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Rodri

Manchester City midfielder and winner of the 2024 Ballon d'Or

Did you know? While playing professional football in Spain, he lived in university halls and completed a degree in business administration.

Rodrigo Hernández Cascante (born 22 June 1996), known simply as Rodri or Rodrigo, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for La Liga club Barcelona and captains the Spain national team.

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Mikel Merino

Spanish international footballer who plays as a midfielder for Arsenal

Did you know? His father was also a professional footballer who played for Osasuna, the same club where his own career began.

Mikel Merino Zazón (Spanish pronunciation:; born 22 June 1996) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or striker for Premier League club Arsenal and the Spain national team.

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Lee Min-ho

South Korean actor who starred in the series Boys Over Flowers

Did you know? He became the first Korean celebrity to have a wax figure displayed at Madame Tussauds in Shanghai.

Lee Min-ho (Korean: 이민호, born June 22, 1987) is a South Korean actor and singer. He gained widespread fame with his role as Gu Jun-pyo in the television series Boys Over Flowers (2009), which also earned him the Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Actor.

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C. Joseph Vijay

Chandrasekaran Joseph Vijay (born 22 June 1974) is an Indian politician and former actor who is currently serving as the 9th chief minister of Tamil Nadu since 10 May 2026. He is the founder and president of the political party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK).

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Jo Cox

Helen Joanne Cox (née Leadbeater; 22 June 1974 – 16 June 2016) was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour Party.

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Akira Amano

Akira Amano (天野 明, Amano Akira; born 1973) is a Japanese mangaka known for the shōnen series Reborn!. Early versions of Reborn!

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Dan Brown

American author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, thrillers starring symbologist Robert Langdon

Did you know? Before becoming a writer, he pursued a career as a pop singer and songwriter, even releasing several independent albums.

Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American writer best known for his thriller novels, particularly the Robert Langdon series Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), Origin (2017) and The Secret of Secrets (2025).

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Cyndi Lauper

American singer-songwriter famous for hits like Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Did you know? She wrote the music and lyrics for the award-winning Broadway and West End musical Kinky Boots.

Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper ( LAW-pər; born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Lauper is known for her distinctive image, which features eccentric clothing and a variety of hair colors.

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Meryl Streep

American actress famed for her range and accents, with a record 21 Oscar nominations and three wins, including for The Iron Lady

Did you know? She left her first Oscar on the back of a toilet during the ceremony after-party.

Actor with a record 21 Academy Award nominations, widely regarded as one of the greatest of her generation.

Elizabeth Warren

United States Senator and former professor of law

Did you know? She was once a registered Republican before switching parties and becoming a leading figure for the Democrats.

Elizabeth Ann Warren (née Herring; born June 22, 1949) is an American politician and former law professor serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts, a seat she has held since 2013.

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Jerry Rawlings

Former President of Ghana and military leader

Did you know? He was a skilled pilot who often personally flew the presidential aircraft during his time in office.

Jerry John Rawlings (22 June 1947 – 12 November 2020) was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator, politician, and revolutionary who led the country briefly in 1979 and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military regime until 1993 and then served two terms as the democratically elected president of Ghana.

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Gérard Mourou

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and pioneer in laser technology

Did you know? His invention of chirped pulse amplification has become a standard technique in the high-intensity lasers used for corrective eye surgery.

Gérard Albert Mourou (French:; born 22 June 1944) is a French scientist and pioneer in the field of electrical engineering and lasers.

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J. Michael Kosterlitz

Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for studying phase transitions in matter

Did you know? Before focusing on science, he was a highly accomplished mountaineer and pioneered several famous climbing routes in the Italian Alps.

John Michael Kosterlitz (born June 22, 1943) is a British-American physicist. He is a professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz.

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Abbas Kiarostami

Award-winning Iranian film director known for Taste of Cherry

Did you know? He was a keen photographer and poet who often featured his own landscape images and verse in his creative projects.

Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries.

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Ada Yonath

Crystallographer who won the Nobel Prize for mapping the structure of ribosomes

Did you know? Her inspiration for studying the ribosome came from reading about how polar bears store their biological machinery during hibernation.

Ada Esther Yonath (Hebrew: עדה יונת, pronounced; née Lifshitz; 22 June 1939 – 31 August 2026) was an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She was the director of the Helen and Milton A.

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Kris Kristofferson

Influential country music songwriter and Hollywood film actor

Did you know? He was a talented athlete and scholar who attended Oxford University on a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship before joining the army.

Kristoffer Kristofferson (June 22, 1936 – September 28, 2024) was an American musician, songwriter, and actor. He was a pioneering figure in the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, moving away from the polished Nashville sound and toward a more raw, introspective style.

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Amrish Puri

Indian actor known for his villainous roles in Hindi cinema

Did you know? He is widely recognised by international audiences as the primary antagonist in the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Amrish Puri (22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005) was an Indian actor, who predominantly worked in Hindi cinema. He was one of the most notable and important figures in Indian cinema and theatre.

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Konrad Zuse

Computer pioneer who built the first programmable computer

Did you know? He developed the Z3 machine in his parents' living room using discarded film stock and metal strips.

Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (German:; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941.

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Billy Wilder

Director and screenwriter of classics like Some Like It Hot

Did you know? He fled Europe after the rise of the Nazi Party and once worked as a dancer for hire in Berlin hotels.

Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian and American film director and screenwriter. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of America's most versatile filmmakers.

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Erich Maria Remarque

German novelist and First World War veteran who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front, later banned and burned by the Nazis

Did you know? The Nazi party banned and publicly burned his books, eventually stripping him of his German citizenship in the late 1930s.

Erich Maria Remarque (German:; born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German novelist.

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Julian Huxley

British biologist and first Director-General of UNESCO

Did you know? He was the brother of novelist Aldous Huxley and became famous for his efforts to explain complex science to the general public.

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis.

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Hermann Minkowski

Mathematician who developed the space-time framework for relativity

Did you know? One of his most famous students at the Zurich Polytechnic was Albert Einstein, who initially found his teacher's lectures difficult to follow.

Hermann Minkowski (22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a mathematician and professor at the University of Königsberg, ETH Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, Polish, Lithuanian-German, or Russian.

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H. Rider Haggard

Author of adventure novels such as King Solomon's Mines

Did you know? His character Allan Quatermain is often cited as a primary inspiration for the creation of Indiana Jones.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire.

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Paul Morphy

American chess prodigy and unofficial world champion of the mid-nineteenth century

Did you know? He retired from competitive play while still in his early twenties to pursue a career as a lawyer in New Orleans.

Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master.

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