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Désiré Doué

French professional footballer who plays for Paris Saint-Germain

Did you know? He became the youngest player to score for Rennes in a European competition before his high-profile move to the French capital.

Désiré Nonka-Maho Doué (French pronunciation:; born 3 June 2005) is a French professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team. He is considered one of the best young players in the world.

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Beabadoobee

Filipino-British singer-songwriter whose dreamy guitar songs made her a leading young star of British indie rock

Did you know? Her song Coffee was sampled in the viral hit Death Bed by Powfu.

Beatrice Kristi Ilejay Laus (born June 3, 2000), known professionally as Beabadoobee (bee-bə-DOO-bee; stylized in all lowercase), is a Filipino and British singer and songwriter.

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Mario Götze

German footballer who scored the winning goal in the 2014 World Cup

Did you know? He was only twenty-two years old when he came off the bench to score the decisive goal against Argentina in the final.

Mario Götze (German pronunciation:; born 3 June 1992) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or forward for Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt.

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Rafael Nadal

Spanish tennis champion who won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 14 French Open crowns

Did you know? He is naturally right-handed but was trained to play tennis with his left hand to gain a competitive advantage on the court.

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Vozinha

Cape Verdean international goalkeeper with over seventy caps

Did you know? His professional career has taken him to various countries, including spells in Cyprus, Portugal, and Saudi Arabia.

Josimar José Évora Dias (born 3 June 1986), commonly known by the nickname Vozinha, is a Cape Verdean professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Liga de Primera club Colo-Colo and the Cape Verde national team.

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Yelena Isinbayeva

Double Olympic gold medallist and record-breaking pole vaulter

Did you know? She broke the world record for the women's pole vault over twenty times during her competitive career.

Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva (Russian: Елена Гаджиевна Исинбаева, IPA:; also spelled as Elena Isinbaeva; born 3 June 1982) is a Russian former pole vaulter.

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Jodie Whittaker

Yorkshire-born actress who starred in Broadchurch and made history as the first woman to play the Doctor in Doctor Who

Did you know? She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Jodie Auckland Whittaker (born 17 June 1982) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles on television as Beth Latimer in Broadchurch (2013–2017) and the Thirteenth Doctor in Doctor Who (2017–2022; 2025).

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Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

Current Emir of Qatar who came to power in 2013

Did you know? Before becoming Emir, he attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom.

Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (Arabic: تؘمؚيم بؚن حؘمؘد بؚن خَلِيفَة آل ثَانِي, romanized: Tamīm bin Ḥamad bin Khalīfa Āl Thānī; born 3 June 1980) is Emir of Qatar, reigning since 2013. Born in Doha, he is the fourth son of the previous emir, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and his second wife, Moza bint Nasser.

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Serhii Rebrov

Serhiy Stanislavovych Rebrov (Ukrainian: Сергій Станіславович Ребров; born 3 June 1974) is a Ukrainian professional football manager and former player who played as a striker. He was most recently the manager of Ukraine.

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Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir

Hólmfríður "Hófí" Karlsdóttir (born 3 June 1963) is an Icelandic former model and beauty queen who won the 1985 Miss World contest.

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Lawrence Lessig

American legal scholar and advocate for copyright reform

Did you know? He co-founded Creative Commons, a non-profit organisation that provides free licences for creators to share their work legally.

Lester Lawrence "Larry" Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American legal scholar and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

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Ali Larijani

Long-serving Speaker of the Iranian Parliament and national security advisor

Did you know? He holds a PhD in Western philosophy and has authored several books on the works of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.

Ali Ardashir Larijani (3 June 1958 – 17 March 2026) was an Iranian politician, military officer, and philosopher who served as the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 2025 until his assassination in 2026. He had previously served in the position from 2005 to 2007.

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Jill Biden

American educator who served as First Lady of the United States

Did you know? She made history as the first wife of a sitting president to continue working in a paid job outside the White House.

Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden (formerly Stevenson; born June 3, 1951) is an American educator who served as the first lady of the United States from 2021 to 2025, as the second wife of Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States.

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Raúl Castro

Cuban revolutionary who succeeded his brother Fidel as president in 2008 and restored relations with the United States

Did you know? He played a key role in the Cuban Revolution and served as the world's longest-tenured minister of defence.

Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban politician, general, and revolutionary who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, from 2011 to 2021, and President of Cuba between 2008 and 2018, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro;…

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Werner Arber

Nobel Prize winner for discovering restriction enzymes

Did you know? His work provided the molecular tools that allowed scientists to cut and join DNA for the very first time.

Werner Arber (born 3 June 1929 in Gränichen, Aargau) is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases.

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Allen Ginsberg

American poet who was a central figure of the Beat Generation

Did you know? His most famous poem, Howl, was the subject of a high-profile obscenity trial in the United States during the 1950s.

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he befriended Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation.

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Tony Curtis

Academy Award-nominated actor known for Some Like It Hot

Did you know? Before his acting career, he served in the US Navy during the Second World War and witnessed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.

Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American actor with a career that spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 films, in roles covering a wide range of genres.

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Alain Resnais

French filmmaker associated with the influential New Wave movement

Did you know? His acclaimed 1959 debut feature film, Hiroshima mon amour, won the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Alain Resnais (French:; 3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades.

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Paulette Goddard

Hollywood leading lady who starred in Modern Times

Did you know? She was once married to Charlie Chaplin and later to novelist Erich Maria Remarque.

Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy; June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American actress and socialite. She was a prominent leading actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Josephine Baker

American-born French entertainer, Resistance agent and civil rights activist

Did you know? She worked as a spy during the Second World War, smuggling secret messages written in invisible ink on her sheet music.

Freda Josephine Baker (née McDonald; June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress, and a spy for the French Resistance. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France.

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Georg von Békésy

Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist who studied the mechanics of the human ear

Did you know? To conduct his research on how sound travels through the ear, he developed incredibly delicate tools for dissecting human cadavers.

Georg von Békésy (Hungarian: Békésy György, pronounced; 3 June 1899 – 13 June 1972) was a Hungarian-American biophysicist. By using strobe photography and silver flakes as a marker, he was able to observe that the basilar membrane moves like a surface wave when stimulated by sound.

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Otto Loewi

Pharmacologist who won a Nobel Prize for discovering chemical neurotransmission

Did you know? He famously claimed that the idea for his Nobel-winning experiment came to him in a dream two nights in a row.

Otto Loewi (German:; 3 June 1873 – 25 December 1961) was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter.

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Konstantin Balmont

Major figure of the Silver Age of Russian symbolist poetry

Did you know? He was a prolific polyglot who translated literature from nearly thirty different languages into Russian during his lifetime.

Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont (Russian: Константин Дмитриевич Бальмонт; 15 June 1867 – 23 December 1942) was a Russian symbolist poet and translator who became one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

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George V

British king during the First World War who changed the royal family's name to Windsor in 1917

Did you know? He was an enthusiastic stamp collector who developed one of the most comprehensive and valuable collections of British postal history.

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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