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Justin Bieber

Justin Drew Bieber ( BEE-bər; born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian singer. An influential figure in popular music, he is known for his image reinventions and multi-genre performances.

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Carlos Vela

Mexican footballer who played for Arsenal and Real Sociedad

Did you know? He has admitted that he does not actually enjoy watching football, preferring basketball as a fan and for entertainment.

Carlos Alberto Vela Garrido (Spanish pronunciation:; born 1 March 1989) is a Mexican former professional footballer. A versatile offensive player, Vela could be deployed as a forward, winger, and attacking midfielder.

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Kesha

American singer and songwriter known for the hit Tik Tok

Did you know? She wrote songs for other major artists, including Britney Spears, before her own performing career took off.

Kesha Rose Sebert (born March 1, 1987), stylized as Ke$ha until 2014, is an American singer, rapper, and songwriter. She has attained two number-one albums on the US Billboard 200 to date, with Animal (2010) and Rainbow (2017), and the top-ten records Warrior (2012) and High Road (2020).

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Lupita Nyong'o

Oscar-winning actress known for 12 Years a Slave

Did you know? She was born in Mexico and grew up in Kenya, eventually becoming the first Kenyan actress to win an Academy Award.

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o (born 1 March 1983) is an actress who has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, an Actor Award and a Daytime Emmy Award, as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award.

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Mary Kom

Highly decorated Indian amateur boxer and former Olympic medallist

Did you know? She is the only female boxer to have won a medal in each of the first seven World Championships.

Mangte Chungenijang "Mary" Kom (born 24 November 1982) is an Indian Olympic boxer, politician, and former Member of Rajya Sabha.

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Jensen Ackles

Actor best known for starring in the series Supernatural

Did you know? He initially planned to study sports medicine and become a physical therapist before moving to Los Angeles to try acting.

Jensen Ross Ackles (born March 1, 1978) is an American actor and musician.

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Javier Bardem

Oscar-winning Spanish actor known for No Country for Old Men

Did you know? Before finding success in acting, he was a talented rugby player who represented the Spanish national junior team.

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor.

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Zack Snyder

Filmmaker known for directing 300, Watchmen and Man of Steel

Did you know? Before finding success in Hollywood movies, he built a career directing commercials and music videos for artists like Rod Stewart.

Zachary Edward Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American filmmaker. After starting his career primarily directing music videos, he made his feature film debut in 2004 with Dawn of the Dead, a remake of the 1978 horror film of the same name.

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Dalia Grybauskaitė

First female President of Lithuania and former European Commissioner

Did you know? She holds a black belt in karate, a skill she acquired long before becoming a leading figure in European politics.

Dalia Grybauskaitė (born 1 March 1956) is a Lithuanian politician who served as the eighth president of Lithuania from 2009 to 2019. She is the first and so far only woman to hold the position and in 2014 she became the first President of Lithuania to be reelected for a second consecutive term.

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Denis Mukwege

Nobel Peace Prize-winning doctor who treats survivors of sexual violence

Did you know? He survived an assassination attempt in 2012, after which he briefly went into exile in Europe before returning to his hospital.

Denis Mukwege (born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese humanitarian, gynecologist and Pentecostal pastor. He founded and works in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been raped.

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Ron Howard

Oscar-winning film director and former child actor

Did you know? He rose to fame as a child star playing Opie Taylor before starring as Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days.

Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American filmmaker and actor. He started his career as a child actor before transitioning to directing films.

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Carlos Queiroz

Football manager who coached Portugal and served as Alex Ferguson's assistant

Did you know? He is credited with discovering and developing several members of Portugal's famous Golden Generation during his time as a youth coach.

Carlos Manuel Brito Leal de Queiroz (born 1 March 1953) is a Portuguese association football manager.

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Tzvetan Todorov

Influential Bulgarian-French literary critic and philosopher

Did you know? He was a key figure in developing the theory of structuralism and later focused his work on the history of human rights.

Tzvetan Todorov (French:; Bulgarian: Цветан Тодоров; 1 March 1939 – 7 February 2017) was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist.

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Lamberto Dini

Former Prime Minister of Italy and economist

Did you know? He spent over a decade working at the International Monetary Fund in Washington before returning to Italy to lead the central bank.

Lamberto Dini (Italian:; born 1 March 1931) is an Italian politician and economist. He was the Director General of Bank of Italy from 1979 to 1994, Minister of Treasury from 1994 to 1996, the 51st prime minister of Italy from 1995 to 1996, and Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2001.

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Harry Belafonte

American singer and activist who popularised calypso music

Did you know? He was a close friend and confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. and helped to fund the civil rights movement.

Harry Belafonte ( BEL-ə-FON-tee; born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Yitzhak Rabin

Israeli general and two-time prime minister who signed the Oslo Accords, won the Nobel Peace Prize and was assassinated in 1995

Did you know? He was the first Israeli leader to be born in the territory that would later become the state of Israel.

Yitzhak Rabin (Hebrew: יִצְחָק רַבִּין, IPA:; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli statesman and general who was the prime minister of Israel, having served from 1974 to 1977 and again from 1992 until his assassination in 1995.

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João Goulart

Brazilian president who was removed from office by a military coup

Did you know? He was a wealthy landowner before entering politics and remains the only Brazilian president to have died while in exile.

João Belchior Marques Goulart (1 March 1919 – 6 December 1976), commonly known as Jango, was a Brazilian politician who served as the 24th president of Brazil from 1961 until a military coup d'état deposed him in 1964.

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Ralph Ellison

American writer best known for his novel Invisible Man

Did you know? Before becoming a writer, he studied music and played the trumpet, initially hoping to become a professional jazz musician.

Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. Ellison wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986).

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David Niven

Oscar-winning British actor and star of Around the World in 80 Days

Did you know? During the Second World War, he left Hollywood to return to Britain and served as a combat officer in the Commandos.

James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was an English actor, soldier, raconteur, memoirist and novelist. Niven was known as a handsome and debonair leading man in classic Hollywood films.

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Archer John Porter Martin

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who co-invented partition chromatography

Did you know? He developed his groundbreaking chemical separation techniques while working at a research association dedicated to the wool industry.

Archer John Porter Martin (1 March 1910 – 28 July 2002) was an English chemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge.

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Glenn Miller

American big band leader and composer of the swing era

Did you know? He disappeared over the English Channel in 1944 while flying to perform for Allied troops in recently liberated Paris.

Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombonist, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces.

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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Japanese author widely regarded as the father of the short story

Did you know? Japan’s most prestigious literary prize was established in his honour a few years after his death.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke; Japanese pronunciation:, 1 March 1892 – 24 July 1927), art name Chōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人), was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan.

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Oskar Kokoschka

Expressionist painter famous for his psychological portraits

Did you know? After a painful breakup, he commissioned a life-sized doll of his former lover to take to the opera.

Oskar Kokoschka (Austrian German:; 1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian (though, at times during his life, he had also Czech and British citizenship) artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced…

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Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg

Wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand whose assassination sparked World War I

Did you know? Because she was not from a royal house, she was often denied the same formal court status as her husband.

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (German: Sophie Marie Josephine Albina Gräfin Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin; Czech: Žofie Marie Josefína Albína hraběnka Chotková z Chotkova a Vojnína; 1 March 1868 – 28 June 1914) was the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

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