Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. According to critic Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much commercial success as Górecki. He became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during the post-Stalin cultural thaw.
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Athlete
1994 · Greece
Giannis Sina Ougko Antetokounmpo is a Greek-Nigerian professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). His size, speed, and strength have earned him the nickname "Greek Freak".
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Musician
1991 · United States
Kim Eun-jae, known professionally as Ejae, is a South Korean and American singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Scientist
1947 · Canada
Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI".
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Creator
1942 · Austria
Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."
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Politician
1898–1987 · Sweden
Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish economist and sociologist.
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Politician
1920–2002 · United Kingdom
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.
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