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Héctor Bellerín

Spanish footballer known for his long career at Arsenal

Did you know? He is well known for his interest in sustainable fashion and once walked the runway at Paris Fashion Week for Louis Vuitton.

Héctor Bellerín Moruno (born 19 March 1995) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back or wing-back for La Liga club Real Betis. Bellerín started his career at Barcelona, and moved to Arsenal in 2011.

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Hakim Ziyech

Moroccan international footballer and Champions League winner

Did you know? He helped Morocco become the first African nation to reach a World Cup semi-final.

Hakim Ziyech (Arabic: حكيم زياش, romanized: Ḥakīm Ziyāš; Berber languages: ⵃⴰⴽⵉⵎ ⵣⵉⵢⵢⴰⵛ, romanized: Ḥakim Ziyyac; born 19 March 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a right winger or an attacking midfielder for Brasileiro Série A club Botafogo.

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Kolo Touré

Ivorian footballer who won the Premier League with two different clubs

Did you know? During his trial at Arsenal, he reportedly tackled the club manager and two of the team's star players in a single session.

Kolo Abib Touré (born 19 March 1981) is an Ivorian professional football manager and former player who was most recently the assistant manager of Premier League club Manchester City.

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Linda Sarsour

Linda Sarsour (born 1980) is an American political activist. She was co-chair of the 2017 Women's March, the 2017 Day Without a Woman, and the 2019 Women's March.

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Alessandro Nesta

Italian defender regarded as one of the greatest of his generation

Did you know? He once missed several matches due to a tendon injury in his thumb that was attributed to playing too many video games.

Alessandro Nesta (Italian pronunciation:; born 19 March 1976) is an Italian professional football coach and former player who played as a centre-back, currently the head coach of Serie B club Avellino., who is widely considered as one of the greatest defenders of all time.

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Claire Nouvian

Claire Nouvian (born 19 March 1974) is a French environmental activist, journalist, television producer, film director and organizational leader. Claire Nouvian is born in Bordeaux.

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Egor Gajdar

Russian economist and former acting Prime Minister

Did you know? He came from a famous literary family; his grandfather was the celebrated Soviet children's author Arkady Gaidar.

Yegor Timurovich Gaidar (Russian: Егор Тимурович Гайдар, IPA:; 19 March 1956 – 16 December 2009) was a Soviet and Russian economist, politician, and author who was the acting Prime Minister of Russia in 1992 and simultaneously held several other cabinet roles.

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Bruce Willis

action films led by the Die Hard series, comedic television work in Moonlighting, and roles in Pulp Fiction and The Sixth Sense

Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is a retired American actor.

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Lenín Moreno

Ecuadorian politician who served as the President of Ecuador

Did you know? He is one of the few world leaders to use a wheelchair, having been paralysed after a robbery attempt in the nineties.

Lenín Voltaire Moreno Garcés (Spanish:; born 19 March 1953) is an Ecuadorian politician who was the 46th president of Ecuador from 2017 to 2021. He was also vice president from 2007 to 2013, under President Rafael Correa.

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Harvey Weinstein

Disgraced American film producer and co-founder of Miramax

Did you know? His criminal convictions for sexual assault sparked the global Me Too movement against workplace harassment and abuse.

Harvey Weinstein (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. He co-founded the film production companies Miramax and the Weinstein Company.

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Valery Leontiev

Russian pop singer famed since the Soviet era for flamboyant costumes and energetic shows, a People's Artist of Russia

Did you know? He is famous for his elaborate stage costumes and energetic dance routines which he often designs himself.

Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev (Russian: Валерий Яковлевич Леонтьев; born 19 March 1949) is a Russian singer, songwriter and actor, whose popularity peaked in the 1980s and 1990s. He was titled a People's Artist of Russia in 1996.

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Glenn Close

Acclaimed actress known for her roles in Fatal Attraction and The Wife

Did you know? She holds the joint record for the most Academy Award nominations for an actress without ever winning the award.

Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and singer.

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Mario Monti

Former Prime Minister of Italy and European Commissioner

Did you know? He earned the nickname "Super Mario" for his influential role as a European Commissioner, where he took a tough stance on competition laws.

Mario Monti (Italian:; born 19 March 1943) is an Italian politician, economist and academic who served as the prime minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a technocratic government in the wake of the Italian debt crisis.

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Mario Molina

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who discovered the threat of CFCs

Did you know? He was the first Mexican scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and had a building named after him in Mexico City.

Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez (19 March 1943 – 7 October 2020) was a Mexican physical chemist.

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Egon Krenz

Last communist leader of East Germany

Did you know? He served as General Secretary for only a few weeks in 1989 before the collapse of the communist regime.

Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz (German pronunciation:; born 19 March 1937) is a German former politician who was the last Communist leader of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) during the Revolutions of 1989.

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Ursula Andress

Swiss actress famous for playing the first James Bond girl

Did you know? Because of her strong accent, her voice was completely dubbed by another actress in her breakout role as Honey Ryder.

Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss retired actress who has appeared in American, British, and Italian films. Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr.

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Lina Kostenko

Renowned Ukrainian poet and former Soviet dissident

Did you know? She refused the Hero of Ukraine award, stating that she does not wear political jewellery and prefers to serve through her writing.

Lina Vasylivna Kostenko (Ukrainian: Ліна Василівна Костенко; born 19 March 1930) is a Ukrainian poet, journalist, writer, publisher, and former Soviet dissident.

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Hiroo Onoda

Japanese soldier who remained at his post long after World War II

Did you know? He spent nearly thirty years hiding in the Philippine jungle and only agreed to surrender when his former commander personally ordered him to stop.

Hiroo Onoda (Japanese: 小野田 寛郎, Hepburn: Onoda Hiroo; IPA:) 19 March 1922 – 16 January 2014) was a Japanese soldier who served as a second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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Adolf Eichmann

Nazi official who was a primary architect of the Holocaust

Did you know? He managed to escape to Argentina after the war and lived under a false identity before being captured by Mossad agents.

Otto Adolf Eichmann ( EYEKH-mən; German pronunciation:; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.

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Albert Speer

German architect who served as the Nazi Minister of Armaments

Did you know? He was the only high-ranking Nazi official at the Nuremberg trials to admit some responsibility for the regime's actions and express regret.

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (German:; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close friend and ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and served 20 years in prison.

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Frédéric Joliot-Curie

Scientist who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering artificial radioactivity

Did you know? He was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War and used his laboratory to manufacture explosives.

Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (French:; né Joliot; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity.

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Norman Haworth

British chemist who first synthesised Vitamin C

Did you know? He was the first British organic chemist to receive a Nobel Prize and later had a lunar crater named in his honour.

Sir Walter Norman Haworth FRS (19 March 1883 – 19 March 1950) was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid (vitamin C) while working at the University of Birmingham. He received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C".

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Korney Chukovsky

Popular Russian children's poet and literary critic

Did you know? He was responsible for translating many classic English children’s books into Russian, including the works of Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling.

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (Russian: Корней Иванович Чуковский, IPA:; 31 March NS 1882 – 28 October 1969) was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His catchy rhythms, inventive rhymes and absurd characters have invited comparisons with the American children's author Dr.

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A. Kollontaĭ

Revolutionary politician and the first female ambassador in modern history

Did you know? She advocated for radical social reforms and was a key figure in establishing the international women's day holiday.

Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (Russian: Александра Михайловна Коллонтай; née Domontovich; 31 March 1872 – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist theoretician.

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