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Harashta Haifa Zahra

Harashta Haifa Zahra (Sundanese: ᮠᮛᮞ᮪ᮂᮒ ᮠᮄᮖ ᮐᮠᮁ; born September 5, 2003) is an Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Supranational 2024 and Puteri Indonesia 2024. She is the first Indonesian to win Miss Supranational.

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Bukayo Saka

Professional footballer who plays for Arsenal and England

Did you know? He excelled academically at school, achieving high grades in his GCSEs while simultaneously training at the Arsenal academy.

Bukayo Ayoyinka Temidayo Moses Saka (born 5 September 2001) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Premier League club Arsenal and the England national team.

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Nuri Şahin

Professional football manager and former Borussia Dortmund midfielder

Did you know? He once held the record as the youngest person to play and score in the German Bundesliga.

Nuri Kazım Şahin (born 5 September 1988) is a German and Turkish professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the head coach of Süper Lig club Başakşehir.

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Priscilla Meirelles

Priscilla Meirelles de Almeida (born 5 September 1983) is a Brazilian model, television host, actress, environmentalist and beauty queen. She won the Miss Earth 2004 pageant held in the Philippines, becoming the 4th Miss Earth.

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Marianna Madia

Italian politician and member of the Chamber of Deputies

Did you know? She was appointed as a government minister while several months pregnant, later becoming a prominent advocate for parental leave rights.

Maria Anna "Marianna" Madia (Italian pronunciation:; born 5 September 1980) is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2008.

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Chris Hipkins

New Zealand politician who served as the country's 41st Prime Minister

Did you know? He famously went viral during the pandemic for a slip of the tongue where he suggested New Zealanders "spread their legs".

Christopher John Hipkins (born 5 September 1978) is a New Zealand politician who has served as leader of the New Zealand Labour Party since January 2023 and leader of the Opposition since November 2023.

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Ivo Ulich

Ivo Ulich (born 9 September 1974) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Leonardo Araújo

World Cup-winning Brazilian footballer and prominent sporting director

Did you know? He is an accomplished linguist who is fluent in seven languages, including Japanese, which he mastered while playing for a club in Japan.

Leonardo Nascimento de Araújo (born 5 September 1969), known as Leonardo Araújo or simply Leonardo, is a Brazilian football executive and former player and manager. In July 2026, he joined the Italian Football Federation as an adviser to technical director Paolo Maldini.

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Michael Keaton

Actor acclaimed for his roles in Batman and Birdman

Did you know? He adopted a stage name because there was already a famous actor and a talk show host called Michael Douglas.

Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award.

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Paul Breitner

German footballer who won the World Cup and European Championship

Did you know? He is one of only a few players to have scored in two different World Cup finals.

Paul Breitner (German pronunciation:; born 5 September 1951) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder and left-back. Considered one of the best full-backs and midfielders of all time, and one of the best players of his era, Breitner was named in the FIFA World Cup All-Time Team.

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Freddie Mercury

Lead singer of Queen, born in Zanzibar, who wrote Bohemian Rhapsody and became one of rock's greatest showmen

Did you know? He was a passionate stamp collector as a child, and his personal album was later acquired by the British Postal Museum.

Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer and songwriter who achieved global fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen.

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Werner Herzog

German director known for Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Did you know? He famously walked from Munich to Paris in the winter because he believed it would save the life of a dying friend.

Werner Herzog (German:; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, author, and documentarian.

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Raquel Welch

Film actress and international icon of the 1960s and 1970s

Did you know? She won a Golden Globe for her performance in the film adaptation of The Three Musketeers.

Jo Raquel Welch (née Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress. Welch first gained attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox.

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George Lazenby

Australian actor who played James Bond in the 1960s

Did you know? Before he was cast as the famous spy, he had never acted in a film and worked as a male model.

George Robert Lazenby (born 5 September 1939) is an Australian retired actor. He began his professional career as a model and an actor in commercials.

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Susumu Tonegawa

Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered how antibodies are produced

Did you know? He shifted his research focus later in his career to study the molecular and cellular basis of memory formation in the brain.

Susumu Tonegawa (利根川 進, Tonegawa Susumu; September 5, 1939 – July 11, 2026) was a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity.

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Bob Newhart

Deadpan American stand-up comedian and television actor

Did you know? Before finding fame in comedy, he worked as an accountant, though he later admitted he was not very good at the job.

George Robert Newhart (September 5, 1929 – July 18, 2024) was an American comedian and actor. Newhart was known for his deadpan and stammering delivery style.

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John Cage

Avant-garde composer famous for his silent work 4′33″

Did you know? He was an amateur mycologist with a lifelong passion for mushrooms and once co-founded the New York Mycological Society.

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer, visual artist and music theorist.

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Victor Ambartsumian

Armenian astrophysicist who founded the Byurakan Observatory

Did you know? He was a pioneer of theoretical astrophysics and correctly predicted that many star clusters are unstable and eventually disperse.

Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian (Russian: Виктор Амазаспович Амбарцумян; Armenian: Վիկտոր Համազասպի Համբարձումյան, Viktor Hamazaspi Hambardzumyan; 18 September 1908 – 12 August 1996) was a Soviet and Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator.

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Arthur Koestler

Hungarian-British author of the anti-totalitarian novel Darkness at Noon

Did you know? He left a significant portion of his estate to the University of Edinburgh to establish a chair in parapsychology.

Arthur Koestler (5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was an Austro-Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest, and was educated in Austria, apart from his early school years.

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Philosopher and the second President of India

Did you know? In India, his birthday is celebrated annually as Teachers' Day in recognition of his academic career.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (5 September 1888 – 17 April 1975) was an Indian academic, philosopher and statesman who served as the Vice President of India from 1952 to 1962 and President of India from 1962 to 1967. He was the ambassador of India to the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1952.

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Giacomo Meyerbeer

German composer who dominated the 19th-century French opera scene

Did you know? His lavish productions were so popular that they became the blueprint for the genre of grand opera.

Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer; 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer, linking Mozart and Wagner. With his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors, he gave the genre of grand opera "decisive character".

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Caspar David Friedrich

Romantic landscape painter known for Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Did you know? His work fell into obscurity for decades before being rediscovered by art historians at an exhibition in Berlin in 1906.

Caspar David Friedrich (German:; 5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world.

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Mikhail Kutuzov

Russian Field Marshal who led the resistance against Napoleon

Did you know? He survived being shot in the head twice during battles against the Ottoman Empire, losing an eye but returning to active duty.

Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov-Smolensky (Russian: Михаил Илларионович Голенищев-Кутузов-Смоленский; 16 September 1745 – 28 April 1813) was a field marshal of the Russian Empire.

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Johann Christian Bach

Eighteenth-century composer and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach

Did you know? Known as the English Bach, he lived in London for many years and served as the music master to Queen Charlotte.

Johann Christian Bach (5 September 1735 – 1 January 1782) was a German composer of the Classical era and the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach received his early musical training from his father, and later from his half-brother, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in Berlin.

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