Ernest Gary Gygax was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
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Actor
1972 · United States
Maya Rudolph is an American actress and comedian. In 2000, she became a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL).
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Actor
1968–2025 · United States
Julian Dana William McMahon was an Australian and American actor. He was the only son of William McMahon, a former prime minister of Australia. He was known for his television roles as Ben Lucini in Home and Away, Detective John Grant in Profiler, Cole Turner in Charmed, Dr.
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Entrepreneur · Google DeepMind · software
1976 · United Kingdom
Sir Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. He is the chairman and co-founder of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist of Alphabet, as well as the chief executive officer and co-founder of Isomorphic Labs.
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Politician
1835–1907 · Kingdom of Italy
Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906, he became the first Italian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Scientist
1881–1945 · Germany
Hans Fischer was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin."
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Actor
1990 · India
Kriti Sanon is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. She is a recipient of several accolades including a National Film Award and two Filmfare Awards. Sanon was featured in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list of 2019.
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