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Chris Smalling

English centre-back who played for Manchester United and Roma

Did you know? He started his career in non-league football while working a part-time job as a waiter.

Christopher Lloyd Smalling (born 22 November 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Primeira Liga club Porto. During his youth, Smalling played for the Millwall academy before joining non-League club Maidstone United.

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Marouane Fellaini

Former Belgian professional footballer who played for Manchester United

Did you know? His distinctive hairstyle led to the creation of wigs sold to fans, which became a common sight at stadiums during his career.

Marouane Fellaini-Bakkioui (born 22 November 1987) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in Etterbeek to Moroccan parents, Fellaini played youth football for Anderlecht, R.A.E.C. Mons, Royal Francs Borains and Charleroi before joining Standard Liège.

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Oscar Pistorius

Paralympic champion who competed in the 2012 Olympic Games

Did you know? He was known as the 'Blade Runner' because of the distinctive carbon fibre prosthetic legs he used for racing.

Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius ( pist-OR-ee-əs, Afrikaans:; born 22 November 1986) is a South African double amputee, former professional sprinter, and convicted murderer. On 14 February 2013, Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, a paralegal and model, in his Pretoria home.

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Asamoah Gyan

Ghanaian footballer and his country's all-time record goalscorer

Did you know? He is the highest-scoring African player in FIFA World Cup history, having netted six times across three different tournaments.

Asamoah Gyan ( ASS-ə-MOH-ə JAHN; born 22 November 1985) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is a former captain of the Ghana national team.

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Scarlett Johansson

dominating blockbuster cinema as Black Widow whilst earning critical acclaim for indie dramas, becoming one of cinema's highest-grossing actors

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress, singer, producer, and director. Her films as a leading actress have grossed over $15.4 billion worldwide, making her the third-highest-grossing actor in history.

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Song Hye-kyo

South Korean actress and Korean Wave pioneer known for Autumn in My Heart, Descendants of the Sun and The Glory

Did you know? She has funded Korean-language guidebooks and signs at museums abroad with historian Seo Kyoung-duk.

Song Hye-kyo (Korean: 송혜교; born November 22, 1981) is a South Korean actress.

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Mark Ruffalo

American actor known for playing the Hulk in Marvel films

Did you know? In 2001, he was diagnosed with a brain tumour which resulted in temporary facial paralysis and deafness in one ear.

Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor and producer who began his career in the late 1980s and first gained recognition for his work in Kenneth Lonergan's play This Is Our Youth (1996) and drama film You Can Count on Me (2000).

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Boris Becker

German tennis champion and youngest ever Wimbledon men's singles winner

Did you know? At the start of his career, he was nicknamed "Boom Boom" because of his exceptionally powerful serve.

Boris Franz Becker (German:; born 22 November 1967) is a German former professional tennis player, tennis coach and a commentator. He was ranked as the world No.

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Victor Pelevin

Contemporary Russian novelist known for satirical and surrealist fiction

Did you know? Despite his massive popularity in Russia, he is famously reclusive and has rarely been seen in public for many years.

Victor Olegovich Pelevin (Russian: Виктор Олегович Пелевин, IPA:; born 22 November 1962) is a Russian fiction writer. His novels include Omon Ra (1992), The Life of Insects (1993), Chapayev and Void (1996), and Generation P (1999).

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Jamie Lee Curtis

Oscar-winning actress known for the Halloween horror franchise

Did you know? She is the daughter of Hollywood stars Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh and has written several best-selling books for children.

Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress, producer, and children's author. Known for her performances in the horror and slasher genres, alongside multiple comedies, she is regarded as a "scream queen".

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Paolo Gentiloni

Former Prime Minister of Italy and European Commissioner

Did you know? He is a descendant of an aristocratic family and holds a noble title inherited through his ancestral lineage.

Paolo Gentiloni Silveri (Italian pronunciation:; born 22 November 1954) is an Italian politician who was European Commissioner for Economy in the von der Leyen Commission from 1 December 2019 to 30 November 2024. He had previously served as prime minister of Italy from December 2016 to June 2018.

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Billie Jean King

American tennis champion and pioneer for gender equality in sport

Did you know? She was instrumental in founding the Women's Tennis Association to ensure female players received equal recognition and pay.

Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player.

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Terry Gilliam

Film director and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe

Did you know? He was born in America but eventually renounced his US citizenship to become a British citizen.

Terrence Vance Gilliam ( GIL-ee-əm; born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, comedian, collage animator, and actor.

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Geraldine Page

American actress who won an Oscar for The Trip to Bountiful

Did you know? She earned eight Academy Award nominations during her career, finally winning the prize on her very last attempt.

Geraldine Sue Page (November 22, 1924 – June 13, 1987) was an American actress.

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Andrew Huxley

Nobel Prize-winning physiologist who studied how nerve cells function

Did you know? He was the half-brother of the novelist Aldous Huxley, the author of the dystopian classic Brave New World.

Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (22 November 1917 – 30 May 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family.

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Benjamin Britten

Influential English composer of operas including Peter Grimes

Did you know? He founded the Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk, which remains one of the UK’s most prestigious annual classical music events.

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces.

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Alberto Moravia

Italian novelist known for The Conformist and Two Women

Did you know? He spent several years of his youth bedridden due to bone tuberculosis, a time he used to read extensively and start writing.

Alberto Pincherle (Italian:; 28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990), known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia (US: moh-RAH-vee-ə, -⁠RAY-; Italian:), was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism.

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Louis Néel

Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his work on magnetism

Did you know? His discovery of ferrimagnetism and antiferromagnetism led to the development of the magnetic memory cores used in early computers.

Louis Eugène Félix Néel (French:; 22 November 1904 – 17 November 2000) was a French physicist born in Lyon who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his studies of the magnetic properties of solids.

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Charles de Gaulle

French general who led the Free French in the Second World War, founded the Fifth Republic and served as its president

Did you know? He survived more than thirty assassination attempts, including a machine-gun attack on his car in 1962.

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and its puppet state of Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in…

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Enver Pasha

Ottoman military leader and politician during World War I

Did you know? He spent several years living in exile in Germany and Russia after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

İsmâil Enver Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: اسماعیل انور پاشا; Turkish: İsmail Enver Paşa; 23 November 1881 – 4 August 1922) was a Turkish military officer, revolutionary, and convicted war criminal who served as the Ottoman Empire's Minister of War from 1914 to 1918.

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Endre Ady

Pioneering Hungarian poet and journalist of the early twentieth century

Did you know? He was a leading figure in the radical literary group centred around the influential journal Nyugat, which modernised Hungarian literature.

Endre Ady (Hungarian: diósadi Ady András Endre, archaic English: Andrew Ady; 22 November 1877 – 27 January 1919) was a turn-of-the-century Hungarian poet and journalist.

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André Gide

French author of The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters, who wrote frankly about sexuality and won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? He was a close friend of Oscar Wilde and the two writers famously travelled together through North Africa.

André Paul Guillaume Gide (French:; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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John Nance Garner

American Vice President and Speaker of the House of Representatives

Did you know? He famously disparaged his own office by comparing the vice presidency to a bucket of warm spit.

John Nance Garner III (November 22, 1868 – November 7, 1967), known among his contemporaries as "Cactus Jack", was the 32nd vice president of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1941 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A member of the Democratic Party, Garner served as the 39th speaker of the U.S.

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George Eliot

Pen name of Mary Ann Evans, the Victorian novelist of Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner

Did you know? She chose a male pseudonym to ensure her work was taken seriously and to protect her private life from public scrutiny.

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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