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Eljif Elmas

Macedonian professional footballer who plays for RB Leipzig

Did you know? He made his debut for the North Macedonia national team when he was only seventeen years old.

Eljif Elmas (Macedonian: Ељиф Елмас; born 24 September 1999) is a Macedonian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or wide midfielder for Serie A club Atalanta, on loan from Bundesliga club RB Leipzig. He also plays for the North Macedonia national team.

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Oriol Romeu

Spanish midfielder who played for Chelsea and Southampton

Did you know? He began his career at Barcelona’s famous La Masia academy before moving to the Premier League as a teenager.

Oriol Romeu Vidal (Spanish pronunciation:; born 24 September 1991) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for J1 League club Avispa Fukuoka. Romeu began his career at Barcelona, playing mainly in their reserves at Barcelona B.

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Birgit Sarrap

Estonian pop singer who won her country's version of Idol

Did you know? She represented Estonia in the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest while several months pregnant with her first child.

Birgit Sarrap (née Õigemeel; born 24 September 1988), also known mononymously as Birgit, is an Estonian singer. She rose to prominence in 2007 after winning the first season of Eesti otsib superstaari, the Estonian version of Idol.

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Milojko Spajić

Politician serving as the Prime Minister of Montenegro

Did you know? He lived in Japan for several years and is fluent in the language after studying there on a government scholarship.

Milojko Spajić (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Милојко Спајић; born 24 September 1987) is a Montenegrin politician serving as Prime Minister of Montenegro since October 2023. He previously served as minister of finance and social welfare in the Krivokapić Cabinet from 2020 to 2022.

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Dharius

Mexican rapper and former member of the hip hop group Cartel de Santa

Did you know? He launched a successful solo career in 2014 after spending over a decade with his former band.

Alán Alejandro Maldonado Tamez is a Mexican rapper, actor, singer and songwriter better known by his stage name Dharius (previously MC Dharius). He is known for having formed part of the Hip Hop Cartel de Santa group from 1999 to 2013.

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John Arne Riise

Former Liverpool defender and most capped player for Norway

Did you know? He scored a memorable free kick against Manchester United in 2001 that was recorded travelling at over 70 miles per hour.

John Arne Semundseth Riise (born 24 September 1980) is a Norwegian former professional footballer and coach. With 110 caps, Riise is the most capped player for the Norway national team.

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Stephanie McMahon

American businesswoman and prominent figure in professional wrestling

Did you know? She is a member of the famous McMahon family and worked her way up from an internship to becoming the chairwoman of WWE.

Stephanie Marie McMahon Levesque ( mək-MAN lə-VEK; née McMahon; born September 24, 1976) is an American businesswoman and retired professional wrestler. She is known for her various roles within WWE between 1998 and 2023.

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Zainab Salbi

Zainab Salbi (Arabic: زينب سلبي; born 1969) is an Iraqi American women's rights activist, writer, television show host, and podcaster. She is the co-founder of Daughters for Earth, a fund and a movement of Daughters rising up worldwide with climate solutions to protect and restore Mother Earth.

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Osamu Taninaka

Japanese international footballer who played for Furukawa Electric

Did you know? After his playing career ended, he moved into coaching and managed the Japanese women's national team during the 1990s.

Osamu Taninaka (谷中 治, Taninaka Osamu; born September 24, 1964) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

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Arundhati Roy

Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things

Did you know? She worked as a screenwriter and aerobics instructor before her debut novel became a massive international bestseller.

Suzanna Arundhati Roy (Bengali pronunciation:; born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.

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Marco Tardelli

Italian midfielder who won the 1982 World Cup

Did you know? He is one of the few players to have won all three major UEFA club competitions during his career.

Marco Tardelli (Italian pronunciation:; born 24 September 1954) is an Italian former football player and manager. At club level, he played as a midfielder for several Italian clubs; he began his career with Pisa, and later played for Como, Juventus, and Inter Milan, before retiring with Swiss club St.

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Antonio Tabucchi

Italian writer and scholar known for his work on Portuguese literature

Did you know? He became so enamoured with Portuguese culture that he eventually wrote some of his novels in the language instead of his native Italian.

Antonio Tabucchi (Italian:; 24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy.

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Linda McCartney

Photographer and keyboardist for the band Wings

Did you know? She was the first female photographer to have a photograph featured on the front cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (née Eastman; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author, and activist. She was the keyboardist and harmony vocalist in the band Wings, which she had formed with her husband Paul McCartney of the Beatles.

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Jim Henson

Puppeteer and filmmaker who created the Muppets

Did you know? The original Kermit the Frog was fashioned from an old green coat belonging to his mother and two halved Ping-Pong balls.

James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer and filmmaker who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets.

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John Young

Apollo 16 commander who was the ninth person on the Moon

Did you know? He is the only person to have piloted four different classes of spacecraft, including the Gemini and Apollo modules.

John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.

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Hidemaro Watanabe

Japanese international goalkeeper who played during the 1950s

Did you know? Aside from football, he attended Chuo University and worked as a teacher after his sporting career ended.

Hidemaro Watanabe (渡部 英麿, Watanabe Hidemaro; September 24, 1924 – October 12, 2011) was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

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Konstantin Chernenko

Soviet politician who led the USSR during the mid-1980s

Did you know? His health was so poor during his leadership that he was once filmed casting a vote from a hospital bed.

Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (24 September 1911 – 10 March 1985) was a Soviet politician who served as the de jure leader of the Soviet Union from February 1984 until his death in March 1985.

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Howard Hughes

American business magnate, record-breaking aviator and film producer

Did you know? He survived several near-fatal plane crashes while testing new aircraft and later became famous for his eccentric, reclusive lifestyle in luxury hotels.

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor.

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Severo Ochoa

Nobel Prize-winning Spanish biochemist who studied the synthesis of DNA

Did you know? He shared his Nobel Prize for discovering an enzyme that allowed for the laboratory synthesis of RNA.

Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (Spanish:; 24 September 1905 – 1 November 1993) was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)".

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Howard Florey

Australian scientist who developed penicillin into a life-saving medicine

Did you know? While Alexander Fleming discovered the mould, Florey’s team at Oxford was responsible for the difficult task of isolating and purifying the drug.

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston (24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various…

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

American novelist of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night who chronicled the glamour of the Jazz Age

Did you know? He was named after his distant relative Francis Scott Key, the man who wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

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André Frédéric Cournand

Nobel Prize-winning physician who developed techniques for heart catheterisation

Did you know? During the First World War, he served as a medic in the French Army and saw action at several major battles.

André Frédéric Cournand (September 24, 1895 – February 19, 1988) was a French-American physician and physiologist.

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İsmet İnönü

Second President of Turkey and close ally of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Did you know? He voluntarily led the transition of his country from a single-party state to a multi-party democracy after the Second World War.

Mustafa İsmet İnönü (24 September 1884 – 25 December 1973) was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the president of Turkey from 1938 to 1950, and as its prime minister three times: from 1923 to 1924, 1925 to 1937, and 1961 to 1965.

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Charles Ferdinand Ramuz

Swiss author known for his novels about mountain life

Did you know? He collaborated with the composer Igor Stravinsky to write the libretto for the theatrical work The Soldier's Tale.

Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (24 September 1878 – 23 May 1947) was a French-speaking Swiss writer.

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