Predrag Stojaković, known by his nickname Peja, is a Serbian former professional basketball player and basketball executive. Stojaković played for five teams in an NBA career that spanned from 1998 to 2011. Standing at 6 ft 10 in, he played mostly as a small forward.
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Actor
1963 · United States
John Christopher Depp II is an American actor, musician, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards.
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Actor
1981 · United States
Natalie Hershlag, known professionally as Natalie Portman, is an actress, film producer and director with dual Israeli and American citizenship.
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Actor
1961 · Canada
Michael Andrew Fox, known professionally as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian and American actor and activist. Beginning his career as a child actor in the 1970s, he rose to prominence portraying Alex P.
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Athlete
1978 · Poland
Miroslav Josef Klose is a professional football manager and former player who is head coach of 2. Bundesliga club 1. FC Nürnberg. Born in Poland, Klose played as a striker for the Germany national team.
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Author
1843–1914 · Austrian Empire
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas von Suttner was an Austrian noblewoman, pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first Austrian laureate.
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English pharmacologist
1875–1968 · United Kingdom
Sir Henry Hallett Dale was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve pulses (neurotransmission) he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi.
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