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Lamine Yamal

Barcelona and Spain winger who became a record-breaking young football star

Did you know? He once featured in a charity calendar photoshoot as a baby being bathed by Lionel Messi.

Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana (born 13 July 2007), commonly known as Lamine Yamal or simply Yamal, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right winger for the La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best players in the world.

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Marc Guéhi

England international footballer who plays as a centre-back

Did you know? Although he represents England at international level, he was born in the Ivory Coast and moved to London as a child.

Addji Keaninkin Marc-Israel Guéhi ( GAY-ee; born 13 July 2000) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Manchester City. Born in the Ivory Coast, he plays for the England national team.

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Nathan Law

Nathan Law Kwun-chung (Chinese: 羅冠聰; born 13 July 1993) is a Hong Kong activist and politician. As a student leader, he was chairman of the Representative Council of the Lingnan University Students' Union (LUSU), acting president of the LUSU, and secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS).

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He Pingping

He Pingping (Chinese: 何平平; pinyin: Hé Píngpíng; 13 July 1988 – 13 March 2010) was a Chinese man who, according to the Guinness World Records, was the world's shortest mobile man from 2007 until his death in March 2010.

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Guillermo Ochoa

Mexican goalkeeper known for his performances in the World Cup

Did you know? He became the first Mexican goalkeeper to play for a European club when he signed for French side Ajaccio.

Francisco Guillermo Ochoa Magaña (Spanish pronunciation:; born 13 July 1985), commonly known as Memo Ochoa, is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Liu Xiang

Olympic gold medallist and former world record holder in hurdles

Did you know? He was the first Chinese athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in a track and field sprint event.

Liu Xiang (simplified Chinese: 刘翔; traditional Chinese: 劉翔; pinyin: Liú Xiáng; born July 13, 1983) is a Chinese former 110 meter hurdler. Liu is an Olympic gold medalist and world champion.

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Craig Bellamy

Welsh former professional footballer and current national team manager

Did you know? He is the first player to have scored for seven different clubs in the history of the Premier League.

Craig Douglas Bellamy (born 13 July 1979) is a Welsh football coach and former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is the current head coach of Wales.

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Oleh Sentsov

Ukrainian filmmaker and activist imprisoned by Russia

Did you know? In 2018, while in prison, he was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament.

Oleh Hennadiiovych Sentsov (Ukrainian: Олег Геннадійович Сенцов; Russian: Олег Геннадьевич Сенцов, romanized: Oleg Gennadyevich Sentsov; born 14 July 1976) is a Ukrainian filmmaker, writer, activist and soldier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Crimea.

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Jarno Trulli

Italian racing driver who won the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix

Did you know? Beyond the race track, he is a dedicated winemaker who owns a vineyard producing traditional Italian wines.

Jarno Trulli (Italian pronunciation:; born 13 July 1974) is an Italian former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1997 to 2011. Trulli won the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix with Renault.

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Roberto Martínez

Spanish football manager who led the Belgian and Portuguese national teams

Did you know? During his playing days in England, he and two fellow Spaniards were nicknamed 'The Three Amigos' by Wigan Athletic fans.

Roberto Martínez Montoliu (born 13 July 1973) is a Spanish professional football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of the Portuguese national team.

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Sezen Aksu

Influential Turkish pop singer, songwriter and record producer

Did you know? She is credited with modernising Turkish pop music and has written songs for almost every major star in the country.

Sezen Aksu (Turkish pronunciation:; born Fatma Sezen Yıldırım; 13 July 1954) is a Turkish singer, songwriter and producer. She is one of the most successful Turkish singers, having sold over 40 million albums worldwide.

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Ma Ying-jeou

Politician who served as the President of Taiwan

Did you know? He was born in Hong Kong and moved to Taiwan at the age of two.

Ma Ying-jeou (Chinese: 馬英九; pinyin: Mǎ Yīngjiǔ; Ma-ING-gee-oh; born 13 July 1950) is a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and legal scholar who served as the sixth president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016.

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Ernő Rubik

Hungarian architect and inventor who created the Rubik's Cube

Did you know? It took him more than a month to figure out how to solve his own cube invention for the first time.

Ernő Rubik (Hungarian:; born 13 July 1944) is a Hungarian architect and inventor widely known for creating the Rubik's Cube (1974), Rubik's Magic, and Rubik's Snake. Rubik studied sculpture at the Academy of Applied Arts and Design in Budapest and architecture at the Technical University, likewise located in Budapest.

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Harrison Ford

American actor who played Han Solo in Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and starred in Blade Runner and The Fugitive

Did you know? He worked as a professional carpenter for several years before his acting career succeeded, even building cabinets for director George Lucas.

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. Regarded as a cinematic cultural icon, Ford's accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Emmy Awards, five Golden Globes and two SAG-AFTRA's Actor Awards.

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Robert Forster

Robert Wallace Foster Jr. (July 13, 1941 – October 11, 2019), known professionally as Robert Forster, was an American actor.

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Patrick Stewart

Actor known for his roles in Star Trek and X-Men

Did you know? He spent many years as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and has performed in dozens of their stage productions.

Sir Patrick Stewart (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor.

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Monique Wittig

Radical French feminist author and influential lesbian theorist

Did you know? Her debut novel, L'Opoponax, won the prestigious Prix Médicis, one of the most important literary awards in France.

Monique Wittig (French:; 13 July 1935 – 3 January 2003) was a French author, philosopher, and feminist theorist who wrote about abolition of the sex-class system and coined the phrase "heterosexual contract." Her groundbreaking work is titled The Straight Mind and Other Essays.

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Wole Soyinka

Nigerian playwright and poet of Death and the King's Horseman who became the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? He was the first African writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the honour in the mid-1980s.

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, twenty-five plays and five memoirs.

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Simone Veil

French politician and first female President of the European Parliament

Did you know? A survivor of the Holocaust, she became a champion for women's rights and was responsible for legalising abortion in France.

Simone Veil (French:; née Simone Annie Jacob; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and politician. Deported as a teenager to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen, she became a prominent advocate for human dignity and European reconciliation.

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Alberto Ascari

Italian racing driver and double Formula One world champion

Did you know? He was exceptionally superstitious and died exactly four days after surviving a crash into the harbour during the Monaco Grand Prix.

Alberto Ascari (13 July 1918 – 26 May 1955) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1955. Ascari won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1952 and 1953 with Ferrari, and won 13 Grands Prix across six seasons.

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Hipólito Yrigoyen

Two-time President of Argentina during the early twentieth century

Did you know? He was known as the father of the poor for his efforts to improve workers' rights and social welfare.

Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen (12 July 1852 – 3 July 1933) was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union who served as President of Argentina from 1916 to 1922 and again from 1928 until his overthrow in 1930.

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Otto Wagner

Influential Austrian architect and leading figure of the Vienna Secession

Did you know? He designed the distinctive stations and bridges for the Vienna city railway, incorporating many ornate Art Nouveau elements.

Otto Koloman Wagner (German:; 13 July 1841 – 11 April 1918) was an Austrian architect, furniture designer and urban planner. He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau movement.

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Alexandra Feodorovna

Empress of Russia and wife of Tsar Nicholas I

Did you know? Born a Prussian princess, she was the grandmother of the last Russian monarch, Nicholas II.

Alexandra Feodorovna (Russian: Алекса́ндра Фёдоровна, IPA:), born Princess Charlotte of Prussia (13 July 1798 – 1 November 1860), was Empress of Russia as the wife of Emperor Nicholas I (r. 1825–1855).

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Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor

Seventeenth-century Holy Roman Emperor and King of Hungary

Did you know? He was a talented composer and several of his musical works are still performed and recorded today.

Ferdinand III (Ferdinand Ernest; 13 July 1608 – 2 April 1657) was Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1625, King of Bohemia from 1627 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 to his death.

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