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Rosalía

Catalan singer who blended flamenco with pop and reggaeton on the award-winning albums El mal querer and Motomami

Did you know? She studied flamenco at the Catalonia College of Music for years.

Rosalía Vila Tobella (born 25 September 1992), known mononymously as Rosalía (Spanish:, Catalan:), is a Spanish singer-songwriter and actress. She has been described as an "atypical pop star" due to her genre-bending musical style.

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Donald Glover

Writer, actor and musician who created and starred in Atlanta and won Record of the Year as Childish Gambino

Did you know? He voiced Simba in the 2019 remake of The Lion King.

Donald McKinley Glover Jr. (born September 25, 1983), also known by his musical stage name Childish Gambino, is an American actor, rapper, singer, comedian, and filmmaker.

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Ranbir Kapoor

Bollywood star from the four-generation Kapoor film dynasty, known for Rockstar, Sanju and the blockbuster Animal

Did you know? His great-grandfather Prithviraj Kapoor was one of the pioneers of Indian cinema.

Ranbir Raj Kapoor (pronounced; born 28 September 1982) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi-language films. He has received several accolades, including seven Filmfare Awards, and is known for his work across a range of film genres.

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Hyun Bin

South Korean leading man who starred in My Name Is Kim Sam-soon, Secret Garden and the global hit Crash Landing on You

Did you know? He married his Crash Landing on You co-star Son Ye-jin in 2022.

Kim Tae-pyung (Korean: 김태평; born September 25, 1982), better known by his stage name Hyun Bin (현빈), is a South Korean actor. Hyun gained recognition for the romantic comedy My Lovely Sam Soon (2005).

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Bridget Marquardt

Bridget Marquardt (born Bridget Christina Sandmeier, September 25, 1973) is an American television personality, actress, model and podcast host, known for her role in the reality TV series The Girls Next Door, which depicted her life as one of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's girlfriends.

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Catherine Zeta-Jones

Welsh actress who won an Oscar for the musical Chicago

Did you know? She won a national tap dancing championship as a child and later starred in a West End production of 42nd Street.

Catherine Zeta-Jones (born 25 September 1969) is a Welsh actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award.

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Will Smith

American rapper and actor of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Men in Black who won an Oscar for King Richard

Did you know? He turned down the lead role of Neo in the sci-fi classic The Matrix to star in the film Wild Wild West.

Willard Carroll Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, rapper, and film producer. Known for his work in both the screen and music industries, his accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and four Grammy Awards.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Spanish author of the international bestseller The Shadow of the Wind

Did you know? Before finding global success as a novelist, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a screenwriter and in the advertising industry.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Spanish pronunciation:; 25 September 1964 – 19 June 2020) was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind).

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Ales Bialiatski

Belarusian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner

Did you know? He has spent multiple periods in prison for his pro-democracy work and was awarded the Nobel Prize while still behind bars.

Ales Viktaravich Bialiatski (Belarusian: Алесь Віктаравіч Бяляцкі, romanized: Aleś Viktaravič Bialacki; born 25 September 1962) is a Belarusian human rights defender, pro-democracy activist, and writer. He is chair of the Viasna Human Rights Centre.

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Michael Madsen

American actor known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino films

Did you know? Outside of his acting career, he is an accomplished poet and has published several collections of his own writing.

Michael Søren Madsen (September 25, 1957 – July 3, 2025) was an American actor. He was widely known for starring in Quentin Tarantino's films such as Reservoir Dogs (1992), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), and The Hateful Eight (2015).

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Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

German striker who won two Ballon d'Or awards with Bayern Munich

Did you know? After retiring from playing, he spent two decades as the chairman of Bayern Munich, overseeing one of their most successful periods.

Karl-Heinz "Kalle" Rummenigge (German:; born 25 September 1955) is a German football executive and former professional footballer.

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Christopher Reeve

American actor best known for his portrayal of Superman

Did you know? After a riding accident, he became a global advocate for disability rights and helped fund major advances in medical research.

Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor, activist, director, and author. He amassed many stage and screen credits in his 34-year career, including playing the title character in the Superman film series (1978–1987).

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bell hooks

American author and social critic known for her feminist writings

Did you know? She used her great-grandmother's name as a pseudonym and chose to write it in lowercase to keep the focus on her ideas.

Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks (stylized in lowercase), was an American philosopher, educator, author, and social critic; she was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College in Kentucky.

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Mark Hamill

American actor best known for playing Luke Skywalker in Star Wars

Did you know? He is a prolific voice actor and has provided the voice for the Joker in numerous Batman animated projects.

Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor. He rose to fame as Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy (1977–1983), leading to further lead parts in films like Corvette Summer (1978) and Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One (1980).

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Pedro Almodóvar

Spanish film director known for his colourful and melodramatic style

Did you know? He initially worked for a national telephone company for over a decade while making experimental short films in his spare time.

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (Spanish:; born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and author. His films are distinguished by melodrama, irreverent humour, bold colour, glossy décor, quotations from popular culture, and complex narratives.

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Michael Douglas

Oscar-winning actor and producer known for Wall Street and Fatal Attraction

Did you know? He produced the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and film producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Honorary Palme d'Or and the AFI Life Achievement Award.

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Anatoliy Solovyanenko

Ukrainian operatic tenor of the Kyiv Opera, famed for Italian bel canto roles and named People's Artist of the USSR

Did you know? He spent a year training at La Scala in Milan before becoming a principal soloist in Kyiv.

Anatoliy Borysovych Solovianenko (Ukrainian: Анатолій Борисович Солов'яненко; Russian: Анатолий Борисович Соловья́ненко; 25 September 1932 – 29 July 1999) was a Ukrainian operatic tenor, People's Artist of the USSR (1975), People's Artist of Ukraine, and Shevchenko National Prize winner.

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Barbara Walters

Pioneering broadcast journalist and long-time host of 20/20

Did you know? In 1976, she became the first woman to co-anchor a network evening news programme in the United States.

Barbara Jill Walters (September 25, 1929 – December 30, 2022) was an American broadcast journalist and television personality. Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, she appeared as a host of numerous television programs, including Today, the ABC Evening News, 20/20, and The View.

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Sergei Bondarchuk

Soviet filmmaker and actor who directed the epic War and Peace

Did you know? His massive adaptation of War and Peace used thousands of soldiers as extras to film its realistic battle sequences.

Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 – 20 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actor and filmmaker, born in Ukraine, who was one of the leading figures of Soviet cinema in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Soviet composer of 15 symphonies and 15 string quartets, including the Leningrad Symphony, who survived Stalin's attacks on his music

Did you know? He was a dedicated football enthusiast and trained as a certified referee, often travelling across the Soviet Union to watch matches.

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.

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Robert Bresson

Influential French filmmaker known for his minimalist cinematic style

Did you know? He famously avoided using professional actors, preferring to cast 'models' who would perform his scripts without emotional dramatisation.

Robert Bresson (French:; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French filmmaker. Known for his ascetic approach, Bresson made a notable contribution to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, ellipses, and sparse use of scoring have led his works to be regarded as preeminent examples of minimalist film.

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William Faulkner

American novelist of The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, set in his imaginary Mississippi county, and a Nobel laureate

Did you know? He spent time working as a postmaster at the University of Mississippi but was eventually fired for reading on the job.

William Cuthbert Faulkner ( FAWK-nər; né Falkner; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life.

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Sandro Pertini

Former President of Italy and hero of the anti-fascist resistance

Did you know? During the Second World War, he was captured by the Gestapo and sentenced to death but managed to escape from prison.

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio "Sandro" Pertini (25 September 1896 – 24 February 1990) was an Italian journalist, socialist politician, partisan and statesman who served as the president of Italy from 1978 to 1985.

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Lu Xun

Chinese writer of The True Story of Ah Q and A Madman's Diary, regarded as the father of modern Chinese literature

Did you know? He originally studied medicine in Japan but decided to pursue writing instead to help heal the spirit of his fellow citizens.

Lu Xun (Chinese: 魯迅; pinyin: Lǔ Xùn,; 25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), pen name of Zhou Shuren, born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer.

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