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Pusarla Venkata Sindhu

Indian badminton player and multiple Olympic medal winner

Did you know? She made history as the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal and later became a world champion.

Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (born 5 July 1995) is an Indian badminton player. Considered as one of India's most successful athletes, Sindhu has won medals at tournaments such as the Olympic Games, the World Championships, and on the World Tour.

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Baby Lasagna

Croatian musician whose rock-techno anthem Rim Tim Tagi Dim won the Eurovision 2024 public vote and gave Croatia its best result

Did you know? Rim Tim Tagi Dim satirises young people leaving rural Croatia for the city.

Marko Purišić (pronounced, born 5 July 1995), known professionally as Baby Lasagna, is a Croatian singer-songwriter and music producer, best known as a founding member of Manntra.

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Dejan Lovren

Croatian professional footballer who won the Champions League with Liverpool

Did you know? His family fled to Germany as refugees when he was a young child to escape the outbreak of the Bosnian War.

Dejan Lovren (Croatian pronunciation:; born 5 July 1989) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back. Lovren began his career at Dinamo Zagreb before moving to Lyon in January 2010.

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Ji Chang-wook

South Korean action star who does many of his own stunts, known for the dramas Healer, Empress Ki and The K2

Did you know? He played Emperor Togon in Empress Ki, a character based on the last Yuan emperor.

Ji Chang-wook (Korean: 지창욱; born 5 July 1987) is a South Korean actor and singer.

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Megan Rapinoe

Olympic gold medallist and World Cup-winning American footballer

Did you know? She is a vocal advocate for equal pay and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Megan Anna Rapinoe (born July 5, 1985) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder and winger. She spent most of her career playing for Seattle Reign FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team.

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Alberto Gilardino

World Cup-winning Italian striker and football manager

Did you know? He is famous for celebrating his goals by kneeling down and pretending to play a violin.

Alberto Gilardino (Italian pronunciation:; born 5 July 1982) is an Italian professional football manager and a former player who played as a striker; he currently manages Parma.

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Tuba Büyüküstün

Istanbul-born actress and International Emmy nominee known for the Turkish television dramas Asi and Kara Para Aşk

Did you know? She has received International Emmy nominations for best actress.

Hatice Tuba Büyüküstün (Turkish pronunciation:; born 5 July 1982) is a Turkish actress and model. She is the recipient of several awards and one of Turkey's most popular and highest paid actresses.

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Amélie Mauresmo

French tennis champion and former world number one

Did you know? After retiring from playing, she became the first woman to coach a top-ranking male player when she worked with Andy Murray.

Amélie Simone Mauresmo (French pronunciation:; born 5 July 1979) is a French former professional tennis player, tennis coach, and tournament director. She was ranked as the world No.

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Hernán Crespo

Prolific Argentine striker who played for Chelsea and Inter Milan

Did you know? For a short period in the early 2000s, he was the world's most expensive footballer following his move to Lazio.

Hernán Jorge Crespo (Spanish pronunciation:; born 5 July 1975) is an Argentine professional football coach and former player. He is considered one of the best strikers in the history of the Argentina national team.

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Márcio Amoroso

Márcio Amoroso dos Santos (born 5 July 1974) is a Brazilian football pundit and former professional player who mainly played as a forward.

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Eduardo Riedel

Brazilian politician serving as the Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul

Did you know? He was a competitive junior tennis player before pursuing a career in business and politics.

Eduardo Corrêa Riedel (born 5 July 1969) is a Brazilian politician who is the 12th and current Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul.

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Susan Wojcicki

Former CEO of YouTube and pioneering technology executive

Did you know? She famously rented out her garage to the founders of Google in the company's early days to help pay her mortgage.

Susan Diane Wojcicki ( woo-CHITS-kee; July 5, 1968 – August 9, 2024) was an American business executive who was the chief executive officer of YouTube from 2014 to 2023. Her net worth was estimated at $765 million in 2022.

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Veronica Guerin

Irish investigative journalist known for her reports on organised crime

Did you know? She was a talented athlete who represented Ireland in both football and basketball before turning to a career in journalism.

Veronica Guerin Turley (5 July 1958 – 26 June 1996) was an Irish investigative journalist focusing on organised crime in Ireland, who was murdered in a contract killing believed to have been ordered by a South Dublin-based drug cartel.

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Avigdor Lieberman

Israeli politician who has held numerous senior government roles

Did you know? Born in Moldova, he moved to Israel in his late teens and worked as a baggage handler at an airport while studying.

Avigdor Lieberman (Hebrew: אביגדור ליברמן; born 5 June 1958) is an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Finance between 2021 and 2022, having previously served twice as Deputy Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2008 and 2009 to 2012.

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Horacio Cartes

Former President of Paraguay and prominent businessman

Did you know? Before his political career, he was a successful sports executive and served as the president of the football club Libertad.

Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara (Spanish pronunciation:; born 5 July 1956) is a Paraguayan politician and businessman who is serving as president of the Colorado Party since 2023, having previously served as president of Paraguay from 2013 to 2018.

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Gerard 't Hooft

Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his work on gauge theories

Did you know? An asteroid discovered in the late twentieth century was named in his honour by the International Astronomical Union.

Gerardus "Gerard" 't Hooft (Dutch:; born 5 July 1946) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G.

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Pierre Mauroy

Former Prime Minister of France and Mayor of Lille

Did you know? He was the first socialist prime minister of the Fifth Republic and introduced significant reforms such as the thirty-nine-hour work week.

Pierre Mauroy (French:; 5 July 1928 – 7 June 2013) was a French politician who was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 under President François Mitterrand. Mauroy also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001 and President of the Socialist International from 1992 to 1999.

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Georges Pompidou

French prime minister under de Gaulle and president from 1969 to 1974, whose name is carried by the Pompidou Centre in Paris

Did you know? He was an avid collector of modern art and personally commissioned the construction of the landmark museum that bears his name.

Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou ( POMP-id-oo; French:; 5 July 1911 – 2 April 1974) was President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. He had previously served from 1962 to 1968 as Prime Minister of France under President Charles de Gaulle, with whom he was closely associated throughout his career.

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Andrei Gromyko

Long-serving Soviet Foreign Minister known as Mr No

Did you know? He was involved in almost every major Cold War event, including the Yalta Conference and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (18 July 1909 – 2 July 1989) was a Soviet politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957–1985) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985–1988).

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Ernst Mayr

Major evolutionary biologist who helped define the modern synthesis

Did you know? He discovered dozens of new bird species during a solo expedition to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in the 1920s.

Ernst Walter Mayr ( MYRE; German:; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science.

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John Howard Northrop

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who first crystallised enzymes

Did you know? His work proved that enzymes are proteins, a discovery that was essential for understanding biological chemical reactions.

John Howard Northrop (July 5, 1891 – May 27, 1987) was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award was given for these scientists' isolation, crystallization, and study of enzymes, proteins, and viruses.

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Jean Cocteau

French poet, novelist and filmmaker of Les Enfants Terribles and the film Beauty and the Beast, a leading avant-garde artist

Did you know? He directed the 1946 film adaptation of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: KOK-toh, US: kok-TOH; French:; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic.

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Herbert Spencer Gasser

American scientist and Nobel laureate who researched nerve impulses

Did you know? He used a modified cathode-ray oscilloscope to observe the electrical activity occurring within individual nerve fibres.

Herbert Spencer Gasser (July 5, 1888 – May 11, 1963) was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.

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Willem Drees

Prime Minister who oversaw the post-war reconstruction of the Netherlands

Did you know? He was a dedicated supporter of the Esperanto language and once addressed an international congress using the constructed tongue.

Willem Drees Sr. (5 July 1886 – 14 May 1988) was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 to 22 December 1958.

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