Geopolitical Chess: There's a significant buzz around Ukraine and Russia, with reports of new missile engagements that have some folks whispering about the echoes of a larger conflict. It's like watching two space fleets in a game of "who can push the big red button first?"
Climate Conundrums: A climate deal has been struck, focusing on financial aid for developing countries. It's like the universe decided to have a bake sale for Earth's less fortunate regions, but not before nearly imploding over the recipe.
Nuclear Rhetoric: Kim Jong Un, not wanting to be left out of the global drama, threw in some nuclear threats for good measure. It's as if he's saying, "Hey, look at me, I can also end the world in a spectacular fashion!"
Cultural and Environmental Oddities: Amidst all this, there's always room for the bizarre or heartwarming. From land lotteries in Germany to a lion cub's transfer in Beirut, it's like humanity's tapestry is woven with both conflict and culture, with a dash of absurdity.
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Raoul Paoli
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Erich von Manstein
German field marshal
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Dale Carnegie
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American cardiologist and author
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Esther Applin
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English tennis player
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American actor
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Dutch philosopher and academic
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Garson Kanin
American director and screenwriter
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Joan Sanderson
English actress
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Charles Schneeman
American soldier and illustrator
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American pianist and educator
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Howard Duff
American actor, director, and producer
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Geraldine Fitzgerald
Irish-American actress
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Lynn Chadwick
English sculptor
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Bessie Blount Griffin
American physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist
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American soldier and author
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Shabtai Rosenne
English-Israeli academic, jurist, and diplomat
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David Kossoff
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John Lindsay
American lawyer and politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City
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Baron Moser, German-English statistician and academic
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Eileen Barton
American singer
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Lorne Munroe
Canadian-American cellist and educator
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William F. Buckley
Jr., American publisher and author, founded the National Review
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Simon van der Meer
Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
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Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
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Ahmadou Kourouma
Ivorian-French author and playwright
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Alfredo Kraus
Spanish tenor
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Emma Lou Diemer
American composer
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Kevin Skinner
New Zealand rugby player
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American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th Mayor of San Francisco
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English cricketer
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American baseball player and politician
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American guitarist
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Chilean psychiatrist
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English rugby player and coach
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American author, illustrator, and director
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American spree killer
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American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer
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American lawyer and businessman, 5th Commissioner of the National Football Leagu
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Donald "Duck" Dunn
American bass player, songwriter, and producer
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Wayne Jackson
American trumpeter
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Billy Connolly
Scottish comedian and acto
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Dave Bing
American basketball player and politician, 70th Mayor of Detroi
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Richard Tee
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Margaret E. M. Tolbert
American chemist and academi
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Scottish singer-songwriter and guitaris
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Bev Bevan
English drumme
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Candy Darling
American model and actress
(d. 1974)
Ibrahim Gambari
Nigerian academic and diplomat, 9th Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affair
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Dan Glickman
American businessman and politician, 26th United States Secretary of Agricultur
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Dave Sinclair
English keyboard playe
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Spider Robinson
American-Canadian author and criti
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American basketball player and coac
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American baseball player and coac
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Henry Bibby
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Ken Wilson
Australian rugby league player
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English psychologist and academi
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Scottish academic and politicia
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British photographe
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American bassist and compose
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English author and illustrato
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Greek footballer and manage
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Australian swimme
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Scottish footballer
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American singer and actres
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Nauruan lawyer and politicia
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Sri Lankan crickete
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Rob Nicholson
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American football playe
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American-Mexican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and produce
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Cosmas Ndeti
Kenyan runne
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Canadian-American ice hockey player and coac
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Ruxandra Dragomir
Romanian tennis playe
r
Marek Lemsalu
Estonian footballe
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Alejandro Ávila
Mexican acto
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Danielle Nicolet
American actres
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Amy Faye Hayes
American boxing ring announcer and mode
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Stephen Merchant
English actor, director, producer, and screenwrite
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Machel Montano
Trinidadian singer-songwriter and produce
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Japanese actor and politicia
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American autho
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Mona Hanna-Attisha
British-American pediatrician, professor, and public health advocat
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Christian Laflamme
Canadian ice hockey playe
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Chen Lu
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Colin Hanks
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German-Turkish footballe
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American actress and produce
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Mexican-American baseball playe
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Brandon Hunter
American basketball player
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Beth Phoenix
American wrestle
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Branko Radivojevič
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Ryan Fitzpatrick
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Sean O'Loughlin
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Dean Ashton
English footballe
r
Lars Eckert
German rugby playe
r
André Laurito
German footballe
r
Gwilym Lee
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r
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Venezuelan baseball playe
r
Shavlik Randolph
American basketball playe
r
Karine Vanasse
Canadian actress and produce
r
David Booth
American ice hockey playe
r
Maria Höfl-Riesch
German skie
r
Julia Alexandratou
Greek model, actress, and singe
r
Jimmy Graham
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r
Pedro León
Spanish footballe
r
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American baseball playe
r
Mario Gaspar
Spanish footballe
r
Sarah Hyland
American actres
s
Tom Odell
English singer-songwrite
r
Michael Oldfield
Australian rugby league playe
r
Sergei Kulbach
Ukrainian figure skate
r
Ivi Adamou
Cypriot-Greek singer-songwrite
r
Joe Pigott
English footballe
r
Nabil Bentaleb
Algerian footballe
r
Marcus Bontempelli
Australian footballe
r
Jeremy Swayman
American ice hockey playe
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Leszek I the White
High Duke of Poland
(b. c. 1186)
Magnús Óláfsson
King of Mann and the Isle
s
Hugh Despenser the Younger
English courtier
(b. 1296)
Elizabeth of Lancaster
Duchess of Exeter,
(b. c. 1363)
Jean de Dunois
French soldier
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Loys of Gruuthuse
Earl of Winchester
(b. c. 1427)
Mingyi Nyo
Burmese ruler
(b. 1459)
Johannes Oecolampadius
German theologian and reformer
(b. 1482)
John Knox
Scottish pastor and theologian
(b. 1510)
René de Birague
French cardinal
(b. 1506)
Sethus Calvisius
German composer and theorist
(b. 1556)
Walatta Petros
saint in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
(b. 1592)
Manuel Cardoso
Portuguese organist and composer
(b. 1566)
Guru Tegh Bahadur
Indian guru
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Johann Adam Reincken
Dutch-German organist and composer
(b. 1623)
Ulrika Eleonora
Queen of Sweden
(b. 1688)
Charles-Jean-François Hénault
French historian and author
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Lorenzo Ricci
Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
(b. 1703)
James Caldwell
American minister
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Clément Charles François de Laverdy
French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Finance
(b. 1723)
Franz Moritz von Lacy
Austrian field marshal
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Philip Hamilton
Oldest son of Alexander Hamilton
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Joseph Brant
American tribal leader
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William Lamb
2nd Viscount Melbourne, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Comte de Lautréamont
Uruguayan-French poet and author
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Nicolás Avellaneda
Argentinian journalist and politician, 8th President of Argentina
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August Belmont
German-American banker and politician, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands
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Ludwik Teichmann
Polish anatomist
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Hiram Maxim
American-English engineer, invented the Maxim gun
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Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili
Georgian actor and director
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Alexandru Macedonski
Romanian author and poet
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Erskine Childers
executed Irish soldier, journalist, and author
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Georges Clemenceau
French physician, publisher, and politician, 72nd Prime Minister of France
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Doris Miller
American soldier and chef, Navy Cross recipient
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Anna Jarvis
American founder of Mother's Day
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Mamie Dillard
African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist
(b. 1874)
Guido Cantelli
Italian conductor
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Diego Rivera
Mexican painter and sculptor
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Robert Cecil
1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1864)
Dally Messenger
Australian rugby player, cricketer, and sailor
(b. 1883)
Ruth Chatterton
American actress
(b. 1892)
Lee Harvey Oswald
American assassin of John F. Kennedy
(b. 1939)
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah
Kuwaiti ruler
(b. 1895)
D. A. Levy
American poet and publisher
(b. 1942)
John Neihardt
American author and poet
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Herbert Agar
American journalist and historian
(b. 1897)
George Raft
American actor and dancer
(b. 1901)
Molly Reilly
Canadian aviator
(b. 1922)
Henrietta Hill Swope
American astronomer and academic
(b. 1902)
Barack Obama
Sr., Kenyan economist and academic, father of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
(b. 1936)
Jehane Benoît
Canadian journalist and author
(b. 1904)
Juan Manuel Bordeu
Argentinian race car driver
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Fred Shero
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
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Dodie Smith
English author and playwright
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Marion Post Wolcott
American photographer
(b. 1910)
Bülent Arel
Turkish-American composer and educator
(b. 1919)
Freddie Mercury
Tanzanian-English singer-songwriter, lead vocalist of Queen, and producer
(b. 1946)
Eric Carr
American drummer of KISS
(b. 1950)
Albert Collins
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(b. 1932)
Eduard Ole
Estonian-Swedish painter
(b. 1898)
Sorley MacLean
Scottish soldier and poet
(b. 1911)
Barbara
French singer-songwriter and actress
(b. 1930)
John Rawls
American philosopher, author, and academic
(b. 1921)
Warren Spahn
American baseball player and coach
(b. 1921)
Arthur Hailey
English-Canadian journalist and author
(b. 1920)
Joseph Hansen
American author and poet
(b. 1923)
James Wong
Chinese actor and songwriter
(b. 1940)
Pat Morita
American actor
(b. 1932)
Juice Leskinen
Finnish singer-songwriter
(b. 1950)
George W. S. Trow
American author, playwright, and critic
(b. 1943)
Zdeněk Veselovský
Czech zoologist and ethologist
(b. 1938)
Casey Calvert
American guitarist
(b. 1981)
Kenny MacLean
Scottish-Canadian bass player and songwriter
(b. 1956)
Cecil H. Underwood
American educator and politician, 25th Governor of West Virginia
(b. 1922)
Abe Pollin
American businessman and philanthropist
(b. 1923)
Samak Sundaravej
Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand
(b. 1935)
Jun Ross
Filipino basketball player
(b. 1949)
Huang Hua
Chinese translator and politician, 5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
(b. 1913)
Héctor Camacho
Puerto Rican-American boxer
(b. 1962)
Antoine Kohn
Luxembourgian footballer and manager
(b. 1933)
Jimmy Stewart
American baseball player and manager
(b. 1939)
Nicholas Turro
American chemist and academic
(b. 1938)
Ernie Warlick
American football player and sportscaster
(b. 1932)
Matthew Bucksbaum
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded General Growth Properties
(b. 1926)
Arnaud Coyot
French cyclist
(b. 1980)
Lou Hyndman
Canadian lawyer and politician
(b. 1935)
June Keithley
Filipino actress and journalist
(b. 1947)
Jean King
American politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii
(b. 1925)
Robin Leigh-Pemberton
Baron Kingsdown, English banker and politician, Governor of the Bank of England
(b. 1927)
Matti Ranin
Finnish actor
(b. 1926)
Jorge Herrera Delgado
Mexican engineer and politician
(b. 1961)
Murli Deora
Indian politician, Indian Minister of Corporate Affairs
(b. 1937)
Peter Henderson
New Zealand rugby player
(b. 1926)
Nenad Manojlović
Serbian water polo player and manager
(b. 1957)
Viktor Tikhonov
Russian ice hockey player and coach
(b. 1930)
Robert Ford
English general
(b. 1923)
John Forrester
English historian and philosopher
(b. 1949)
Quincy Monk
American football player
(b. 1979)
Heinz Oberhummer
Austrian physicist, astronomer, and academic
(b. 1941)
Douglas W. Shorenstein
American businessman
(b. 1955)
Paul Futcher
English footballer
(b. 1956)
Florence Henderson
American actress, singer and television personality
(b. 1934)
Goo Hara
South Korean singer and actress
(b. 1991)
Börje Salming
Swedish hockey player
(b. 1951)