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Rossini was featured in OTD in October 2023, which means it is normally not to be featured again for at least a year, so I don't think it should be moved into the set this year. I am sorry that I did not realise this before you did all this work. However, I will move it back
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Rossini was not included in the hook set because their birthday is not cited in the article. Typically, this can be solved by adding the birthday to the first sentence of the "Early life" section if the date is verified by the source. If this is fixed, please ping me and I can swap it in.
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February 29 next year, it doesn't do any harm to have weird dates there.
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