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Ángela Aguilar

Mexican-American singer from the Aguilar family dynasty of ranchera music

Did you know? She was born in Los Angeles while her father was on tour in the United States.

Ángela Aguilar Álvarez (born October 8, 2003) is a Mexican-American singer. She was born in Los Angeles while her mother was accompanying her father, Pepe Aguilar, on tour.

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Bella Thorne

American actress and singer who starred in Shake It Up

Did you know? She struggled with dyslexia during her childhood and used acting scripts as a way to help improve her reading skills.

Annabella Avery Thorne (born October 8, 1997) is an American actress, singer, and writer. She first received recognition for her roles as Margaux Darling in the series Dirty Sexy Money (2007–2008) and as Ruthy Spivey in the drama series My Own Worst Enemy (2009), the latter of which earned her a Young Artist Award.

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Garbiñe Muguruza

Spanish tennis star who won Wimbledon and the French Open

Did you know? She is the first player to have defeated both Williams sisters in separate Grand Slam singles finals.

Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco (Spanish pronunciation:; born 8 October 1993) is a Venezuelan-born Spanish former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No.

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Barbara Palvin

Hungarian model discovered in Budapest, a Victoria's Secret Angel and L'Oréal ambassador, married to actor Dylan Sprouse

Did you know? She was the first Hungarian model to become a Victoria's Secret Angel.

Barbara Sprouse (née Palvin; born October 8, 1993) is a Hungarian model and actress. She first appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2016.

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Bruno Mars

Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and dancer. Regarded as a pop icon, he is known for his three-octave tenor vocal range, live performances, retro showmanship, and musical versatility.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk

Oleksandra Viacheslavivna Matviichuk (Ukrainian: Олександра В’ячеславівна Матвійчук; born 8 October 1983) is a Ukrainian human rights lawyer and civil society leader based in Kyiv.

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Kristanna Loken

American actress and model who played the T-X, the first female Terminator, in Terminator 3

Did you know? She was the first female Terminator in the film series.

Kristanna Sommer Loken (born October 8, 1979) is an American actress. After her modelling career, in which she participated in the 1994 Elite Model Look at the age of 15, Loken started her acting career in 1994 as the third actress to play Danielle 'Dani' Andropoulos on an episode of As the World Turns.

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Zoran Zaev

Former Prime Minister of North Macedonia who brokered the Prespa agreement

Did you know? He oversaw the official name change of his country, ending a decades-long dispute with Greece and opening the path to NATO membership.

Zoran Zaev (Macedonian: Зоран Заев, pronounced; born 8 October 1974) is a Macedonian economist and politician who served as prime minister of North Macedonia from May 2017 to January 2020, and again from August 2020 to January 2022. Prior to entering politics, he ran a private business in his hometown of Strumica.

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Matt Damon

American actor who won an Oscar for co-writing Good Will Hunting and starred as Jason Bourne and in The Martian

Did you know? He wrote the initial screenplay for Good Will Hunting as an assignment for an English class while studying at Harvard University.

Matthew Paige Damon ( DAY-mən; born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter. He was ranked among Forbes's most bankable stars in 2007, and in 2010 was one of the highest-grossing actors of all time.

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Zvonimir Boban

Croatian footballer and former captain of the national team

Did you know? He became a national hero in Croatia after kicking a policeman to defend a fan during a riot at a 1990 football match.

Zvonimir Boban (Croatian pronunciation:; born 8 October 1968) is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder, deployed mostly as a central or attacking midfielder. He was known for his technical ability, long-range shooting, and game intelligence.

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Ursula von der Leyen

German politician and former defence minister who became the first female President of the European Commission in 2019

Did you know? She lived in London under a pseudonym while her father was a prominent politician to avoid potential security threats.

Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (née Albrecht; born 8 October 1958) is a German politician and physician who has served as President of the European Commission since 2019.

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Sigourney Weaver

American actress who played Ellen Ripley in the Alien films and starred in Ghostbusters and Avatar

Did you know? She chose her stage name from a minor character mentioned in F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel The Great Gatsby.

Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver ( sig-OR-nee; born October 8, 1949) is an American actress. Prolific in film since the late 1970s, she is known for her pioneering portrayals of action heroines in blockbusters and for her various roles in independent films.

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Claude Jade

French actress known for starring in several François Truffaut films

Did you know? She was discovered by Truffaut while performing on stage and he later cast her as a recurring character across three movies.

Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade (French:; 8 October 1948 – 1 December 2006), was a French actress. She starred as Christine in François Truffaut's three films Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979).

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Hanan Ashrawi

Hanan Daoud Mikhael Ashrawi (Arabic: حنان داوود مخايل عشراوي; born 8 October 1946) is a Palestinian politician, activist, and scholar. Ashrawi began her career at Birzeit University.

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Chevy Chase

American comedian and original cast member of Saturday Night Live

Did you know? Before becoming a comedy star, he played the drums in a college band with the future founders of Steely Dan.

Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He became the breakout cast member in the first season of Saturday Night Live (1975–1976), where his recurring Weekend Update segment became a staple of the show.

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R. L. Stine

Author of the best-selling Goosebumps horror book series

Did you know? Before finding fame with scary stories, he spent many years writing joke books and humorous novels for children.

Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943) is an American novelist. He is the writer of Goosebumps, a horror fiction novel series for children which has sold over 400 million copies globally in 35 languages, becoming the second-best-selling book series in history.

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Nguyễn Minh Triết

Vietnamese politician who served as the seventh President of Vietnam

Did you know? Before his political career, he worked as a mathematics teacher and was active in student movements.

Nguyễn Minh Triết (Vietnamese:; born 8 October 1942) is a Vietnamese politician who served as the seventh President of Vietnam from 2006 to 2011. He was elected by the National Assembly of Vietnam with 464 votes (94%) in June 2006.

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Jesse Jackson

Civil rights leader and two-time US presidential candidate

Did you know? He was a close colleague of Martin Luther King Jr. and was standing nearby when King was assassinated.

Jesse Louis Jackson (né Burns; October 8, 1941 – February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist, LGBTQ rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister. A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Didi

Brazilian footballer who won the World Cup in 1958 and 1962

Did you know? He is known for inventing the "dry leaf" free-kick, a technique where the ball dips sharply into the goal.

Waldyr Pereira (8 October 1928 – 12 May 2001), also known as Didi (Brazilian Portuguese:), was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder or as a forward. He played in three FIFA World Cups (1954, 1958, and 1962), winning the latter two.

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César Milstein

Nobel Prize-winning scientist who developed techniques for producing monoclonal antibodies

Did you know? Despite the massive commercial potential of his discovery, he chose not to patent his work, believing it should be free for the benefit of science.

César Milstein, CH, FRS (8 October 1927 – 24 March 2002) was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler for developing the hybridoma technique for the production of monoclonal antibodies.

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Frank Herbert

American author of the influential science-fiction novel Dune

Did you know? Before his success as a novelist, he worked as a professional photographer and a speechwriter for a US senator.

Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science-fiction author, best known for his 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels.

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Kiichi Miyazawa

Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister in the early 1990s

Did you know? He was famous for his fluent English and often spoke without an interpreter during meetings with high-level American officials.

Kiichi Miyazawa (宮澤 喜一, Miyazawa Kiichi; 8 October 1919 – 28 June 2007) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1991 to 1993. Born in Tokyo, Miyazawa graduated from Tokyo Imperial University with a law degree, and in 1942 joined the Ministry of Finance.

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Jens Christian Skou

Danish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering sodium-potassium pumps

Did you know? He conducted much of the research that led to his prize while working as a surgeon and studying local anaesthetics.

Jens Christian Skou (Danish pronunciation:; 8 October 1918 – 28 May 2018) was a Danish biochemist and Nobel laureate.

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Rodney Robert Porter

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who discovered the structure of antibodies

Did you know? During the Second World War, he served as a member of the Royal Engineers in the Mediterranean.

Rodney Robert Porter (8 October 1917 – 6 September 1985) was a British biochemist and Nobel laureate.

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