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Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed tenors of all time.

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Fridtjof Nansen

Norwegian explorer who crossed Greenland and drifted in the Arctic ice, then won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping refugees

Did you know? He created the Nansen passport, which enabled thousands of stateless people and refugees to travel across borders after the First World War.

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (Norwegian:; 10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, a scientist, a diplomat, a humanitarian, and the co-founder of the Fatherland League.

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Harold Pinter

English playwright of The Birthday Party and The Homecoming, famous for menacing pauses, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? He was a passionate cricket enthusiast and served as the chairman of the Gaieties Cricket Club for many years.

Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was an English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, Pinter was one of the most influential modern dramatists of British theatre with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years.

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Hugh Jackman

Australian actor who played Wolverine for over two decades while winning Tony Awards and acclaim for musical theatre

Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. Prominent on both screen and stage, he has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards, along with nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award.

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Edward VI of England

Son of Henry VIII who became King of England aged nine

Did you know? He was the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant and significantly transformed the Church of England during his reign.

Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine.

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Claude Simon

Nobel Prize-winning French novelist associated with the Nouveau Roman movement

Did you know? His writing was heavily influenced by his time as a cavalryman, having witnessed the collapse of the French army in 1940.

Claude Eugène Henri Simon (French:; 10 October 1913 – 6 July 2005) was a French novelist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Naoto Kan

Former Prime Minister of Japan during the 2011 nuclear disaster

Did you know? A man of many talents, he once patented a machine designed to calculate complex scores in the game of mahjong.

Naoto Kan (菅 直人, Kan Naoto; born 10 October 1946) is a Japanese former politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) from June 2010 to September 2011.

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Henry Cavendish

British scientist who discovered hydrogen

Did you know? He was notoriously eccentric and rarely spoke, even ordering his meals via notes left on a hallway table.

Henry Cavendish ( KAV-ən-dish; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "inflammable air".

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