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Bella Hadid

High-profile American fashion model

Did you know? Before her modelling career began, she was an accomplished equestrian who had hoped to compete in the Olympics until illness ended her training.

Isabella Khair Hadid ( hə-DEED; born October 9, 1996) is an American fashion model. In 2022, she was named Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council.

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Yusuke Minagawa

Japanese international footballer who plays as a forward

Did you know? He scored a goal just minutes into his international debut for the Japanese national team in a match against Uruguay.

Yusuke Minagawa (皆川 佑介, Minagawa Yūsuke) (born 9 October 1991) is a Japanese international football player who plays for Malaysia Super League club, Negeri Sembilan as a striker.

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Ryoichi Maeda

Prolific Japanese footballer who was a top scorer in the J.League

Did you know? He is famous for the Maeda Curse, where teams he scored his first goal of the season against were frequently relegated that year.

Ryoichi Maeda (前田 遼一, Maeda Ryōichi; born 9 October 1981) is a Japanese football coach and former player who played as a forward. He was the J.League Top Scorer and J.League Best XI in 2009 and 2010.

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PJ Harvey

English singer-songwriter and first artist to win two Mercury Prizes

Did you know? Outside of music, she is a published poet and a skilled sculptor who has exhibited her work in galleries.

Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English singer and songwriter. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments.

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Steve McQueen

Oscar-winning director of 12 Years a Slave and artist

Did you know? He won the Turner Prize for his visual art before finding international success as a feature film director.

Sir Steve Rodney McQueen (born 9 October 1969) is a British film director, film producer, screenwriter and video artist. He has received several awards including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton (born 9 October 1966), is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Cameron was Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016 and Leader of the Opposition from 2005 to 2010.

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Guillermo del Toro

Oscar-winning filmmaker known for fantasy and horror movies

Did you know? He keeps his vast collection of film memorabilia, books and curiosities in a separate house in California that he calls Bleak House.

Guillermo del Toro Gómez (Spanish:; born 9 October 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker and actor. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism, and horror, often blending the genres, with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty in the grotesque.

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Boris Nemtsov

Russian physicist and reformist politician who served as Yeltsin's deputy prime minister, later opposed Putin, and was murdered in 2015

Did you know? He helped introduce capitalism to post-Soviet Russia while serving as a young regional governor in the nineties.

Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (Russian: Борис Ефимович Немцов; 9 October 1959 – 27 February 2015) was a Russian physicist, liberal statesman and politician, opposition leader and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.

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Tony Shalhoub

American actor known for starring in the detective series Monk

Did you know? He provided the voice for the character Luigi in the popular Cars animated film franchise.

Anthony Marc Shalhoub ( shəl-HOOB; Arabic: أنتوني مارك شلهوب; born October 9, 1953) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for a variety of roles ranging from comedic to dramatic on stage and screen.

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Jody Williams

Nobel Peace Prize winner for her work to ban landmines

Did you know? She began her global campaign with a staff of only one person and no formal office, coordinating the movement through faxes and emails.

Jody Williams (born October 9, 1950) is an American political activist known for her work in banning anti-personnel landmines, her defense of human rights (especially those of women), and her efforts to promote new understandings of security in today's world.

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Oliver Hart

Nobel Prize-winning economist known for his work on contract theory

Did you know? He was knighted in the 2023 Birthday Honours for his monumental contributions to the field of economics.

Sir Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart (born October 9, 1948) is a British-American economist, currently the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. Together with Bengt R. Holmström, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016.

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France Gall

French pop singer who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965

Did you know? Her winning Eurovision entry was written by the legendary French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg when she was only seventeen.

Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall (9 October 1947 – 7 January 2018), known professionally as France Gall (French: ), was a French yé-yé and pop singer. In 1965, at the age of 17, she won the tenth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", representing Luxembourg.

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John Lennon

Singer-songwriter who co-founded the Beatles with Paul McCartney and later wrote the peace anthem Imagine

Did you know? As a child, he sang in a church choir and was a keen member of the Boy Scouts.

Singer-songwriter and co-founder of The Beatles, later a peace activist.

Heinz Fischer

Long-serving President of Austria from 2004 to 2016

Did you know? He is an avid mountaineer and has successfully climbed hundreds of peaks across the Alps during his lifetime.

Heinz Fischer (German:; born 9 October 1938) is an Austrian politician who served as the president of Austria from 2004 to 2016. Fischer previously served as minister for science from 1983 to 1987 and as president of the National Council of Austria from 1990 to 2002.

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Peter Mansfield

Physicist awarded the Nobel Prize for his role in developing MRI

Did you know? He was a pioneer in medical imaging who famously volunteered to be the first human subject to undergo a whole-body MRI scan.

Sir Peter Mansfield (9 October 1933 – 8 February 2017) was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfield was a professor at the University of Nottingham.

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Jacques Tati

French filmmaker and comic actor who created the character Monsieur Hulot

Did you know? Before entering the film industry, he was a professional rugby player and performed as a mime in music halls.

Jacques Tati (French:; born Jacques Tatischeff, pronounced; 9 October 1907 – 5 November 1982) was a French mime, filmmaker, actor and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying the character Monsieur Hulot in his films Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime (1967), and Trafic (1971).

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Léopold Sédar Senghor

Poet and first president of independent Senegal

Did you know? A poet and philosopher, he was the first African to be elected to the Académie Française in Paris.

Léopold Sédar Senghor ( song-GOR, French:, Wolof: Léwopóol Sedaar Seŋoor; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese politician, cultural theorist and poet who served as the first president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980.

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Ivo Andrić

Yugoslav novelist of The Bridge on the Drina, a sweeping history of Bosnia, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know? He donated all of the prize money from his Nobel award to improve libraries in his native Bosnia.

Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић, pronounced; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.

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Nikolai Bukharin

Russian revolutionary and editor of the Soviet newspaper Pravda

Did you know? Once a close ally of Joseph Stalin, he was eventually executed during the Great Purge after a high-profile show trial.

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (Russian: Николай Иванович Бухарин, IPA:; 9 October 1888 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist.

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Max von Laue

Physicist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering X-ray diffraction in crystals

Did you know? During the Second World War, his gold Nobel medal was dissolved in acid to prevent the Nazis from seizing it.

Max Theodor Felix von Laue (German:; 9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 "for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals." In addition to his scientific endeavors with contributions in optics, crystallography, quantum theory,…

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Karl Schwarzschild

Physicist who provided the first exact solution to Einstein's field equations

Did you know? He calculated his ground-breaking theory regarding black holes while serving on the front lines during the First World War.

Karl Schwarzschild (German:; 9 October 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German physicist and astronomer.

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Alfred Dreyfus

Jewish French army officer whose wrongful conviction caused a political crisis

Did you know? He was forced to spend several years in a brutal penal colony on Devil's Island before he was finally exonerated and reinstated.

Alfred Dreyfus (9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French Army officer best known for his central role in the Dreyfus affair.

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Emil Fischer

German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for work on sugars

Did you know? He developed the systematic way of representing three-dimensional molecules on a flat surface, which is still taught to chemistry students today.

Hermann Emil Louis Fischer (German:; 9 October 1852 – 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification.

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Camille Saint-Saëns

French composer of The Carnival of the Animals

Did you know? He was a gifted child prodigy who gave his first public piano recital at the age of ten, performing works by Mozart and Beethoven.

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (UK:, US:; French: 9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.

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