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Anuna De Wever

Anuna De Wever Van Der Heyden (born 16 June 2001) is a Belgian climate activist and was one of the leading figures in the Belgian branch of Fridays for Future.

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Ritsu Dōan

Japanese international footballer who plays as a winger

Did you know? He gained international attention by scoring crucial goals against Germany and Spain during the 2022 World Cup.

Ritsu Dōan (堂安 律, Dōan Ritsu/Ritzu Doğan(riːtsuː doʊˈɑːn); born 16 June 1998) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt and the Japan national team.

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Park Bo-gum

South Korean actor who rose to fame as a gentle Go champion in Reply 1988 and starred in Love in the Moonlight

Did you know? He is a trained pianist and sings on several drama soundtracks.

Park Bo-gum (Korean: 박보검; born June 16, 1993) is a South Korean actor and singer. He gained recognition for his work in film and television and is the youngest actor to be named Gallup Korea's Television Actor of the Year twice.

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Fernando Muslera

Uruguayan goalkeeper who has played in three World Cup tournaments

Did you know? Despite being a key player for Uruguay, he was actually born in Argentina while his father was playing football there.

Néstor Fernando Muslera Micol (Spanish:; born 16 June 1986) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for AFA Liga Profesional de Fútbol club Estudiantes de La Plata. Muslera began his career at Montevideo Wanderers and Nacional, before moving to Lazio in 2007 where he won the 2009 Coppa Italia.

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Seydou Doumbia

Ivorian footballer and prolific striker for CSKA Moscow

Did you know? He famously moved to Japan at a young age to start his professional career before returning to Europe to achieve major success.

Seydou Doumbia (French pronunciation:; born 31 December 1987) is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Sibel Kekilli

German actress whose debut Head-On won the Golden Bear and who later played Shae in Game of Thrones

Did you know? She has campaigned against violence towards women with the charity Terre des Femmes.

Sibel Kekilli (born 16 June 1980) is a German actress. She gained public attention after starring in the 2004 film Head-On.

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Daniel Brühl

Actor known for Rush and Inglourious Basterds

Did you know? Because he was born in Spain to a German father and Spanish mother, he is fully multilingual and often dubs his own performances.

Daniel César Martín Brühl González (German:; Spanish:; born 16 June 1978) is a German and Spanish actor. He has received various accolades, including three European Film Awards and three German Film Awards, along with nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA Award.

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Federica Mogherini

Italian politician who led European Union foreign policy

Did you know? She wrote her university graduation thesis on the relationship between religion and politics within Islamic thought.

Federica Mogherini (Italian:; born 16 June 1973) is an Italian politician who served as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019.

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Tupac Shakur

American rapper and actor of Dear Mama and California Love, one of hip-hop's best-selling artists, shot dead in Las Vegas in 1996

Did you know? He was a classically trained actor who studied ballet and Shakespeare at the Baltimore School for the Arts as a teenager.

Tupac Amaru Shakur ( TOO-pahk shə-KOOR; Spanish: Túpac; June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. He was one of the most influential musical artists of the 20th century, and a prominent political activist for Black America.

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Jürgen Klopp

German football manager who led Liverpool to Premier League success

Did you know? He has a degree in sports science and once wrote his thesis on the subject of walking.

Jürgen Norbert Klopp (German pronunciation:; born 16 June 1967) is a German football manager, executive, and former player who is the head coach of the Germany national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best managers in the world.

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Jan Železný

Three-time Olympic champion and world record holder in the javelin

Did you know? He is widely considered the greatest javelin thrower of all time and has held the world record since 1996.

Jan Železný (Czech pronunciation:; born 16 June 1966) is a Czech former track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He is a World and Olympic champion and holds the world record with a throw of 98.48 metres (323 ft 1 in).

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Andrea M. Ghez

Nobel Prize winner who confirmed a massive black hole in our galaxy

Did you know? As a child, she was so inspired by the Apollo moon landings that she initially dreamt of becoming the first female astronaut.

Andrea Mia Ghez (born June 16, 1965) is an American astrophysicist. She shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics with Reinhard Genzel "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy".

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Arnold Vosloo

South African actor known for playing the villain in The Mummy

Did you know? He became a naturalised American citizen in the mid-2000s after establishing a successful career in Hollywood films and television.

Arnold Vosloo (born 16 June 1962) is a South African and American actor. He began his career as a stage actor and starring in South African films like Boetie Gaan Border Toe (1984).

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Giorgos Papandreou

Former Prime Minister of Greece and Socialist politician

Did you know? He was the third member of his family to lead the country, following in the footsteps of both his father and grandfather.

George Andreas Papandreou (Greek: Γεώργιος Ανδρέας Παπανδρέου, pronounced, shortened to Giorgos (Γιώργος) to distinguish him from his grandfather; born 16 June 1952) is an American-born Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011. He is currently serving as an MP for PASOK-Kinima Allagis.

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Mithun Chakraborty

Indian actor and politician known for the film Disco Dancer

Did you know? He holds a record for the highest number of film releases in a single year, with nineteen movies featuring him as the lead in 1989.

Mithun Chakraborty (born Gouranga Chakraborty; 16 June 1950) is an Indian actor, film producer, entrepreneur and politician. In a career spanning over five decades, he has done 350 films, mostly in Hindi and Bengali languages, and a few in Bhojpuri, Telugu, Odia, Tamil, Kannada, and Punjabi.

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Michel Lotito

Michel Lotito (French pronunciation:; 16 June 1950 – 25 June 2007) was a French entertainer famous for deliberate consumption of normally indigestible objects. He came to be known as Monsieur Mangetout (lit. 'Mister Eats-All').

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Joyce Carol Oates

Prolific American author of novels, short stories and poetry

Did you know? She writes all of her first drafts by hand, often working for many hours every day without a break.

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.

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Simeon II of Bulgaria

Last Tsar of Bulgaria who later became the country's Prime Minister

Did you know? He is the only monarch in history to have returned to power as a democratically elected leader after living in exile for decades.

Simeon Borisov Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (born 16 June 1937) is a Bulgarian politician who was the last Tsar of the Tsardom of Bulgaria as Simeon II (1943–1946) and served as prime minister of the Republic of Bulgaria as Simeon Sakskoburggotski (2001–2005).

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William F. Sharpe

Economist who won the Nobel Prize for his work in finance

Did you know? He is the namesake of the Sharpe ratio, which helps investors understand the return of an investment compared to its risk.

William Forsyth Sharpe (born June 16, 1934) is an American economist. He is the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Former Emir of Kuwait known for his diplomatic mediation

Did you know? Before becoming ruler, he served as Kuwait's foreign minister for four decades, earning a reputation as the dean of Arab diplomacy.

Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Arabic: الشيخ صباح الأحمد الجابر الصباح, romanized: ash-Shaykh Ṣabāḥ al-ʾAḥmad al-Jābir aṣ-Ṣabāḥ; 16 June 1929 – 29 September 2020) was the Emir of Kuwait from 24 January 2006 until his death in 2020. He was the fourth son of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

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Barbara McClintock

Geneticist who discovered mobile genetic elements in maize

Did you know? She initially faced scepticism for her findings and waited over thirty years before being awarded the Nobel Prize for her discovery.

Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was an American cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927.

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Georg Wittig

Nobel Prize-winning German chemist who developed the Wittig reaction

Did you know? He did not begin his prize-winning research until he was in his fifties, eventually sharing the Nobel Prize with Herbert C. Brown.

Georg Wittig (German:; 16 June 1897 – 26 August 1987) was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Herbert C. Brown in 1979.

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Stan Laurel

English comic actor who was half of the duo Laurel and Hardy

Did you know? He was once an understudy for Charlie Chaplin and moved to the United States on the same ship as the future silent film star.

Stan Laurel ( LORR-əl; born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; 16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English actor, comedian, director and writer who was in the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Hardy in 107 short films, feature films and cameo roles.

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Alexander Friedmann

Physicist who developed the theory of the expanding universe

Did you know? He predicted that the universe was growing years before astronomical observations confirmed the movement of distant galaxies.

Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann (also spelled Friedman or Fridman;; Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Фри́дман; 16 June 1888 – 16 September 1925) was a Russian and Soviet physicist and mathematician.

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