Hiroyuki Sanada is a Japanese actor and martial artist.
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Actor
1992 · United States
Joshua Ryan Hutcherson is an American actor. His accolades include four Teen Choice Awards, four Young Artist Awards, and three MTV Movie Awards, in addition to a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Author
1875–1947 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, novelist, mountaineer, and painter. As the founder of the religion of Thelema in the early 20th century, he identified as its prophet, entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus.
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Scientist
1865–1940 · United Kingdom
Sir Arthur Harden, FRS was a British biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin for their investigations into the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes.
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Creator
1963–2010 · Japan
Satoshi Kon was a Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist from Sapporo, Hokkaido, and a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). He was a graduate of the Graphic Design department of the Musashino Art University.
Politician
1798–1834 · Kingdom of Portugal
Dom Pedro I, known in Brazil and in Portugal as "the Liberator" or "the Soldier King" in Portugal, was the founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1831 and King of Portugal in 1826.
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Entrepreneur
1971 · United Kingdom
Shah Rahim al-Hussaini, known simply as Aga Khan V, is the 50th Imam of the Nizari Isma'ilis since 2025. He is a philanthropist and businessman, who inherited the Nizari imamate and the title of Aga Khan upon the death of his father, Shah Karim al-Hussaini.
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