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Margot Robbie

Australian actress known for Barbie and The Wolf of Wall Street

Did you know? Before finding fame in Hollywood, she spent several years playing Donna Freedman in the long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours.

Margot Elise Ackerley (née Robbie; born 2 July 1990) is an Australian actress and film producer. The world's highest-paid actress in 2023, she is known for her performances in both blockbuster and independent films.

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Danny Rose

Former professional footballer who played as a left-back for Tottenham

Did you know? He made his international debut for England just months after making his first Premier League start following a loan spell.

Daniel Lee Rose (born 2 July 1990) is an English former professional footballer who played as a left-back.

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Alex Morgan

Two-time World Cup-winning striker for the United States football team

Did you know? She is also a successful author, having written a series of books for children about a girls' football team.

Alexandra Morgan Carrasco (born Alexandra Patricia Morgan; July 2, 1989) is an American former professional soccer player. She played in four editions of the FIFA Women's World Cup with the United States national team, winning in 2015 and 2019, and finishing second in 2011.

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Lindsay Lohan

American actress and singer who starred in Mean Girls

Did you know? She began her career as a child model at age three and appeared in over sixty television commercials before finding fame in movies.

Lindsay Dee Lohan ( LOH-ən; born July 2, 1986) is an American actress, singer, and producer. She was signed to Ford Models at the age of three, and gained early recognition as a child actress on the soap operas Guiding Light (1993) and Another World (1996–1997).

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Ashley Tisdale

American actress known for High School Musical and The Suite Life

Did you know? She began her career as a child performer and appeared in over a hundred television commercials before finding fame.

Ashley Michelle Tisdale-French (born July 2, 1985) is an American actress and singer. During her childhood, she was featured in over 100 advertisements and had minor roles on-screen and in theatre.

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Michelle Branch

American singer-songwriter known for early 2000s hits like Everywhere

Did you know? Her parents bought her a guitar for her fourteenth birthday after she heard a local musician playing at a fair.

Michelle Jacquet Branch (born July 2, 1983) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals with Santana for their 2002 single, "The Game of Love".

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Jüri Ratas

Former Prime Minister of Estonia and former Mayor of Tallinn

Did you know? Outside of his political career, he has served as the president of the Estonian Basketball Association.

Jüri Ratas (Estonian pronunciation:; born 2 July 1978) is an Estonian politician who served as the prime minister of Estonia from 2016 to 2021 and as the leader of the Centre Party from 2016 to 2023, and the mayor of Tallinn from 2005 to 2007. Ratas was a member of the Centre Party until switching to Isamaa in 2024.

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Cindy Kiro

Dame Alcyion Cynthia Kiro (Māori:; née Simpson; born 1958) is a New Zealand public-health academic, administrator, and advocate, who has been serving as the 22nd governor-general of New Zealand since 21 October 2021. Kiro is the first Māori woman and the third person of Māori descent to hold the office.

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Sylvia Rivera

Sylvia Rivera (July 2, 1951 – February 19, 2002) was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who was also a noted community worker in New York. Rivera, who identified as a drag queen for most of her life and later as a transgender person, participated in demonstrations with the Gay Liberation Front.

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Larry David

Co-creator of Seinfeld and star of Curb Your Enthusiasm

Did you know? He once worked as a stand-up comedian and a writer for Saturday Night Live, though he famously only ever had one sketch aired.

Lawrence Gene David (born July 2, 1947) is an American comedian, writer, actor, and television producer. He is known for his dry wit, portrayals of awkward social situations, and observations on everyday life.

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Richard Axel

Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist who discovered how the sense of smell works

Did you know? He shared his Nobel Prize with Linda Buck for identifying the large family of genes that allow us to recognise different odours.

Richard Axel (born July 2, 1946) is an American molecular biologist and university professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Vicente Fox

Mexican politician who served as the 62nd President of Mexico

Did you know? Before entering politics, he rose through the ranks at Coca-Cola to become the president of the company's Mexican operations.

Vicente Fox Quesada (Latin American Spanish:; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. After campaigning as a right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the National Action Party (PAN) ticket in the 2000 election.

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Carlos Menem

President of Argentina during the 1990s

Did you know? He was an amateur racing driver who once drove a Ferrari from Buenos Aires to Pinamar at high speed while serving as president.

Carlos Saúl Menem (Spanish pronunciation:; 2 July 1930 – 14 February 2021) was an Argentine politician who served as the president of Argentina for ten years, from 1989 to 1999.

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Imelda Marcos

Former First Lady of the Philippines and wife of Ferdinand Marcos

Did you know? She was famously discovered to have a collection of over one thousand pairs of luxury shoes when she fled the presidential palace.

Imelda Romualdez Marcos (locally; born Imelda Remedios Visitación Trinidad Romuáldez; July 2, 1929) is a Filipino politician who was First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, wielding significant political power after her husband Ferdinand Marcos placed the country under martial law in September 1972.

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Patrice Lumumba

Independence leader who became the first Prime Minister of the Congo in 1960 and was murdered the following year

Did you know? He worked as a postal clerk and a travelling beer salesman before becoming a central figure in the Congolese independence movement.

Patrice Émery Lumumba ( pə-TREESS luu-MUUM-bə; born Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa; 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician, independence leader and revolutionary who served as the first prime minister of the First Congolese Republic (modern day Democratic Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960,…

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Wisława Szymborska

Polish poet whose ironic, precise verses on everyday life and history won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996

Did you know? She was known for her playful sense of humour and frequently created her own artistic collages to send as postcards.

Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska (Polish:; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent (now part of Kórnik in west-central Poland), she resided in Kraków until the end of her life.

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Pierre Cardin

French fashion designer famous for his avant-garde Space Age style

Did you know? He was the first high-fashion designer to produce a ready-to-wear collection for a department store, which led to his temporary expulsion from a prestigious trade body.

Pietro Costante Cardin (2 July 1922 – 29 December 2020), known as Pierre Cardin, was an Italian-French fashion designer. He is known for what were his avant-garde style and Space Age designs.

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Hans-Ulrich Rudel

Decorated German ground-attack pilot during the Second World War

Did you know? Despite losing a leg in 1945, he returned to the air and continued to fly combat missions until the war ended.

Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 – 18 December 1982) was a German ground-attack pilot during World War II and a post-war neo-Nazi activist.

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Hans Bethe

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered how stars generate energy

Did you know? He led the theoretical division at Los Alamos during the development of the first atomic bomb.

Hans Albrecht Eduard Bethe (German:; 2 July 1906 – 6 March 2005) was a German-American physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.

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Alec Douglas-Home

Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Did you know? He remains the only British Prime Minister to have played first-class cricket, appearing for Middlesex and Oxford University.

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel (2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), known as Lord Dunglass from 1918 to 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.

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Olav V of Norway

King of Norway who reigned for over three decades

Did you know? He was born at Sandringham in England and was a first cousin of Britain's King George VI.

Olav V (born Prince Alexander of Denmark; 2 July 1903 – 17 January 1991) was King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991. Olav was born on the royal Sandringham Estate in England, the only child of Prince Carl of Denmark and Princess Maud of Wales.

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Hermann Hesse

German-Swiss novelist of Siddhartha, Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game who won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? He was a talented amateur painter and produced hundreds of watercolours, many of which were used to illustrate his own books.

Hermann Karl Hesse (German:; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, combined with his involvement with Jungian analysis, helped shape his literary work.

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William Henry Bragg

Physicist who pioneered the study of crystals using X-rays

Did you know? He shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his son, who was only twenty-five years old at the time.

Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was a British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays," an important step in the development of X-ray…

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Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

German poet and leading figure of the Sturm und Drang movement

Did you know? His epic poem The Messiah took him twenty-five years to complete and significantly influenced modern German literature.

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (German:; 2 July 1724 – 14 March 1803) was a German poet. His best known works are the epic poem Der Messias ("The Messiah") and the poem Die Auferstehung ("The Resurrection"), with the latter set to music in the finale of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.

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