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Magnus Carlsen

Norwegian chess grandmaster who was world champion from 2013 to 2023 and holds the highest rating ever achieved

Did you know? He once reached the world number one ranking in a fantasy football competition played by millions of people globally.

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, reigning six-time World Rapid Chess Champion, reigning nine-time World Blitz Chess Champion and the reigning FIDE Freestyle Chess World Champion.

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Bhakti Sharma

Bhakti Sharma (born 30 November 1989) is an Indian Open water swimmer. She is the first Asian woman and the youngest in the world to set a record in open swimming in Antarctic waters.

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Kaley Cuoco

American actress known for her role in The Big Bang Theory

Did you know? Before her career in television, she was a highly successful amateur tennis player.

Kaley Christine Cuoco ( KWOH-koh; born November 30, 1985) is an American actress. She starred as Bridget Hennessy on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules (2002–2005), Penny on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019), and as the title character in the HBO Max comic thriller The Flight Attendant (2020–2022).

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Elisha Cuthbert

Canadian actress who played Kim Bauer in 24 and starred in The Girl Next Door and Happy Endings

Did you know? She began her career as a child model for children's clothing and later hosted a popular educational show about science.

Elisha Ann Cuthbert (born November 30, 1982) is a Canadian actress. As a child actress, she made her first televised appearance as an extra on Are You Afraid of the Dark?

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Pepe Julian Onziema

Pepe Julian Onziema (born 30 November 1980) is a Ugandan LGBT rights and human rights activist. He began his human rights work in 2004.

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Gael García Bernal

Mexican actor and director known for The Motorcycle Diaries

Did you know? He was the first Mexican student ever accepted to study at London's prestigious Central School of Speech and Drama.

Gael García Bernal (Spanish:; born 30 November 1978) is a Mexican actor and filmmaker. He has received various accolades including a Golden Globe Award and an Ariel Award.

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Ben Stiller

Comic actor and director of Zoolander and Tropic Thunder

Did you know? His parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, were a famous comedy duo who frequently appeared on television.

Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. Known for his blend of slapstick humor and sharp wit, Stiller rose to fame in the late 1990s with a group of comedic actors colloquially known as the Frat Pack.

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Gary Lineker

Prolific England striker turned sports broadcaster and Match of the Day host

Did you know? Throughout his long professional football career, he was never once shown a yellow or red card.

Gary Winston Lineker (born 30 November 1960) is an English sports broadcaster, businessman, and former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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Marina Abramović

Performance artist known for testing the limits of human endurance

Did you know? During her 2010 exhibition at MoMA, she spent over seven hundred hours sitting silently while visitors took turns staring at her.

Marina Abramović (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Абрамовић, pronounced; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind.

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Terrence Malick

American filmmaker known for movies like The Thin Red Line

Did you know? He is so famously private that he often has a clause in his contract stating no current photographs can be used.

Terrence Frederick Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American filmmaker.

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Ridley Scott

Director of major films including Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator

Did you know? He began his career in advertising and directed the famous 1973 Hovis bread commercial filmed on Gold Hill in Shaftesbury.

Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English filmmaker. His work includes science fiction, crime, and historical epic films, with an atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style.

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Woody Allen

American filmmaker and comedian of Annie Hall, Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters who has won four Oscars

Did you know? He is an accomplished jazz clarinetist who has performed weekly with a band in New York for several decades.

Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning more than seven decades, he has written for film, television, and theater.

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Shirley Chisholm

First Black woman elected to the United States Congress

Did you know? She was also the first woman and the first African American to seek the presidential nomination for a major political party.

Shirley Anita Chisholm ( CHIZ-əm; née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress.

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Henry Taube

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who researched electron-transfer reactions in metals

Did you know? He was born in a remote part of Canada and completed his early education in a one-room prairie schoolhouse.

Henry Taube (November 30, 1915 – November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the second Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize, and remains the only…

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Nâzım Hikmet

Turkish poet and playwright who pioneered modern free verse

Did you know? He spent over a decade in prison for his political views, writing some of his most famous poems while incarcerated.

Mehmed Nâzım Ran (17 January 1902 – 3 June 1963), commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet (Turkish: ), was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements".

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Edgar Douglas Adrian

Nobel Prize-winning scientist who studied how nerve cells transmit signals

Did you know? He experimented on himself to investigate the sensation of pain, recording the electrical impulses of his own nerves.

Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (30 November 1889 – 4 August 1977) was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. He provided experimental evidence for the all-or-none law of nerves.

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Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister who led the country through the Second World War with defiant speeches, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? He was an accomplished artist who produced hundreds of paintings and won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Canadian author best known for writing Anne of Green Gables

Did you know? She wrote hundreds of poems and short stories before her most famous novel was finally accepted for publication.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.

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Nils Gustaf Dalén

Nobel Prize-winning engineer who invented automatic lighthouse regulators

Did you know? He continued his research and invention work for many years after losing his sight in an experimental explosion.

Nils Gustaf Dalén (Swedish:; 30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937) was a Swedish engineer and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys."

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Jagadish Chandra Bose

Indian polymath who pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics

Did you know? He invented a device called the crescograph to measure the growth and response of plants to various stimuli.

Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (IPA:; 30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a polymath with interests in biology, physics and writing science fiction.

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Mark Twain

American author and humorist who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Did you know? He was born during a visit from Halley’s Comet and died when it returned seventy-four years later.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau

French academic painter known for his realistic classical works

Did you know? During his lifetime, he was one of the most famous artists in the world, though his popularity later declined with the rise of Impressionism.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French pronunciation:; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.

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Theodor Mommsen

German classical scholar whose History of Rome won him the second-ever Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1902

Did you know? He remains the only writer of non-fiction to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and was one of its oldest recipients.

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (German:; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century.

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Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish satirist and Dublin cleric who wrote Gulliver's Travels and the darkly ironic essay A Modest Proposal

Did you know? He is credited with inventing the girl's name Vanessa, which he formed by combining the first syllables of a close friend's name.

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput.

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