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KSI

Olajide Olayinka Williams "JJ" Olatunji ( born 19 June 1993), known professionally as KSI, is a British YouTuber, influencer, musician, and former professional boxer.

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Zoe Saldaña

American actress known for Avatar and Guardians of the Galaxy

Did you know? She is the only performer to appear in the four highest-grossing films of all time.

Zoë Yadira Saldaña-Perego (née Saldaña Nazario; born June 19, 1978), known professionally as Zoe Saldaña, is an American actress.

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Dirk Nowitzki

German basketball player who spent his entire career with the Mavericks

Did you know? He is the only player in NBA history to play twenty-one consecutive seasons for a single franchise.

Dirk Werner Nowitzki (German:; born June 19, 1978) is a German former professional basketball player who is a special advisor for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), with whom he played his entire 21-year career as a power forward.

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Jean Dujardin

Oscar-winning French actor best known for the silent film The Artist

Did you know? He was the first French actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 2011 film.

Jean Edmond Dujardin (French:; born 19 June 1972) is a French actor and comedian. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in Paris before guest starring in comedic television programmes and films.

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Boris Johnson

Former Mayor of London who became British Prime Minister in 2019, led the country out of the European Union and through Covid

Did you know? He was born in Manhattan and held American citizenship for much of his life, only renouncing it while serving as Foreign Secretary.

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He was previously Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016.

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Paula Abdul

Pop singer, choreographer and original American Idol judge

Did you know? She choreographed the famous giant keyboard dance scene performed by Tom Hanks in the 1988 film Big.

Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personality. She began her career as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers at the age of 18 and later became the head choreographer for the Laker Girls, where she was discovered by the Jacksons.

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Bidya Devi Bhandari

First female president of Nepal

Did you know? She spent years campaigning for women's rights and was instrumental in ensuring that women hold a fixed proportion of seats in Nepal's parliament.

Bidya Devi Bhandari (Nepali: विद्यादेवी भण्डारी; born 19 June 1961) is a Nepali former politician who served as the second president of Nepal from 2015 to 2023. She formerly served as the minister of defence and minister of environment and population.

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Christian Wulff

Former President of Germany and politician in the CDU party

Did you know? At fifty-one, he became the youngest person ever to be elected as the President of Germany.

Christian Wilhelm Walter Wulff (German:; born 19 June 1959) is a retired German politician and lawyer who served as President of Germany from 2010 to 2012. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he previously served as minister president of the state of Lower Saxony from 2003 to 2010.

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Anne Hidalgo

First female Mayor of Paris and French politician

Did you know? She was born in Spain and moved to France as a child, later becoming a French citizen.

Ana María "Anne" Hidalgo Aleu (French:; Spanish:; born 19 June 1959) is a Spanish-born French politician who served as the Mayor of Paris from 2014 to 2026 and is the first woman to hold the office. She is a member of the Socialist Party (PS).

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Anna Lindh

Swedish politician who served as the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs

Did you know? She was a popular figure widely expected to become Sweden's first female prime minister before her life was cut short.

Ylva Anna Maria Lindh (19 June 1957 – 11 September 2003) was a Swedish politician, diplomat, and lawyer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her assassination in 2003.

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Subcomandante Marcos

Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente (born 19 June 1957) is a Mexican insurgent, the former military leader and spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the ongoing Chiapas conflict, and a prominent anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberal.

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Kathleen Turner

Golden Globe-winning actress known for films like Romancing the Stone

Did you know? Before finding fame in Hollywood, she grew up living in several different countries because her father was a high-ranking American diplomat.

Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an American actress. Known for her deep, husky voice, she is the recipient of two Golden Globes, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Grammy, and two Tony Awards.

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Ayman al-Zawahiri

Former leader of al-Qaeda and Egyptian physician

Did you know? He was a qualified surgeon and came from a distinguished family of doctors and scholars in Cairo.

Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (Arabic: أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهري, romanized: ʾAyman Muḥammad Rabīʿ aẓ-Ẓawāhirī; 19 June 1951 – 31 July 2022) was an Egyptian-born pan-Islamist militant and physician who served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from June 2011 until his death in July 2022.

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Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English musician. An accomplished acoustic guitarist, Drake signed to Island Records at the age of twenty while still a student at the University of Cambridge.

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations.

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Aung San Suu Kyi

Burmese democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner who spent years under house arrest and later led Myanmar's civilian government

Did you know? She spent a total of fifteen years under house arrest for her role in the pro-democracy movement.

Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, and author who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Union Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021.

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Radovan Karadžić

Bosnian Serb leader convicted of war crimes and genocide

Did you know? While a fugitive from international justice, he lived in Belgrade for years disguised as a New Age healer with a long white beard.

Radovan Karadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радован Караџић, pronounced; born 19 June 1945) is a Bosnian Serb former politician who served as the president of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War.

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Václav Klaus

Former President and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

Did you know? He is a vocal sceptic of human-induced climate change and has written books expressing his controversial views on the subject.

Václav Klaus (born 19 June 1941) is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013.

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Gena Rowlands

Award-winning actress known for her collaborations with director John Cassavetes

Did you know? She earned an honorary Academy Award for her outstanding contribution to cinema across her seven-decade career.

Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (June 19, 1930 – August 14, 2024) was an American actress, whose career in film, stage, and television spanned nearly seven decades. She was a four-time Emmy Award and two-time Golden Globe winner, and she was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Aage Bohr

Danish nuclear physicist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics

Did you know? He and his father are one of only a handful of parent-child pairs to have both won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Aage Niels Bohr (Danish:; 19 June 1922 – 8 September 2009) was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the…

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Paul Flory

Nobel Prize-winning chemist known for his pioneering work on polymers

Did you know? He spent much of his career working in industrial laboratories, notably developing nylon and neoprene while at the DuPont company.

Paul John Flory (June 19, 1910 – September 9, 1985) was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules.

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Osamu Dazai

Japanese author known for the novel No Longer Human

Did you know? Much of his dark, semi-autobiographical fiction was influenced by his personal struggles and his dramatic private life.

Shūji Tsushima (津島 修治, Tsushima Shūji; 19 June 1909 – 13 June 1948), known by his pen name Osamu Dazai (太宰 治, Dazai Osamu), was a Japanese writer. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun (斜陽, Shayō) and No Longer Human (人間失格, Ningen Shikkaku), are considered modern classics.

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Ernst Chain

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who co-developed penicillin for medical use

Did you know? He was a gifted musician who could have become a professional concert pianist if he had not pursued a career in science.

Sir Ernst Boris Chain (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".

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Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who studied chemical reaction rates

Did you know? A man of many talents, he was also a gifted linguist who could speak or read at least eight different languages.

Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (19 June 1897 – 9 October 1967) was a British physical chemist and expert in chemical kinetics. His work in reaction mechanisms earned the 1956 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

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