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Douglas Costa

Brazilian winger who played for Bayern Munich and Juventus

Did you know? He is a dedicated fan of competitive video gaming and has even invested in his own professional esports organisation.

Douglas Costa de Souza (born 14 September 1990) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a winger for UAE First Division League club Al-Ittifaq. Costa started his career with Grêmio before moving to Shakhtar Donetsk in January 2010 for a fee of €6 million.

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Lee Jong-suk

South Korean actor and former runway model who starred in Pinocchio, While You Were Sleeping and the thriller Big Mouth

Did you know? He was one of the youngest male models to walk at Seoul Fashion Week.

Lee Jong-suk (Korean: 이종석, born 14 September 1989) is a South Korean actor and model. He debuted in 2005 as a runway model and gained recognition as an actor with television series School 2013 (2012) and I Can Hear Your Voice (2013).

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Amy Winehouse

English singer of Back to Black and Rehab whose jazz-soul voice won six Grammys before her death at 27

Did you know? She attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School as a child alongside other future stars like Emma Bunton and Billie Piper.

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was a British singer and songwriter. She is known for her distinctive contralto vocals, expressive and autobiographical songwriting, and eclectic blend of genres such as soul, rhythm and blues, and jazz.

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Ivica Olić

Former Croatian striker who played for Bayern Munich and Hamburg

Did you know? He holds the record for being the oldest player to score a goal for the Croatian national team.

Ivica Olić (Croatian pronunciation:; born 14 September 1979) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who is an assistant coach of the Croatia national team.

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Ron DeSantis

American politician serving as the Governor of Florida

Did you know? While studying at Yale University, he was the captain of the varsity baseball team and recorded the squad's highest batting average.

Ronald Dion DeSantis (born September 14, 1978) is an American politician, attorney, and former naval officer serving as the 46th governor of Florida since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2013 to 2018 as the U.S. representative from Florida's 6th congressional district.

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Hicham El Guerrouj

Hicham El Guerrouj (Arabic: هشام الݣروج; Berber languages: ⵀⵉⵛⴰⵎ ⵍⴳⵔⵔⵓⵊ, romanized: Hisham El Gerruj; born 14 September 1974) is a retired Moroccan middle-distance runner who is the current world record holder in the 1500 metres. He formerly held the world records in the 2000 metres and mile.

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Andrew Lincoln

British actor best known for playing Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead

Did you know? He changed his name from Andrew Clutterbuck while at drama school because he thought his original surname sounded like a character in a Dickens novel.

Andrew James Clutterbuck (born 14 September 1973), known professionally as Andrew Lincoln, is an English actor. His first major role was as the character Egg in the BBC drama This Life (1996–97).

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Nas

American rapper and songwriter celebrated for his debut album Illmatic

Did you know? His father is the acclaimed jazz musician Olu Dara, who played the cornet on his son's track Life's a Bitch.

Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones ( nah-SEER; born September 14, 1973), known mononymously as Nas ( NAHZ), is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and record producer. Rooted in East Coast hip-hop, he is regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time.

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Bong Joon-ho

South Korean film director and screenwriter of the Oscar-winning Parasite

Did you know? He is known to fans as 'Bong Tail' because of his incredibly detailed storyboards and meticulous approach to every scene.

Bong Joon Ho (Korean: 봉준호; pronounced; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean filmmaker. His work is characterized by emphasis on social and class themes, genre-mixing, dark comedy, and sudden tone shifts.

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Dmitry Medvedev

Russian politician who was president from 2008 to 2012 while Vladimir Putin served as prime minister

Did you know? He is an enthusiastic fan of heavy metal music and once invited Deep Purple to the Kremlin.

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician and lawyer who served as the president of Russia from 2008 to 2012 and as prime minister of Russia from 2012 to 2020. Since 2020, he has served as the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia.

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Melissa Leo

Oscar-winning actress known for her role in The Fighter

Did you know? She funded her own personal advertising campaign to promote her performance in the film that eventually won her an Oscar.

Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, an Actor Award, and two Critics' Choice Awards.

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Leo XIV

Chicago-born Augustinian who became pope in 2025, the first leader of the Catholic Church from the United States

Did you know? Born in Chicago, he spent more than twenty years working as a missionary and priest in Peru before joining the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost, pronounced PREE-vohst; September 14, 1955) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City. Born in Chicago, United States, Prevost became a friar in the Order of Saint Augustine in 1977 and was ordained as a priest in 1982.

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Duncan Haldane

British physicist and Nobel laureate known for studying exotic matter

Did you know? Although he was born in London, he spent most of his academic career at Princeton University and became a naturalised American citizen.

Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane (born 14 September 1951) is a British physicist who is currently the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He is a co-recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz.

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Sam Neill

New Zealand actor internationally famous for his role in Jurassic Park

Did you know? He is an experienced winemaker who owns an organic vineyard called Two Paddocks in the Central Otago region of New Zealand.

Sir Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill (14 September 1947 – 13 July 2026) was a New Zealand actor. Known as a leading man in film and television, he received nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.

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Renzo Piano

Architect who designed The Shard and Centre Pompidou

Did you know? He is an honorary citizen of Genoa and was appointed a Senator for Life in Italy.

Renzo Piano (Italian:; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect.

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Lawrence Klein

Nobel Prize-winning economist who created mathematical models for forecasting

Did you know? His models correctly predicted that the American economy would avoid a depression after the end of the Second World War.

Lawrence Robert Klein (September 14, 1920 – October 20, 2013) was an American economist.

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Jacobo Árbenz

President of Guatemala ousted in a CIA-backed coup in 1954

Did you know? He spent his final years in exile across various countries and died in Mexico after an accident in his bathtub.

Juan Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (Spanish:; 14 September 1913 – 27 January 1971) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the 25th president of Guatemala. He was Minister of National Defense from 1944 to 1950, before he became the second democratically elected President of Guatemala, from 1951 to 1954.

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Margaret Sanger

Activist who pioneered birth control and founded Planned Parenthood

Did you know? Her mother's health struggles during eighteen pregnancies inspired her lifelong commitment to reproductive rights.

Margaret Sanger (née Higgins; September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood, and was instrumental in the development of the first birth control pill.

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Robert Cecil

British statesman and a primary architect of the League of Nations

Did you know? He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937 for his dedicated work in establishing the League of Nations.

Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, (14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, was a British lawyer, politician and diplomat.

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Theodor Storm

German writer and poet known for the novella The Rider on the White Horse

Did you know? Although he was a qualified lawyer, his true passion was writing and he became a leading figure of German realism.

Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (German pronunciation:; 14 September 1817 – 4 July 1888), commonly known as Theodor Storm, was a German-Frisian writer and poet. He is considered to be one of the most important figures of German realism.

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Franz Bopp

German linguist who pioneered comparative studies of Indo-European languages

Did you know? His work was instrumental in proving that Sanskrit was related to European languages like Greek, Latin and German.

Franz Bopp (German:; 14 September 1791 – 23 October 1867) was a German linguist known for extensive and pioneering comparative work on Indo-European languages.

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Alexander von Humboldt

Prussian naturalist whose Latin American expedition and book Cosmos founded modern geography and inspired Darwin

Did you know? He was one of the first people to describe the concept of human-induced climate change.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835).

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Albrecht von Wallenstein

Supreme commander of the Imperial armies during the Thirty Years' War

Did you know? Despite his military success, he was assassinated by his own officers after the Emperor became suspicious of his political ambitions.

Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland (24 September 1583 – 25 February 1634), also von Waldstein (Czech: Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna), was a Bohemian military leader, statesman and a major figure of the Thirty Years' War, fighting on the Catholic side as supreme commander of the armies…

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Francisco Quevedo

Spanish Baroque poet and novelist of the Golden Age

Did you know? He was famously short-sighted and wore distinctive glasses that eventually became known as quevedos in the Spanish language.

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago (Spanish pronunciation:; 14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645), was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era.

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