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Ao Tanaka

Japanese international midfielder who plays for Leeds United

Did you know? He scored a vital, controversial goal against Spain in the 2022 World Cup that helped Japan advance to the knockout stages.

Ao Tanaka (田中 碧, Tanaka Ao; born 10 September 1998) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Leeds United and the Japan national team.

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Jack Grealish

Professional footballer who plays for Manchester City and England

Did you know? He wears his socks unusually low with small shinguards, a style he originally adopted after a pair of his socks shrank.

Jack Peter Grealish (born 10 September 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Everton, on loan from Manchester City. Known for his dribbling and playmaking ability, Grealish was considered amongst the best wingers in the world during his prime.

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Laurent Koscielny

French international defender who captained Arsenal

Did you know? Before becoming a professional footballer, he spent time working in a factory making parts for cars.

Laurent Koscielny (born 10 September 1985) is a French former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He is currently the sporting director of Ligue 1 club Lorient.

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Jérémy Toulalan

French international footballer who played for Lyon and Monaco

Did you know? Following France’s poor 2010 World Cup performance, he requested that his personal bonus be donated to amateur football and charity projects.

Jérémy Toulalan (born 10 September 1983) is a French former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, but was also utilized as a central defender. He is best known for his humble demeanor, simple distribution, good technique and effective tackling.

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Nobuhisa Yamada

Japanese footballer who played his entire career for Urawa Reds

Did you know? He is one of the few players to have made over five hundred appearances for a single club in the J-League.

Nobuhisa Yamada (山田 暢久, Yamada Nobuhisa; born 10 September 1975) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

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Ryan Phillippe

American actor known for starring in Cruel Intentions

Did you know? He holds a black belt in Taekwondo, a discipline he practised throughout his youth before pursuing an acting career.

Matthew Ryan Phillippe ( FIL-ip-ee; born September 10, 1974) is an American actor.

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Guy Ritchie

British filmmaker known for crime comedies and action movies

Did you know? He holds a black belt in both Judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English filmmaker known primarily for British comedy gangster films and large-scale action-adventure films. Ritchie left school at the age of 15, and worked in entry-level jobs in the film industry before going on to direct television commercials.

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Mona Mahmudnizhad

Mona Mahmudnizhad (Persian: مونا محمود نژاد, September 10, 1965 – June 18, 1983) was an Iranian Baháʼí who, in 1983, together with nine other Baháʼí women, was sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran, on the grounds of being a member of the Baháʼí Faith.

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Jack Ma

Co-founder of the global e-commerce giant Alibaba Group

Did you know? Before finding success in business, he applied for dozens of jobs and was the only person out of twenty-four applicants rejected for a role at KFC.

Ma Yun (Chinese: 马云; pinyin: Mǎ Yún; born 10 September 1964), also known as Jack Ma, is a Chinese businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of the Jack Ma Foundation, and co-founder of Alibaba Group and Yunfeng Capital.

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Colin Firth

Oscar-winning actor famous for The King's Speech and Pride and Prejudice

Did you know? He co-authored a scientific paper on the relationship between brain structure and political leanings, which was published in a biology journal.

Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer.

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Jim Meskimen

American actor and impressionist known for his voice work

Did you know? He is the son of actress Marion Ross, who famously played Mrs Cunningham on the long-running sitcom Happy Days.

Jim Meskimen (born September 10, 1959) is an American actor and comedian.

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Chris Columbus

Director of Home Alone and the first two Harry Potter films

Did you know? Early in his career, he wrote the scripts for the eighties classics Gremlins and The Goonies while living in a small New York loft.

Christopher Joseph Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker. Born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, Columbus studied film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking.

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Medea Benjamin

Medea Benjamin (born Susan Benjamin on September 10, 1952) is an American political activist who, along with Jodie Evans and others, co-founded Code Pink. She also co-founded, along with her then husband Kevin Danaher, the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange.

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Stephen Jay Gould

Evolutionary biologist and popular science author who developed punctuated equilibrium

Did you know? He was a huge fan of baseball and made a memorable appearance as himself in an episode of the animated series The Simpsons.

Stephen Jay Gould ( GOOLD; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and one of the most widely read authors of popular science of his generation.

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Jared Diamond

Scientist and author of the prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel

Did you know? He spent decades studying birds in New Guinea before writing best-selling books on human history and evolution.

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist, historian, and author. He has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books, most notably Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), which received multiple awards, including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.

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Karl Lagerfeld

German fashion designer and creative director of the house Chanel

Did you know? A noted bibliophile, he owned a personal library of over three hundred thousand books spread across several homes.

Karl Otto Lagerfeld (10 September 1933 – 19 February 2019) was a German fashion designer, photographer, and creative director. Lagerfeld began his career in fashion in the 1950s, working for several top fashion houses including Balmain, Patou, and Chloé before joining Chanel in 1983.

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Robert Wise

Director of The Sound of Music and West Side Story

Did you know? He started in the film industry as an editor and received an Academy Award nomination for his work on Citizen Kane.

Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965).

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Sayyid Qutb

Egyptian theorist and prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood

Did you know? A formative period spent studying in the United States during the late 1940s significantly intensified his disapproval of Western culture.

Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb (9 October 1906 – 29 August 1966) was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Georges Bataille

French intellectual and author of transgressive literature and philosophy

Did you know? He spent much of his professional life working as a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (French:; 10 September 1897 – 8 July 1962) was a French intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art.

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Arthur Holly Compton

American physicist who discovered the particle nature of light

Did you know? He played a significant role in the Manhattan Project, overseeing the laboratory that produced the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with C. T. R. Wilson for his discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.

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Franz Werfel

Austrian novelist and playwright famous for The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

Did you know? He escaped Nazi-occupied France by walking across the Pyrenees with his wife, Alma Mahler, the widow of composer Gustav Mahler.

Franz Viktor Werfel (German:; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was a Czech novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933, English tr.

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Giovanni Gronchi

Third president of the Italian Republic

Did you know? He was a founding member of the Italian People's Party and served as a volunteer soldier during the First World War.

Giovanni Gronchi (Italian:; 10 September 1887 – 17 October 1978) was an Italian politician from Christian Democracy who served as the president of Italy from 1955 to 1962 and was marked by a controversial and failed attempt to bring about an "opening to the left" in Italian politics.

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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Lithuanian composer and painter associated with the Symbolist movement

Did you know? He experienced synaesthesia, which caused him to see colours when hearing music, often leading him to give his paintings musical titles.

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Polish: Mikołaj Konstanty Czurlanis; 22 September 1875 – 10 April 1911) was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and Art Nouveau, and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch.

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Charles Sanders Peirce

American philosopher and scientist considered the father of pragmatism

Did you know? He was a prolific writer who left behind thousands of pages of unpublished manuscripts on logic and mathematics.

Charles Sanders Peirce ( PURSE; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".

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