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Nico Williams

Spanish international footballer who plays as a winger

Did you know? He plays for Athletic Bilbao alongside his older brother, following a club policy of only signing players with links to the Basque region.

Nicholas Williams Arthuer (born 12 July 2002) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a winger for La Liga club Athletic Bilbao and the Spain national team. He is recognised for his speed and dribbling skills.

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Vinícius Júnior

Brazilian footballer who plays as a winger for Real Madrid

Did you know? He was the first person born in the twenty-first century to score a goal in a Champions League final.

Vinícius José Paixão de Oliveira Júnior (Brazilian Portuguese:; born 12 July 2000), known mononymously as Vinícius, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Brazil national team.

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Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani campaigner for girls' education who survived a Taliban shooting and became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate at 17

Did you know? She began writing an anonymous blog for the BBC at age eleven to document life under local extremist rule.

Advocate for girls' education and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Luke Shaw

England international footballer who plays for Manchester United

Did you know? When he joined Manchester United in 2014, he became the most expensive teenage footballer in history at the time.

Luke Paul Hoare Shaw (born 12 July 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a left-back or centre-back for Premier League club Manchester United. Originally a member of Southampton's youth system, Shaw made his first-team debut for the club in January 2012.

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James Rodríguez

Colombian footballer who won the Golden Boot at the 2014 World Cup

Did you know? He suffered from a severe stutter as a child and underwent speech therapy to help him communicate better with the media.

James David Rodríguez Rubio (born 12 July 1991) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Atlético Nacional.

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Xu Mengtao

Xu Mengtao (Chinese: 徐梦桃; pinyin: Xú Mèngtáo; Mandarin pronunciation:; born 12 July 1990) is a Chinese Olympic Champion aerial skier. She has achieved 27 World Cup victories and two Olympic Gold medals.

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Antonio Cassano

Italian professional footballer who played as a forward

Did you know? He published a bestselling autobiography while still in his twenties that detailed his frequent arguments with various high-profile football managers.

Antonio Cassano (Italian pronunciation:; born 12 July 1982) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a forward. A talented and technically gifted player, he was usually deployed as a supporting forward, but could also play as an attacking midfielder, winger, or as a striker.

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Michelle Rodriguez

American actress known for her roles in action films

Did you know? She was chosen for her breakout role in Girlfight after beating hundreds of other girls at an open audition.

Mayte Michelle Rodríguez (born July 12, 1978) is an American actress. She began her career in 2000, playing a troubled boxer in the independent sports drama film Girlfight (2000), where she won the Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award for Best Debut Performance.

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Sharon den Adel

Sharon Janny den Adel (born 12 July 1974) is a Dutch singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist of the symphonic metal band Within Temptation. She has been performing since age 14, and co-founded Within Temptation with partner Robert Westerholt in 1996.

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Anne-Sophie Pic

Anne-Sophie Pic (French pronunciation:, born 12 July 1969) is a French chef best known for regaining the third Michelin star for her restaurant Maison Pic, in southeast France. She is the fourth female chef to win three Michelin stars, and was named the Best Female Chef by The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2011.

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Benny Tai

Benny Tai Yiu-ting (Chinese: 戴耀廷; born 12 July 1964) is a Hong Kong legal scholar, political figure, and democracy activist. He was an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong.

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Tupou VI of Tonga

Current King of Tonga and former Prime Minister

Did you know? Before he became king, he served as his country’s first High Commissioner to Australia and lived in Canberra for several years.

Tupou VI (ʻAho‘eitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho; 12 July 1959) is King of Tonga. He acceded the throne in 2012 and was previously Prime Minister of Tonga from 2000 to 2006.

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Irina Bokova

Bulgarian diplomat and former Director-General of UNESCO

Did you know? She was the first woman and the first person from Eastern Europe to lead the United Nations educational and cultural agency.

Irina Georgieva Bokova (Bulgarian: Ирина Георгиева Бокова; born 12 July 1952) is a Bulgarian politician and a former Director-General of UNESCO (2009–2017).

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Richard Simmons

Energetic American fitness personality and weight-loss advocate

Did you know? He made several appearances as himself in the hospital drama General Hospital over a period of twenty years.

Milton Teagle "Richard" Simmons (July 12, 1948 – July 13, 2024) was an American fitness instructor and television personality. He was a promoter of weight-loss programs, most prominently through his television show, The Richard Simmons Show and later the Sweatin' to the Oldies line of aerobics videos.

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Robert Fisk

British journalist and author known for reporting on the Middle East

Did you know? He was one of the few Western reporters to interview Osama bin Laden, meeting the al-Qaeda leader three times during the 1990s.

Robert William Fisk (12 July 1946 – 30 October 2020) was an English writer and journalist. He was critical of United States foreign policy in the Middle East, and the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.

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Bill Cosby

American comedian and actor known for The Cosby Show

Did you know? He was a talented athlete in his youth and attended university on a track and field scholarship.

William Henry Cosby Jr. ( KOZ-bee; born July 12, 1937) is an American former comedian, actor, and media personality.

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Lionel Jospin

Former Prime Minister of France and Socialist leader

Did you know? He was a keen basketball player in his youth and remained a fan of the sport throughout his political career.

Lionel Robert Jospin (French:; 12 July 1937 – 22 March 2026) was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002. Jospin was first secretary of the Socialist Party from 1995 to 1997 and the party's candidate for president in the 1995 and 2002 elections.

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Satoshi Ōmura

Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist who discovered treatments for parasitic diseases

Did you know? He is a dedicated art collector and used his own funds to build a museum in Japan to share his collection.

Satoshi Ōmura (大村 智, Ōmura Satoshi;; born 12 July 1935) is a Japanese biochemist. He is known for the discovery and development of hundreds of pharmaceuticals originally occurring in microorganisms.

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Elias James Corey

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who developed new ways to create molecules

Did you know? He pioneered the concept of retrosynthetic analysis, a method of planning chemical reactions by working backwards from the desired final product.

Elias James Corey (born July 12, 1928) is an American organic chemist. In 1990, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", specifically retrosynthetic analysis.

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Lyudmila Pavlichenko

Red Army sniper who recorded over three hundred confirmed kills

Did you know? She was the first citizen of the Soviet Union to be invited to the White House and became close friends with Eleanor Roosevelt.

Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko (née Belova; 12 July 1916 – 10 October 1974) was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II. She is the deadliest female sniper, and one of the deadliest snipers in history, with 309 confirmed kills.

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Willis Lamb

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered the Lamb shift in hydrogen

Did you know? He spent several years in the UK serving as a professor of physics at Oxford University.

Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (July 12, 1913 – May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who was able to precisely determine a surprising shift in electron energies in a hydrogen atom, known as the Lamb shift.

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Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet and diplomat of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair and Canto General, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? He preferred to write his poems using green ink, which he considered to be his personal colour of hope.

Pablo Neruda ( nə-ROO-də; Spanish:; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Buckminster Fuller

American architect and inventor who popularised the geodesic dome and coined visionary terms like Spaceship Earth and Dymaxion

Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist.

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Bruno Schulz

Polish writer and artist known for The Street of Crocodiles

Did you know? Much of his artwork and unpublished manuscripts were lost or destroyed during the Second World War.

Bruno Schulz (12 July 1892 – 19 November 1942) was a Polish-Jewish writer, literary critic, visual artist, and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great 20th-century Polish-language prose stylists.

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