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Ichirō Mizuki

Ichirō Mizuki

19482022

Japanese singer and voice actor, affectionately known as 'Aniki,' who recorded over 1,200 songs for anime and tokusatsu, and founded the anison band JAM Project

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William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

18091898

British Liberal prime minister, writer, politician, diplomat, and statistician who served four non-consecutive terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin

19131992

Israeli politician who founded Herut and Likud, served as Prime Minister, and negotiated the historic peace treaty between Egypt and Israel

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Karl Jaspers

Karl Jaspers

18831969

German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher whose work on psychopathology influenced diagnostic criteria and shaped modern theology and philosophy

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Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Mastroianni

19241996

Italian actor widely regarded as one of Italy's most iconic male performers of the 20th century, starring in 147 films and earning three Oscar nominations

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Eugene Wigner

Eugene Wigner

19021995

Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel laureate recognized for fundamental symmetry principles in atomic and elementary particle theory

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Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba

19322008

South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist known as Mama Africa, a prominent voice against apartheid

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Anders Celsius

Anders Celsius

17011744

Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician best known for proposing the centigrade temperature scale, which was later named Celsius in his honor, and for founding the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory

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André Malraux

André Malraux

19011976

French novelist, art theorist, and statesman who won the Prix Goncourt for La Condition Humaine and served as France's first cultural affairs minister under Charles de Gaulle

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Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith

19342024

British actress celebrated for her extensive career spanning over seven decades, known for her wit and iconic roles, and a recipient of the Triple Crown of Acting

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François Truffaut

François Truffaut

19321984

Influential French filmmaker, actor, and critic, recognized as a founder of the French New Wave and a proponent of the auteur theory

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Paul Klee

Paul Klee

18791940

German-Swiss artist and university teacher known for his highly individual style influenced by expressionism, cubism, and surrealism

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Cary Grant

Cary Grant

19041986

British-American actor known for his debonair style, comic timing, and defining presence as a leading man during the Golden Age of Hollywood, earning him an Academy Honorary Award and ranking as the second-greatest male star by the AFI

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José Martí

José Martí

18531895

Cuban national hero, poet, and revolutionary who led the independence movement against Spanish rule and became known as the 'Apostle of Cuban Independence'

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

18641901

French painter, illustrator, and graphic designer renowned for capturing the vibrant life of fin-de-siècle Paris, particularly its cabarets and theatrical scenes

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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr

19142000

Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping

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Évariste Galois

Évariste Galois

18111832

French mathematician who solved the 350-year-old problem of polynomial solvability by radicals, foundational to Galois theory and group theory

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Louis de Broglie

Louis de Broglie

18921987

French theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate known for postulating the wave nature of electrons and all matter, a foundational concept in quantum mechanics

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Mikhail Kalashnikov

Mikhail Kalashnikov

19192013

Soviet and Russian small arms designer renowned for creating the AK-47 assault rifle and its subsequent improvements

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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

17361806

French physicist, engineer, and military officer known for Coulomb's law, describing electrostatic attraction and repulsion, and for pioneering work in friction and soil mechanics

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Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Niemeyer

19072012

Brazilian architect known for designing civic buildings for Brasília and his influential exploration of reinforced concrete aesthetics

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Aurobindo Ghosh

Aurobindo Ghosh

18721950

Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, poet, and nationalist who advocated for India's independence and formulated the spiritual path of Integral Yoga

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Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour

19242018

Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, and diplomat known for his distinctive tenor voice and prolific output of over 1,200 recorded songs and 1,000 written songs

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J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie

18601937

Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan

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