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Emma Chamberlain

Emma Frances Chamberlain (born May 22, 2001) is an American influencer, podcaster, businesswoman, and model. She won the 2018 Streamy Award for Breakout Creator.

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Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic (born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the world No.

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Arturo Vidal

Chilean footballer widely regarded as one of the best midfielders

Did you know? He earned the nickname 'The Warrior' because of his aggressive playing style and tireless work rate on the pitch.

Arturo Erasmo Vidal Pardo (Spanish pronunciation:; born 22 May 1987) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for Liga de Primera club Colo-Colo and the Chile national team.

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Lina Ben Mhenni

Lina Ben Mhenni (Arabic: لينا بن مهني; 22 May 1983 – 27 January 2020) was a Tunisian Internet activist, blogger and lecturer in linguistics at Tunis University. She was internationally recognised for her work during the 2011 Tunisian revolution and in the following years.

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Maggie Q

Actress known for lead roles in Nikita and the Divergent films

Did you know? She moved to Hong Kong as a teenager to pursue modelling and performed her own stunts in many of her action movies.

Margaret Denise Quigley (born May 22, 1979), known professionally as Maggie Q, is an American actress.

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Ginnifer Goodwin

American actress known for Once Upon a Time

Did you know? She provided the voice for the lead character Judy Hopps in the animated film Zootropolis.

Ginnifer Goodwin (born Jennifer Michelle Goodwin; May 22, 1978) is an American actress.

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Arsenii Yatseniuk

Politician who served as the Prime Minister of Ukraine

Did you know? He became the youngest person to hold the position of Foreign Minister in his country's history.

Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk (born 22 May 1974) is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who served two terms as Prime Minister of Ukraine – from 27 February 2014 to 27 November 2014 and from 27 November 2014 to 14 April 2016. He was the youngest foreign affairs minister in Ukraine's history.

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Naomi Campbell

British supermodel who was the first Black woman on French Vogue

Did you know? She was discovered at the age of fifteen while window-shopping in Covent Garden and appeared in a Bob Marley music video as a child.

Naomi Elaine Campbell (born 22 May 1970) is a British model and actress. Beginning her career at the age of eight, Campbell was one of six models of her generation declared supermodels by the fashion industry and the international press.

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Igor Lediakhov

Russian international footballer who played as an attacking midfielder

Did you know? He represented both the Soviet Union and Russia on the international stage during his playing career.

Igor Anatolyevich Lediakhov (Russian: Игорь Анатольевич Ледяхов; born 22 May 1968) is a Russian football coach and a former player who played as an attacking midfielder.

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Sumaira Abdulali

Sumaira Abdulali (born 22 May 1961) is an environmentalist from Mumbai, India, founder of the NGO Awaaz Foundation and convenor of the Movement against Intimidation, Threat and Revenge against Activists (MITRA).

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Morrissey

Lead singer and lyricist of the English band The Smiths

Did you know? A dedicated vegetarian since his youth, he has famously requested that venues and festivals stop serving meat during his performances.

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), mononymously known as Morrissey, is an English singer and songwriter. He came to prominence as the frontman and lyricist of the rock band the Smiths, who were active from 1982 to 1987.

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Lisa Murkowski

Senior United States senator representing the state of Alaska

Did you know? She made history by winning her seat as a write-in candidate after losing her party's primary election.

Lisa Ann Murkowski ( mər-KOW-ski; born May 22, 1957) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from the state of Alaska, having held the seat since 2002. She is the first woman to represent Alaska in the U.S. Congress and is the Senate's second-most senior Republican woman.

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Shuji Nakamura

Electronics engineer who co-invented the blue light-emitting diode

Did you know? He developed the breakthrough blue LED while working for a small chemical company that initially discouraged him from pursuing the project.

Shuji Nakamura (Japanese: 中村 修二, romanized: Nakamura Shūji; born May 22, 1954) is a Japanese–American electronics engineer and co-inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology.

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Michio Ashikaga

Japanese footballer who represented the national team in the 1970s

Did you know? He spent his entire professional club career playing for Mitsubishi Motors, the team that eventually became Urawa Red Diamonds.

Michio Ashikaga (足利 道夫, Ashikaga Michio; born May 22, 1950) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

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George Best

Northern Irish footballer who played for Manchester United

Did you know? He was the first true celebrity footballer and was once nicknamed the fifth Beatle by the press.

George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a right winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United. A skillful dribbler, he is considered one of the greatest players of all time, along with being considered one of the most talented to play.

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Betty Williams

Northern Irish peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Did you know? She co-founded the Community of Peace People after witnessing a tragic car accident involving children during the Troubles.

Elizabeth Williams (née Smyth; 22 May 1943 – 17 March 2020) was a peace activist from Northern Ireland.

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Ted Kaczynski

American mathematician and domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber

Did you know? He was a child prodigy who entered Harvard University at the age of sixteen and later became a professor at Berkeley.

Theodore John Kaczynski ( kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber ( YOU-na-bom-ər), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

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Harvey Milk

First openly gay man elected to public office in California

Did you know? Before entering politics, he served as a naval officer and worked as a high school teacher and stockbroker.

Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk was born and raised in New York.

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George Andrew Olah

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who researched carbocations and superacids

Did you know? He survived the Siege of Budapest during the Second World War before moving to the United States to continue his scientific career.

George Andrew Olah (born Oláh András György; May 22, 1927 – March 8, 2017) was a Hungarian-American chemist. His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids.

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Herbert C. Brown

Nobel Prize-winning chemist known for his work with organoboranes

Did you know? Despite winning the Nobel Prize for his work in America, he was actually born in London to Ukrainian Jewish parents.

Herbert Charles Brown (22 May 1912 – 19 December 2004) was an American chemist and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with organoboranes.

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Laurence Olivier

Highly acclaimed British actor known for celebrated Shakespearean performances

Did you know? He was the first director to win an Academy Award for acting in his own film, for the 1948 production of Hamlet.

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier ( ə-LIV-ee-ay; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director. He and his contemporaries John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Hergé

Belgian cartoonist who created The Adventures of Tintin

Did you know? His famous pen name was created by reversing the initials of his real name, Georges Remi, and pronouncing them in French.

Georges Prosper Remi (French:; 22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé ( air-ZHAY; French: ), from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials RG, was a Belgian comic strip artist.

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Johannes R. Becher

East German politician and poet who wrote the national anthem

Did you know? Before becoming a politician, he was a figure in the Expressionist literary movement and lived in exile during the Nazi regime.

Johannes Robert Becher (pronounced; 22 May 1891 – 11 October 1958) was a German politician, novelist, and poet. He was affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) before World War II. He was part of the literary avant-garde, writing in an expressionist style.

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Yakov Sverdlov

Bolshevik revolutionary and early leader of the Soviet Union

Did you know? He is often considered the first head of state of the Soviet Union before his early death during a flu pandemic.

Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (3 June 1885 – 16 March 1919) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician.

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