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Kehkashan Basu

Kehkashan Basu MSM (born June 5, 2000) is a Canadian environmental and human rights activist from the United Arab Emirates. Basu also advocates for peace, children’s rights, education for sustainable development, nuclear disarmament, gender equality and climate justice.

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Vlad A4

Vladislav Andreyevich Bumaga (Russian: Владислав Андреевич Бумага) or Uladzislau Andreyevich Bumaha (Belarusian: Уладзіслаў Андрэевіч Бумага; born 5 June 1996, Minsk), known online as Vlad A4 (Russian: Влад А4) or A4, is a Belarusian YouTuber owner of the YouTube channel A4 and A5.

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Yulia Lipnitskaya

Record-breaking Russian figure skater and Olympic gold medallist

Did you know? At age fifteen, she became the youngest Russian athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in the team trophy event.

Yulia Vyacheslavovna Lipnitskaya (also spelled Julia Lipnitskaia; Russian: Юлия Вячеславовна Липницкая, IPA:; born 5 June 1998) is a Russian figure skating coach and former figure skater. She was part of the Russian team that won the 2014 Winter Olympics team trophy.

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Troye Sivan

Australian singer-songwriter and actor who rose to fame on YouTube

Did you know? He played the young version of the lead character in the 2009 superhero film X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Troye Sivan Mellet ( TROY sih-VAHN; born 5 June 1995) is an Australian singer-songwriter and actor. After gaining popularity as a singer on YouTube and in Australian talent competitions, Sivan signed with EMI Australia in 2013.

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Ninja

American streamer whose Fortnite broadcasts, including a record-breaking session with Drake, made him gaming's best-known online star

Did you know? He was the first professional gamer to appear on the cover of ESPN The Magazine.

Richard Tyler Blevins (born June 5, 1991), known online as Ninja, is an American online streamer, YouTuber, and professional gamer.

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Takayuki Suzuki

Japanese striker who scored in the 2002 FIFA World Cup

Did you know? He played professionally across four continents, including spells in Brazil, Belgium, Serbia and the United States.

Takayuki Suzuki (鈴木 隆行, Suzuki Takayuki; born 5 June 1976) is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He made over 50 appearances for the Japan national team and he played professionally for two decades in Japan, Brazil, Belgium, Serbia and the United States.

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Mark Wahlberg

American actor and producer who started as rapper Marky Mark

Did you know? He co-owns a successful international burger chain with his brothers called Wahlburgers.

Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971), formerly known by his stage name Marky Mark, is an American actor, producer, and former rapper. His work as a leading man spans the comedy, drama, and action genres.

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Rick Riordan

Author of the best-selling Percy Jackson fantasy book series

Did you know? He originally created the character of Percy Jackson as a bedtime story for his son, who has ADHD and dyslexia.

Richard Russell Riordan Jr. ( RY-ər-dən; born June 5, 1964) is an American author, best known for his Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, which includes the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, The Heroes of Olympus series, The Trials of Apollo series, and The Nico di Angelo Adventures series.

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Jeff Garlin

American comedian and actor known for the sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm

Did you know? He provided the voice for the character Captain B. McCrea in the popular Pixar animated film WALL-E.

Jeffrey Garlin (born June 5, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He played Jeff Greene on the HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Murray Goldberg, patriarch of the eponymous family in the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs.

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Ken Follett

Bestselling Welsh author of thrillers and historical fiction

Did you know? An enthusiastic musician, he plays the bass guitar for a band named Damn Right I Got the Blues.

Kenneth Martin Follett (born 5 June 1949) is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold nearly 200 million copies of his works. Follett's commercial breakthrough came with the spy thriller Eye of the Needle (1978).

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Laurie Anderson

Innovative American musician and artist who created the hit O Superman

Did you know? She served as NASA's first ever artist-in-residence, a role that allowed her to explore the connection between art and space.

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker whose work encompasses performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

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Teodoro Obiang

Long-serving President of Equatorial Guinea

Did you know? Having held power since 1979, he is currently the longest-serving non-royal national leader in the world.

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (born 5 June 1942) is an Equatoguinean politician, former military officer, and dictator who has led Equatorial Guinea since 1979, including as its second president since 1982.

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Martha Argerich

Argentine concert pianist celebrated for her virtuosity and interpretations

Did you know? A child prodigy, she gave her first public concert at the age of eight, performing a piano concerto by Mozart.

Martha Argerich (Spanish pronunciation:; born 5 June 1941) is an Argentine classical concert pianist. She is widely considered to be one of the greatest living pianists.

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Hélène Cixous

Influential French feminist writer, playwright and academic

Did you know? She established the first doctoral programme in women's studies in Europe while teaching at the University of Paris VIII.

Hélène Cixous ( sihk-SOO; French:; born 5 June 1937) is a French writer, playwright and literary critic.

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Varlam Shalamov

Russian writer best known for Kolyma Tales about Gulag life

Did you know? He spent nearly two decades in Soviet labour camps, writing poems on scraps of paper during his imprisonment.

Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (Russian: Варла́м Ти́хонович Шала́мов; 18 June 1907 – 17 January 1982), baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet, and Gulag survivor.

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Carlo Biotti

Italian judge and former president of the Court of Milan

Did you know? Before his legal career, he was a talented sportsman and later served as a director for the football club AC Milan.

Carlo Biotti (1901 – 10 December 1977) was an Italian judge, the President of the Court of Milan and a Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Cassation. His forced recusal from the case brought by the widow of Giuseppe Pinelli against the police commissioner Luigi Calabresi in 1971 became a cause célèbre.

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Dennis Gabor

Physicist who won the Nobel Prize for inventing holography

Did you know? He was a refugee from Nazi Germany who developed his most famous invention while working in Great Britain.

Dennis Gabor (5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography. He obtained British citizenship in 1946 and spent most of his life in England.

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Federico García Lorca

Spanish poet and playwright of Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba who was killed by Nationalists in 1936

Did you know? He was a talented pianist and once considered a career in music before focusing on his literary work.

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.

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Ruth Benedict

American anthropologist who wrote the influential book Patterns of Culture

Did you know? She suffered from partial deafness from a young age, which some scholars believe helped focus her powers of observation during her extensive fieldwork.

Ruth Fulton Benedict (June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist and folklorist. She was born in New York City, attended Vassar College, and graduated in 1909.

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John Maynard Keynes

British economist whose General Theory argued that governments should spend to fight recessions, reshaping economic policy worldwide

Did you know? He was a key member of the Bloomsbury Group, an elite circle of English writers, intellectuals, and artists.

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes ( KAYNZ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist whose writings are considered the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, as well as its various offshoots.

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Igor Stravinsky

Russian-born composer whose ballets The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring transformed 20th-century music

Did you know? His ballet The Rite of Spring caused a near-riot at its Paris premiere in 1913 due to its radical music.

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17 June 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music.

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James Connolly

Irish republican and socialist leader executed after the Easter Rising

Did you know? Because he was badly wounded during the fighting, he had to be tied to a chair to face his firing squad.

James Connolly (Irish: Séamas Ó Conghaile; 5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was a Scottish-born Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader, executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. He remains an important figure both for the Irish labour movement and for Irish republicanism.

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Allvar Gullstrand

Nobel Prize-winning ophthalmologist who researched the optical properties of the eye

Did you know? He was a self-taught mathematician who used complex formulas to calculate how light passes through the lens and cornea.

Allvar Gullstrand (5 June 1862 – 28 July 1930) was a Swedish ophthalmologist and optician.

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John Couch Adams

Mathematician who predicted the existence of the planet Neptune

Did you know? He turned down a knighthood and the role of Astronomer Royal, preferring to continue his research and teaching at Cambridge University.

John Couch Adams ( KOOTCH; 5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall, and died in Cambridge.

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