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Andrea Rubio

Andrea Valentina Rubio Armas (born 27 November 1998) is a Venezuelan model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss International 2023, and earlier Miss Venezuela International 2022. She represented Portuguesa state at the Miss Venezuela 2022 pageant.

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Park Chan-yeol

South Korean rapper and member of the boy band EXO

Did you know? He learned to play several musical instruments, including the drums and guitar, before launching his career as a professional singer.

Park Chan-yeol (Korean: 박찬열; born November 27, 1992), better known mononymously as Chanyeol, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor.

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Sanna Nielsen

Swedish singer and presenter who represented her country at Eurovision

Did you know? She achieved her first number-one hit in Sweden at the age of eleven with a song about her grandmother.

Sanna Viktoria Nielsen (born 27 November 1984) is a Swedish singer, television presenter and musical theatre performer. On her seventh attempt, she won Melodifestivalen in 2014 with the song "Undo" and so represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark, finishing in 3rd place overall.

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Aleksandr Kerzhakov

All-time leading goalscorer for the Russian national football team

Did you know? He is the only Russian player to have scored over two hundred goals in professional club and international competitions.

Aleksandr Anatolyevich Kerzhakov (Russian: Александр Анатольевич Кержаков; born 27 November 1982) is a Russian professional football manager and former player who played as a striker.

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Tatsuya Tanaka

Former Japanese international footballer who played as a forward

Did you know? He spent the vast majority of his professional career playing for Urawa Red Diamonds, where he became a fan favourite.

Tatsuya Tanaka (田中 達也, Tanaka Tatsuya; born 27 November 1982) is a Japanese professional football coach and former player who played as a forward.

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Bruno Alves

Portuguese centre-back who won league titles with Porto and Zenit and was part of Portugal's Euro 2016-winning squad

Did you know? He comes from a sporting family; both his father and his two brothers also played football professionally.

Bruno Eduardo Regufe Alves (Portuguese pronunciation:; born 27 November 1981) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a central defender. He began and spent most of his career at Porto, where he won nine titles and appeared in 171 official games.

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Han Kang

South Korean writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? Her novel The Vegetarian was the first Korean-language book to win the International Booker Prize.

Han Kang (Korean: 한강; born 27 November 1970) is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.

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Veronika Marchenko

Veronika Aleksandrovna Marchenko (Russian: Вероника Александровна Марченко) is a Russian activist. In 2008 she was the head of the NGO Mother's Right Foundation, which she founded as a student in 1988.

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Roberto Mancini

Italian football manager who led his nation to Euro 2020 glory

Did you know? During his playing career, he spent a brief period in England on loan at Leicester City before moving into management.

Roberto Mancini (Italian:; born 27 November 1964) is an Italian football manager and former player who is the head coach of the Italy national team.

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Yulia Tymoshenko

Ukrainian politician and leader of the 2004 Orange Revolution who became the country's first female prime minister

Did you know? Before her political career, she was a successful businesswoman in the energy sector, earning her the nickname the "Gas Princess".

Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (née Hrihyan; born 27 November 1960) is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005, and again from 2007 until 2010; the first woman in Ukraine to hold that position.

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Caroline Kennedy

American diplomat and daughter of President John F. Kennedy

Did you know? She served as the United States Ambassador to Japan and later as the Ambassador to Australia.

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is an American author, diplomat, and attorney. She served as the United States ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017 and ambassador to Australia from 2022 to 2024.

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Steve Bannon

American political strategist and former White House official

Did you know? Before his career in politics, he served in the United States Navy and worked as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs.

Stephen Kevin Bannon (born November 27, 1953) is an American media executive, Republican political strategist, pundit and former investment banker. He served as the White House's chief strategist for the first seven months of President Donald Trump's first administration before Trump fired him.

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Kathryn Bigelow

First woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director

Did you know? Before turning to filmmaking, she was a talented painter and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951) is an American filmmaker. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

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Ismail Omar Guelleh

The long-serving second President of Djibouti

Did you know? He has been in office since 1999, having succeeded his uncle who was the nation's first president.

Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (born 27 November 1947), often referred to by his initials IOG, is a Djiboutian politician who has served as the President of Djibouti since 1999.

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James Avery

Actor best known for the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Did you know? He provided the voice for the character Shredder in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series.

James La Rue Avery (November 27, 1945 – December 31, 2013) was an American actor. He was best known for his roles as Philip Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Judge Michael Conover on L.A. Law, Steve Yeager in The Brady Bunch Movie, and Dr.

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Jimi Hendrix

American guitarist who revolutionised rock with Purple Haze, All Along the Watchtower and his Woodstock Star-Spangled Banner

Did you know? He was naturally left-handed but usually played a right-handed guitar that he had restrung and turned upside down.

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time.

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Bruce Lee

Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor of Enter the Dragon who founded Jeet Kune Do and brought kung fu films to the world

Did you know? He was a champion cha-cha dancer in Hong Kong before moving to America to teach martial arts.

Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker.

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Laurent-Désiré Kabila

President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and revolutionary leader

Did you know? During his time as a young rebel leader, he spent several months working alongside the famous Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.

Laurent-Désiré Kabila (French pronunciation:; 27 November 1939 – 16 January 2001), usually known as Laurent Kabila or Kabila the Father (US: ), was a Congolese rebel and politician who served as the third president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1997 until his assassination in 2001.

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Ninoy Aquino

Filipino senator and leading opposition figure against the Marcos regime

Did you know? His assassination at Manila International Airport in 1983 became a catalyst for the revolution that eventually toppled the government.

Benigno Simeón "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. ( ə-KEE-noh, Tagalog:; November 27, 1932 – August 21, 1983), was a Filipino politician and journalist who served as a senator of the Philippines (1967–1972) and governor of the province of Tarlac (1963–1967).

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Alexander Dubček

Czechoslovak politician who led the Prague Spring reforms

Did you know? After being ousted from power, he was forced to spend many years working as a clerk in a forestry office.

Alexander Dubček (Slovak pronunciation:; 27 November 1921 – 7 November 1992) was a Slovak statesman who served as the First Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) (de facto leader of Czechoslovakia) from January 1968 to April 1969 and as Chairman of the…

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Lars Onsager

Nobel Prize-winning physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics

Did you know? He was once dismissed from a teaching post because his students found his complex lectures impossible to follow.

Lars Onsager (27 November 1903 – 5 October 1976) was a Norwegian American physical chemist and theoretical physicist. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University.

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Kōnosuke Matsushita

Industrialist who founded the electronics giant Panasonic

Did you know? He started his first business at the age of twenty-three with very little money, working out of his tiny two-room tenement.

Kōnosuke Matsushita (松下 幸之助, Matsushita Kōnosuke; 27 November 1894 – 27 April 1989) was a Japanese industrialist who founded Panasonic, the largest Japanese consumer electronics company. Matsushita is referred to as the "God of Management" in Japan.

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Chaim Weizmann

First President of Israel and a pioneering research biochemist

Did you know? During the First World War, he developed a new method for producing acetone, a chemical vital for the manufacture of British naval explosives.

Chaim Azriel Weizmann ( KYME WYTES-mən; 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was an Israeli statesman, biochemist, and Zionist leader who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952.

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Juho Kusti Paasikivi

Seventh President of Finland and diplomat

Did you know? His diplomatic strategy for maintaining independence from the Soviet Union became known as the Paasikivi doctrine in Finnish foreign policy.

Juho Kusti Paasikivi (27 November 1870 – 14 December 1956) was a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 1946 to 1956.

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