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« He was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in the USA in 1933. He had a twin brother, but he died at birth. His family moved to Memphis when he was 13. He started his musical career when he recorded ‘That's alright, Mama' in 1953. He joined the US army in 1958, but rebooted his musical career two years later; he made 31 movies during the sixties. »

« He died after long-time consumption of prescription drugs in 1977 at the age of 42. »

« He is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century. He is the best-selling solo artist in the history of recorded music. (It is estimated that he sold 600 million units). He won three Grammys, also receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36. »

« She was born in Grantham in the north of England in 1925. She went to the Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School, where she worked hard and became Head Girl. She later studied Chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford. It was in Oxford that she became interested in politics. She married Dennis in 1951 and had two children, Mark and Carol. She became Britain's first female Prime Minister in 1979. She organised the defence of the Falkland Islands in the early 1980s and also resisted the Miners' strike and survived a terrorist attack in 1984. She left office in 1990. She died in 2013. »

« She was born on 19 April 1987 in Nyagan. At a young age, she showed great talent in her sport. But with poor training facilities in his country, her father Yuri decided to borrow the money for him and his daughter to go to the United States of America in 1994. She joined the Nick Bolletieri academy at the age of six. She became world number one in her sport for the first time in 2005. She had a shoulder injury in 2007 and dropped out of the top five players in the world. She became the world's richest sportswoman in 2012 and won an Olympic silver medal at the 2012 London games. »

« He was born on September 25, 1968. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood. In the late 1980s, he achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. (He won four Grammy Awards for his music in the late eighties and nineties.) He also had nominations for four Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards. In 1990, his popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In the mid-1990s, he moved from television to film, and ultimately starred in numerous blockbuster films. In his personal life, he married twice. Once in 1992, but he separated from his wife three years later. He married Jada in 1997. »