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Prince George of Wales

Member of the British royal family and heir to the throne

Did you know? His birth was celebrated by lighting up Niagara Falls in blue and firing a 41-gun salute in London's Green Park.

Prince George of Wales (George Alexander Louis; born 22 July 2013) is a member of the British royal family. He is the eldest child of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, and the eldest grandchild of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Federico Valverde

Uruguayan midfielder who plays for Real Madrid and his national team

Did you know? He is nicknamed "El Pajarito", or "Little Bird", a name given to him as a child because of his speed and slight build.

Federico Santiago Valverde Dipetta (Spanish pronunciation:; born 22 July 1998) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid, which he captains and the Uruguay national team.

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Marc Hagit Cucurella

Spanish defender who won the European Championship with his national team

Did you know? He was given his first professional contract by Barcelona after being spotted playing for their local rivals, Espanyol.

Marc Cucurella Saseta (Catalan pronunciation:; born 22 July 1998) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back or left wing-back for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Spain national team. He is considered to be one of the best left-backs in the world.

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Navid Afkari

Navid Afkari Sangari (Persian: نوید افکاری سنگری; 22 July 1993 – 12 September 2020) was an Iranian wrestler who was sentenced to death and executed in Shiraz after being accused and convicted of murdering a security guard during the 2018 Iranian protests; sources from outside Iran also cited convictions on other…

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Selena Gomez

American singer, actress and producer who rose to fame on Wizards of Waverly Place and founded Rare Beauty

Did you know? She was named after the famous Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla, who was a major influence on her family.

Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, businesswoman, and producer.

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Dirk Kuyt

Hard-working Dutch footballer who played as a forward and winger

Did you know? He began his career as a striker but successfully transitioned into a defensive winger known for his stamina and work rate.

Dirk Kuijt (Dutch:; born 22 July 1980), anglicised to Kuyt, is a Dutch former professional footballer and manager who currently serves as an assistant manager of Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe. Originally starting out as a forward, he played much of his career as a right-winger.

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Kate Ryan

Belgian dance-pop singer who turned French chanson into club hits such as Désenchantée and sang at Eurovision 2006

Did you know? Her biggest hits were dance versions of French songs by Mylène Farmer and France Gall.

Katrien Verbeeck (born 22 July 1980), known professionally as Kate Ryan, is a Belgian singer and songwriter.

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Franka Potente

German actress known for starring in Run Lola Run

Did you know? She starred alongside Matt Damon in the first two films of the popular Bourne action franchise as the character Marie Kreutz.

Franka Potente (German:; born 22 July 1974) is a German actress. She first appeared in the comedy film After Five in the Forest Primeval (1995), for which she won a Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress.

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Paulo Jamelli

Paulo Roberto Jamelli Júnior (born 22 July 1974), known as Jamelli, is a Brazilian football coach and former player who played mainly as a forward.

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Rufus Wainwright

Canadian-American singer-songwriter known for his operatic pop style

Did you know? He is the son of folk musicians Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle and wrote his first opera in French.

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is a Canadian and American singer, songwriter, and composer. He has recorded eleven studio albums and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.

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Rhys Ifans

Welsh actor known for Notting Hill and House of the Dragon

Did you know? Before his acting career took off, he was briefly the lead singer of the rock band Super Furry Animals during their early years.

Rhys Owain Evans (Welsh pronunciation:; born 22 July 1967), known as Rhys Ifans, is a Welsh actor and musician.

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David Spade

Sarcastic comic actor known for Saturday Night Live and Tommy Boy

Did you know? His brother Andy is the co-founder of the global fashion brand Kate Spade New York.

David Wayne Spade (born July 22, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and podcaster. His comedic style, in both his stand-up material and acting roles, relies heavily on sarcasm and self-deprecation.

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Emilio Butragueño

Spanish footballer who was a prolific striker for Real Madrid

Did you know? He led a group of five homegrown players known as the Vulture's Cohort who dominated Spanish football during the late eighties.

Emilio Butragueño Santos (Spanish pronunciation:; born 22 July 1963) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was best known for his spell with Real Madrid.

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Joan Carreras i Goicoechea

Joan Carreras i Goicoechea (born 1962) is a Spanish journalist, screenwriter and writer in the Catalan language.

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Willem Dafoe

Versatile American actor known for Platoon and Spider-Man

Did you know? He was a founding member of the experimental New York City theatre troupe known as The Wooster Group.

William James "Willem" Dafoe ( də-FOH; born July 22, 1955) is an American actor.

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Mireille Mathieu

French singer who has sold millions of records worldwide

Did you know? She was discovered on a talent show and became so popular that she was once considered a successor to Édith Piaf.

Mireille Mathieu (French pronunciation:; born 22 July 1946) is a French singer. She has recorded over 1,200 songs in eleven languages, with more than 122 million records sold worldwide.

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Danny Glover

Actor best known for his role in the Lethal Weapon films

Did you know? Before his acting career took off, he worked for the city of San Francisco as an evaluator for community development programmes.

Daniel Leburn Glover ( GLUV-ər; born July 22, 1946) is an American actor and producer.

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Louise Fletcher

Oscar-winning actress famous for playing the villainous Nurse Ratched

Did you know? She used sign language during her Academy Award acceptance speech to thank her parents, who were both deaf.

Estelle Louise Fletcher (July 22, 1934 – September 23, 2022) was an American actress.

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Bob Dole

Long-serving American senator and Republican presidential candidate

Did you know? He sustained severe injuries during the Second World War that left him without the use of his right arm for the rest of his life.

Robert Joseph Dole (July 22, 1923 – December 5, 2021) was an American politician, attorney, and Army officer who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was the Republican leader of the U.S.

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Peggy Ashcroft

Academy Award-winning actress of the British stage and screen

Did you know? She was such a respected figure in the theatre that a playhouse in London's West End was named in her honour during her lifetime.

Dame Edith Margaret Emily "Peggy" Ashcroft (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991) was an English actress whose career spanned more than six decades, both on screen and stage. Born to a middle-class family in Croydon, Surrey, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition.

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Alexander Calder

Pioneer of kinetic sculpture and inventor of the mobile

Did you know? He originally trained as a mechanical engineer before moving to Paris to pursue his career as an artist.

Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures.

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Arthur Seyss-Inquart

Austrian Nazi politician who served as Chancellor during the Anschluss

Did you know? He was an expert mountaineer who spent his youth climbing in the Alps and served as a mountain guide during the First World War.

Arthur Seyss-Inquart (German: Seyß-Inquart; Austrian German pronunciation:; 22 July 1892 – 16 October 1946) was an Austrian Nazi politician and convicted war criminal who served as Chancellor of Austria in 1938 for two days before the Anschluss.

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Selman Abraham Waksman

Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist who discovered the antibiotic streptomycin

Did you know? He coined the term antibiotics to describe substances produced by microorganisms that inhibit the growth of others.

Selman Abraham Waksman (22 July 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics.

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Gustav Ludwig Hertz

Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his research on electron-atom interactions

Did you know? He was the nephew of Heinrich Hertz, the famous scientist after whom the unit of frequency is named.

Gustav Ludwig Hertz (German:; 22 July 1887 – 30 October 1975) was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."

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