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Darwin Núñez

Uruguayan footballer who plays as a striker for Liverpool

Did you know? He was the top scorer in the Portuguese top flight before moving to the Premier League for a club-record transfer fee.

Darwin Gabriel Núñez Ribeiro (Spanish pronunciation:; born 24 June 1999) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Saudi Pro League club Al-Diriyah, on loan from Al-Hilal, and the Uruguay national team. Nicknamed "La Pantera" (lit.

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David Alaba

Austrian footballer who has won multiple Champions League titles

Did you know? He was the youngest player ever to play for the Austrian national team, making his debut at the age of seventeen.

David Olatukunbo Alaba (Austrian German:; born 24 June 1992) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club Udinese and captains the Austria national team. He was previously deployed primarily as a left-back, and was considered one of the best in the world at this position.

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Lionel Messi

Argentine footballer who won a record eight Ballon d'Or awards and led Argentina to the 2022 World Cup title

Did you know? His first professional contract was famously signed on a paper napkin at a tennis club.

Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi (born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Major League Soccer club Inter Miami, which he captains, and the Argentina national team.

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LiSA

Japanese rock singer famous for anime themes, including Demon Slayer's Gurenge and the award-winning Homura

Did you know? She performed Gurenge on the New Year's Eve show Kōhaku Uta Gassen in 2019.

Risa Oribe (織部 里沙, Oribe Risa; born June 24, 1987), known professionally as Lisa (stylized as LiSA), is a Japanese singer and songwriter from Seki, Gifu, signed to Sacra Music under Sony Music Artists.

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Solange Knowles

Houston-born singer and artist, Beyoncé's younger sister, acclaimed for the soul album A Seat at the Table

Did you know? She has created performance art pieces for galleries and museums, including the Guggenheim.

Solange Piaget Knowles ( soh-LAHNZH; born June 24, 1986), also known mononymously as Solange, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Juan Román Riquelme

Argentine footballer celebrated as a legendary playmaker for Boca Juniors

Did you know? He was named South American Footballer of the Year in 2001 and was later elected president of his former club.

Juan Román Riquelme (Spanish pronunciation:; born 24 June 1978) is an Argentine former professional footballer and current president of Boca Juniors.

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Shunsuke Nakamura

Japanese professional footballer known for his creative play and free-kicks

Did you know? During his time playing in Scotland, he became the first Japanese footballer to score in the UEFA Champions League.

Shunsuke Nakamura (Japanese: 中村 俊輔, Hepburn: Nakamura Shunsuke; born 24 June 1978) is a Japanese former professional footballer. He is currently working as an assistant coach of the Japan national football team.

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Boris Gelfand

Belarusian-Israeli chess grandmaster and former world championship challenger

Did you know? He won the Chess World Cup and has competed in numerous candidate tournaments throughout his long career.

Boris Abramovich Gelfand (born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian and Israeli chess grandmaster. A six-time World Championship candidate (1991, 1994–95, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2013), he won the Chess World Cup 2009 and the 2011 Candidates Tournament, making him challenger for the World Chess Championship 2012.

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Claudia Sheinbaum

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (born 24 June 1962) is a Mexican politician, energy and climate change scientist, and academic who has been serving as the 66th president of Mexico since 2024. She is the first woman and the first person of Jewish heritage to hold the office.

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Tommy Lister Jr.

Character actor best known for playing Deebo in the film Friday

Did you know? Before becoming a Hollywood star, he was a successful professional wrestler and won a national shot put championship in college.

Tommy Debo "Tiny" Lister Jr. (born Thomas Duane Lister Jr.; June 24, 1958 – December 10, 2020) was an American actor and professional wrestler.

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William E. Moerner

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who pioneered single-molecule imaging

Did you know? He became the first person to achieve the optical detection and spectroscopy of an individual molecule in a solid.

William Esco Moerner, also known as W. E. Moerner, (born June 24, 1953) is an American physical chemist and chemical physicist with current work in the biophysics and imaging of single molecules.

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Jeff Beck

Influential rock guitarist who played with The Yardbirds

Did you know? He was a passionate car enthusiast and spent much of his spare time restoring classic hot rods in his garage.

Geoffrey Arnold Beck (24 June 1944 – 10 January 2023) was an English guitarist. He rose to prominence as a member of the rock band the Yardbirds, and afterwards founded and fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice.

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Julia Kristeva

Bulgarian-French philosopher and influential psychoanalyst

Did you know? She was a prominent member of the Tel Quel group, which helped revolutionise French literary and linguistic theory.

Julia Kristeva (French:; born Yuliya Stoyanova Krasteva, Bulgarian: Юлия Стоянова Кръстева; on 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist who has lived in France since the mid-1960s.

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Claude Chabrol

Influential French film director of the New Wave movement

Did you know? He began his career as a film critic for the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma alongside future directors like Jean-Luc Godard.

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (French:; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s.

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Martin Lewis Perl

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered the tau lepton subatomic particle

Did you know? Before finding fame in physics, he trained as a chemical engineer and worked on the development of vacuum tubes for General Electric.

Martin Lewis Perl (June 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014) was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.

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Masanori Tokita

Japanese international footballer who played in the 1956 Olympic Games

Did you know? He represented his country at two different Olympic Games and was a key figure in the early development of Japanese club football.

Masanori Tokita (Japanese 鴇田 正憲, Tokita Masanori; June 24, 1925 – March 5, 2004) was a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

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Fred Hoyle

British astronomer who coined the term Big Bang

Did you know? Despite coming up with the name, he actually rejected the theory in favour of a steady-state model of the universe.

Sir Fred Hoyle (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer. With Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge and William Alfred Fowler, he formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis in the influential B2FH paper.

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Juan Manuel Fangio

Five-time Formula One World Champion from Argentina

Did you know? He was kidnapped by Cuban revolutionaries in 1958 but was released unharmed after the race had finished.

Juan Manuel Fangio (Spanish:, Italian:; 24 June 1911 – 17 July 1995) was an Argentine racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1958.

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Ernesto Sabato

Argentine novelist and physicist who wrote The Tunnel

Did you know? Before turning to literature, he worked at a prestigious laboratory in Paris where he assisted in research on atomic radiation.

Ernesto Sabato (Spanish:; June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America".

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Tadao Takayama

Japanese footballer who represented the national team in the 1930s

Did you know? He played for the national side while still a student and later became a high-ranking education official in Hiroshima.

Tadao Takayama (高山 忠雄, Takayama Tadao; June 24, 1904 – July 1, 1980) was a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

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Victor Francis Hess

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered the existence of cosmic rays

Did you know? He gathered data for his research by making several daring high-altitude balloon flights, sometimes reaching heights of over five thousand metres.

Victor Franz Hess (German:; 24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was an Austrian–American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson for his discovery of cosmic rays.

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Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

British Field Marshal featured on famous World War I recruitment posters

Did you know? He died at sea during the First World War when the ship he was travelling on hit a German mine.

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his involvement in the Second Boer War, and his central role in the early part of the First World War.

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Jan Matejko

Polish painter celebrated for his large canvases depicting significant historical events

Did you know? Despite his fame for capturing grand scenes, he suffered from poor eyesight and often used a magnifying glass while painting.

Jan Alojzy Matejko (Polish pronunciation:; also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history.

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Mustafa I

Ottoman Sultan who reigned twice during the early seventeenth century

Did you know? He was the first sultan to succeed his brother rather than his father, breaking a long-standing royal tradition.

Mustafa I (Ottoman Turkish: مصطفى اول‎; Turkish: I. Mustafa; 1601 or 1602 – 20 January 1639) was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 22 November 1617 to 26 February 1618, and from 20 May 1622 to 10 September 1623. He was the son of sultan Mehmed III and Halime Sultan.

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