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Nabil Fekir

French professional footballer who won the 2018 FIFA World Cup

Did you know? He was on the verge of joining Liverpool in 2018, even completing a club interview, before the deal collapsed at the final stage.

Nabil Fekir (Arabic: نبيل فقير; born 18 July 1993) is a French professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Abha. An academy graduate of Lyon, he was promoted to the senior squad in July 2013.

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Priyanka Chopra

Indian actress and winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant

Did you know? She became the first South Asian woman to lead a major American network drama series when she starred in the show Quantico.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas (née Chopra; born 18 July 1982) is an Indian actress, film producer and singer. The winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant, she is India's highest-paid actress and her accolades include two National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards.

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Kristen Bell

American actress known for Veronica Mars and Frozen

Did you know? She has a genuine fascination with sloths and once experienced a viral emotional breakdown when her husband surprised her with one.

Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American actress and singer. Her work includes both film and television, and her accolades include two Emmy Awards nominations, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards.

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Bobby Henderson

Bobby Henderson is an American satirist and activist, known for being the founder of Pastafarianism, a parody religion.

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Virginia Raggi

First female mayor of Rome and Five Star Movement politician

Did you know? Before entering politics, she was a lawyer specialising in copyright and intellectual property rights.

Virginia Elena Raggi (Italian pronunciation:; born 18 July 1978) is an Italian lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of Rome from 2016 to 2021. A member of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), Raggi was first elected to the Rome city council in 2013.

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M.I.A.

British rapper and activist known for the global hit Paper Planes

Did you know? Her stage name is an acronym for both Missing in Action and Missing in Acton, the London district where she lived.

Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam (Tamil: மாதங்கி அருள்பிரகாசம்; born 18 July 1975), known professionally as M.I.A. (Tamil: எம்.ஐ.ஏ.; an initialism for both "Missing in action" and "Missing in Acton"), is a British rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and activist.

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Vin Diesel

Action star and producer known for the Fast & Furious franchise

Did you know? He is an avid fan of Dungeons & Dragons and has been playing the tabletop game for over thirty years.

Mark Sinclair Vincent (born July 18, 1967), known professionally as Vin Diesel, is an American actor and filmmaker. One of the world's highest-grossing actors, he gained prominence for portraying Dominic "Dom" Toretto in the Fast & Furious franchise.

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Elio Di Rupo

Former Prime Minister of Belgium and leader of the Socialist Party

Did you know? He was the first openly gay man to serve as a head of government in the European Union.

Elio Di Rupo (French:; born 18 July 1951) is a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 2011 to 2014, heading the Di Rupo Government, and as minister-president of Wallonia for three non-consecutive terms between 1999 and 2024.

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Richard Branson

British entrepreneur and founder of the Virgin Group

Did you know? His first successful business venture was a student magazine he started at school when he was only sixteen.

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate who co-founded the Virgin Group in 1970, and, as of 2016, controlled five companies. Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age.

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Giacinto Facchetti

Italian footballer who captained Inter Milan and the national team

Did you know? Renowned for his fairness, he was only sent off once during his entire career for sarcastically applauding a referee's decision.

Giacinto Facchetti (Italian pronunciation:; 18 July 1942 – 4 September 2006) was an Italian footballer who played as a left-back for Inter Milan from 1960 to 1978. He later served as Inter chairman from January 2004 until his death in 2006.

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Peter Mutharika

Lawyer and politician who served as the President of Malawi

Did you know? Before his presidency, he spent many years as a law professor at Washington University in St Louis in the United States.

Arthur Peter Mutharika ( moot-ə-REE-kə; born 18 July 1940) is a Malawian politician and lawyer who has been the seventh president of Malawi since 2025.

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Paul Verhoeven

Dutch director of Robocop and Total Recall

Did you know? Before becoming a filmmaker, he earned a doctorate in mathematics and physics and even served in the Royal Netherlands Navy.

Paul Verhoeven (Dutch:; born 18 July 1938) is a Dutch filmmaker, who has worked variously in the Netherlands, the United States, and in France. He is known for directing genre films with strong satirical elements, often featuring graphic violence and explicit sexual content and nudity.

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Hunter S. Thompson

American journalist and author who founded the Gonzo journalism movement

Did you know? Following his death, his ashes were fired from a massive cannon mounted on a tower, a ceremony funded by actor Johnny Depp.

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, regarded as a pioneer of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe.

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Roald Hoffmann

Nobel Prize-winning theoretical chemist and writer

Did you know? During the Second World War, he survived the Holocaust by hiding in an attic and schoolhouse basement for over a year.

Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui “for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions”. He has also published plays, poetry and popular science.

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Russian poet known for his work addressing political and social issues

Did you know? He was a talented athlete in his youth and once played for the youth team of the professional football club Dynamo Moscow.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (Russian: Евгений Александрович Евтушенко; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of several films.

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Thomas Kuhn

Philosopher of science who introduced the concept of paradigm shifts

Did you know? He began his academic career in physics before shifting his focus to the history and philosophy of scientific discovery.

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles. The book popularized the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.

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John Glenn

First American astronaut to orbit the Earth

Did you know? In the late nineties, he became the oldest person to fly in space when he joined a mission at seventy-seven.

John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician.

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Nelson Mandela

Anti-apartheid leader imprisoned for 27 years who became South Africa's first Black president and won the Nobel Peace Prize

Did you know? While in prison, he managed to smuggle out his autobiography, which was later published as Long Walk to Freedom.

Anti-apartheid revolutionary who spent 27 years in prison and became South Africa's first Black president.

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Mohammed Daoud Khan

First President of Afghanistan who overthrew the monarchy

Did you know? He was the first cousin of the King he deposed and had previously served as Prime Minister for a decade.

Mohammad Daoud Khan (18 July 1909 – 28 April 1978), also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan, was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as leader of the 1973 Afghan coup d'état which overthrew the monarchy, served as the first president of…

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Nathalie Sarraute

French author known for her pioneering work in the Nouveau Roman

Did you know? Before becoming a famous writer, she qualified as a lawyer and was admitted to the Paris bar in the 1920s.

Nathalie Sarraute (French:; born Natalia Ilinichna Tcherniak (Russian: Ната́лья Ильи́нична Черня́к); 18 July 1900 – 19 October 1999) was a French writer and lawyer. She was nominated in 1969 for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Nobel Committee member Lars Gyllensten.

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Vidkun Quisling

Norwegian politician who led a collaborationist government during World War II

Did you know? His surname became synonymous with the word traitor in English and several other languages following his actions during the war.

Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (Norwegian:; 18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who headed the puppet government of Norway during the country's occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Hendrik Lorentz

Dutch physicist whose Lorentz transformations paved the way for relativity, sharing the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics

Did you know? Albert Einstein regarded him as a personal mentor and described him as a living work of art.

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch theoretical physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

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Vasil Levski

Revolutionary leader and national hero of Bulgaria

Did you know? He spent years travelling in disguise across the country to establish a secret network of committees to fight for independence.

Vasil Levski (Bulgarian: Васил Левски, spelled in old Bulgarian orthography as Василъ Львскій, pronounced), born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev (Васил Иванов Кунчев; 18 July 1837 – 18 February 1873), was a Bulgarian revolutionary who is, today, a national hero of Bulgaria.

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William Makepeace Thackeray

Victorian novelist best known for his satirical masterpiece Vanity Fair

Did you know? He was born in India and sent to England for school after the death of his father.

William Makepeace Thackeray ( THAK-ər-ee; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator.

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