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Jeon Somi

Canadian-South Korean singer who won Produce 101 in 2016 and built a solo career with hits like Dumb Dumb

Did you know? She reached the final of Sixteen, the show that formed Twice, but missed the line-up.

Ennik Somi Douma (born March 9, 2001), known professionally by her Korean name Jeon Somi (전소미), is a South Korean and Canadian singer. Born in Canada to a South Korean mother and a Dutch-Canadian father, she moved to South Korea as an infant.

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Khaby Lame

Senegalese-Italian creator famous for silently mocking overcomplicated life hacks on TikTok

Did you know? He became famous without speaking a single word in his videos.

Khabane Serigne "Khaby" Lame (French:, Italian:; born 9 March 2000) is an Italian influencer and media personality. He is known for his TikTok videos, in which he silently mocks overly complicated "life hack" and other situational videos.

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Suga

Rapper and songwriter in the South Korean boy band BTS

Did you know? Before finding fame, he worked as a delivery driver and was injured in an accident while on the job.

Min Yoon-gi (Korean: 민윤기; born March 9, 1993), known professionally by his stage names Suga (슈가;; stylized in all caps) and Agust D, is a South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer. He debuted as a member of the South Korean boy band BTS in June 2013 under Big Hit Entertainment.

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Junya Itō

Japanese international footballer who plays as a winger for Reims

Did you know? He earned the nickname 'The Flash' during his professional career in Belgium because of his remarkable acceleration and explosive pace on the field.

Junya Itō (伊東 純也, Itō Jun'ya/Džunja Ito; born 9 March 1993) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a winger or a forward for the Belgian Pro League team Genk and the Japan national team.

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Daley Blind

Versatile Dutch footballer who played for Manchester United

Did you know? He has played professional football for many years with a heart device fitted after collapsing during a match.

Daley Blind (Dutch pronunciation:; born 9 March 1990) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays for Eredivisie club Ajax. A versatile player, he has been deployed as a left-back, centre-back, and defensive midfielder.

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Taeyeon

Jeonju-born leader of Girls' Generation, often called one of K-pop's finest vocalists, with hit solo albums

Did you know? She also led the subunit TaeTiSeo.

Kim Tae-yeon (Korean: 김태연; born March 9, 1989), known mononymously as Taeyeon, is a South Korean singer. She debuted as a member of girl group Girls' Generation in August 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and one of the most widely known K-pop groups worldwide.

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Clint Dempsey

American professional footballer who played for Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur

Did you know? He is the only player to have scored for the United States at three different World Cup tournaments.

Clinton Drew Dempsey (born March 9, 1983) is an American former professional soccer player who is a sports analyst on the television program Soccer on CBS Sports.

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Oscar Isaac

Star Wars actor known for playing Poe Dameron

Did you know? Before his acting career took off, he played guitar and provided lead vocals for a ska-punk band called The Blinking Underdogs.

Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada (born March 9, 1979) is an American actor. Recognized for his versatility, he has been credited with breaking stereotypes about Latino characters in Hollywood.

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Lucas Neill

Former Australian football captain and Premier League defender

Did you know? He spent almost fifteen years playing in the English leagues, representing clubs such as Blackburn Rovers and West Ham United.

Lucas Edward Neill (born 9 March 1978) is an Australian former soccer player. Neill played as a defender, often playing as a centre back as well as a full-back.

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Juan Sebastián Verón

Argentine midfielder who played for major European football clubs

Did you know? His father was also a professional footballer for the same Argentinian club where Juan later became the chairman.

Juan Sebastián Verón (born 9 March 1975) is an Argentine former professional footballer and current chairman of Estudiantes de La Plata, where he had served as Director of Sports.

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Matteo Salvini

Italian politician and leader of the Lega Nord party

Did you know? In his youth, he was a member of a far-left political movement and appeared as a contestant on a television game show.

Matteo Salvini (Italian pronunciation:; born 9 March 1973) is an Italian politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport since 2022. He has been Federal Secretary of Italy's Lega party since December 2013 and an Italian senator since March 2018.

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Youri Djorkaeff

French World Cup-winning footballer and attacking midfielder

Did you know? He won both the World Cup and the European Championship during an era when France dominated international football.

Youri Raffi Djorkaeff (born 9 March 1968) is a French former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward. Throughout his club career, he played for teams in France, Italy, Germany, England, and the United States.

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Juliette Binoche

French actress who won an Oscar for The English Patient

Did you know? She turned down a leading role in Jurassic Park to star in the acclaimed film Three Colours: Blue instead.

Juliette Binoche (French:; born 9 March 1964) is a French actress.

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Takaaki Kajita

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered that neutrinos have mass

Did you know? His landmark experiments were conducted in a massive laboratory located deep underground in a former zinc mine.

Takaaki Kajita (梶田 隆章, Kajita Takaaki; Japanese pronunciation:; born 9 March 1959) is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamioka Observatory – Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Canadian physicist Arthur B.

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Ornella Muti

Italian actress known for her roles in European and American cinema

Did you know? She made her film debut at the age of fourteen and was once voted the world's most beautiful woman by a popular magazine.

Francesca Romana Rivelli (born 9 March 1955), professionally known as Ornella Muti, is an Italian actress.

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Bobby Fischer

American chess prodigy who became world champion by beating Boris Spassky in the 1972 Cold War match in Reykjavík

Did you know? He won the United States Chess Championship for the first time when he was only fourteen years old.

Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14.

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Raul Julia

Raúl Rafael Carlos Juliá y Arcelay (March 9, 1940 – October 24, 1994) was a Puerto Rican actor and humanitarian. He was best known for his intense and varied roles on stage and screen.

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Yuri Gagarin

Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human in space, orbiting the Earth aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961

Did you know? Before becoming a pilot, he trained as a foundryman and worked in a steel plant.

Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space aboard Vostok 1.

Yuri Gagarin

becoming the first human to journey into outer space during his historic Vostok 1 orbital flight in 1961

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first person to journey into outer space during the first successful crewed spaceflight. He was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR.

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Ornette Coleman

Influential saxophonist and a principal founder of the free jazz genre

Did you know? To support his early music career, he worked as an elevator operator at a department store in Los Angeles.

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation.

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Zillur Rahman

Long-serving politician who was the nineteenth President of Bangladesh

Did you know? His wife was a prominent politician who was tragically killed in a grenade attack at a political rally.

Mohammed Zillur Rahman (9 March 1929 – 20 March 2013) was a Bangladeshi politician who served as President of Bangladesh from 2009 until his death in 2013. He was also a senior presidium member of the Awami League.

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Irene Papas

Greek actress who appeared in films including Zorba the Greek

Did you know? She recorded an album of traditional Greek folk songs in collaboration with the famous electronic composer Vangelis.

Irene Papas or Pappas (Greek: Ειρήνη Παππά, romanized: Eiríni Pappá, IPA:; born Eirini Lelekou; 3 September 1929 – 14 September 2022) was a Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years.

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Walter Kohn

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who developed density functional theory

Did you know? He was a Jewish refugee who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria as a teenager on the Kindertransport to reach the United Kingdom.

Walter Kohn (German pronunciation:; March 9, 1923 – April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998.

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Samuel Barber

American composer best known for his Adagio for Strings

Did you know? He was a child prodigy who wrote his first musical at the age of seven and later won two Pulitzer Prizes for Music.

Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the mid-20th century.

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