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Jackson Hinkle

Jackson Daniel Hinkle (born September 15, 1999) is an American political commentator, influencer, and conspiracy theorist who hosts the web television show Legitimate Targets with Jackson Hinkle on YouTube, Rumble, and X.

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Jordan Ayew

Ghanaian international striker who played for Crystal Palace and Marseille

Did you know? He comes from a significant footballing dynasty, as his father and two of his brothers also played professional football at a high level.

Jordan Pierre Ayew (born 11 September 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for EFL Championship club Sheffield United. Born in France, he captains the Ghana national team.

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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Belarusian politician and leader of the country's democratic opposition movement

Did you know? She only entered politics to run for president after her husband was arrested and barred from the election.

Sviatlana Hieorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya (née Pilipchuk; born 11 September 1982) is a Belarusian opposition leader and political activist.

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Eric Abidal

French defender who played for Lyon and Barcelona

Did you know? He successfully returned to professional football and lifted the Champions League trophy just months after undergoing a life-saving liver transplant.

Eric Sylvain Abidal (French pronunciation:; born 11 September 1979) is a French former professional footballer who played as a left-back or centre-back. He played mainly for Lyon and Barcelona, totalling 19 trophies with both teams, including two Champions Leagues with the latter.

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Dejan Stanković

Serbian footballer and manager who played for Inter Milan

Did you know? He holds the record for being the only player to represent three different nations at the World Cup: Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia.

Dejan Stanković (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Станковић, Serbian pronunciation:, born 11 September 1978) is a Serbian professional football manager and former player. He last served as the head coach of Serbian Super League club Red Star Belgrade.

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Sung Jae-gi

South Korean men's rights activist who founded the group Man of Korea and died in a protest stunt in 2013

Did you know? He died during a televised protest where he jumped into the Han River to highlight his organisation’s financial difficulties.

Sung Jae-gi (Korean: 성재기;; September 11, 1967 – July 26, 2013) was a South Korean men's rights activist. Sung was the leader of various masculinist and anti-feminist organizations, including the Association of Anti-Feminism and Male Liberation, Association for the Abolition of the Ministry of Women, and Man of Korea.

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Bashar al-Assad

Eye doctor turned President of Syria from 2000 to 2024, whose rule was marked by a devastating civil war

Did you know? He originally trained as an eye surgeon in London and only returned to Syria after his brother was killed in a car crash.

Bashar Hafez al-Assad (born 11 September 1965) is a former Syrian politician, medical doctor, military officer, and dictator who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his overthrow in 2024 after the Syrian civil war. He is the son of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria from 1970 to 2000.

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Moby

Electronic musician known for the multi-platinum album Play

Did you know? His stage name is a tribute to his great-great-great-granduncle, Herman Melville, the author of the novel Moby-Dick.

Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide.

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Julio Salinas

Spanish striker who played for Barcelona and the national team

Did you know? He is one of the few players to score in three separate decades of the Spanish top flight during his long career.

Julio Salinas Fernández (Spanish pronunciation:; born 11 September 1962) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Hiroshi Amano

Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate who co-invented the blue LED

Did you know? His invention of the blue LED was essential for the development of modern smartphone screens and energy-efficient lighting.

Hiroshi Amano (天野 浩, Amano Hiroshi; born September 11, 1960) is a Japanese materials scientist specializing in the field of semiconductor technology. He is a co-inventor of the blue LED, for which he was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura.

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Franz Beckenbauer

German defender known as Der Kaiser who invented the attacking sweeper role and won the World Cup as captain and coach

Did you know? He is one of a select few to have won the World Cup as both a captain and a coach.

Franz Anton Beckenbauer (German pronunciation:; 11 September 1945 – 7 January 2024) was a German professional football player, manager, and official. Nicknamed der Kaiser ("the Emperor"), he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential players of all time.

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Serge Haroche

Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for quantum research

Did you know? He developed techniques to capture and manipulate individual light particles without destroying them.

Serge Haroche (French pronunciation:; born 11 September 1944) is a French physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J.

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Brian De Palma

Film director known for thrillers such as Carrie and Scarface

Did you know? As a teenager, he was a science enthusiast who won a national award for building a computer.

Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood generation, he is best known for his work in the suspense, crime, and psychological thriller genres in a career spanning more than five decades.

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Arvo Pärt

Estonian composer known for his minimalist style and sacred music

Did you know? For several years, he stopped composing almost entirely to study medieval music before emerging with his own signature style.

Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation:; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented.

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Gherman Titov

Soviet cosmonaut and the second person to orbit the Earth

Did you know? He still holds the record for being the youngest person to fly in space, having launched when he was just twenty-five.

Gherman Stepanovich Titov (Russian: Герман Степанович Титов; 11 September 1935 – 20 September 2000) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1.

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Ferdinand Marcos

President of the Philippines for 21 years, ruling under martial law, until the People Power Revolution of 1986 drove him out

Did you know? His wife, Imelda, became world-famous for her massive personal collection of over 1,000 pairs of designer shoes found after they fled.

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986.

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Theodor W. Adorno

German philosopher and key figure of the Frankfurt School

Did you know? He was an accomplished pianist who studied music composition in Vienna under the renowned composer Alban Berg.

Theodor W. Adorno (German:; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, cultural, and music critic.

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Roman Jakobson

Influential linguist and a pioneer of structuralism in language studies

Did you know? He was a founding member of the Prague Linguistic Circle and helped bridge the gap between European and American linguistic theories.

Roman Osipovich Jakobson (born Roman Iosel-Berovich Yakobson; 10 October 1896 – 18 July 1982) was a Russian linguist and literary theorist. A pioneer of structural linguistics, Jakobson was one of the most celebrated and influential linguists of the twentieth century.

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D. H. Lawrence

English novelist of Sons and Lovers, Women in Love and the once-banned Lady Chatterley's Lover

Did you know? He was also an accomplished painter, though his art was once seized by the police because it was considered too scandalous for the public.

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialisation, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct.

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Grigory Zinoviev

Soviet revolutionary and early leader of the Communist International

Did you know? A forged letter bearing his name was published by British newspapers in 1924, which contributed to the downfall of the first Labour government.

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev (born Ovsei-Gershen Aronovich Radomyshelsky; 23 September 1883 – 25 August 1936) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A prominent Old Bolshevik, Zinoviev was a close associate of Vladimir Lenin prior to 1917 and a leading figure in the early Soviet government.

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Asta Nielsen

Danish silent film star and cinema's first international female icon

Did you know? Known for her expressive acting, she famously refused to use heavy make-up, which helped revolutionise screen performances in the early twentieth century.

Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen (11 September 1881 – 24 May 1972) was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as Die Asta (The Asta).

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James Hopwood Jeans

British physicist and astronomer who popularised complex scientific concepts

Did you know? He was the first person to propose that matter is being continuously created throughout the universe.

Sir James Hopwood Jeans (11 September 1877 – 16 September 1946) was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer. He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929, and was the president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1925 to 1927, and won its Gold Medal.

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O. Henry

American short story writer known for his surprise endings

Did you know? He began writing many of his most famous stories while serving a prison sentence for embezzlement.

William Sydney Porter (born William Sidney Porter; September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction.

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Carl Zeiss

German optician who founded the world-renowned lens and camera company

Did you know? He revolutionised the production of optical instruments by using mathematical principles instead of the traditional trial-and-error approach.

Carl Zeiss (German:; 11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman. In 1846 he founded his workshop, which is still in business as Zeiss.

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