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Jesús Castillo

Peruvian international footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder

Did you know? After starting his career with the Peruvian club Sporting Cristal, he moved abroad to play professional football in Tunisia.

Jesús Abdallah Castillo Molina (born 11 June 2001) is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 club Espérance de Tunis and the Peru national team.

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Kai Havertz

German forward who scored the winning goal in a Champions League final

Did you know? An accomplished musician outside of football, he began playing the piano at a young age and often plays to relax after matches.

Kai Lukas Havertz (German pronunciation:; born 11 June 1999) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Arsenal and the Germany national team.

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Unai Simón

First-choice goalkeeper for Athletic Bilbao and the Spanish national team

Did you know? He famously saved two penalties in a shootout against Switzerland to help Spain reach the Euro 2020 semi-finals.

Unai Simón Mendibil (born 11 June 1997) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Athletic Bilbao and the Spain national team.

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Daniel Howell

Daniel James Howell (born 11 June 1991) is an English YouTuber, presenter, comedian and author. He gained prominence through his YouTube channels Daniel Howell (formerly known as danisnotonfire), which has over 6.04 million subscribers (as of May 2026), and Dan and Phil (formerly DanAndPhilGAMES).

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Claire Holt

Australian actress known for H2O: Just Add Water and The Originals

Did you know? She is a black belt in the martial art of Taekwondo, which she practised before starting her acting career.

Claire Rhiannon Holt (born 11 June 1988) is an Australian-American actress. She made her acting debut playing Emma Gilbert in the fantasy series H2O: Just Add Water (2006–2008), before moving to the United States and making her film debut in 2009.

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Shia LaBeouf

American actor known for Transformers and independent film roles

Did you know? He first rose to fame as a child star on the Disney Channel series Even Stevens before moving into major Hollywood blockbusters.

Shia Saide LaBeouf ( SHY-ə lə-BUF; born June 11, 1986) is an American actor and filmmaker. His accolades include a BAFTA Award and Daytime Emmy Award.

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Sébastien Lecornu

French politician who has served as the Minister of the Armed Forces

Did you know? He is a lieutenant colonel in the Gendarmerie Reserve alongside his duties as a senior government minister.

Sébastien Lecornu (French pronunciation:; born 11 June 1986) is a French politician who has served as Prime Minister of France since September 2025. Positioned on the right of the ideological political spectrum, Lecornu has promoted Gaullist, Séguinist, and socially conservative beliefs.

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Caroline Criado-Perez

Caroline Emma Criado Perez (born 1984) is a British feminist author, journalist and activist. Her first national campaign, the Women's Room project, aimed to increase the presence of female experts in the media.

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Peter Dinklage

Actor best known for playing Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones

Did you know? Before finding fame as an actor, he was the frontman of a punk-funk-rap band called Whizzy.

Peter Hayden Dinklage (born June 11, 1969) is an American actor. Portraying Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a record four times.

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Manuel Uribe

Manuel Uribe Garza (11 June 1965 – 26 May 2014) was a Mexican man who was morbidly obese to one of the greatest extents known in recorded history.

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Hugh Laurie

British actor best known for the medical drama series House

Did you know? During his time at university, he was a world-class rower and competed for Cambridge in the famous Boat Race.

James Hugh Calum Laurie (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian, and musician. Laurie first gained professional recognition as a member of the English comedy double act Fry and Laurie with Stephen Fry.

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Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla

Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla (French:; born 11 June 1955) is a Burkinabe lawyer, pan-Africanist, writer and statesman, who served as the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from October 2022 until his firing by President Ibrahim Traoré in December 2024.

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Ingrid Newkirk

Ingrid Elizabeth Newkirk (née Ward; born June 11, 1949) is a British and American animal rights activist, author and the co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world's largest animal rights organization. Newkirk founded PETA in March 1980 with fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco.

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Jackie Stewart

Three-time Formula One World Champion and road safety campaigner

Did you know? He is credited with revolutionising driver safety in motor racing after surviving a horrific high-speed crash at the Belgian Grand Prix.

Sir John Young Stewart (born 11 June 1939) is a British former racing driver, broadcaster and motorsport executive from Scotland who competed in Formula One from 1965 to 1973.

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Robin Warren

Pathologist who co-discovered the bacterium that causes stomach ulcers

Did you know? To prove their discovery, his research partner Barry Marshall famously drank a culture of the bacteria to induce an ulcer.

John Robin Warren (11 June 1937 – 23 July 2024) was an Australian pathologist, Nobel laureate, and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, together with Barry Marshall. The duo proved to the medical community that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H.

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Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark

French-born diplomat who was the husband of Queen Margrethe II

Did you know? A man of many talents, he was a published poet and a skilled winemaker who produced his own labels at his French estate.

Prince Henrik of Denmark, Count of Monpezat (Danish:; born Henri Marie Jean André de Laborde de Monpezat; 11 June 1934 – 13 February 2018) was the husband of Margrethe II of Denmark. He served as her royal consort from Margrethe's accession on 14 January 1972 until his death in 2018.

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Gene Wilder

Comic actor known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Did you know? He insisted his character enter with a limp and a somersault to keep the audience guessing about his honesty for the entire film.

Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman; June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016) was an American actor, comedian, writer and filmmaker.

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William Styron

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice

Did you know? His controversial novel The Confessions of Nat Turner was inspired by a real nineteenth-century slave rebellion in Virginia.

William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968 for The Confessions of Nat Turner.

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Erving Goffman

Sociologist who studied social interaction and the presentation of self

Did you know? To conduct research for one of his most famous books, he spent a year working undercover at a mental hospital in Washington, D.C.

Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".

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Jacques Cousteau

Oceanographer and filmmaker who co-developed the Aqua-Lung

Did you know? His documentary The Silent World was one of the first films to show the colourful depths of the ocean to a global audience.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (also UK:; French:; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author.

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Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese novelist of Snow Country and The Sound of the Mountain, the first Japanese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? He was a pioneer of the palm-of-the-hand story, a literary form consisting of very short, often mystical, prose pieces.

Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成, Kawabata Yasunari; Japanese pronunciation:, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award.

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Nikolai Bulganin

Soviet politician who served as Premier of the Soviet Union

Did you know? He often travelled abroad with Nikita Khrushchev during the mid-fifties, and the pair became known in the Western press as the 'B and K' show.

Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin (Russian: Николай Александрович Булганин; 11 June 1895 – 24 February 1975) was a Soviet and Russian politician and the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958. He also served as Minister of Defense, following service in the Red Army during World War II.

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Halide Edib Adıvar

Influential Turkish novelist, nationalist and women's rights activist

Did you know? She served as a sergeant and later a corporal in the Turkish army during the War of Independence.

Halide Edip Adıvar (Ottoman Turkish: خالده اديب, sometimes spelled Halidé Edib in English; 11 June 1884 – 9 January 1964) was a Turkish novelist, teacher, and a nationalist and feminist intellectual.

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Jeannette Rankin

First woman elected to the United States Congress

Did you know? She was the only member of the US Congress to vote against American entry into both world wars.

Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 for one term, then was elected again in 1940.

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