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Musician
Mali
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was born on August 10, 1965. He is a Malian
kora player who has gained international acclaim
for his music. He is considered by many to be
the world's finest kora player. He is a versatile
performer, being equally at home with the traditional
music of Mali as well as with cross-cultural
collaborations with flamenco, blues, jazz, and
other international styles. He comes from a
long family tradition of kora players including
his father who recorded the first ever kora
album in 1970. He appeared in 2006 at the Roskilde
Festival in Denmark, and at the Sziget Festival
in Budapest, Hungary.
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Director
South-Korea
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He
was born on August
23, 1963. He is a South Korean director and
screenwriter. One of the most acclaimed and
popular filmmakers in his native country, he
is internationally renowned for what has become
known as his "vengeance trilogy", which began
in 2002 with Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and
ended in 2005 with Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.
Famed American director Quentin Tarantino is
an avowed fan of him and has publicly disclosed
on the show Jimmy Kimmel Live! that as the head
judge in the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, he personally
pushed for Park's Oldboy to be awarded the Palme
D'Or (the honor eventually went to Michael Moore's
Fahrenheit 9/11). Oldboy garnered the Grand
Jury Prize, the second highest honor in the
competition.
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Spationaut
Cameroun
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He
was born on March 6, 1946 in in
Douala (United Republic of Cameroon),
then a French colony.
Married. One child. Hobbies include mechanical
sports, such as motorcycling and car racing.
He also enjoys running marathons, playing squash,
skiing, gun-firing, windsurfing, and sky diving.
He is also a wine connoisseur.
He retired Lieutenant Colonel, French Air Force,
is a CNES Spationaut.
In 1985, he became the second citizen of France
in space, after Jean-Loup Chrétien, when he
flew aboard the NASA's Space Shuttle Mission
STS-51-G.
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Actress
France

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She was born on June
27, 1955) is one of France's best known actresses.
She is multilingual, and performs in her native
French, English, and German. She has also been
nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best
Actress.
She was born to an Algerian father and a German
mother. She was drawn to acting at a young age,
playing in amateur theater by the age of twelve.
As a fourteen-year-old, she appeared in her
first motion picture.
She has two sons: Barnabé Nuytten with Bruno
Nuytten, and Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis from her
tempestuous six-year relationship with Oscar-winning
British/Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis. Gabriel-Kane
was born in New York City in 1995, several months
after her relationship with Day-Lewis ended.
In 1987, some French media outlets incorrectly
reported that she was dying of AIDS, but she
appeared on television to deny it. She was engaged
to French composer Jean-Michel Jarre, but this
relationship ended in a spectacular and public
fashion.
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