardner

American psychologist who developed the theory of multiple intelligences

Did you know? He proposed that human intelligence is not a single ability but is composed of several distinct types, such as musical and logical-mathematical.

Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University. He was a founding member of Harvard Project Zero in 1967 and held leadership roles at that research center from 1972 to 2023.

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Giorgio Armani

Italian fashion designer and founder of a luxury brand

Did you know? Before starting his career in fashion, he spent several years studying medicine and worked as a window dresser.

Giorgio Armani (Italian:; 11 July 1934 – 4 September 2025) was an Italian fashion designer and founder of the Armani luxury fashion house.

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Harold Bloom

Respected American literary critic and long-serving Yale University professor

Did you know? He was known for his incredible reading speed and claimed to be able to finish a book in less than an hour.

Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world".

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Yul Brynner

Oscar-winning actor known for The King and I

Did you know? He was an accomplished photographer who took numerous behind-the-scenes photos on the sets of his major films.

Yuliy Borisovich Briner (Russian: Юлий Борисович Бринер; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985), known professionally as Yul Brynner (Russian: Юл Бриннер), was a Russian and American actor.

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Alexander Prokhorov

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who co-invented the laser

Did you know? He was wounded while serving as an infantryman during the second world war before returning to his scientific research.

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff; Russian: Александр Михайлович Прохоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Soviet physicist and researcher whose work focused on quantum electronics. His most famous and well-known works were on optics and electromagnetic research.

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Gough Whitlam

Australian Prime Minister who led the country from 1972 to 1975

Did you know? He was the first Labor Prime Minister of Australia to hold the position in 23 years.

Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 1916 – 21 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975.

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Thomas Mitchell

Character actor who starred in Stagecoach and Gone with the Wind

Did you know? He was the first person to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony Award.

Thomas John Mitchell (Irish: Tomás Séan Mistéal; July 11, 1892 – December 17, 1962) was an American character actor, writer, and theater director. He is considered one of the both greatest supporting and character actors of the Golden Age of Hollywood and a leading man on Broadway.

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Carl Schmitt

German jurist and political theorist known for his critiques of liberalism

Did you know? His controversial legal theories regarding the power of the state were used by the Nazi party to justify their authoritarian rule.

Carl Schmitt (11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist and political philosopher. An authoritarian conservative, he was noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism.

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John Quincy Adams

Son of John Adams who served as the sixth US President and later fought slavery in Congress for 17 years

Did you know? He was known for his habit of skinny-dipping in the Potomac River early every morning.

John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825; minister to Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia; and senator for Massachusetts.

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Jérôme Lalande

French astronomer who calculated the distance from Earth to the Sun

Did you know? He was so dedicated to science that he reportedly used to eat spiders as a way to prove they were not actually poisonous.

Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (French:; 11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer, freemason and writer. He is known for having estimated a precise value of the astronomical unit (the distance from the Earth to the Sun) using measurements of the transit of Venus in 1769.

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Frederick I of Prussia

The first King of Prussia who reigned in the early 1700s

Did you know? He was originally titled King in Prussia because his lands were technically located outside the borders of the Holy Roman Empire.

Frederick I (German: Friedrich I.; 11 July 1657 – 25 February 1713), of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was (as Frederick III) Elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and Duke of Prussia in personal union (Brandenburg–Prussia). The latter function he upgraded to royalty, becoming the first King in Prussia (1701–1713).

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Luis de Góngora

Significant Spanish Baroque poet and priest

Did you know? He engaged in a bitter rivalry with fellow writer Francisco de Quevedo, who once bought the house where Góngora lived.

Luis de Góngora y Argote (born Luis de Argote y Góngora; Spanish:; 11 July 1561 – 24 May 1627) was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and a Catholic priest at Córdoba Cathedral. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time.

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