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Madison Beer

American singer-songwriter who rose to fame through social media

Did you know? Her career was launched after Justin Bieber shared a video of her singing on Twitter when she was just thirteen years old.

Madison Elle Beer (born March 5, 1999) is an American singer-songwriter and television personality. Beer first gained media attention after Justin Bieber posted a link to her cover of "At Last" in 2012, when she was 13 years old.

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Kensuke Nagai

Fast Japanese forward who has played for Nagoya Grampus

Did you know? He was the top scorer at the 2010 Asian Games where he helped lead Japan to a gold medal.

Kensuke Nagai (永井 謙佑, Nagai Kensuke; born 5 March 1989) is a Japanese football player who plays as a striker for J1 League club Nagoya Grampus.

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Eva Mendes

American actress known for films like Training Day and Hitch

Did you know? She retired from acting to focus on her family and launched her own fashion line and beauty brand.

Eva de la Caridad Méndez (Spanish:; born March 5, 1974), known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American former actress. Her acting career began in the late 1990s with a series of roles in films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000).

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Aleksandar Vučić

Serbian politician serving as the President of Serbia

Did you know? In his youth, he worked in London for a period of time, where he improved his English by selling hardware.

Aleksandar Vučić (born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician who served as President of Serbia from 2017 to 2026.

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John Frusciante

Guitarist for the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers

Did you know? He was only eighteen years old when he first joined the band, having been a dedicated fan who had memorised all their guitar parts.

John Anthony Frusciante ( froo-SHAHN-tay; born March 5, 1970) is an American musician who is the guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers across three stints. He has released over a dozen solo albums and 9 EPs, ranging in style from acoustic guitar to electronic music.

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Gordon Bajnai

Former Prime Minister of Hungary and businessman

Did you know? Before his political career, he was a professional goalkeeper who played for a club in the Hungarian fourth division.

György Gordon Bajnai (born 5 March 1968) is a Hungarian entrepreneur and economist, who served as the Prime Minister of Hungary from 2009 to 2010.

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Gerald Vanenburg

Dutch footballer who won the European Cup and Euro 1988

Did you know? He played for the PSV Eindhoven side that won the continental treble in the same year he triumphed at the European Championship.

Gerald Mervin Vanenburg (born 5 March 1964) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who was most recently the assistant coach of the Indonesia national team and the head coach of the Indonesia under-23 national team.

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Joe Exotic

Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage (né Schreibvogel; born March 5, 1963), known professionally as Joe Exotic, is an American media personality and businessman who operated the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, from 1999 to 2018.

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João Lourenço

Third President of Angola

Did you know? He studied in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and is a fluent speaker of the Russian language.

João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço (Portuguese pronunciation:; born 5 March 1954) is an Angolan politician who is currently serving as the third president of Angola since 26 September 2017. Previously, he was the minister of defence from 2014 to 2017.

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Bernard Arnault

French businessman and CEO of luxury goods group LVMH

Did you know? He is a trained concert pianist and often plays the piano to relax after a day of managing global fashion brands.

Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault (born 5 March 1949) is a French businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods company.

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Felipe González

Longest-serving Prime Minister of modern Spain

Did you know? He is an expert in the art of bonsai and maintained a famous collection of the trees at his official residence.

Felipe González Márquez (Spanish:; born 5 March 1942) is a retired Spanish politician who was Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996 and leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party from 1974 to 1997. He is the longest-serving democratically elected prime minister of Spain.

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Lynn Margulis

Evolutionary biologist who developed the theory of symbiosis in evolution

Did you know? She was once married to the famous astronomer Carl Sagan and co-authored several papers with him during their time together.

Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander; March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011) was an American evolutionary biologist, who was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution.

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Olusegun Obasanjo

Former President of Nigeria and influential military leader

Did you know? He is one of the few African leaders to have transitioned from military rule to becoming an elected civilian president.

Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo (Yoruba: Olúṣẹ́gun Ọbásanjọ́; born c. 5 March 1937) is a Nigerian politician, statesman, agriculturalist, and former army general who served as Nigeria's Military Head of State from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007.

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Daniel Kahneman

Nobel Prize-winning psychologist who pioneered the field of behavioural economics

Did you know? Despite winning the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, he never actually took a single formal course in the subject.

Daniel Kahneman (Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן; March 5, 1934 – March 27, 2024) was an Israeli-American psychologist best known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with Vernon L.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini

Influential Italian film director, poet and public intellectual

Did you know? He was a passionate football fan and frequently organised matches between his film crews and those of other directors.

Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian:; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, revolutionary, writer, film director, actor and playwright. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist and a political figure.

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James Tobin

Nobel Prize-winning economist who proposed a tax on currency transactions

Did you know? During the Second World War, he interrupted his academic career to serve as a naval officer on a destroyer in the Atlantic.

James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Yale University.

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Jiang Qing

Influential Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong

Did you know? Before entering politics, she was a professional actress in Shanghai and performed under the stage name Lan Ping.

Jiang Qing (March 1914 (1914-03) – 14 May 1991 (1991-05-15); also spelled as Chiang Ch'ing), born Li Yunhe, also known as Li Jin, and briefly known by her stage name Lan Ping in the 1930s Shanghai, was a Chinese revolutionary, actress, and political figure.

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Rex Harrison

Oscar-winning English actor known for playing Professor Henry Higgins

Did you know? He was almost completely blind in one eye following a childhood bout of measles.

Sir Reginald Carey Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990) was an English actor. Harrison began his career on the stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1924.

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Zhou Enlai

First Premier of the People's Republic of China and master diplomat

Did you know? He spent several years living and studying in Europe during his youth and was fluent in several languages.

Zhou Enlai (Chinese: 周恩来; pinyin: Zhōu Ēnlái; Wade–Giles: Chou1 Ên1-lai2; 5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from October 1949 until his death in January 1976.

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Heitor Villa-Lobos

Influential Brazilian composer and conductor who blended folk and classical styles

Did you know? He spent time travelling through the Amazon rainforest as a young man to document and study indigenous Brazilian musical traditions.

Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music".

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Rosa Luxemburg

Polish-born Marxist theorist and revolutionary who co-founded Germany's Spartacus League and was murdered in Berlin in 1919

Did you know? She was a gifted artist and botanist who kept detailed nature journals and scrapbooks throughout her life.

Rosa Luxemburg ( LUK-səm-burg; Polish: Róża Luksemburg; German:; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary.

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Siegbert Tarrasch

German chess master and highly influential writer on chess theory

Did you know? He was a medical doctor by profession and frequently balanced his successful tournament career with a full-time practice in Nuremberg.

Siegbert Tarrasch (German pronunciation:; 5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Renowned Rococo painter of grand frescoes and altarpieces

Did you know? He worked on massive decorative projects for royal palaces across Europe, including the Würzburg Residence in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( tee-EP-ə-loh, Italian:; 5 March 1696 – 27 March 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.

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Gerardus Mercator

Renaissance cartographer known for the Mercator map projection

Did you know? He was the first person to use the term atlas to describe a collection of maps.

Gerardus Mercator (5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer.

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