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Liza Koshy

Elizabeth Shaila Koshy (born March 31, 1996) is an American YouTuber and actress. She has received four Streamy Awards, four Teen Choice Awards, and a Kids' Choice Award.

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Chloé Zhao

Beijing-born filmmaker who directed Nomadland and became the first woman of colour to win the Academy Award for Best Director

Did you know? Before her success in cinema, she worked various jobs in New York including stints as a bartender and a party promoter.

Chloé Zhao (born Zhao Ting; 31 March 1982) is a Chinese filmmaker. She is known primarily for her work on independent films.

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Ewan McGregor

Scottish actor known for Trainspotting and playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars

Did you know? He travelled across the world on a motorcycle with his friend Charley Boorman for a documentary series.

Ewan Gordon McGregor ( YOO-ən; born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

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Alenka Bratušek

Slovenia's first female Prime Minister and leader of Positive Slovenia

Did you know? She led the country through a period of economic instability and was later appointed as the Minister of Infrastructure.

Alenka Bratušek (born 31 March 1970) is a Slovenian politician, who was the Prime Minister of Slovenia from March 2013 until May 2014 as the first woman in Slovenia to hold this position. She was president pro tempore of the Positive Slovenia party from January 2013 until April 2014.

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César Sampaio

Brazilian defensive midfielder who played in two World Cups

Did you know? He holds the distinction of scoring the first goal of the 1998 World Cup, heading the ball into the net against Scotland.

Carlos César Sampaio Campos (born 31 March 1968), known as César Sampaio, is a Brazilian football pundit, coach and former player who played as a defensive midfielder. He is the current technical coordinator of Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Santos.

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Oleksandr Turchynov

Ukrainian politician who served as acting president during the 2014 revolution

Did you know? Outside of his political life, he is an ordained Baptist minister and has written several novels and screenplays.

Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov (Ukrainian: Олександр Валентинович Турчинов, IPA:; born 31 March 1964) is a Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, Baptist minister and economist. He is the former Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.

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Angus Young

Lead guitarist and co-founder of the hard rock band AC/DC

Did you know? He is famous for performing in a schoolboy outfit, an idea originally suggested by his sister to help his stage presence.

Angus McKinnon Young (born 31 March 1955) is an Australian musician, best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, songwriter, and the only continuous member of the hard rock band AC/DC. He is known for his energetic performances, school uniform-style stage outfits, and his own version of Chuck Berry's duckwalk.

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Al Gore

US Vice President under Bill Clinton who narrowly lost the 2000 election and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his climate campaigning

Did you know? He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to increase public knowledge about the impacts of man-made climate change.

Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American former politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton.

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Christopher Walken

Academy Award-winning American actor known for his distinctive voice

Did you know? He trained as a dancer in musical theatre before moving into film and famously showcased his skills in a Fatboy Slim music video.

Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken; March 31, 1943) is an American actor. His work on stage and screen has earned him accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and an Actor Award, as well as nominations for two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe.

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Zviad Gamsakhurdia

First democratically elected President of independent Georgia

Did you know? Before entering politics, he was a noted academic who translated works by Shakespeare and Baudelaire into the Georgian language.

Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia (Georgian: ზვიად კონსტანტინეს ძე გამსახურდია; Russian: Звиа́д Константи́нович Гамсаху́рдия, romanized: Zviad Konstantinovich Gamsakhurdiya; 31 March 1939 – 31 December 1993) was a Georgian politician, human rights activist, dissident, professor of English language studies and…

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Carlo Rubbia

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered the W and Z particles

Did you know? He served as the Director-General of CERN and has advocated for using thorium as a safer alternative to uranium in nuclear reactors.

Carlo Rubbia (Italian:; born 31 March 1934) is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.

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Richard Chamberlain

American actor celebrated for starring in the miniseries Shogun

Did you know? During the 1960s, he was a successful singer who reached the top ten of the music charts with a version of the theme from Dr. Kildare.

George Richard Chamberlain (March 31, 1934 – March 29, 2025) was an American actor and singer whose career on stage and in film and television spanned over 60 years.

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Shirley Jones

Academy Award-winning actress and singer known for her roles in musicals

Did you know? She was named after the child star Shirley Temple and later starred as the matriarch in the popular sitcom The Partridge Family.

Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American actress and singer. In her six decades in show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of musical films, such as Oklahoma!

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John Fowles

British novelist who wrote The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Did you know? He worked as a teacher in Greece and on a remote island in France before his first novel became a bestseller.

John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.

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Octavio Paz

Mexican poet and essayist of The Labyrinth of Solitude and Sunstone who won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? He resigned from his position as ambassador to India to protest the Mexican government's treatment of student demonstrators.

Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican philosopher, poet, and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Shinichiro Tomonaga

Japanese physicist who won the Nobel Prize for quantum electrodynamics

Did you know? He attended the same high school and university as fellow Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa, and they remained lifelong friends.

Shinichiro Tomonaga (朝永 振一郎, Tomonaga Shin'ichirō; March 31, 1906 – July 8, 1979), usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, was a Japanese physicist.

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William Lawrence Bragg

Nobel Prize winner who pioneered X-ray crystallography

Did you know? He remains the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, receiving the award at the age of twenty-five.

Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his father William Henry Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays", an important step in the…

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Scott Joplin

American composer and pianist known as the King of Ragtime

Did you know? His most famous composition, The Entertainer, reached a whole new audience decades after his death when it was used in the film The Sting.

Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime", he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet (original version of "The Ragtime Dance", 1899/1902), and two operas.

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Nikolay Przhevalsky

Russian geographer and explorer of Central and East Asia

Did you know? A wild horse species discovered during his travels across the Mongolian steppes was named in his honour.

Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky (or Przewalski or Prjevalsky; 12 April 1839 – 1 November 1888) was a Russian geographer and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia.

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Alexander Ostrovsky

Russian playwright known for his realistic dramas

Did you know? Moscow's Maly Theatre is often called the House of Ostrovsky because his plays were so frequently performed there.

Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Остро́вский; 12 April 1823 – 14 June 1886) was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period.

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Joseph Haydn

Austrian Classical composer of more than 100 symphonies and the Emperor Quartet, known as the father of the symphony

Did you know? He was a close friend and mentor to Mozart and later became the teacher of a young Ludwig van Beethoven.

Franz Joseph Haydn ( HY-dən; German:; 31 March 1732 – 31 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was pivotal in the evolution of chamber music forms such as the string quartet and piano trio.

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Frederick V of Denmark

King of Denmark and Norway during the mid-eighteenth century

Did you know? He founded the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and a hospital that became a major medical centre.

Frederick V (Danish and Norwegian: Frederik V; 31 March 1723 – 14 January 1766) was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from 6 August 1746 until his death in 1766. A member of the House of Oldenburg, he was the son of Christian VI of Denmark and Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.

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René Descartes

French philosopher and mathematician who wrote I think, therefore I am and invented the Cartesian coordinate system

Did you know? He frequently stayed in bed until noon, believing that his mind worked best while he was resting.

René Descartes ( day-KART, also DAY-kart; French:; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist whose work was foundational to mathematics and modern philosophy.

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Henry II of France

King of France during the sixteenth century

Did you know? He died after a splinter from a broken lance pierced his eye during a jousting match celebrating a peace treaty.

Henry II (French: Henri II; 31 March 1519 – 10 July 1559) was King of France from 1547 until his death in 1559. The second son of Francis I and Claude, Duchess of Brittany, he became Dauphin of France upon the death of his elder brother Francis in 1536.

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