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Mike Havenaar

Japanese professional footballer who played as a striker

Did you know? His father was also a professional footballer who moved from the Netherlands to play in the Japanese league.

Mike Havenaar (ハーフナー・マイク, Hāfunā Maiku; born 20 May 1987) is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Chris Froome

British cyclist who won the Tour de France four times

Did you know? He was the first cyclist in over thirty years to hold the titles for all three major Grand Tour races at once.

Christopher Clive Froome (born 20 May 1985) is a Kenyan born British; former professional road racing cyclist. He has won seven Grand Tours: four editions of the Tour de France (in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017), one Giro d'Italia (2018) and the Vuelta a España twice (2011 and 2017).

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Petr Čech

Premier League goalkeeper who won four titles with Chelsea

Did you know? Since retiring from professional football, he has pursued a second career as a goaltender for several British ice hockey teams.

Petr Čech (Czech pronunciation:; born 20 May 1982) is a Czech former professional football goalkeeper and current ice hockey goaltender who plays for the Haringey Huskies of the NIHL Division 2 South.

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Iker Casillas

World Cup-winning Spanish goalkeeper who played for Real Madrid

Did you know? He was the first goalkeeper to captain a winning team in the World Cup, the European Championship, and the Champions League.

Iker Casillas Fernández (Spanish pronunciation:; born 20 May 1981) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper and currently works as a football commentator. Dubbed "San Iker" ("Saint Iker"), he is considered to be one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time.

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Stanislav Markelov

Stanislav Yuryevich Markelov (Russian: Станисла́в Ю́рьевич Марке́лов, IPA:; 20 May 1974 – 19 January 2009) was a Russian human rights lawyer.

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Rahile Dawut

Rahile Dawut (Chinese: 热依拉·达吾提; pinyin: Rèyīlā Dáwútí; Uyghur: راھىلە داۋۇت; born 20 May 1966) is a Uyghur ethnographer known for her expertise in Uyghur folklore and traditions.

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Israel Kamakawiwoʻole

Influential Hawaiian singer and musician

Did you know? His famous medley of Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World was recorded in a single take during a late-night studio session.

Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole (May 20, 1959 – June 26, 1997), also called Braddah IZ or simply IZ, was a Native Hawaiian musician and singer. He is regarded as one of the greatest musicians from Hawaii and the most successful musician from the state.

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Yoshihiko Noda

Former Prime Minister of Japan and veteran politician

Did you know? He is a dedicated practitioner of martial arts and holds a black belt in judo.

Yoshihiko Noda (Japanese: 野田 佳彦, Hepburn: Noda Yoshihiko; born 20 May 1957) is a Japanese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 2011 to 2012. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2000.

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Boris Akunin

Russian author best known for his Erast Fandorin detective novels

Did you know? His pen name is taken from the Japanese word for a villain or evil person who possesses a strong personality.

Grigori Chkhartishvili (born 20 May 1956), better known by his pen name Boris Akunin, is a Georgian and Russian writer residing in the United Kingdom. He is best known as a writer of historical fiction, specifically his Erast Fandorin detective novels.

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Roger Milla

Cameroonian striker known for his iconic World Cup goal celebrations

Did you know? He became the oldest goalscorer in World Cup history when he found the net against Russia at the age of forty-two.

Albert Roger Miller (born 20 May 1952), known as Roger Milla, is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a forward. FIFA described Milla as "one of the first global stars from Africa".

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Wei Jingsheng

Wei Jingsheng (Chinese: 魏京生; born 20 May 1950) is a Chinese human rights activist and dissident. He is best known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement.

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Cher

American singer and actress known as the Goddess of Pop, from Sonny & Cher to Believe, who won an Oscar for Moonstruck

Did you know? She is the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in every decade from the 1960s to the 2010s.

Cher ( SHAIR; legally mononymous; born Cheryl Sarkisian, May 20, 1946) is an American singer and actress. Dubbed the "Goddess of Pop", she is known for her androgynous, contralto voice, bold fashion, elaborate stagecraft and multifaceted career.

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Anton Zeilinger

Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his work in quantum mechanics

Did you know? He successfully demonstrated quantum teleportation using photons across the River Danube in Vienna.

Anton Zeilinger (German:; born 20 May 1945) is an Austrian quantum physicist and Nobel laureate in physics of 2022. Zeilinger is professor of physics emeritus at the University of Vienna and senior scientist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

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Joe Cocker

Gravel-voiced English singer known for his soulful rock covers

Did you know? Before finding fame as a musician, he worked as a gas fitter for the East Midlands Gas Board in Sheffield.

John Robert "Joe" Cocker (20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014) was an English singer known for his gritty, bluesy voice and dynamic stage performances that featured expressive body movements.

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Albano Carrisi

Albano Antonio Carrisi (Italian:; born 20 May 1943), better known as Al Bano, is an Italian singer and actor. Having sold over 25 million records globally and career spanning seven decades, he is one of the most recognisable Italian singers in the world.

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Goh Chok Tong

Second Prime Minister of Singapore succeeding Lee Kuan Yew

Did you know? He held the role of Senior Minister after his premiership, continuing to provide guidance to the cabinet for several years.

Goh Chok Tong (born 20 May 1941), also known by his initials GCT, is a Singaporean retired politician who served as the second prime minister of Singapore from 1990 to 2004 and as a senior minister of Singapore from 2004 to 2011.

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José Mujica

Former guerrilla who became President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015, famed for giving away most of his salary and living simply

Did you know? He famously donated about ninety per cent of his monthly salary to charities that helped poor people and small businesses.

José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano (20 May 1935 – 13 May 2025) was a Uruguayan politician, revolutionary and farmer who served as the 40th president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former guerrilla with the Tupamaros, he was tortured and imprisoned for 14 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Edward B. Lewis

Nobel Prize-winning geneticist who studied fruit fly mutations

Did you know? His pioneering research helped scientists understand how specific genes control the embryonic development of different body segments.

Edward Butts Lewis (May 20, 1918 – July 21, 2004) was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to found the field of evolutionary developmental biology.

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Moshe Dayan

Israeli military leader and politician with a distinctive eye patch

Did you know? He lost his left eye to a sniper's bullet while serving in a British-led unit during the Second World War.

Moshe Dayan (Hebrew: משה דיין‎; 20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician.

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James Stewart

Star of Hollywood classics like It's a Wonderful Life

Did you know? He was a highly decorated bomber pilot during the Second World War and reached the rank of brigadier general.

James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military aviator. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart appeared in 80 films from 1935 to 1991.

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Max Euwe

Dutch chess grandmaster who became the fifth World Chess Champion

Did you know? Despite his professional success in chess, he worked primarily as a mathematics teacher and later as a professor of computer science.

Machgielis "Max" Euwe (Dutch:; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 until 1937.

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Faisal I of Iraq

First King of Iraq and a leader of the Arab Revolt

Did you know? His campaign during the First World War was supported and chronicled by the British officer T.E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia.

Faisal I bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi (Arabic: فيصل بن حسين بن علي الهاشمي, romanized: Fayṣal bin Ḥusayn bin ʻAlī al-Hāshimī; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933) was a Hejazi statesman who served as the King of Iraq from 23 August 1921 until his death in 1933.

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Sigrid Undset

Norwegian novelist of the medieval trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928

Did you know? She fled her home on skis to escape the Nazi occupation of Norway during the Second World War.

Sigrid Undset (Norwegian pronunciation:; 20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Władysław Sikorski

Polish military leader and Prime Minister of the government-in-exile

Did you know? He died in a mysterious plane crash off the coast of Gibraltar shortly after taking off in July 1943.

Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski (Polish pronunciation:; 20 May 1881 – 4 July 1943) was a Polish military and political leader. Before World War I, Sikorski established and participated in several underground organizations that promoted the cause of Polish independence.

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