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IU

South Korean singer-songwriter and actress with multiple chart-topping albums

Did you know? Despite her massive success, she was rejected by over twenty agencies, including JYP Entertainment, before finally signing her first contract.

Lee Ji-eun (Korean: 이지은; born May 16, 1993), also known by her stage name IU (아이유), is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actress. She signed with LOEN Entertainment (now Kakao Entertainment) in 2007 as a trainee and debuted as a singer at the age of fifteen with the EP Lost and Found (2008).

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Joey Graceffa

Joseph Michael Graceffa Jr. (born May 16, 1991) is an American YouTuber, vlogger, actor, author, and producer.

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster

English actor who charmed audiences as a boy in Love Actually and later starred in The Maze Runner and The Queen's Gambit

Did you know? He voiced Ferb in the animated series Phineas and Ferb.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster (born 16 May 1990) is a British actor. As a child actor, he gained recognition for his roles in the commercially successful films Love Actually (2003) and Nanny McPhee (2005).

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Megan Fox

American actress who rose to fame in Transformers and starred in the cult horror comedy Jennifer's Body

Did you know? She has expressed a keen interest in archaeology and once hosted a documentary series exploring ancient mysteries and lost civilisations.

Megan Denise Fox (born May 16, 1986) is an American actress.

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Nancy Ajram

Lebanese singer and television personality called the Queen of Arab Pop

Did you know? She has sold millions of records and became the first female spokesperson for Coca-Cola in the Middle East and North Africa.

Nancy Nabil Ajram (Arabic: نانسي نبيل عجرم, Lebanese Arabic:; born May 16, 1983) is a Lebanese singer and television personality, dubbed by Spotify as the "Queen of Arab Pop". With the support of her father, she began performing as a child and appeared on several television shows in her early years.

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Ju Ji-hoon

South Korean actor who rose to fame in Princess Hours and led the period zombie thriller Kingdom on Netflix

Did you know? Kingdom was one of the first Korean series made for Netflix.

Ju Ji-hoon (Korean: 주지훈; born May 16, 1982) is a South Korean actor and model.

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Lionel Scaloni

Manager who led Argentina to victory in the 2022 World Cup

Did you know? During his playing career, he spent a brief period in England on loan at West Ham United, helping them reach the 2006 FA Cup final.

Lionel Sebastián Scaloni (Rioplatense:, Italian:; born 16 May 1978) is an Argentine professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of the Argentina national team. He is also an Italian citizen.

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Laura Pausini

Grammy-winning Italian pop singer and international recording artist

Did you know? She became the first female artist from Italy to win a Grammy Award for her album Escucha.

Laura Pausini (Italian:; born 16 May 1974) is an Italian pop singer. She rose to fame in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with the song "La solitudine", which became an Italian standard and an international hit.

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Andrzej Duda

Polish lawyer and politician who served two terms as President of Poland, from 2015 to 2025

Did you know? Before his political career, he was a legal scholar and worked as an assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Andrzej Sebastian Duda (born 16 May 1972) is a Polish lawyer and politician who served as the 6th president of Poland from 2015 to 2025. Before becoming president, he served as a Member of the Sejm (MP) from 2011 to 2014 and as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 to 2015.

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Gabriela Sabatini

Argentine tennis champion who won the US Open in 1990

Did you know? She was the first sportsperson to have a line of perfumes named after her, launching a successful business career off the court.

Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini (Spanish pronunciation:; born 16 May 1970) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. A former world No.

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Tucker Carlson

American television host and conservative political commentator

Did you know? He was once a contestant on the reality show Dancing with the Stars but was the first celebrity to be eliminated.

Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American conservative political commentator, journalist, and host of The Tucker Carlson Show since 2023.

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Janet Jackson

Influential American singer and dancer known for innovative pop and R&B

Did you know? She began her career as a child actress, starring in the popular television sitcom Good Times.

Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer. An influential figure in popular culture, she is known for her innovative works that incorporate socially conscious and sexually provocative themes, as well as her elaborate stage shows.

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Krist Novoselic

Bassist and co-founder of the grunge band Nirvana

Did you know? At the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, he famously threw his bass guitar into the air and was hit on the head when it landed.

Krist Anthony Novoselic (born May 16, 1965) is an American musician, politician, and activist. Novoselic co-founded and played bass on every album for the rock band Nirvana.

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Debra Winger

Oscar-nominated American actress known for Terms of Endearment

Did you know? She worked as a costumed character at a theme park before a serious accident led her to pursue an acting career.

Mary Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), and Shadowlands (1993), each of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Olga Korbut

Belarusian gymnast who won four Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union

Did you know? She was the first person ever to perform a backflip on the uneven bars during a competition.

Olga Valentinovna Korbut (born 16 May 1955) is a Belarusian retired gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union.

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Pierce Brosnan

Irish actor famous for playing secret agent James Bond

Did you know? Before his acting career took off, he trained as a professional fire eater and performed in a circus.

Pierce Brendan Brosnan (born 16 May 1953) is an Irish actor. He achieved worldwide fame playing James Bond in four James Bond films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002).

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Georg Bednorz

Physicist who won a Nobel Prize for discovering high-temperature superconductivity

Did you know? He and his colleague were awarded the Nobel Prize just one year after their breakthrough, which is exceptionally fast for the scientific community.

Johannes Georg Bednorz (German:; born 16 May 1950) is a German physicist who, together with K. Alex Müller, discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, for which they shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English musician, composer, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and only constant member of the progressive rock band King Crimson.

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Danny Trejo

Danny Trejo (Spanish:; born May 16, 1944) is an American actor. In his body of work he appears as a character actor taking on roles such as inmates, gangsters, or other criminals.

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Adrienne Rich

Influential American poet and essayist known for her feminist activism

Did you know? In the late nineties, she became the first person to refuse the National Medal of Arts for political reasons.

Adrienne Cecile Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse".

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Nílton Santos

Double World Cup-winning Brazilian defender known as The Encyclopedia

Did you know? He played his entire professional club career for Botafogo, making more than seven hundred appearances over sixteen years.

Nílton dos Santos (Brazilian Portuguese:; 16 May 1925 – 27 November 2013) was a Brazilian footballer who played primarily as a left-back. At international level, he was a member of the Brazil teams that won the 1958 and 1962 FIFA World Cups.

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Juan Rulfo

Mexican author and photographer known for the novel Pedro Páramo

Did you know? The author Gabriel García Márquez said that he could recite every word of Rulfo's most famous book from memory.

Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo (Spanish:; 16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, and the collection of short stories El Llano en llamas (The Burning Plain, 1953).

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Henry Fonda

Oscar-winning actor known for roles in classic Westerns and dramas

Did you know? He was close friends with James Stewart for decades despite the two men having famously opposite political views.

Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Known for his work on screen and stage, he often portrayed characters who embodied an everyman image.

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Tamara de Lempicka

Art Deco painter known for her polished portraits

Did you know? Her work fell out of fashion for decades until a major revival in the 1970s made her a global art icon.

Tamara Łempicka (pronounced; 16 June 1894 – 18 March 1980), known outside Poland as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.

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