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Kyrie Irving

NBA basketball player and eight-time All-Star

Did you know? He was born in Melbourne while his father was playing professional basketball in Australia, giving him dual citizenship.

Kyrie Andrew Irving ( KY-ree; Lakota: Ȟéla, lit. 'Little Mountain'; born March 23, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Éric Maxim Choupo-Moting

Forward who played for Bayern Munich and the Cameroon national team

Did you know? Despite being born and raised in Germany, he chose to represent his father's home country of Cameroon at international level.

Jean-Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (born 23 March 1989) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Major League Soccer club New York Red Bulls. Born in Germany, he plays for the Cameroon national team.

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Kangana Ranaut

Award-winning Indian actress and Member of Parliament

Did you know? She left home as a teenager to pursue an acting career in Delhi, initially starting out as a theatre performer.

Kangna Amardeep Ranaut (pronounced; born 23 March 1986) is an Indian actress, filmmaker, and politician serving as a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Mandi since June 2024.

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Mo Farah

Multiple Olympic gold medallist in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres

Did you know? He revealed in a documentary that he was illegally trafficked into the United Kingdom from Djibouti as a young child under a false name.

Sir Mohamed "Mo" Muktar Jama Farah (born Hussein Abdi Kahin, 23 March 1983) is a British former long-distance runner.

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Walter Samuel

Argentine footballer and Champions League winning defender

Did you know? His formidable and physically imposing style of play earned him the nickname The Wall from fans and fellow professionals.

Walter Adrián Samuel (Spanish pronunciation:; born Walter Adrián Luján; 23 March 1978) is an Argentine former professional footballer.

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Michelle Monaghan

American actress known for the Mission: Impossible film series

Did you know? She originally studied journalism at university and worked as a model in Milan and Tokyo to help pay for her studies.

Michelle Lynn Monaghan ( MON-ə-hən; born March 23, 1976) is an American actress. She has starred in the films Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), Made of Honor (2008), Eagle Eye (2008), Trucker (2008), Source Code (2011), Pixels (2015) and Patriots Day (2016).

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Fernando Hierro

Spanish footballer who captained Real Madrid and the national team

Did you know? Although he was a defender, he was a prolific goalscorer and once held the record for most goals for Spain.

Fernando Ruiz Hierro (Spanish pronunciation:; born 23 March 1968) is a Spanish football executive and former player who played as a centre-back, sweeper or defensive midfielder.

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Aneta Kręglicka

Aneta Beata Kręglicka (born 23 March 1965) is a Polish dancer and beauty queen who won the Miss World 1989 contest on 22 November 1989 in Hong Kong, representing Poland.

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José Manuel Durão Barroso

José Manuel Durão Barroso (born 23 March 1956) is a Portuguese politician and law professor. He served as the prime minister of Portugal from 2002 to 2004 and as the president of the European Commission from 2004 to 2014.

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Rex Tillerson

American businessman who served as United States Secretary of State

Did you know? He earned the rank of Eagle Scout as a teenager and later served as the head of the Boy Scouts of America.

Rex Wayne Tillerson (born March 23, 1952) is an American energy executive and former diplomat who served as the 69th United States secretary of state from 2017 to 2018 in the first administration of Donald Trump. From 2006 to 2016, he was chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of ExxonMobil.

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Michael Haneke

Two-time Palme d'Or winning director of Amour

Did you know? He was born in Germany but is widely considered an Austrian filmmaker.

Michael Haneke (German:; born 23 March 1942) is a German-born Austrian retired film director and screenwriter. His work often examines social issues and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society.

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Viktor Korchnoi

Grandmaster widely considered the greatest player never to be world champion

Did you know? He defected from the Soviet Union in the mid-seventies and eventually became a Swiss citizen.

Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (Russian: Виктор Львович Корчной, IPA:; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet and later Swiss chess grandmaster and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion.

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Vasily Zaytsev

Soviet sniper during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II

Did you know? He was taught to shoot as a child by his grandfather, using a single-shot rifle to hunt deer in the Ural Mountains.

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev (Russian: Васи́лий Григо́рьевич За́йцев, IPA:; 23 March 1915 – 15 December 1991) was a Soviet sniper who served in World War II.

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Wernher von Braun

Rocket engineer who developed the Saturn V for the Apollo missions

Did you know? He was a leading figure in the German rocket programme during the Second World War before being moved to the United States.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (US: VUR-nər von BROWN; German:; 23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977) was a German American aerospace engineer and space architect.

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Akira Kurosawa

Japanese director of Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Ran, whose films influenced Westerns and Star Wars

Did you know? He initially trained as a painter, which helped him create detailed sketches for every scene in his movies.

Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 or 黒沢 明, Kurosawa Akira; March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades.

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Daniel Bovet

Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered the first antihistamines

Did you know? His research into muscle relaxants was inspired by the traditional use of curare-tipped arrows by hunters in South America.

Daniel Bovet (French:; Italian:; 23 March 1907 – 8 April 1992) was a Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters.

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Joan Crawford

American actress from the Golden Age of Hollywood

Did you know? For many years, she served on the board of directors for Pepsi-Cola after marrying the company's chairman.

Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 1904–1908 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway.

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Erich Fromm

German-American psychoanalyst and social philosopher who wrote Escape from Freedom and the bestseller The Art of Loving

Did you know? After fleeing Nazi Germany, he became a leading figure in the Frankfurt School, combining social psychology with critical theory.

Erich Seligmann Fromm (German:; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf and Romeo and Juliet

Did you know? He died on the same day as Joseph Stalin, which meant his passing received very little press coverage at the time.

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.

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Juan Gris

Spanish painter and leading figure in the Cubist movement

Did you know? Although he became a key figure in Cubism, he originally began his career as a satirical cartoonist for various magazines.

José Victoriano González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris (Spanish:; French:), was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive.

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Josef Čapek

Czech artist who coined the term robot

Did you know? He suggested the word to his brother Karel for a play, deriving it from an Old Church Slavonic term for forced labour.

Josef Čapek (Czech pronunciation:; 23 March 1887 – April 1945) was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and poet. He invented the word 'robot', which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.

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Emmy Noether

Mathematician who made groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and physics

Did you know? Albert Einstein described her as the most significant creative mathematical genius since the higher education of women began.

Amalie Emmy Noether (23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra and mathematical physics.

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Roger Martin du Gard

French novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? He was a trained archivist, a background that helped him bring immense historical detail to his multi-volume works.

Roger Martin du Gard (French:; 23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Hermann Staudinger

Nobel Prize winner who discovered the existence of macromolecules

Did you know? His revolutionary ideas about polymers were initially mocked by fellow scientists, who believed that large molecules were simply impossible.

Hermann Staudinger (German:; 23 March 1881 – 8 September 1965) was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers. For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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