Famous People

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Abraham Lincoln

1809 - 1865

16th President of the U.S.

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Albert Einstein

1879 - 1955

Developed General Theory of Relativity

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Babe Ruth

(George Herman Ruth)

1895 - 1948

714 home runs - most until Hank Aaron

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Adolf Hitler

1889 - 1945

German Dictator during WWII

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Gaius Octavius (Augustus) Caesar

63 BC - 14 AD

First Roman Emperor (27 BC)

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George Washington

1732 - 1799

First President of the U.S.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton

b. 1947

Former First Lady, U.S. Secretary of State, and U.S. Senator

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Bill Gates

(William Henry Gates)

b. 1955

Former CEO of Microsoft, co-creator of BASIC, MS-DOS, and Windows

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(Nelson Mandela)

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

1918 - 2013

South African Revolutionary and Politician

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Sherlock Holmes

Fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; stories published 1891 - 1927

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Sinbad the Sailor

Legendary (folk) character who appears in The Thousand Nights and a Night

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Osama bin Laden

(Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad Laden)

1957 - 2011

Founder of al-Qaeda, organizer of terrorist attacks on U.S.

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Garth Brooks

(Troyal Garth Brooks)

b. 1962

American country music singer

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John Wilkes Booth

1838 - 1865

Actor; assassinated President Lincoln

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Robert E. Lee

(Robert Edward Lee)

1807 - 1870

General-in-Chief of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War

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Frederick A. Douglass

(Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass)

1818 - 1895

Slave, author of Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, leader of American abolition movement.

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Alfred Hitchcock

(Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock)

1899 - 1980

English film director.

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Miles Davis

(Miles Dewey Davis III)

1926 - 1991

American jazz musician.

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Stephen (Edwin) King

b. 1947

American horror and mystery author

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Stephen (William) Hawking

b. 1942

English theoretical physicist

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Andrew Jackson

1767 - 1845

7th President of the U.S.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy

1917 - 1963

35th President of the U.S.

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Richard Milhous Nixon

1913 - 1994

37th President of the U.S,

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Franklin Delano Rooselvelt

1882 - 1945

32nd President of the U.S.

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Theodore Roosevelt

1858 - 1919

26th President of the U.S.