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Frenkie de Jong

Dutch midfielder known for his playmaking for Barcelona and the Netherlands

Did you know? His childhood club, Willem II, reportedly earned a significant multi-million pound windfall when he moved from Ajax to Barcelona.

Frenkie de Jong (Dutch pronunciation:; born 12 May 1997) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Barcelona and the Netherlands national team. De Jong began his professional career at Willem II in 2015.

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Ariana Miyamoto

Ariana Mamiko Miyamoto (宮本・エリアナ・磨美子, Miyamoto Eriana Mamiko; born 12 May 1994) is a Japanese model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Japan 2015. She represented Japan at the Miss Universe 2015 pageant and placed in the Top 10.

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Etika

Desmond Daniel Amofah (May 12, 1990 – c. June 19, 2019), better known as Etika, was an American YouTuber and live streamer. Amofah became known online for his dramatic reactions to Super Smash Bros.

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Marcelo Vieira

Highly decorated Brazilian footballer who played for Real Madrid

Did you know? He was the first foreign player to be named captain of Real Madrid in over a century.

Marcelo Vieira da Silva Júnior (born 12 May 1988), known as Marcelo, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a left-back. Widely regarded as one of the greatest left-backs of all time, he is known for his attacking capabilities.

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Masaaki Higashiguchi

Professional Japanese goalkeeper who played for the national team

Did you know? He spent several years playing university football before signing his first professional contract in the J1 League.

Masaaki Higashiguchi (東口 順昭, Higashiguchi Masaaki; born 12 May 1986) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Gamba Osaka and the Japan national football team. He previously played for Albirex Niigata.

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Rami Malek

Oscar-winning actor known for Bohemian Rhapsody and Mr. Robot

Did you know? He has an identical twin brother who once stood in for him during a college drama performance.

Rami Said Malek (English:; Arabic: رامي سعيد مالك, Egyptian Arabic:; born May 12, 1981) is an American actor.

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Rishi Sunak

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer who served as British Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024, the first of Asian heritage

Did you know? He was the youngest person to hold the office of prime minister in over two hundred years.

Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2022 to 2024.

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Malin Akerman

Swedish-American actress known for the film Watchmen

Did you know? She fronted an alternative rock band called The Petalstones before focusing fully on her acting career.

Malin Maria Åkerman (born 12 May 1978), often anglicised to Malin Akerman, is a Swedish and American actress. She first appeared in smaller parts in both Canadian and American productions, including The Utopian Society (2003) and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004).

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Sofia Coppola

Academy Award-winning director of Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette

Did you know? As an infant, she appeared in the christening scene at the end of her father's film The Godfather.

Sofia Carmina Coppola ( KOH-pə-lə; born May 14, 1971) is an American filmmaker and former actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Golden Lion, and a Cannes Film Festival Award as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.

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Emilio Estevez

Actor and director known for The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire

Did you know? He decided to use his legal name for work to distinguish himself from his famous father, Martin Sheen, and brother, Charlie Sheen.

Emilio Estevez (born May 12, 1962) is an American actor and filmmaker. The son of actor Martin Sheen and the older brother of Charlie Sheen, he made his film debut with an uncredited role in Badlands (1973).

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George Carlin

American comedian known for his dark humour and social criticism

Did you know? He was the very first person to host the long-running American comedy show Saturday Night Live in 1975.

George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American comedian, satirist, social critic, actor and author.

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Sam Nujoma

Founding president and revolutionary leader of independent Namibia

Did you know? He was officially granted the title Founding Father of the Namibian Nation by an act of parliament.

Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma (12 May 1929 – 8 February 2025) was a Namibian revolutionary, anti-apartheid activist and politician who served three terms as the first president of Namibia, from 1990 to 2005.

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Joseph Beuys

Influential German artist known for his sculpture and performance art

Did you know? He often used felt and fat in his work, materials he claimed saved him after a wartime plane crash.

Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( BOYSS; German:; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology.

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Dorothy Hodgkin

Chemist who won the Nobel Prize for mapping molecular structures

Did you know? She taught chemistry to Margaret Thatcher at Oxford University years before her student became the British Prime Minister.

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (née Crowfoot; 12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was an English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology.

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Enver Hoxha

Communist leader who ruled Albania for over forty years

Did you know? He oversaw the construction of hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers across Albania because he feared a multi-front invasion.

Enver Halil Hoxha (16 October 1908 – 11 April 1985) was an Albanian politician, revolutionary, and communist political theorist who was the leader of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985.

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Katharine Hepburn

American actress of The Philadelphia Story and On Golden Pond who won a record four Oscars for best actress

Did you know? She was known for her athleticism and performed many of her own stunts, including a high dive in the film The Philadelphia Story.

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a leading lady on stage and screen spanned six decades.

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William Giauque

Nobel Prize-winning chemist known for his work in cryogenics

Did you know? During the Second World War, he contributed to the Manhattan Project by designing mobile units for producing liquid oxygen.

William Francis Giauque (May 12, 1895 – March 28, 1982) was a Canadian-born American chemist and Nobel laureate. He was recognized in 1949, for his studies in the properties of matter, at temperatures close to absolute zero.

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Gabriel Fauré

Influential French composer and organist of the late Romantic era

Did you know? In his final years, he suffered from a form of deafness that distorted his hearing, making high and low frequencies sound like different notes.

Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers.

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Jules Massenet

French composer best known for his popular operas

Did you know? He often avoided attending the premieres of his own works, preferring to stay at home and wait for the results.

Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (French:; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are Manon (1884) and Werther (1892).

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Victorian painter and poet who co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Did you know? He famously buried a book of his poems in his wife's coffin, only to have them exhumed several years later for publication.

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti ( rə-ZET-ee; Italian:), was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.

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Florence Nightingale

English nurse known as the Lady with the Lamp for her work in the Crimean War, who founded modern nursing

Did you know? She was a pioneering statistician who used innovative charts and graphs to prove that better hygiene saved the lives of soldiers.

Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople.

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Edward Lear

English author and artist famous for his nonsense poems

Did you know? He began his career as an illustrator of birds and animals before writing his famous literature.

Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised but which term he never used.

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Justus von Liebig

German chemist considered a founder of the field of organic chemistry

Did you know? He developed a method for producing meat extract, which led to the creation of the famous Oxo brand.

Justus Freiherr von Liebig (12 May 1803 – 18 April 1873) was a German scientist who made major contributions to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of chemistry, as well as to agricultural and biological chemistry; he is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry.

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Augustus II the Strong

King of Poland and Elector of Saxony known for immense strength

Did you know? He reportedly earned his nickname by being able to break horseshoes and fold silver plates with his bare hands.

Augustus II the Strong (12 May 1670 – 1 February 1733), was Elector of Saxony as Frederick Augustus I (German: Friedrich August I) from 1694 as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1697 to 1706 and from 1709 until his death in 1733. He belonged to the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin.

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