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Deniz Undav

German striker who has played in the Premier League and Bundesliga

Did you know? After being released as a teenager, he worked in a machine parts factory while playing for a lower-league team to keep his dream alive.

Deniz Undav (German pronunciation:; born 19 July 1996) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart, which he captains, and the Germany national team.

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Manuel Akanji

Swiss international footballer who plays as a defender for Manchester City

Did you know? He is known for his mental arithmetic skills and can calculate complex multiplication problems in his head almost instantly.

Manuel Obafemi Akanji (Swiss Standard German pronunciation:; born 19 July 1995) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Switzerland national team.

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Neto

Brazilian professional goalkeeper who has represented major European football clubs

Did you know? In addition to his domestic success, he won a silver medal with the Brazilian national team at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Norberto Murara Neto (born 19 July 1989), commonly known as Neto (Brazilian Portuguese:), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Juventus. Neto began his career with Brazilian side Athletico Paranaense and later played for Italian side Fiorentina.

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Kevin Großkreutz

Versatile German footballer and World Cup winner

Did you know? He is a lifelong supporter of Borussia Dortmund and once played as a goalkeeper for them after their regular keeper was sent off.

Kevin Großkreutz (born 19 July 1988) is a semi-retired German professional footballer who plays as a right back and winger for TuS Eichlinghofen.

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Shane Dawson

Shane Lee Yaw (born July 19, 1988), known online as Shane Dawson, is an American YouTuber, actor, filmmaker, comedian, writer, and musician. Dawson was one of the first people to rise to fame on YouTube after he began making videos in 2008 at the age of 19 and garnered over 500 million views during the next two years.

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Jared Padalecki

Lead actor in the television series Supernatural

Did you know? He originally auditioned for the role of Clark Kent in a planned Superman film before being cast in his breakout role on Gilmore Girls.

Jared Tristan Padalecki (born July 19, 1982) is an American actor.

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Benedict Cumberbatch

British actor known for playing Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Strange

Did you know? He once survived a terrifying kidnapping attempt while filming a television miniseries on location in South Africa.

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor. He has received various accolades, including a British Academy Television Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globes.

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Ramin Djawadi

Composer known for the Game of Thrones and Westworld themes

Did you know? He has a condition called synaesthesia, which allows him to associate music and sounds with specific colours.

Ramin Djawadi (born 19 July 1974) is a German film score composer based in the United States. He is known for his scores for Iron Man, Pacific Rim, and the HBO series Game of Thrones and Westworld.

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Vitali Klitschko

Former heavyweight boxing champion and current Mayor of Kyiv

Did you know? He and his brother Wladimir hold a world record for the most heavyweight title fight wins by a pair of siblings.

Vitalii Volodymyrovych Klychko (Ukrainian: Віталій Володимирович Кличко; born 19 July 1971), known as Vitali Klitschko, is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer who has served as the mayor of Kyiv since 2014.

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Naoki Soma

Japanese international footballer who played as a left-sided defender

Did you know? He played every minute of Japan's three matches during their first ever appearance at a World Cup finals in 1998.

Naoki Soma (相馬 直樹, Sōma Naoki; born July 19, 1971) is a Japanese football manager and former player. He played for the Japan national team until 1999.

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Nicola Sturgeon

Longest-serving First Minister of Scotland

Did you know? She joined the Scottish National Party at the age of sixteen after being inspired by her opposition to Margaret Thatcher.

Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon (born 19 July 1970) is a Scottish politician who was First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 2014 to 2023.

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Hailemariam Desalegn

Ethiopian politician who served as Prime Minister for six years

Did you know? He was the first leader in modern Ethiopian history to step down from power voluntarily to facilitate political reforms.

Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe (Amharic: ኀይለማሪያም ደሳለኝ ቦሼ; born 19 July 1965) is an Ethiopian politician who served as prime minister of Ethiopia from 2012 to 2018. He also previously served as deputy prime minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Meles Zenawi from 2010 to 2012.

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Kazushi Kimura

Japanese footballer and manager who played for the national team

Did you know? He was known for his exceptional free-kick ability and was twice named the Japanese Footballer of the Year.

Kazushi Kimura (木村 和司, Kimura Kazushi; born July 19, 1958) is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.

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Kgalema Motlanthe

Politician who served as the third President of South Africa

Did you know? He was a political prisoner on Robben Island for ten years during the apartheid era alongside Nelson Mandela.

Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe (born 19 July 1949) is a South African politician who served as the third president of South Africa from 2008 to 2009, following the resignation of Thabo Mbeki. Thereafter, he was deputy president under Jacob Zuma from 2009 to 2014.

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Brian May

Lead guitarist of the rock band Queen and astrophysicist

Did you know? He built his iconic Red Special guitar by hand with his father using wood from an old fireplace mantel.

Sir Brian Harold May (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, animal welfare activist, and astrophysicist. He achieved global fame as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the rock band Queen, which he co-founded with singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor.

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Ilie Năstase

Former world number one tennis player and Grand Slam champion

Did you know? Known as Nasty for his eccentric behaviour, he was the first professional sports star to sign an endorsement deal with Nike.

Ilie Theodoriu Năstase (Romanian:; born 19 July 1946) is a Romanian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the inaugural world No.

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Thomas J. Sargent

Nobel Prize-winning economist who specialised in macroeconomics

Did you know? He once famously delivered a graduation speech that lasted less than two minutes, distilling all economic wisdom into twelve short points.

Thomas John Sargent (born July 19, 1943) is an American economist and a Rowan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics.

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Medical physicist who developed the radioimmunoassay technique for measuring hormones

Did you know? She was only the second woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay technique.

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Herbert Marcuse

German-American philosopher and prominent figure of the Frankfurt School

Did you know? His radical political theories earned him the nickname Father of the New Left during the student protests of the 1960s.

Herbert Marcuse ( mar-KOO-zə; German:; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German and American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

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A. J. Cronin

Scottish novelist and doctor who created the character Dr Finlay

Did you know? His book The Citadel is often credited with inspiring the foundation of the National Health Service in Britain.

Archibald Joseph Cronin (Cronogue) (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky

Russian Futurist poet and playwright of A Cloud in Trousers and The Bedbug who became the voice of the revolution

Did you know? He designed propaganda posters for the state news agency and helped revolutionise the visual style of Soviet graphic design.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (19 July 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement.

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George II of Greece

King of Greece who reigned during the Second World War

Did you know? He spent many years living in exile in England and was the uncle of Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh.

George II (Greek: Γεώργιος Β', romanized: Geórgios II; 19 July 1890 – 1 April 1947) was King of Greece from 27 September 1922 until 25 March 1924, and again from 25 November 1935 until his death on 1 April 1947.

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Edgar Degas

French Impressionist painter and sculptor famous for his ballet dancers and the sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen

Did you know? Although primarily known for his paintings and pastels, he was also a prolific sculptor who worked extensively in wax.

Edgar Degas (UK:, US:; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French:; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced wax sculptures, prints, and drawings.

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Gottfried Keller

Swiss writer and poet known for German-language literature

Did you know? He originally studied to be a painter in Munich before deciding to focus on a career in poetry and prose.

Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature.

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