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Djibril Sidibé

French defender and 2018 FIFA World Cup winner

Did you know? He was a key part of the Monaco team that beat Paris Saint-Germain to the Ligue 1 title in 2017.

Djibril Sidibé (born 29 July 1992) is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Ligue 1 club Le Mans.

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Allison Mack

Actress who played Chloe Sullivan in the television series Smallville

Did you know? She was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 for her involvement in the NXIVM cult.

Allison Mack (born July 29, 1982) is an American former actress. She played Chloe Sullivan on the superhero series Smallville (2001–2011) and had a recurring role on the comedy series Wilfred (2012–2014).

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Prince Abdul Azim of Brunei

Abdul Azim ibni Hassanal Bolkiah (Jawi: عبد العظيم; 29 July 1982 – 24 October 2020) was a member of the royal family of Brunei. He was the second son of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and the first with his former second wife, Mariam Abdul Aziz.

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Fernando Alonso

Spanish racing driver who won Formula One world titles with Renault in 2005 and 2006 and still races into his forties

Did you know? He became the first person from his country to win a Grand Prix and holds a record for most race starts.

Fernando Alonso Díaz (Spanish pronunciation:; born 29 July 1981) is a Spanish racing driver who competes in Formula One for Aston Martin. Alonso has won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 2005 and 2006 with Renault, and has won 32 Grands Prix across 23 seasons.

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Josh Radnor

American actor best known for starring in How I Met Your Mother

Did you know? Away from acting, he is an accomplished musician and has released several albums as part of a folk-indie duo.

Joshua Thomas Radnor (born July 29, 1974) is an American actor and filmmaker. He portrayed Ted Mosby on the Emmy Award–winning CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014).

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Sanjay Dutt

Prolific Bollywood actor known for playing tough-guy roles

Did you know? He is the son of two of India's most celebrated film stars, Sunil Dutt and Nargis.

Sanjay Balraj Dutt (born 29 July 1959) is an Indian actor and film producer who works primarily in Hindi cinema, and has also appeared in some Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Marathi and Punjabi films. He has acted in over 135 films.

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Fumio Kishida

Former Prime Minister of Japan and leader of the LDP

Did you know? He represents a constituency in Hiroshima and has been a vocal advocate for global nuclear disarmament.

Fumio Kishida (born 29 July 1957) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2021 until his resignation in 2024. He has represented Hiroshima 1st in the House of Representatives since 1996.

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Arif Alvi

Former President of Pakistan and senior politician

Did you know? Before entering politics, he ran a successful dental practice and was a founding member of the Pakistan Dental Association.

Arif-ur-Rehman Alvi (born 29 July 1949) is a Pakistani politician and former dentist who served as the 13th president of Pakistan from September 2018 to March 2024. He was a member of the National Assembly from 2013 until being elected president in 2018.

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Mircea Lucescu

Successful Romanian football manager who led clubs across Europe

Did you know? He is one of the most successful managers in football history, having won numerous trophies across several different countries.

Mircea Lucescu (Romanian pronunciation:; 29 July 1945 – 7 April 2026) was a Romanian professional football player and manager. Lucescu was one of the most successful footballers of the Romanian league championship, having won all seven of his titles with Dinamo București between 1964 and 1990.

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David Warner

British character actor known for roles in Titanic and Tron

Did you know? He holds the unusual distinction of appearing in three different film and television productions about the sinking of the Titanic.

David Hattersley Warner (29 July 1941 – 24 July 2022) was an English actor who portrayed a variety of villainous characters, as well as more sympathetic roles, in a career spanning six decades across stage and screen.

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Daniel McFadden

Nobel Prize-winning economist known for his work on discrete choice

Did you know? Before moving into economics, he originally studied physics and even considered a career in the field.

Daniel Little McFadden (born July 29, 1937) is an American econometrician who shared the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Heckman. McFadden's share of the prize was "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice".

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Ryutaro Hashimoto

Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister in the late 1990s

Did you know? He was a dedicated practitioner of kendo and achieved a high-level sixth dan rank in the martial art.

Ryutaro Hashimoto (橋本 龍太郎, Hashimoto Ryūtarō; 29 July 1937 – 1 July 2006) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1996 to 1998. Born in Okayama Prefecture, Hashimoto graduated from Keio University in 1960 and entered the National Diet in 1963.

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Harry Mulisch

Dutch novelist known for his masterpiece The Discovery of Heaven

Did you know? He was the son of a Jewish mother and a father who collaborated with the Nazis during the occupation.

Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch (Dutch pronunciation:; 29 July 1927 – 30 October 2010) was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections.

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Mikis Theodorakis

Greek composer and politician who wrote the score for Zorba the Greek

Did you know? His music was banned by the Greek military government during the late sixties, and he was subsequently imprisoned for his political views.

Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis (Greek: Μιχαήλ "Μίκης" Θεοδωράκης; 29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021) was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works. He scored for the films Zorba the Greek (1964), Z (1969), and Serpico (1973).

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Dag Hammarskjöld

Swedish diplomat who served as the second UN Secretary-General and was killed in a plane crash, winning a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize

Did you know? He is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously after dying in a plane crash.

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld ( HAM-ər-shuuld; Swedish:; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961.

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Clara Bow

Silent film actress who became the original It Girl

Did you know? She first entered the film industry after winning a nationwide beauty contest called The Fame and Fortune Contest as a teenager.

Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the 1927 film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl".

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Eyvind Johnson

Nobel Prize-winning Swedish novelist and member of the Swedish Academy

Did you know? He left school at the age of thirteen and worked as a timber floater and cinema projectionist before becoming a writer.

Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish novelist and short story writer.

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Isidor Isaac Rabi

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered the technique of nuclear magnetic resonance

Did you know? He was a key figure in the creation of CERN and the Brookhaven National Laboratory after World War II.

Israel Isaac "Isidor" Rabi (Yiddish: איזידאָר יצחק ראַבי, romanized: Izidor Yitzkhok Rabi; July 29, 1898 – January 11, 1988) was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei." He was also one of the first…

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William Powell

Oscar-nominated actor known for The Thin Man film series

Did you know? He was famously paired with Myrna Loy in 14 different movies, becoming one of Hollywood's most popular on-screen couples.

William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 – March 5, 1984) was an American actor, known primarily for his film career. Under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the Thin Man series based on the Nick and Nora Charles characters created by Dashiell Hammett.

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Theda Bara

Silent film actress and early cinema sex symbol

Did you know? Her stage name was widely reported to be an anagram of Arab Death to enhance her exotic screen image.

Theda Bara ( THEE-də BARR-ə; born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols.

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Benito Mussolini

Founder of Italian Fascism who ruled Italy as dictator from 1922 and allied with Hitler in the Second World War

Did you know? Before rising to power, he worked as a schoolteacher and was once a prominent member of the Italian Socialist Party.

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was a fascist dictator who was the prime minister of Italy from 1922 until his deposition in 1943. Known as Il Duce during his rule, he established a totalitarian dictatorship led by the National Fascist Party (PNF) in the Kingdom of Italy.

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Alexander Glazounov

Russian composer known for his symphonies and ballet music

Did you know? He is said to have possessed a phenomenal musical memory and could reconstruct entire orchestral works from hearing them only once.

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period.

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Abay Kunanbaiuly

Poet and philosopher considered the founder of modern Kazakh literature

Did you know? He was a prolific translator who introduced his people to the works of classic European and Russian writers for the first time.

Abai Qūnanbaiūly (10 August 1845 – 6 July 1904) was a Kazakh poet, composer and Hanafi Maturidi theologian philosopher. Abai was a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enlightened Islam.

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Henri Fayol

Mining engineer who developed influential theories of business management

Did you know? His managerial principles, such as the 'fourteen principles of management', are still widely taught in business schools today.

Henri Fayol (29 July 1841 – 19 November 1925) was a French mining engineer, mining executive, author and director of mines who developed a general theory of business administration that is often called Fayolism. He and his colleagues developed this theory independently of scientific management.

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