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Deva Cassel

Italian-French model and actress, daughter of Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel

Did you know? She grew up speaking Italian, French and Portuguese after spending part of her childhood in Brazil.

Deva Cassel (born 12 September 2004) is an Italian-French model and actress. The daughter of Italian actress Monica Bellucci and French actor Vincent Cassel, she is a brand ambassador for Cartier and Dior.

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Sydney Sweeney

American actress known for the drama series Euphoria

Did you know? She is a trained MMA fighter and competed in grappling tournaments during her teenage years.

Sydney Bernice Sweeney (born September 12, 1997) is an American actress. She gained early recognition for her roles in the series Everything Sucks!, The Handmaid's Tale, and Sharp Objects in 2018.

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RM

South Korean rapper and leader of the boy band BTS

Did you know? He taught himself to speak English as a teenager by watching every season of the popular American sitcom Friends.

Kim Nam-joon (Korean: 김남준; born September 12, 1994), known professionally as RM (formerly Rap Monster), is a South Korean rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is the leader of South Korean boy band BTS, under Big Hit Music.

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Connor Franta

Connor Joel Franta (born September 12, 1992) is an American YouTuber, author, artist, and entrepreneur. At its peak in January 2017, his eponymous main channel on YouTube had over 5.67 million subscribers.

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Thomas Meunier

Belgian professional footballer who plays as a right-back

Did you know? Before turning professional, he worked part-time as a postman while playing for a third-tier team in Belgium.

Thomas André A. Meunier (French pronunciation:; born 12 September 1991) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Sunderland and the Belgium national team.

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Emmy Rossum

Actress and singer known for the television series Shameless

Did you know? She began her career as a child performer at the Metropolitan Opera, singing in over twenty different productions.

Emmanuelle Grey Rossum (born September 12, 1986) is an American actress and singer. Her accolades include a Critics' Choice Award and a Saturn Award, in addition to nominations for a Golden Globe Award and an Independent Spirit Award.

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Yūto Nagatomo

Versatile Japanese footballer who played as a full-back for Inter Milan

Did you know? He is the first Japanese player to have appeared in four different World Cup tournaments.

Yūto Nagatomo (長友 佑都, Nagatomo Yūto; born 12 September 1986) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a full back for J1 League club FC Tokyo and the Japan national team.

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Jennifer Hudson

Award-winning American singer and actress known for the film Dreamgirls

Did you know? She is one of the few performers to have achieved EGOT status, winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award.

Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981), also known by her nickname J.Hud, is an American singer and actress.

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Yao Ming

Eight-time NBA All-Star who played for the Houston Rockets

Did you know? At over seven and a half feet tall, he was the tallest active player in the league during his final professional season.

Yao Ming (Chinese: 姚明; born September 12, 1980) is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), and then spent his entire nine-year National Basketball Association (NBA) career with the Houston Rockets.

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Oleg Pashinin

Oleg Alekseyevich Pashinin (Russian: Олег Алексеевич Пашинин, born 12 September 1974) is a former footballer who had played for 15 seasons as a defender for Lokomotiv Moscow. After his retirement from playing, he began to work for the club as part of the coaching staff and is currently employed as a game analyst.

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Paul Walker

American actor best known for the Fast & Furious film series

Did you know? He was a dedicated marine biologist and joined the board of directors of a billfish conservation foundation.

Paul William Walker IV (September 12, 1973 – November 30, 2013) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Brian O'Conner in the Fast & Furious franchise (2001–2015).

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Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke (born September 12, 1973) is an American activist from New York City who started the MeToo movement. In 2006, Burke began Me Too as a youth program for junior and high school students with the goal of addressing the rampant sexual violence in the community.

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Feride Rushiti

Feride Rushiti (born September 12, 1970) is a Kosovan activist, doctor, and director of the "Kosovo Center for the Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors" (KRCT). Rushiti received the U.S. Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award from US First Lady Melania Trump on 23 March 2018.

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Anousheh Ansari

First female private space explorer and telecommunications entrepreneur

Did you know? She was the first person of Iranian descent to travel into space, launching on a Russian flight to the International Space Station.

Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری; née Raissyan; born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian-American engineer, space tourist, and entrepreneur. Ansari is the CEO of XPRIZE Foundation.

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Barham Salih

Kurdish politician who served as the eighth President of Iraq

Did you know? He founded the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, aiming to provide a high-quality liberal arts education in the region.

Barham Salih (Kurdish: بەرھەم ساڵح, romanized: Berhem Salih; Arabic: برهم صالح, romanized: Barham Ṣāliḥ; born 8 September 1960) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who has been serving as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees since 1 January 2026. He previously served as the president of Iraq from 2018 to 2022.

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Hans Zimmer

Influential film composer behind scores for Gladiator and The Lion King

Did you know? Before his film career, he played the keyboards for The Buggles and appeared in the music video for Video Killed the Radio Star.

Hans Florian Zimmer (born 12 September 1957) is a German film composer and music producer. He has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and five Grammy Awards, as well as nominations for seven Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Jan Egeland

Jan Egeland (born 12 September 1957) is a Norwegian diplomat, political scientist, humanitarian leader, and former Labour Party politician who has been Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council since 2013.

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Bertie Ahern

Former Irish politician who served as Taoiseach

Did you know? He played a central role in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement, which helped bring an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Bartholomew Patrick "Bertie" Ahern (born 12 September 1951) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach from 1997 to 2008, and as Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1994 to 2008. A Teachta Dála (TD) from 1977 to 2011, he served as Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997.

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Richard Thaler

Nobel Prize-winning economist and pioneer in the field of behavioural economics

Did you know? He made a cameo appearance alongside Selena Gomez in the film The Big Short to explain complex financial concepts.

Richard H. Thaler (born September 12, 1945) is an American economist and the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2015, Thaler was president of the American Economic Association.

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Barry White

Barry Eugene White (né Carter; September 12, 1944 – July 4, 2003) was an American R&B, soul and disco singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer.

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Leonard Peltier

Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted of murdering two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a June 26, 1975, shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

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Harvey J. Alter

Medical researcher who helped identify the hepatitis C virus

Did you know? He has a passion for writing poetry and often uses verse to explain complex scientific concepts to his colleagues.

Harvey James Alter (born September 12, 1935) is an American medical researcher, virologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate, who is best known for his work that led to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.

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Ian Holm

British actor who played Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings

Did you know? Early in his career, he suffered from severe stage fright during a performance of The Iceman Cometh and did not return to the stage for many years.

Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert (12 September 1931 – 19 June 2020) was an English actor. After graduating from RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) and beginning his career on the British stage as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in film.

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Akira Suzuki

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who developed a key organic coupling reaction

Did you know? He chose not to patent his famous chemical reaction, allowing it to be used freely by researchers and companies worldwide.

Akira Suzuki (鈴木 章, Suzuki Akira; born September 12, 1930) is a Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (2010), who first published the Suzuki reaction, the organic reaction of an aryl- or vinyl-boronic acid with an aryl- or vinyl-halide catalyzed by a palladium(0) complex, in 1979.

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