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| Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865 |
| Albert Einstein | 1879-1955 |
| Alexander Graham Bell | 1847-1922 |
| Alexander The Great | 356-323 BCE |
| Amadeus Mozart | 1756-1791 |
| Aristotle | 384-322 BCE |
| Catherine The Great | 1729-1796 |
| Charles Darwin | 1809-1882 |
| Christopher Columbus | 1451-1506 |
| Cleopatra | ± 69-30 BCE |
| Confucius | 551–479 BCE |
| Elizabeth I | 1533-1603 |
| Ferdinand Magellan | 1480-1521 |
| Florence Nightingale | 1820-1910 |
| Frederick Douglass | 1817/1818-1895 |
| Galileo Galilei | 1564-1642 |
| Genghis Khan | 1162-1227 |
| George Washington | 1732-1799 |
| Henry VIII | 1491-1547 |
| Isaac Newton | 1643-1727 |
| Joan of Arc | 1412-1431 |
| Johannes Gutenberg | 1400-1468 |
| John F. Kennedy | 1917-1963 |
| Josef Stalin | 1879-1953 |
| Julius Caesar | 100-44 BCE |
| Karl Marx | 1818-1883 |
| Kublai Khan | 1215-1294 |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | 1452-1519 |
| Louis Pasteur | 1822-1895 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 1770-1827 |
| Mao Zedong | 1893-1976 |
| Marie Curie | 1867-1934 |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | 1929-1968 |
| Michelangelo | 1475-1564 |
| Mohandas Gandhi | 1869-1948 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769-1821 |
| Nelson Mandela | 1918-2013 |
| Otto von Bismarck | 1815-1898 |
| Peter The Great | 1672-1725 |
| Queen Isabella I of Castile | 1451-1504 |
| Queen Victoria | 1819-1901 |
| Simon Bolivar | 1783-1830 |
| Socrates | 469-399 BCE |
| Steve Jobs | 1955-2011 |
| Susan B. Anthony | 1820-1906 |
| Thomas Edison | 1847-1931 |
| Vladimir Lenin | 1870-1924 |
| William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 |
| William the Conqueror | 1028-1087 |
| Winston Churchill | 1874-1965 |