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Gukesh D

Indian chess grandmaster and World Championship challenger

Did you know? He became a grandmaster at the age of twelve, making him one of the youngest in history.

Gukesh Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006) is an Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion.

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Park Ji-hoon

South Korean singer from Wanna One who became an acclaimed actor in the series Weak Hero

Did you know? A single wink on Produce 101 turned him into an overnight sensation.

Park Ji-hoon (Korean: 박지훈; born May 29, 1999) is a South Korean singer and actor. He started his career in the entertainment industry as a commercial model and child actor in 2006.

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Hernanes

Brazilian midfielder who played for Lazio, Inter Milan and Juventus

Did you know? He gained the nickname The Prophet during his time in Brazil because of his thoughtful and articulate nature.

Anderson Hernanes de Carvalho Viana Lima (born 29 May 1985), known as Hernanes (Brazilian Portuguese:), is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a central or attacking midfielder. Hernanes began his career with São Paulo, where he won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in 2007 and 2008.

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Carmelo Anthony

American basketball player who won three Olympic gold medals

Did you know? He led Syracuse University to their first national championship in his only year of playing college basketball.

Carmelo Kyam Anthony ( kar-MEL-oh; born May 29, 1984) is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Melo", Anthony played 19 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and is a ten-time NBA All-Star and six-time All-NBA Team member.

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Andrey Arshavin

Russian footballer who played for Arsenal and Zenit Saint Petersburg

Did you know? He is a talented designer who studied clothing technology at university and has written books on fashion and football.

Andrey Sergeyevich Arshavin (Russian: Андрей Сергеевич Аршавин, IPA:; born 29 May 1981) is a Russian former professional footballer who played as a winger or midfielder. Since 2019, Arshavin has held administrative posts at Zenit.

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Arne Friedrich

German international footballer who played as a versatile defender

Did you know? After retiring from professional play, he worked as the sporting director for his former club Hertha BSC.

Arne Friedrich (born 29 May 1979) is a German football executive and former player who played as a defender. He formerly was the sporting director of Hertha BSC. He played 82 times for the Germany national team.

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Massimo Ambrosini

AC Milan midfielder and captain who won multiple Champions League titles

Did you know? After retiring from football, he moved into the media and became a prominent sports commentator for Italian television.

Massimo Ambrosini (Italian pronunciation:; born 29 May 1977) is an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a defensive midfielder.

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Sayaka Osakabe

Sayaka Osakabe (小酒部 さやか, Osakabe Sayaka; born May 29, 1977) is a Japanese women's rights activist and politician.

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Alpay Özalan

Turkish defender who played for Aston Villa and his national team

Did you know? After retiring from professional football, he moved into politics and was elected as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

Fehmi Alpay Özalan (born 29 May 1973), known mononymously as Alpay, is a Turkish former professional footballer, football manager and politician. He last worked as the manager of Samsunspor.

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Máxima Acuña

Máxima Acuña is a Peruvian subsistence farmer and environmentalist, who is known for her fight to remain on land wanted for a new mine, the Conga Mine, enduring years of violent intimidation by Newmont Mining Corporation and Buenaventura (mining company), for which she received the 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize.

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Noel Gallagher

Lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the rock band Oasis

Did you know? Before finding fame, he worked as a roadie for the Inspiral Carpets, touring the world with the Manchester band.

Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born 29 May 1967) is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Gallagher is the primary songwriter, lead guitarist and a co-lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis.

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Rupert Everett

English actor known for My Best Friend's Wedding

Did you know? He provided the voice for the villainous Prince Charming in the Shrek film franchise.

Rupert James Hector Everett (born 29 May 1959) is an English actor. He first came to public attention in 1981 when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as a gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s; the role earned him his first BAFTA Award nomination.

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Annette Bening

Versatile American actress known for American Beauty and The Kids Are All Right

Did you know? Before finding screen success, she spent several years performing with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress. With a career spanning over four decades, she is known for her versatile work across screen and stage.

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Danny Elfman

Composer and musician known for film scores and Oingo Boingo

Did you know? He has worked with director Tim Burton on nearly all of his films, including Batman and Edward Scissorhands.

Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s.

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Maurice Bishop

Maurice Rupert Bishop (29 May 1944 – 19 October 1983) was a Grenadian revolutionary, politician and the leader of the New JEWEL Movement (NJM), a party that sought to prioritise socio-economic development, education and true black liberation.

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Peter Higgs

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson

Did you know? He did not own a mobile phone and only found out he had won the Nobel Prize when a neighbour congratulated him.

Peter Ware Higgs (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.

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Abdoulaye Wade

Senegalese politician who served as the third President of Senegal

Did you know? He spent decades as a leader of the opposition and made several unsuccessful attempts to win the presidency before his eventual victory.

Abdoulaye Wade (French pronunciation:, Wolof: Abdulaay Wàdd; born 29 May 1926) is a Senegalese politician who served as the third president of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS), having led the party since it was founded in 1974.

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Iannis Xenakis

Composer and architect who pioneered the use of mathematical stochastic music

Did you know? He spent over a decade working as an assistant to the architect Le Corbusier.

Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Greek: Γιάννης "Ιάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, pronounced; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.

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John Harsanyi

Nobel Prize-winning economist and pioneer in the field of game theory

Did you know? During the Second World War, he managed to escape from a Budapest railway station while being deported to a Nazi concentration camp.

John Charles Harsanyi (Hungarian: Harsányi János Károly; May 29, 1920 – August 9, 2000) was a Hungarian-American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994.

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John F. Kennedy

35th US President who faced down the Soviet Union in the Cuban Missile Crisis and was assassinated in Dallas in 1963

Did you know? He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage, which examined the integrity of several American senators.

35th President of the United States, assassinated in Dallas in 1963.

Tenzing Norgay

Sherpa mountaineer who was among the first to climb Mount Everest

Did you know? He spent most of his life without knowing his exact birth date, later choosing to celebrate it on the day he reached the summit.

Tenzing Norgay (Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས tendzin norgyé; May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer.

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Bob Hope

Entertainer famous for hosting the Academy Awards and USO tours

Did you know? Born in London, he moved to America as a child and later became the only person to be made an honorary veteran of the US Armed Forces.

Lester Townes "Bob" Hope (né Leslie Townes Hope; May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-born American comedian, actor, musician, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours.

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Alfonsina Storni

Influential Argentine modernist poet and playwright

Did you know? After receiving a terminal diagnosis, she famously chose to end her life by walking into the sea at a coastal resort.

Alfonsina Carolina Storni (22 May 1892 – 25 October 1938) was a Swiss-Argentine poet and playwright of the modernist period.

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Oswald Spengler

German philosopher and historian known for The Decline of the West

Did you know? His influential work predicted that Western civilisation would follow a predictable cycle of growth and eventual decay similar to previous great empires.

Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history.

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