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Victor Lindelöf

Swedish defender and captain of the national football team

Did you know? Before his move to Manchester United, he won several league titles in Portugal while playing for Benfica.

Victor Jörgen Nilsson Lindelöf (Swedish:; born 17 July 1994) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Aston Villa and captains the Sweden national team. Lindelöf began his career in Sweden at Västerås SK, making his debut in October 2009.

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Benjamin Mendy

French footballer and 2018 World Cup winner

Did you know? He became the world's most expensive defender at the time when he transferred to Manchester City from Monaco in 2017.

Benjamin Mendy (French pronunciation:; born 17 July 1994) is a French professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Ekstraklasa club Pogoń Szczecin. After coming through Le Havre's youth academy, Mendy began his playing career with the club's reserve team in 2010, being promoted to the first team a year later.

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Ivan Strinić

Croatian footballer who played in a World Cup final

Did you know? He started the 2018 World Cup final against France but was later forced to pause his career due to a heart condition.

Ivan Strinić (Croatian pronunciation:; born 17 July 1987) is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a left-back. Strinić spent his professional career playing in a number of clubs from Croatian, Ukrainian and Italian top flight, including Hajduk Split, Napoli and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.

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Terence Tao

Fields Medal-winning mathematician known for his contributions to number theory

Did you know? He was a child prodigy who began studying university-level mathematics at seven and earned his doctorate at twenty-one.

Terence Chi-Shen Tao (Chinese: 陶哲轩; pinyin: Táo Zhéxuān; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Cory Doctorow

Science fiction author, journalist and advocate for digital rights

Did you know? He often releases his novels for free online under Creative Commons licences to encourage sharing and accessibility.

Cory Efram Doctorow (born 17 July 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organisation, using some of its licences for his books.

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Gavin McInnes

Co-founder of Vice magazine and creator of the Proud Boys

Did you know? Before moving into political commentary, he was a prominent figure in the hipster subculture of the early 2000s.

Gavin Miles McInnes (born 17 July 1970) is a Canadian writer, podcaster, far-right commentator and founder of the Proud Boys. He is the host of Get Off My Lawn with Gavin McInnes on his website, Compound Censored.

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Letsie III of Lesotho

Current King of Lesotho and Africa's only remaining constitutional monarch

Did you know? He was crowned king in the nineties while his father was in exile, then abdicated briefly when his father returned to the throne.

Letsie III (born Mohato Bereng Seeiso; 17 July 1963) is King of Lesotho. He succeeded his father, Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II, who was forced into exile in 1990.

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Matti Nykänen

Finnish Olympic gold medalist and world champion ski jumper

Did you know? After retiring from sport, he began a career as a singer and released several studio albums that sold well in Finland.

Matti Ensio Nykänen (pronounced; 17 July 1963 – 4 February 2019) was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1981 to 1991.

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Wong Kar-wai

Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker known for In the Mood for Love

Did you know? He is famous for his improvisational style, often beginning filming without a completed script and working for several years.

Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1958) is a Hong Kong filmmaker. His films are characterised by nonlinear narratives, atmospheric music, and vivid cinematography with bold, saturated colours.

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Angela Merkel

Physicist turned politician who served 16 years as Germany's first female chancellor, steering Europe through repeated crises

Did you know? She holds a doctorate in quantum chemistry and worked as a research scientist before entering politics.

Angela Dorothea Merkel (née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German stateswoman and retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office and the only former East German.

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David Hasselhoff

American actor and singer who starred in Knight Rider and Baywatch and famously sang on the Berlin Wall in 1989

Did you know? He had a successful music career in Germany and famously performed at the Berlin Wall.

David Michael Hasselhoff (born July 17, 1952), nicknamed "the Hoff", is an American actor, singer, and television personality. He first gained recognition on the soap opera The Young and the Restless (1975–1982), playing the role of Dr.

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Queen Camilla

Queen of the United Kingdom and wife of King Charles III

Did you know? She is a passionate advocate for literacy and founded an online book club to encourage people of all ages to enjoy reading.

Camilla (née Camilla Rosemary Shand, later Parker Bowles; born 17 July 1947) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms as the wife of King Charles III. Camilla was raised in East Sussex and South Kensington in England and educated in England, Switzerland and France.

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Alexander, Crown Prince of Serbia

Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (Serbian: Александар Карађорђевић, Престолонаследник Југославије, romanized: Aleksandar Karađorđević, Prestolonaslednik Jugoslavije; born 17 July 1945), is the head of the House of Karađorđević, the former royal house of the defunct Kingdom of Yugoslavia and its predecessor the…

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Carlos Alberto Torres

Brazilian football captain who won the 1970 World Cup

Did you know? He scored what is frequently cited as the greatest team goal in history during the 1970 World Cup final against Italy.

Carlos Alberto "Capita" Torres (17 July 1944 – 25 October 2016), also known as "o Capitão do Tri", was a Brazilian football player and manager who played as an attacking right-sided full-back or wing-back.

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Marina Oswald Porter

Marina Nikolayevna Oswald Porter (née Prusakova; born July 17, 1941) is a Russian and American woman who was the wife of Lee Harvey Oswald. Born in the Soviet Union, Marina emigrated to the United States after marrying Lee Oswald during his temporary defection to the Soviet Bloc.

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Donald Sutherland

Canadian actor known for MASH and The Hunger Games films

Did you know? He worked as a radio news reporter and DJ in his native Canada before moving to London to study acting.

Donald McNichol Sutherland (17 July 1935 – 20 June 2024) was a Canadian actor. With a career spanning six decades, he received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards as well as a BAFTA Award nomination.

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Kenan Evren

Turkish military officer and seventh President of Turkey

Did you know? After retiring from politics, he spent much of his time pursuing a hobby as an amateur landscape painter.

Ahmet Kenan Evren (17 July 1917 – 9 May 2015) was a Turkish military officer who served as the 7th president of Turkey from 1982 to 1989. He assumed the post by leading the 1980 military coup.

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Phyllis Diller

Stand-up comedian known for her self-deprecating stage persona

Did you know? She did not begin her career in professional comedy until she was thirty-seven years old, having previously worked as a copywriter.

Phyllis Ada Diller (née Driver; July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012) was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician and visual artist, noted for her eccentric stage persona, characterized by her self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh.

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Roger Garaudy

French philosopher and writer who served in the French Resistance

Did you know? Late in his life, he became a highly controversial figure after being convicted for his writings that denied the Holocaust.

Roger Garaudy (French:; 17 July 1913 – 13 June 2012) was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a communist author. He converted to Islam in 1982.

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James Cagney

Oscar-winning American actor famous for playing tough-guy roles

Did you know? Despite his reputation for playing gangsters, he was an accomplished tap dancer and won his Academy Award for a musical role.

James Francis Cagney Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an American actor and dancer.

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Georges Lemaître

Belgian priest who first proposed the Big Bang theory

Did you know? He served as a volunteer in the Belgian Army during the First World War and received a decoration for his bravery.

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître ( lə-MET-rə; French:; 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, and mathematician who made major contributions to cosmology and astrophysics.

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Xianfeng Emperor

Eighth emperor of the Qing dynasty who ruled over China

Did you know? His reign was marked by internal turmoil, including the Taiping Rebellion, which became one of the deadliest conflicts in human history.

The Xianfeng Emperor (17 July 1831 – 22 August 1861), also known by his temple name Emperor Wenzong of Qing, personal name Yizhu, was the eighth emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the seventh Qing emperor to rule over China proper.

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Ivan Aivazovsky

Russian Romantic painter renowned for his marine art

Did you know? He was so prolific that he produced over six thousand paintings during his lifetime, mostly depicting the sea.

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian: Иван Константинович Айвазовский; 29 July 1817 – 2 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art.

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Elbridge Gerry

Founding Father and fifth Vice President of the United States

Did you know? The political term gerrymandering is named after him, following his approval of a salamander-shaped voting district intended to favour his party.

Elbridge Thomas Gerry (17 July 1744 – November 23, 1814) was an American Founding Father, merchant, politician, and diplomat, who was a member of the Second Continental Congress, and signed the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation.

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