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Johanne Defay

Johanne Defay (born 19 November 1993) is a French professional surfer. She was born in Le Puy-en-Velay in the Auvergne region of France.

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Tyga

Compton rapper who came up through Lil Wayne's Young Money label and scored club hits with Rack City and Taste

Did you know? His stage name stands for Thank You God Always.

Micheal Ray Stevenson (born November 19, 1989), known professionally as Tyga (a backronym for Thank You God Always), is an American rapper, singer, and actor.

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Adam Driver

American actor known for Star Wars and Marriage Story

Did you know? He served in the United States Marine Corps for over two years before a mountain biking accident led to a medical discharge.

Adam Douglas Driver (born November 19, 1983) is an American actor. His breakout performance as Adam Sackler in the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017) earned him three consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations.

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Shin Dong-hyuk

Shin Dong-hyuk (born Shin In Geun, 19 November 1982 or 1980) is a North Korean-born human rights activist. He claims to be the only prisoner to have successfully escaped from a "total-control zone" grade internment camp in North Korea.

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Mette Frederiksen

Prime Minister of Denmark and leader of the Social Democrats

Did you know? When she took office at the age of 41, she became the youngest Prime Minister in Danish history.

Mette Frederiksen (Danish:; born 19 November 1977) is a Danish politician who has served as the prime minister of Denmark since 2019 and the leader of the Social Democrats since 2015.

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Jack Dorsey

Co-founder of Twitter and digital payments firm Block

Did you know? He is a certified massage therapist and once considered a career in fashion design before finding success in the tech industry.

Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American tech entrepreneur and businessman who co-founded Twitter, Inc., which operated social media service Twitter; financial technology company Block, Inc., which owns and operates Square, Cash App, Afterpay, Bitkey, and Tidal; and microblogging social networking…

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Sushmita Sen

First Indian woman to win the Miss Universe beauty pageant

Did you know? After winning her title, she became a prominent Bollywood actress and adopted two daughters as a single mother.

Sushmita Sen (Bengali pronunciation:; born 19 November 1975) is an Indian actress and beauty pageant titleholder, who was crowned Miss Universe 1994, becoming the first Indian woman to win the Miss Universe title.

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Laurent Blanc

World Cup-winning French footballer and former manager of France

Did you know? He had a pre-match ritual of kissing the bald head of goalkeeper Fabien Barthez for good luck during the 1998 World Cup.

Laurent Robert Blanc (French pronunciation:; born 19 November 1965) is a French professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. He last managed Saudi Pro League club Al-Ittihad.

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Jodie Foster

American actress and director who won Oscars for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs after starting as a child star

Did you know? She was a gifted student who graduated from Yale University and is fluent in several languages, including French.

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker. Foster started her career as a child actor before establishing herself as a leading actress in film.

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Meg Ryan

Star of romantic comedies including When Harry Met Sally

Did you know? She originally studied journalism at university and began acting in commercials and soap operas to help pay for her classes.

Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra (born November 19, 1961), known professionally as Meg Ryan, is an American actress. Known for playing quirky, charismatic women since the late 1980s, Ryan is particularly recognized for her leading roles in romantic comedies, a genre she dominated during the 1990s.

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Allison Janney

Oscar-winning actress known for her role in The West Wing

Did you know? Before pursuing acting, she was an aspiring figure skater whose career ended after she crashed through a sliding glass door.

Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress. Known for her performances across the screen and stage, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, eight Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards.

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Ofra Haza

Israeli singer and actress known for her global hit Im Nin'alu

Did you know? She survived two plane crashes during her life before her untimely death from complications related to AIDS in 2000.

Ofra Haza (Hebrew: עפרה חזה; 19 November 1957 – 23 February 2000) was an Israeli singer, songwriter, and actress, commonly known in the Western world as "the Madonna of the East", or "the Israeli Madonna". Her voice has been described as a "tender" mezzo-soprano.

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Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Current President of Egypt and former commander of the armed forces

Did you know? Before entering politics, he spent time living and studying at a military war college in Pennsylvania in the United States.

Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has served as the sixth president of Egypt since 2014.

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Calvin Klein

Influential American fashion designer who founded a global luxury brand

Did you know? He was the first designer to receive awards for both men's and women's clothing in the same year from the American fashion council.

Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer. In 1968, he launched the company that later became Calvin Klein.

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Ted Turner

Media mogul who founded the 24-hour news channel CNN

Did you know? He was a champion sailor who won the prestigious America’s Cup in 1977 as the skipper of the yacht Courageous.

Robert Edward Turner III (November 19, 1938 – May 6, 2026) was an American businessman, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel, and WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television.

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Larry King

Television host known for his long-running interview show on CNN

Did you know? He was born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger but changed his name just before his first radio broadcast because his boss thought it was too ethnic.

Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) was an American TV and radio host, author and spokesman. He was a WMBM radio interviewer in the Miami area in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Zygmunt Bauman

Sociologist known for his theories on modernity and liquidity

Did you know? After moving to the UK, he served as a professor of sociology at the University of Leeds for decades.

Zygmunt Bauman (Polish:; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship.

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Indira Gandhi

India's first female prime minister, daughter of Nehru, who declared the Emergency of 1975 and was assassinated in 1984

Did you know? Despite sharing a surname, she was not related to Mahatma Gandhi and gained the name through marriage.

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian stateswoman who twice served as the Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.

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George Emil Palade

Romanian-American biologist and Nobel Prize winner

Did you know? He is often called the father of modern cell biology for his use of electron microscopy to map the internal structures of cells.

George Emil Palade (Romanian pronunciation:; November 19, 1912 – October 7, 2008) was a Romanian-American cell biologist. In 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve.

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Peter Drucker

Austrian-born thinker who pioneered the field of modern management theory

Did you know? He correctly predicted many major trends, including the rise of Japan and the shift towards a knowledge-based economy.

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (German:; 19 November 1909 – 11 November 2005) was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory.

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Anna Seghers

German author famous for the anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross

Did you know? She escaped Nazi Germany and spent many years living in exile in Mexico during the Second World War.

Anna Reiling, known by the pen name Anna Seghers (German:, 19 November 1900 – 1 June 1983), was a German writer. She was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.

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James Batcheller Sumner

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who proved that enzymes are proteins

Did you know? He lost his left arm in a shooting accident as a teenager but insisted on continuing his athletic and scientific pursuits.

James Batcheller Sumner (November 19, 1887 – August 12, 1955) was an American biochemist. He discovered that enzymes can be crystallized, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley.

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Wilhelm Dilthey

German philosopher and historian of ideas

Did you know? He is credited with establishing the methodology for the modern humanities by distinguishing them from the natural sciences.

Wilhelm Dilthey (German:; 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German philosopher who held Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin.

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James A. Garfield

20th US President, a former Union general, who was shot by an assassin months into his term in 1881

Did you know? He was the first ambidextrous president and was reportedly able to write in Greek with one hand and Latin with the other.

James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July.

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