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Lorde

New Zealand singer-songwriter known for the global hit song Royals

Did you know? She chose her stage name because of her fascination with aristocracy, adding an 'e' to the end to make it sound more feminine.

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (born 7 November 1996), known professionally as Lorde ( LORD), is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. An influential figure in alternative pop music, she is known for her unconventional production style and introspective songwriting.

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Bethany Mota

Bethany Noel Mota (born November 7, 1995) is an American video blogger. Starting with her YouTube channel, Macbarbie07, created in 2009, she rose to fame for her haul videos, in which she shows her fashion and style purchases via the internet.

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David de Gea

Spanish goalkeeper who played over four hundred games for Manchester United

Did you know? He is a lifelong fan of heavy metal music and has frequently attended concerts by bands like Slipknot.

David de Gea Quintana (Spanish pronunciation:; born 7 November 1990) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for and captains Serie A club Fiorentina. He is regarded as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation.

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Yūki Mutō

Japanese footballer who has played for clubs including Urawa Red Diamonds

Did you know? He made an immediate impact on the international stage by scoring a goal on his debut for the Japanese national team.

Yuki Muto (武藤 雄樹, Mutō Yūki; born November 7, 1988) is a Japanese football player who currently plays for SC Sagamihara.

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Anushka Shetty

Leading Indian actress known for her work in South Indian cinema

Did you know? Before she began her acting career, she worked as a professional yoga instructor after training under a well-known master.

Sweety Shetty (born 7 November 1981), known professionally as Anushka Shetty, is an Indian actress known for her works in Tamil and Telugu films. With a career spanning over two decades as a lead actress in a variety of roles, Shetty is popularly referred to as "Queen of South Indian cinema" in the media.

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Rio Ferdinand

Former England captain and Manchester United central defender

Did you know? As a young child, he was a talented ballet dancer and was offered a scholarship to train at the Central School of Ballet.

Rio Gavin Ferdinand (born 7 November 1978) is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back, and was a television pundit for TNT Sports, for ten years. He played 81 times for the England national team between 1997 and 2011, and was a member of three FIFA World Cup squads.

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David Guetta

Pierre David Guetta (French:; born 7 November 1967) is a French DJ and record producer. He has sold over 10 million albums and 65 million singles globally, with more than 40 billion streams on Spotify.

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Sergei Aleinikov

Belarusian footballer who played for Juventus and the Soviet Union

Did you know? He was officially chosen as the greatest player produced by Belarus in the fifty years following the creation of UEFA.

Sergei Yevgenyevich Aleinikov (Russian: Сергей Евгеньевич Алейников; Belarusian: Сярге́й Яўге́навіч Але́йнікаў, Syarhey Alyeynikaw; born 7 November 1961) is a Belarusian and Soviet former professional footballer, and currently a coach.

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Kamal Haasan

Indian actor and filmmaker known for his work in Tamil cinema

Did you know? He began his career as a child actor and won a national film award for his very first role.

Kamal Haasan (born 7 November 1954) is an Indian actor, filmmaker and politician, currently serving as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha for Tamil Nadu. He is an actor, director, producer, screenwriter, playback singer and lyricist who works primarily in Tamil cinema.

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David Petraeus

Retired US Army general and former Director of the CIA

Did you know? He completed a PhD in international relations at Princeton University while serving as a high-ranking officer in the military.

David Howell Petraeus (born 7 November 1952) is a retired United States Army general who served as the fourth director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from September 2011 until his resignation in November 2012.

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Gigi Riva

Legendary Italian striker and all-time leading goalscorer for Italy

Did you know? He refused many lucrative transfers to larger clubs to remain loyal to Cagliari for almost his entire professional career.

Luigi "Gigi" Riva (Italian:; 7 November 1944 – 22 January 2024) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a striker.

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Joni Mitchell

Influential Canadian singer-songwriter known for her poetic lyrics and visual art

Did you know? She attended art school before her music career began and has created the cover illustrations for most of her own albums.

Roberta Joan Mitchell (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter.

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Barbara Liskov

Computer scientist who pioneered programming languages and system design

Did you know? She was the first woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in computer science, which she received from Stanford University.

Barbara Jane Liskov (née Huberman; born November 7, 1939) is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing.

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Eric Kandel

Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist who studied the physiological basis of memory

Did you know? He fled Nazi-occupied Austria as a child and later used sea slugs to prove how neurons change when creating new memories.

Eric Richard Kandel (German:; born Erich Richard Kandel, November 7, 1929) is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry. He was also a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.

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Billy Graham

Influential American evangelist who preached to millions at large-scale crusades

Did you know? He was the first person to hold a religious service on the steps of the United States Capitol building.

William Franklin Graham Jr. (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American evangelist, ordained Southern Baptist minister, and civil rights advocate, whose broadcasts and world tours featuring live sermons became well known in the mid-to-late 20th century.

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Albert Camus

French-Algerian writer of The Stranger and The Plague who explored the absurd and won the Nobel Prize in Literature at 44

Did you know? He was a passionate football player and served as a goalkeeper for his university team before illness ended his career.

Albert Camus ( kam-OO; French:; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, writer, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history, and the first laureate in literature born in Africa.

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Konrad Lorenz

Nobel Prize-winning zoologist who studied animal behaviour and imprinting

Did you know? He was famously photographed with a line of goslings that followed him everywhere because they believed he was their mother.

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (Austrian German:; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch.

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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Indian physicist who discovered the Raman effect in light scattering and became Asia's first Nobel laureate in science

Did you know? The date he discovered the light-scattering effect is now celebrated every year as National Science Day in India.

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman ( RAH-muhn; IAST: Candraśēkhara Veṅkaṭarāmaṉ; 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S.

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Nestor Makhno

Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary who led the Black Army

Did you know? He is credited with inventing the tachanka, a horse-drawn carriage equipped with a heavy machine gun used during the Russian Civil War.

Nestor Ivanovych Makhno (Ukrainian: Не́стор Іва́нович Махно́, pronounced; Russian: Не́стор Ива́нович Махно́; 7 November 1888 – 25 July 1934), also known as Bat'ko Makhno (Ukrainian: Ба́тько Махно́, lit.

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Leon Trotsky

Russian Marxist revolutionary who helped lead the October Revolution and founded the Red Army before being exiled and murdered by Stalin's agent

Did you know? While living in exile in Mexico, he had a brief romantic affair with the celebrated artist Frida Kahlo.

Lev Davidovich Trotsky (né Bronstein; 7 November 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist.

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Lise Meitner

Nuclear physicist who co-discovered the process of nuclear fission

Did you know? Einstein once referred to her as the German Marie Curie, yet she was famously overlooked for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Elise "Lise" Meitner ( MYTE-ner; German:; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian and Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission.

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Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin

First formal head of state of the Soviet Union

Did you know? The city of Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad in his honour following the end of the Second World War.

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (Russian: Михаил Иванович Калинин, IPA:; 19 November 1875 – 3 June 1946) was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 until his resignation in 1946.

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Marie Curie

Pioneer of radioactivity who discovered polonium and radium and became the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences

Did you know? She remains the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.

Pioneer of radioactivity research and the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.

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James Cook

British naval captain who led three voyages to the Pacific, charting New Zealand and Australia's east coast

Did you know? He was the first sea captain to successfully prevent scurvy among his crew by enforcing a diet that included sauerkraut.

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who led three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779.

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