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Ariana Grande

American singer and actress with a four-octave range, known for Thank U, Next and 7 Rings, who played Glinda in Wicked

Did you know? She began her career on Broadway before starring in the Nickelodeon television series Victorious.

Ariana Grande-Butera ( AR-ee-AH-nə GRAHN-day byuu-TAIR-ə; born June 26, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her four-octave vocal range, which extends into the whistle register, she is an influential figure in popular music.

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Jennette McCurdy

Writer and former actress known for the sitcom iCarly

Did you know? After retiring from acting, she wrote a best-selling memoir that detailed her complicated relationship with her mother.

Jennette McCurdy (born June 26, 1992) is an American writer and former actress. Her breakthrough role as Sam Puckett in the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly (2007–2012) won her four Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.

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Arlette Contreras

Cindy Arlette Contreras Bautista (born June 26, 1990) is a Peruvian lawyer and social activist. She is an International Women of Courage Award recipient, and was also included in the Time 100 list of the most influential people.

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Samir Nasri

French international midfielder who played for Arsenal and Manchester City

Did you know? He was nicknamed "The Little Prince" by French fans early in his career while playing for his hometown club, Marseille.

Samir Nasri (Arabic: سمير نصري; born 26 June 1987) is a French former professional footballer. He primarily played as an attacking midfielder and a winger, although he was also deployed in the central midfield.

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Maryam al-Khawaja

Maryam Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja (Arabic: مريم عبد الهادي الخواجة, romanized: Maryam ʻAbd al-Hādī al-Khawājah; born 26 June 1987) is a Bahraini-Danish human rights activist.

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Aubrey Plaza

Deadpan actress known for the sitcom Parks and Recreation

Did you know? She worked as an intern and page at NBC before finding fame as an actress.

Aubrey Christina Plaza (born June 26, 1984) is an American actress, comedian, and producer. She began performing improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.

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Aleksandr Zakharchenko

Pro-Russian separatist leader in the Donetsk region of Ukraine

Did you know? Before entering politics and the military, he worked as an electrician and was involved in the coal mining industry.

Alexander Vladimirovich Zakharchenko (26 June 1976 – 31 August 2018) was a pro-Russian separatist leader who was the Russia-installed head of state and prime minister of the Donetsk People's Republic, a self-proclaimed state and Russian-backed rebel group which declared independence from Ukraine on 11 May 2014.

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Paul Thomas Anderson

Acclaimed film director of Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood

Did you know? He dropped out of film school after only two days, choosing to use his tuition money to fund his first short film.

Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970), also known by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker.

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Paolo Maldini

Legendary Italian defender who played for AC Milan

Did you know? He spent his entire twenty-five-year professional career at the same club, winning the European Cup or Champions League five times.

Paolo Cesare Maldini (Italian pronunciation:; born 26 June 1968) is an Italian football executive and former professional footballer who most recently served as the president of the technical sector of the Italian Football Federation.

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Jovenel Moïse

President of Haiti who was assassinated while in office

Did you know? Before entering politics, he was a successful entrepreneur who established a leading banana export business.

Jovenel Moïse (French pronunciation:; Haitian Creole pronunciation:; 26 June 1968 – 7 July 2021) was a Haitian politician and businessman who served as the 48th president of Haiti from 2017 until his assassination in 2021.

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Guðni Jóhannesson

Former President of Iceland and professional historian

Did you know? He once sparked a global debate after jokingly suggesting that pineapple should be banned as a topping on pizza.

Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson (Icelandic pronunciation:; born 26 June 1968) is an Icelandic historian and politician who served as the sixth president of Iceland from 2016 to 2024. A career historian, Guðni was a professor at the University of Iceland before running for president in 2016.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Russian businessman and former oil tycoon turned political activist

Did you know? Once considered the wealthiest man in Russia, he spent ten years in prison before being pardoned and moving to London.

Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky (Russian: Михаил Борисович Ходорковский, IPA:; born 26 June 1963), sometimes known by his initials MBK, is an exiled Russian businessman, oligarch, and opposition activist, now residing in London.

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Gennady Zyuganov

Long-serving leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Did you know? He has run for the Russian presidency multiple times and famously came close to defeating Boris Yeltsin in the 1996 election.

Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (Russian: Геннадий Андреевич Зюганов; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian politician who has been the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation since 1993 and a member of the State Duma since 1994.

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Robert Coleman Richardson

Physicist who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering superfluidity in helium-3

Did you know? His breakthrough discovery occurred when he cooled the substance to within a few thousandths of a degree above absolute zero.

Robert Coleman Richardson (June 26, 1937 – February 19, 2013) was an American experimental physicist whose area of research included sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3.

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Claudio Abbado

Influential Italian conductor of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras

Did you know? He was known for conducting entire operas and symphonies from memory without using a musical score.

Claudio Abbado (Italian pronunciation:; 26 June 1933 – 20 January 2014) was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his generation.

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Sławomir Mrożek

Polish playwright and satirist known for his absurdist works

Did you know? After criticising the invasion of Czechoslovakia, he lived in exile for several decades in countries including Italy, France and Mexico.

Sławomir Mrożek (Polish pronunciation:; 29 June 1930 – 15 August 2013) was a Polish playwright. Mrożek joined the Polish United Workers' Party during the reign of Stalinism in the People's Republic of Poland, and made a living as a political journalist.

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Blake Edwards

Influential director of Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Pink Panther films

Did you know? He was married to the legendary musical star Julie Andrews for over 40 years until his death in 2010.

Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films.

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Eleanor Parker

Three-time Oscar-nominated actress and star of The Sound of Music

Did you know? She was often called the Woman of a Thousand Faces because she was so skilled at transforming herself for diverse film roles.

Eleanor Jean Parker (June 26, 1922 – December 9, 2013) was an American actress. She was nominated for three Academy Awards, one each for her roles in the films Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), and Interrupted Melody (1955), the first of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress.

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Salvador Allende

Chilean doctor who became the first Marxist elected president in Latin America and died in the 1973 coup

Did you know? Before entering politics, he trained as a medical doctor and wrote a thesis on the relationship between hygiene and social conditions.

Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 29th president of Chile from 1970 until his death in 1973.

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Peter Lorre

Actor known for his roles in Casablanca and M

Did you know? He was the first actor to play a James Bond villain on screen, appearing in a television adaptation of Casino Royale.

Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein; June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian and American actor, active first in Europe and later in the United States. Known for his timidly devious characters, appearance, and accented voice, he was frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.

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Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia

Russian princess and third daughter of Tsar Nicholas II

Did you know? She was known for her kindness and was often called 'the angel' of the imperial family by her nurses and sisters.

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (Russian: Мария Николаевна; romanized: Maria Nikolaevna) 26 June 1899 – 17 July 1918) was the middle child and third daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.

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Pyotr Kapitsa

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who studied low-temperature physics

Did you know? He spent many years working at the University of Cambridge before being detained in the Soviet Union during a visit home.

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица; Romanian: Petre Capița; 9 July 1894 – 8 April 1984), also known as Peter Kapitza, was a Russian and Soviet physicist, whose research focused on low-temperature physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.

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Pearl S. Buck

American writer raised in China whose novel The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize; she later won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? The daughter of missionaries, she grew up in China and learned to speak Chinese before she mastered English.

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.

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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Bengali writer who composed the national song of India

Did you know? He was one of the first two graduates of the University of Calcutta and spent much of his life working as a government official.

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicised as Bankim Chandra Chatterjee; 26 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was a Bengali novelist, poet, essayist and journalist. Noted for his pro-British stance, he accepted the legitimacy of the British rule and supported English education.

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