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Idrissa Gueye

Senegalese midfielder who played for Everton and Paris Saint-Germain

Did you know? He helped his national team win their first Africa Cup of Nations title in 2022.

Idrissa Gana Gueye (born 26 September 1989) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Al-Diriyah and the Senegal national team. Starting his career at Diambars in his native Senegal, Gueye joined French club Lille's reserve side in 2008.

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Kieran Gibbs

Professional footballer who played as a defender for Arsenal

Did you know? In a famous refereeing error, he was once sent off after a teammate committed a foul that the official misattributed.

Kieran James Ricardo Gibbs (born 26 September 1989) is an English former professional footballer who played as a left-back. Gibbs began his senior career with Arsenal in 2007, after joining the club from the Wimbledon academy in 2004.

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Lilly Singh

Lilly Singh (born September 26, 1988) is a Canadian YouTuber, actress, television host, and comedian. She began making YouTube videos in 2010, initially under the pseudonym Superwoman (stylized IISuperwomanII), which she used as her username until 2019.

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Kim Yo-jong

Senior North Korean politician and sister of leader Kim Jong Un

Did you know? She made history as the first member of her country's ruling family to visit South Korea since the Korean War.

Kim Yo Jong (Korean: 김여정; born 26 September 1987) is a North Korean politician and diplomat, and sister of WPK General Secretary Kim Jong Un. As of February 2026 she is the director of the General Affairs Department of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).

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Ricardo Quaresma

Portuguese winger known for his signature outside-of-the-foot trivela shots

Did you know? He began his career in the same youth academy as Cristiano Ronaldo at Sporting CP in Lisbon.

Ricardo Andrade Quaresma Bernardo (Portuguese pronunciation:; born 26 September 1983) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a winger.

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Serena Williams

American tennis champion who won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in the Open era, and four Olympic gold medals

Did you know? She was eight weeks pregnant when she won her twenty-third Grand Slam title at the Australian Open.

Tennis champion who won 23 Grand Slam singles titles in the Open Era.

Taavi Rõivas

Former Prime Minister of Estonia who served from 2014 to 2016

Did you know? When he took office, he was the youngest government leader in the European Union.

Taavi Rõivas (Estonian pronunciation:; born 26 September 1979) is an Estonian former politician and businessman who served as Prime Minister of Estonia from 2014 to 2016. He led the Reform Party from 2014 to 2017 and was previously the Minister of Social Affairs from 2012 to 2014.

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Michael Ballack

German football captain and midfielder for Chelsea and Bayern Munich

Did you know? Named by Pelé as one of the greatest living players, he famously lost both the Champions League and World Cup finals in one summer.

Michael Ballack (German pronunciation:; born 26 September 1976) is a German former professional footballer who is now a football agent. He was selected by Pelé as one of FIFA's 100 Greatest Living Players, and as the UEFA Club Midfielder of the Year in 2002.

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Jim Caviezel

American actor known for portraying Jesus in The Passion of the Christ

Did you know? While filming in Italy, he was struck by lightning during a scene, but fortunately escaped the ordeal without any serious injuries.

James Patrick Caviezel Jr. (born September 26, 1968) is an American actor.

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Petro Poroshenko

Confectionery tycoon known as the Chocolate King who served as President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019

Did you know? He earned the nickname the Chocolate King because he owned one of the largest confectionery businesses in Eastern Europe.

Petro Oleksiiovych Poroshenko (born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian politician, oligarch, and former bureaucrat who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010, and as the Minister of Trade and Economic Development in 2012.

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Uwe Bein

German midfielder and 1990 FIFA World Cup winner

Did you know? Widely considered one of the finest passers of his generation, he led the Bundesliga for most assists in three different seasons.

Uwe Bein (born 26 September 1960) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Linda Hamilton

American actress famous for playing Sarah Connor in The Terminator films

Did you know? Her identical twin sister, Leslie, worked as her on-screen double for several scenes in the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is an American actress.

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Olivia Newton-John

British-Australian singer and star of the musical film Grease

Did you know? Her grandfather was Max Born, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who was a pioneer in the field of quantum mechanics.

Dame Olivia Newton-John (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022) was a British and Australian singer, songwriter and actress. With over 100 million records sold, Newton-John is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as the highest-selling female Australian recording artist of all time.

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Andrea Dworkin

Radical feminist writer and activist known for challenging pornography

Did you know? Her first book was partly inspired by her experiences of domestic violence while living in the Netherlands during the early seventies.

Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. Her feminist writings, beginning in 1974, span 30 years.

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Bryan Ferry

English singer and songwriter who fronted the band Roxy Music

Did you know? He studied fine art under the famous pop artist Richard Hamilton at Newcastle University before pursuing a career in music.

Bryan Ferry (born 26 September 1945) is an English singer and musician. He became known as the frontman of the band Roxy Music and also launched a solo career.

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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

South African activist who was a prominent leader in the anti-apartheid movement

Did you know? She was a pioneering medical social worker and was the first black person to hold that role at Johannesburg's Baragwanath Hospital.

Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela-Mandela (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela; 26 September 1936 – 2 April 2018), also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist who was the second wife of Nelson Mandela.

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Manmohan Singh

Economist who opened up India's economy as finance minister in 1991 and served as prime minister from 2004 to 2014

Did you know? He used to walk several miles to school and study by the light of kerosene lamps as a child.

Manmohan Singh (26 September 1932 – 26 December 2024) was an Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician who served as the prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Narendra Modi.

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Matilde Camus

Spanish poet and non-fiction writer from Cantabria

Did you know? She served as the head of the literary section at a prominent Spanish cultural centre for several years.

Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus (26 September 1919 – 28 April 2012) was a Spanish poet from Cantabria who also wrote non-fiction.

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George Gershwin

Composer of Rhapsody in Blue and Porgy and Bess

Did you know? He started his career as a "song plugger" on New York's Tin Pan Alley, demonstrating new sheet music by playing it on the piano.

George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned jazz, popular and classical music.

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Paul VI

Italian pope who completed the Second Vatican Council, was the first pope to fly and travel widely, and was later canonised

Did you know? In 1964, he became the first pope in over a thousand years to meet with the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Pope Paul VI (born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; 26 September 1897 – 6 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978.

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Marina Tsvetaeva

Russian poet known for her emotional and lyrical 20th-century literature

Did you know? She wrote many of her most famous works while living in exile across Europe following the Russian Revolution.

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: Марина Ивановна Цветаева, IPA:; 8 October 1892 – 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is some of the best known in twentieth-century Russian literature.

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Martin Heidegger

German philosopher whose Being and Time reshaped 20th-century thought, though his Nazi party membership remains controversial

Did you know? He spent much of his time writing in a small, secluded wooden hut located in the Black Forest mountains.

Martin Heidegger (26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher whose work was central to the development of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He has had significant impact within subsequent philosophy, social sciences and humanities, and theology.

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T. S. Eliot

American-born British poet of The Waste Land and Four Quartets, whose cat poems inspired the musical Cats, and a Nobel laureate

Did you know? Aside from his poetry, he worked as a bank clerk and later as a director for the publishing house Faber and Faber.

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure of modernist poetry in the English language where he altered the art through his use of pessimistic language, writing style, and verse structure.

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Archibald Hill

Nobel Prize-winning physiologist and pioneer of biophysics and operations research

Did you know? During the Second World War, he served as an independent Member of Parliament representing Cambridge University in the House of Commons.

Archibald Vivian Hill (26 September 1886 – 3 June 1977), better known to friends and colleagues as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research.

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