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Sheynnis Palacios

Sheynnis Alondra Palacios Cornejo (Latin American Spanish pronunciation:; born 30 May 2000) is a Nicaraguan model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe 2023. Having previously won Miss Nicaragua 2023, she is the first Nicaraguan to win Miss Universe.

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Lim Yoona

South Korean singer of Girls' Generation who became a film and television star in Exit and King the Land

Did you know? Gee topped Korea's main music chart for nine weeks.

Lim Yoona (Korean: 임윤아; born May 30, 1990), also known mononymously as Yoona, is a South Korean singer and actress.

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Pasha Parfeni

Moldovan singer, songwriter and pianist who sang Lăutar at Eurovision 2012 and returned with Soarele și luna in 2023

Did you know? He wrote and played piano on Moldova's 2013 Eurovision entry, O mie.

Pavel "Pasha" Parfeni (Romanian:; born 30 May 1986) is a Moldovan musician, singer and songwriter. He represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with his song "Lăutar", placing 11th.

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Steven Gerrard

Long-serving Liverpool captain and England international midfielder

Did you know? He is the only player to have scored in the finals of the Champions League, UEFA Cup, FA Cup and League Cup.

Steven George Gerrard (born 30 May 1980) is an English professional football manager and a former player who most recently managed Saudi Pro League club Al Ettifaq.

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CeeLo Green

American singer known for hit songs Crazy and Forget You

Did you know? He provided the singing voice for the character Murray the Mummy in the animated film Hotel Transylvania.

Thomas DeCarlo Callaway-Burton (born May 30, 1975), known professionally as CeeLo Green (or Cee Lo Green or simply Cee-Lo), is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor.

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Marissa Mayer

Former chief executive of Yahoo! and early leader at Google

Did you know? She was the twentieth person hired by Google and became the company's first female engineer.

Marissa Ann Mayer (born May 30, 1975) is an American business executive, software engineer, and investor who served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017, when it was sold to Verizon.

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Andry Rajoelina

Politician and businessman who served as the President of Madagascar

Did you know? Prior to entering politics, he was a popular radio and club DJ and ran a successful media and advertising company.

Andry Nirina Rajoelina (born 30 May 1974) is a politician and businessman who served as the eighth president of Madagascar from 2019 to 2025.

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Idina Menzel

Broadway actress and voice of Elsa in Disney's Frozen

Did you know? She initially worked as a wedding singer to support herself while pursuing her musical theatre career.

Idina Kim Menzel ( ih-DEE-nə men-ZEL; née Mentzel; born May 30, 1971) is an American actress, singer and songwriter. She is known for her work in theater, having starred in Broadway and West End productions, before expanding to film, television, and music.

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Nasrin Sotoudeh

Iranian human rights lawyer and winner of the Sakharov Prize

Did you know? She has spent years in prison for her legal work defending activists and women who protested against compulsory hijab laws.

Nasrin Sotoudeh Langarudi (Persian: نسرین ستوده لنگرودی; born 1963) is an Iranian human rights lawyer known for her defense of activists, opposition politicians, and individuals facing human rights violations.

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Katerina Sakellaropoulou

First female president in the history of Greece

Did you know? She previously served as the president of the Council of State, the highest administrative court in her country.

Katerina N. Sakellaropoulou (Greek: Κατερίνα Ν. Σακελλαροπούλου; born 30 May 1956) is a Greek retired judge who served as the president of Greece from 2020 to 2025. She was elected by the Hellenic Parliament to succeed Prokopis Pavlopoulos on 22 January 2020.

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David Sassoli

Italian journalist and former President of the European Parliament

Did you know? Before entering politics, he spent many years as a prominent newsreader on Italy's main national television channel, Rai Uno.

David Maria Sassoli (Italian pronunciation:; 30 May 1956 – 11 January 2022) was an Italian politician and journalist who served as the president of the European Parliament from 3 July 2019 until his death. Sassoli was first elected as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009.

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Brian Kobilka

Nobel Prize-winning scientist who mapped cell receptors

Did you know? He missed the initial phone call from the Nobel committee because he was asleep and his home phone was in another room.

Brian Kent Kobilka (born May 30, 1955) is an American physiologist and a recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz for discoveries that reveal the workings of G protein-coupled receptors.

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Fernando Lugo

Former President of Paraguay and former Roman Catholic bishop

Did you know? He was known as the Bishop of the Poor before resigning from the priesthood to run for the presidency.

Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez (born 30 May 1951) is a Paraguayan politician and laicized Catholic bishop who was President of Paraguay from 2008 to 2012. Previously, he was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop, serving as Bishop of the Diocese of San Pedro from 1994 to 2005.

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Salvador Puig Antich

Salvador Puig Antich (Catalan pronunciation:; 30 May 1948 – 2 March 1974) was a Spanish militant anarchist from Catalonia. His execution for involvement in a bank robbery and shooting a police officer dead became a cause célèbre in Francoist Spain for Catalan autonomists, pro-independence supporters, and anarchists.

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Alexey Leonov

Soviet cosmonaut who performed the first ever spacewalk in history

Did you know? During his historic mission, his spacesuit inflated so much that he had to bleed off air pressure just to fit back inside the spacecraft.

Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut and aviator, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds.

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Idi Amin

Ugandan army officer who seized power in 1971 and ruled as a brutal dictator, expelling Uganda's Asian community

Did you know? He was a formidable athlete in his youth and held the light heavyweight boxing championship of Uganda for nine consecutive years.

Awon'go Idi Amin Dada Oumee (30 May 1928 – 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and dictator who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 until his overthrow in 1979. He gained power after the 1971 Ugandan coup d'état.

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Agnès Varda

Influential filmmaker and central figure of the French New Wave

Did you know? In 2017, she became the first female director to receive an honorary Academy Award for her significant lifetime contribution to cinema.

Agnès Varda (born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French filmmaker, artist, and photographer.

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Julius Axelrod

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who studied the release of neurotransmitters

Did you know? He initially worked for a vitamin company and did not receive his PhD until he was in his forties.

Julius Axelrod (May 30, 1912 – December 29, 2004) was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler.

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Benny Goodman

American jazz clarinettist and bandleader known as the King of Swing

Did you know? He led one of the first integrated jazz groups, defying racial segregation in the United States during the nineteen-thirties.

Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". From 1935 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States.

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Hannes Alfvén

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and pioneer of plasma physics

Did you know? Despite winning a Nobel Prize, he was a vocal critic of the Big Bang theory and proposed an alternative plasma-based model.

Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (Swedish:; 30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves.

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Howard Hawks

Versatile American filmmaker behind classic films like Scarface and Rio Bravo

Did you know? He was a trained mechanical engineer and spent time working in the aircraft industry before entering the movie business.

Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era.

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Alexander Archipenko

Avant-garde sculptor who applied Cubism to three-dimensional art

Did you know? He is credited with introducing the concept of negative space in sculpture by using holes and concave shapes to represent form.

Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (30 May 1887 – 25 February 1964) was a Ukrainian-American avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist, active in France and the United States. He was one of the first to apply the principles of Cubism to architecture, analyzing human figures into geometrical forms.

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Peter Carl Fabergé

Russian goldsmith famous for creating ornate jewelled Easter eggs

Did you know? His workshop produced more than fifty imperial eggs for the Russian royal family, many of which are now lost or in private collections.

Peter Carl Gustavovich Fabergé (Russian: Петер Карл Густавович Фаберже, romanized: Peter Karl Gustavovich Faberzhe; 30 May 1846 – 24 September 1920; also known as Charles Fabergé) was a Russian goldsmith and jeweller.

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Amadeo I of Spain

Italian prince who served as King of Spain

Did you know? His short reign was so difficult that he famously declared the Spanish people ungovernable before abdicating and returning to Italy.

Amadeo I (Italian: Amedeo Ferdinando Maria di Savoia; 30 May 1845 – 18 January 1890), also known as Amadeus, was an Italian prince who reigned as King of Spain from 1870 to 1873.

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