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Naomi Osaka

Japanese professional tennis player and multi-time Grand Slam champion

Did you know? She was chosen for the prestigious honour of lighting the Olympic cauldron at the Tokyo games.

Naomi Osaka (Japanese pronunciation:; born October 16, 1997) is a Japanese professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No.

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Alice Oseman

English author and illustrator who created Heartstopper, the queer love story that became a hit Netflix series

Did you know? She studied English literature at Durham University.

Alice May Oseman (born 16 October 1994) is an English author and illustrator of young adult fiction.

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Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir

Icelandic singer who was runner-up in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest

Did you know? She remains one of only two Icelandic performers to ever reach the top two in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir (born 16 October 1990), known outside Iceland as Yohanna, is an Icelandic singer. Beginning her music career as a child singer, Yohanna received international recognition after representing Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "Is It True?", placing as the runner-up.

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Inna

Romanian singer known for international dance music hits

Did you know? Before her music career took off, she completed a degree in political science at university in her home country.

Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu (born 16 October 1986), known professionally as Inna (stylized in all caps), is a Romanian singer and songwriter. Born in Mangalia and raised in Neptun, she studied political science at Ovidius University before meeting the Romanian trio Play & Win and pursuing a music career.

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Anna Hutsol

Anna Hutsol (Anna Vasylivna Hutsol; born 16 October 1984) is a Ukrainian activist and one of the founders of the radical feminist activist group FEMEN.

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Loreen

Swedish singer and two-time winner of the Eurovision Song Contest

Did you know? Before her Eurovision success, she first rose to fame as a contestant on the television talent show Idol.

Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui (Arabic: لورين زينب نورا طلحاوي, Berber languages: ⵍⵓⵔⵉⵏ ⵣⵉⵏⴱ ⵏⵓⵕⴰ ⵟⵍⵃⴰⵡⵉ; born 16 October 1983), known professionally as Loreen (Swedish:), is a Swedish singer-songwriter.

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John Mayer

Grammy Award-winning American singer and guitarist

Did you know? He is an avid collector of luxury watches and has served as a judge for a prestigious horology competition.

John Clayton Mayer ( MAY-ər; born October 16, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, but he left for Atlanta in 1997 with fellow guitarist Clay Cook, with whom he formed the short-lived rock duo Lo-Fi Masters.

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Flea

Bassist and founding member of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers

Did you know? He was a gifted jazz trumpet player as a child and only started playing the bass guitar shortly before joining his famous band.

Michael Peter Balzary (born October 16, 1962), known professionally as Flea, is an Australian and American musician and actor. He is the bassist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, and, alongside vocalist Anthony Kiedis, one of two remaining original members of the band.

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Tim Robbins

Oscar-winning actor and director famous for The Shawshank Redemption

Did you know? He is a passionate ice hockey fan and has played the sport since childhood, often taking part in celebrity matches.

Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American actor, director, producer, and writer. Known for his work on film and television, his accolades include an Academy Award, an Actor Award, and three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two BAFTAs and a Grammy Award.

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Paulo Roberto Falcão

Elegant Brazilian midfielder who starred in the 1982 World Cup

Did you know? His incredible success playing for the Italian club Roma led fans to give him the grand title of The Eighth King of Rome.

Paulo Roberto Falcão (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation:; born 16 October 1953), usually known as simply Falcão, is a Brazilian former footballer and football manager.

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Angry Grandpa

Charles Marvin Green Jr. (October 16, 1950 – December 10, 2017), better known online as Angry Grandpa, was an American YouTuber.

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Hema Malini

Indian actress and politician often called the Dream Girl of Bollywood

Did you know? She is a professionally trained Bharatnatyam dancer and has performed on stage with her daughters at several major cultural festivals.

Hema Malini Dharmendra Deol (born 16 October 1948; Hindi pronunciation:) is an Indian actress, director, producer, and politician who is currently serving as a member of the Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), representing Mathura constituency since 2014.

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Nico

German singer and model associated with The Velvet Underground

Did you know? Before becoming a cult music icon, she appeared as herself in Federico Fellini's classic Italian film La Dolce Vita.

Christa Päffgen (German:; 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), known professionally as Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, actress and model. Nico had roles in films including Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) and Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls (1966).

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Fernanda Montenegro

Acclaimed Brazilian actress and first Latin American Oscar nominee

Did you know? She is the only Brazilian actress to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Arlette Pinheiro Monteiro Torres (née Esteves da Silva; born 16 October 1929), known by her stage name Fernanda Montenegro (Brazilian Portuguese:), is a Brazilian actress.

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Günter Grass

German novelist of The Tin Drum, a confronting look at the Nazi era, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? Late in his life, he caused a major controversy by revealing that he had been drafted into the Waffen-SS as a teenager.

Günter Wilhelm Grass (German:; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland).

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Angela Lansbury

Prolific actress known for the mystery series Murder, She Wrote

Did you know? She held the record for the most Tony Award wins for a performer, with six statues spanning over forty years.

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was a British-American-Irish actress and singer. In a career spanning 80 years, she played various roles across film, stage, and television.

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Louis Althusser

Influential French Marxist philosopher and academic

Did you know? He spent several years in a prisoner-of-war camp during the Second World War after being captured following the fall of France.

Louis Pierre Althusser (UK:, US:; French:; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became professor of philosophy. Althusser's life was marked by periods of intense mental illness.

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Dino Buzzati

Italian author and journalist best known for the novel The Tartar Steppe

Did you know? As well as being a celebrated writer, he was an accomplished artist who provided his own illustrations for many of his books.

Dino Buzzati-Traverso (Italian pronunciation:; 16 October 1906 – 28 January 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera.

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Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Founding President of Ivory Coast who led the nation for decades

Did you know? He oversaw the construction of the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, which is considered the largest church in the world.

Félix Houphouët-Boigny (French:; 18 October 1905 – 7 December 1993), affectionately called Papa Houphouët or Le Vieux ("the old one"), was an Ivorian politician and physician who served as the first president of Ivory Coast, from 1960 until his death in 1993.

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Michael Collins

Irish revolutionary leader and key figure in the War of Independence

Did you know? He was a primary negotiator of the treaty that led to the creation of the Irish Free State.

Michael Collins (Irish: Mícheál Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th century struggle for Irish independence. During the War of Independence he was Director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

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Eugene O'Neill

American playwright of Long Day's Journey into Night and The Iceman Cometh, winner of four Pulitzers and the Nobel Prize

Did you know? He is the only playwright to have won four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama during his career.

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Sr. (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright.

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David Ben-Gurion

Zionist leader who proclaimed the State of Israel in 1948 and became its first prime minister

Did you know? He was an avid practitioner of yoga and was famously photographed doing a headstand on a beach in his seventies.

David Ben-Gurion ( ben GOOR-ee-ən; Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן־גּוּרִיּוֹן; born David Grün; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel.

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Austen Chamberlain

British statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Did you know? He was the elder half-brother of Neville Chamberlain, the prime minister who famously led Britain at the start of World War II.

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (16 October 1863 – 16 March 1937) was a British statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.

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Karl Kautsky

Influential Marxist theorist and philosopher

Did you know? He edited the fourth volume of Karl Marx’s seminal work, Capital, after the deaths of Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Karl Johann Kautsky (German:; 16 October 1854 – 17 October 1938) was an Austrian-born Marxist theorist. One of the most authoritative promulgators of orthodox Marxism, he was for decades the leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Second International.

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