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Carlos Alcaraz

Spanish tennis player who has won multiple Grand Slam titles

Did you know? In 2022, he became the youngest man to ever reach the world number one ranking in professional tennis.

Carlos Alcaraz Garfia (born 5 May 2003) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No.

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Justin Kluivert

Dutch winger who has played for several top European clubs

Did you know? He is the son of Patrick Kluivert and became one of the few players to score in all five of Europe's top major leagues.

Justin Dean Kluivert (born 5 May 1999) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Premier League club Bournemouth and the Netherlands national team.

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Aryna Sabalenka

Professional tennis player and multiple Grand Slam singles champion

Did you know? She has a distinctive tiger tattoo on her left arm, which has led to her being nicknamed the Tiger.

Aryna Siarhiejeŭna Sabalenka (born 5 May 1998) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. She has been ranked the world No.

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Roman Protasevich

Roman Dmitriyevich Protasevich or Raman Dzmitryevich Pratasevich (born 5 May 1995) is a Belarusian TV presenter and former blogger and political activist. He was the editor-in-chief of the Telegram channel Nexta and chief editor of the Telegram channel Belarus of the Brain (Russian: Беларусь головного мозга).

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Raúl Jiménez

Mexican international striker who played for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Fulham

Did you know? He holds the record for the most goals scored by a Mexican player in a single Premier League season.

Raúl Alonso Jiménez Rodríguez (Latin American Spanish:; born 5 May 1991) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers and the Mexico national team.

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Chris Brown

Virginia-born R&B singer and dancer whose hits since Run It! have made him a major chart and streaming force

Did you know? He was signed to a record deal when he was about 15.

Christopher Maurice Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. An R&B musician who works in a variety of genres, he has been called the "King of R&B" by some contemporaries.

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Adele

English singer-songwriter of Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You and Hello, whose albums 21 and 25 broke sales records

Did you know? She attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology alongside other future stars like Leona Lewis and Jessie J.

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins ( ə-DEL; born 5 May 1988) is an English singer and songwriter. Regarded as a British cultural icon, she is known for her mezzo-soprano vocals and sentimental songwriting.

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Henry Cavill

British actor who played Superman in the DC Extended Universe

Did you know? He missed the initial phone call offering him the role of Superman because he was busy playing an online video game.

Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill ( KAV-əl; born 5 May 1983) is a British actor.

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Craig David

British singer known for the album Born to Do It

Did you know? He first gained recognition for his vocals on the Artful Dodger garage hit Re-Rewind.

Craig Ashley David (born 5 May 1981) is an English singer. He rose to fame in 1999, featuring on the single "Re-Rewind" by Artful Dodger.

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Mosab Hassan Yousef

Mosab Hassan Yousef is an American author and former militant who defected to Israel in 1997, thereafter working as an Israeli spy for the Shin Bet until he moved to the United States in 2007. His father is Hassan Yousef, a co-founder of the Palestinian Islamist organisation Hamas.

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Naomi Klein

Canadian author and activist known for her critiques of globalization

Did you know? Her parents were American peace activists who moved to Canada in the late sixties to protest against the Vietnam War.

Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism and organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism, and capitalism. Klein first became known internationally for her alter-globalization book No Logo (1999).

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Boban Babunski

Former Macedonian international footballer and professional coach

Did you know? He is the father of two professional footballers, David and Dorian, who have both represented the North Macedonia national team.

Boban Babunski (Macedonian: Бобан Бабунски; born 5 May 1968) is a Macedonian retired footballer who played as a central defender, and a coach.

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Ibraheem Zakzaky

Ibraheem Yaqoub El-Zakzaky (alternately Ibrahim Zakzaky or Ibrahim Al-Zakzaky; born 5 May 1953) is a Nigerian Shia Muslim cleric and political activist.

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John Rhys-Davies

Welsh actor who played Gimli in The Lord of the Rings

Did you know? Despite playing a dwarf, he was actually taller than many of his co-stars, standing over six feet tall in real life.

John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944) is a Welsh actor known for portraying Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Sallah in the Indiana Jones franchise. He has received three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, with one win, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

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Michael Palin

Monty Python star and television travel documentarian

Did you know? He served as the president of the Royal Geographical Society and has a train named after him in honour of his travel programmes.

Sir Michael Edward Palin ( PAY-lin; born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, writer and television presenter. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy group.

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Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who co-invented the laser

Did you know? He was known for his love of jazz music and used a laser to pop balloons during public science demonstrations.

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist who, along with Charles Townes, developed the theoretical basis for laser science. His central insight was the use of two mirrors as the resonant cavity to take maser action from microwaves to visible wavelengths.

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Georgios Papadopoulos

Greek military officer who led the 1967 coup d'état

Did you know? He seized control of the country by implementing a NATO military plan designed to be used in the event of a communist takeover.

Georgios Papadopoulos (Greek: Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος, pronounced; 5 May 1919 – 27 June 1999) was a Hellenic Army officer and far-right military dictator who ruled Greece from 1967 to 1973. He led the military junta that overthrew Prime Minister Panagiotis Kanellopoulos in 1967 and established his dictatorship.

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Zail Singh

First Sikh politician to serve as the President of India

Did you know? He was given the title Giani, meaning a learned man, due to his extensive knowledge of religious scriptures.

Giani Zail Singh (born Jarnail Singh; 5 May 1916 – 25 December 1994) was an Indian politician who served as President of India from 1982 to 1987 and chief minister of Punjab in the 1970s. He was the first Sikh to become president.

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Tyrone Power

Hollywood film star of the 1930s and 40s swashbuckler movies

Did you know? He served as a pilot in the Marine Corps during the Second World War and flew transport missions in the Pacific.

Tyrone Edmund Power III (May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958) was an American actor. From the 1930s to the 1950s, Power appeared in dozens of films, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads.

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Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

British Army commander and penultimate Viceroy of India

Did you know? Despite his military focus, he was a keen lover of poetry and compiled a popular anthology of verse titled Other Men's Flowers.

Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (5 May 1883 – 24 May 1950) was a senior officer of the British Army. He served in the Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the First World War, during which he was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres.

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Nellie Bly

Journalist who travelled around the world in seventy-two days

Did you know? She famously went undercover in a mental asylum for ten days to expose the brutal treatment of patients.

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and for an exposé in…

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Niko Pirosmani

Self-taught Georgian painter known for his naive art style

Did you know? He often lived in extreme poverty and frequently traded his paintings for food and drink at local taverns.

Nikoloz Pirosmanashvili (Georgian: ნიკოლოზ ფიროსმანაშვილი) or Niko Pirosmani (Georgian: ნიკო ფიროსმანი), simply referred to as Nikala (ნიკალა Nik’ala; 1862–1918), was a Georgian painter who posthumously rose to prominence. Relatively poor for most of his life, he worked a variety of ordinary jobs.

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Henryk Sienkiewicz

Polish novelist of Quo Vadis and the historical Trilogy, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905

Did you know? His portrait appeared on the Polish 500,000 zloty banknote during the early 1990s before the currency was redenominated.

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (US: shen-KYAY-vitch, -⁠KYEV-itch; Polish:; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos (Polish:), was a Polish epic writer.

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Eugénie de Montijo

Last Empress of the French and wife of Napoleon III

Did you know? After fleeing to England, she developed a close lifelong friendship with Queen Victoria and lived in Hampshire for several decades.

Eugénie de Montijo (French:; born María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick; 5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920) was the Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until he was overthrown on 4 September 1870.

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