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Jason Derulo

Florida singer, songwriter and dancer behind the hits Whatcha Say, Talk Dirty, Want to Want Me and Savage Love

Did you know? He wrote songs for artists such as Diddy and Lil Wayne before his own career took off.

Jason Joel Desrouleaux (born September 21, 1989), known professionally as Jason Derulo (formerly stylized as Derülo), is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. Since the start of his solo recording career in 2009, he has sold over 250 million singles worldwide and has achieved fourteen platinum singles in the US.

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Bilawal Zardari

Pakistani politician, son of Benazir Bhutto, who chairs the Pakistan People's Party and served as foreign minister

Did you know? He studied modern history at Christ Church, Oxford, like his mother.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (born 21 September 1988) is a Pakistani politician who served as the 37th Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2022 to 2023. He became the chairman of the Pakistan People's Party in 2007 following his mother's assassination.

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George Simion

Romanian nationalist politician who co-founded AUR and lost the 2025 presidential run-off to Nicușor Dan

Did you know? He first became known as an activist for the unification of Romania and Moldova.

George-Nicolae Simion (born 21 September 1986) is a Romanian far-right politician and civic activist. He is the founder and chairman of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), the second largest party in both houses of parliament since 2024.

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Nicole Richie

Nicole Camille Richie (née Escovedo; born September 21, 1981) is an American media personality, fashion designer, and actress. She came to prominence after appearing on the reality television series The Simple Life (2003–2007), in which she starred alongside her friend and fellow socialite Paris Hilton.

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Kareena Kapoor

leading roles in Hindi cinema since 2000, becoming one of Bollywood's highest-paid actresses through a career spanning romantic dramas and commercial hits

Kareena Kapoor Khan (pronounced; née Kapoor; born 21 September 1980) is an Indian actress. She has been known for her leading roles in Hindi cinema since 2000.

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Marjane Satrapi

Author and illustrator best known for her graphic novel Persepolis

Did you know? She is a descendant of the Qajar dynasty, which ruled Iran for over a century until the early 1900s.

Marjane Satrapi (French:; Persian: مرجان ساتراپی; 21 September 1969 – 3 June 2026) was an Iranian and French comic book author, film director, and children's book author.

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Suman Pokhrel

Acclaimed Nepali poet, playwright and translator

Did you know? He is the only writer to have received the SAARC Literary Award twice.

Suman Pokhrel (Nepali: सुमन पोखरेल; born 21 September 1967) is a Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist. Universities in Nepal and India have included his poetry in their syllabi.

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Kevin Rudd

Two-time Australian Prime Minister who led the Labor Party

Did you know? He is a fluent Mandarin speaker and was given the Chinese name Lu Kewen while working as a diplomat in Beijing.

Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian diplomat and former politician who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and from June to September 2013, holding office as the leader of the Labor Party. From 2023 to 2026, Rudd was the ambassador of Australia to the United States.

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Shinzō Abe

Japan's longest-serving prime minister, known for his Abenomics economic policy, who was assassinated while campaigning in 2022

Did you know? He appeared as the video game character Mario during the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics.

Shinzo Abe (21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He was the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history, serving for nearly nine years.

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Aslan Maskhadov

Former President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

Did you know? Before entering politics, he was a high-ranking officer in the Soviet military and served in the artillery during the Cold War.

Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov (Russian: Асла́н (Хали́д) Али́евич Масха́дов; Chechen: ӏалларойн Али-воӀ Аслан, romanized: Jallaroyn Ali-voj Aslan; 21 September 1951 – 8 March 2005) was a Soviet and Chechen politician and military commander who also served as the third president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of…

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Bill Murray

Comedy actor known for Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day

Did you know? He is famous for his eccentric public appearances, such as randomly crashing student house parties or washing dishes for strangers.

William James Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor and comedian, known for his deadpan delivery in roles ranging from studio comedies to independent dramas.

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Stephen King

American author of Carrie, The Shining, It and The Stand, known as the King of Horror, with hundreds of millions of books sold

Did you know? He threw the early pages of his debut novel, Carrie, into the bin, but his wife rescued them and encouraged him to finish.

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror fiction and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery.

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Yury Luzhkov

Long-serving Mayor of Moscow who oversaw the city's modernisation

Did you know? He was a keen amateur inventor and held numerous patents, including one for a method of producing honey.

Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov (Russian: Юрий Михайлович Лужков, IPA:; 21 September 1936 – 10 December 2019) was a Russian politician who served as mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010. Before the election of Gavriil Popov as the first mayor of Moscow, he also headed the capital in 1990–1991 as chairman of the Mosgorispolkom.

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Leonard Cohen

Canadian poet, novelist and singer-songwriter of Suzanne, So Long, Marianne and the much-covered anthem Hallelujah

Did you know? He did not release his first album until his thirties, having spent his earlier years working as a poet and novelist.

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist.

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David J. Thouless

Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for work on topological phases of matter

Did you know? He was a member of the founding class at Churchill College, Cambridge, which was established as a national memorial to Winston Churchill.

David James Thouless (21 September 1934 – 6 April 2019) was a British condensed-matter physicist. He was awarded the 1990 Wolf Prize and a laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize for physics along with F. Duncan M. Haldane and J.

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Donald Arthur Glaser

Physicist who won the Nobel Prize for inventing the bubble chamber

Did you know? He was a talented musician who played the viola with several symphony orchestras during his career.

Donald Arthur Glaser (September 21, 1926 – February 28, 2013) was an American physicist and biologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for his invention of the bubble chamber.

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Vitaly Ginzburg

Russian physicist who shared a Nobel Prize for work on superconductivity

Did you know? He was a key figure in the development of the Soviet hydrogen bomb and survived the Stalinist purges.

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS (Russian: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург; 4 October 1916 – 8 November 2009) was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett for their "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and…

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Kwame Nkrumah

Leader who won Ghana's independence from Britain in 1957, becoming its first prime minister and president and a champion of Pan-Africanism

Did you know? He was a student in the United Kingdom and the United States, once working as a dishwasher to support himself.

Kwame Nkrumah (born Francis Nwia Kofi Ngonloma, /(ə)nˈkruːmə/ (ə)n-KROO-mə; 21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from the United Kingdom.

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Friedrich Paulus

German Field Marshal who surrendered at the Battle of Stalingrad

Did you know? He was the first German officer of his rank to be captured in the field.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) during World War II who is best known for being the commander of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 to February 1943).

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Gustav Holst

English composer best known for his orchestral suite The Planets

Did you know? He suffered from neuritis in his right arm, which often made the physical act of writing music painful and difficult.

Gustav Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed many other works across a range of genres, although none achieved comparable success.

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H. G. Wells

English author of The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man, a founding father of science fiction

Did you know? Before becoming a successful writer, he worked as a draper's apprentice and a pupil-teacher at a grammar school.

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories.

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Charles Nicolle

French scientist who identified how epidemic typhus was transmitted to humans

Did you know? His research proved that body lice were responsible for the disease, leading to better hygiene practices that saved millions of soldiers.

Charles Jules Henri Nicolle (21 September 1866 – 28 February 1936) was a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus.

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who first liquefied helium

Did you know? He was the first person to achieve the extremely low temperatures required to turn helium gas into a liquid.

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Dutch:; 21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch experimental physicist who became the first to liquefy helium, cooling it to near 1.5 kelvin (K). For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1913.

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Abdul Hamid II

Last Sultan to rule with absolute power over the Ottoman Empire

Did you know? He was a highly skilled carpenter who personally made furniture that is still displayed in palaces in Istanbul.

Abdülhamid II or Abdul Hamid II (Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد ثانی, romanized: Abd ul-Hamid-i s̱ānī; Turkish: II. Abdülhamid; 21 September 1842 – 10 February 1918) was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state.

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