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President of the U.S.A
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Financier and Banker
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Gunfighter
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Adolf Hitler's Father
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Military Personnel
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White Girl Abducted By Native Americans
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Serial Killer
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Military Leader
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Labor and Community Organizer
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Chess player
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Lexicographer
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Confederate guerrilla leader
Tokugawa Yoshinobu28th October, Japanese
Photographer, Shogun
Mother Jones1st May, Irish, American
Schoolteacher
Yohannes IV11th July, Ethiopian
Emperor
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee31st May, American
Politician
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Editor, Philosopher, Writer, Evangelist,
P. B. S. Pinchback10th May, American
Politician
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione22nd March, Italian
Countess
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Composer, Writer, Director
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Poet, Writer
Mark Hanna24th September, American
Businessman
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Priest
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Chemist
Pedro V of Portugal16th September, Portuguese
King
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Journalist, Theologian, Politician, University
Marie François Sadi Carnot11th August, French
Politician, Civil engineer, Engineer
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Politician
Johannes Diederik van der Waals23rd November, Dutch
Physicist
Vasil Levski18th July, Bulgarian
Revolutionary
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Civil Engineer
William Dean Howells1st March, American
Novelist
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Chester A. Arthur's wife
Thomas Moran12th February, American
Explorer, Painter
Khama III30th November, South African
Tribal Chief
David Josiah Brewer20th June, Turkish, American
Jurist
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Political figure
Ivan Kramskoi27th May, Russian
painter, art critic, artist
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Pianist
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Doctor
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Malaysian leader
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Diplomat
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Poet
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Poet, Writer
John Wesley Hyatt28th November, American
Inventor
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Painter
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Soldier
Muteesa I of Buganda30th November, Ugandan
King
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Poet
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Explorer
Zhang Zhidong4th September, Chinese
Chinese official
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Soldier
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Financier
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Leader
Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar30th November, Tanzanian
Sultan
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Educator
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Statesman
Tony Pastor28th May, American
Snger
Théodore Dubois24th August, French
Composer
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Physician
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Civil Servant
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Educator
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Social worker
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Educator
Morell Mackenzie7th July, British
Physician
Henry Draper7th March, American
Doctor
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British statesman
Alphonse Legros8th May, French, British
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Historian
Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron8th December, French
Photographer
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American Politician
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Explorer
Anna M. Harkness25th October, American
Philanthropist
Fredrik Bajer21st April, Kosovar
Danish writer
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Painter
Pétrus Ky6th December, Vietnamese
Scholar
Okura Kihachiro23rd October, Japanese
Entrepreneur
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Painter
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Geologist
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Archaeologist
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Illustrator
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Children's Rights Activist
Paul-Louis-Félix Philastre7th February, French
Scholar
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Soldier
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Educator
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Ethnologist