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Xavier Cougat - Bandleader

 

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Robert Young (Father Knows Best)

 

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Frank Zappa

 

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Aldus Manutius

Aldus Manutius | Biography & Facts | Britannica

The leading Italian publisher, printer, and typographer who produced the first printed editions of many Greek and Latin classics.

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Ernie Banks (baseball player)

 

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Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac

Antoine Laumet de La Mothe Cadillac | Founder of Detroit, Colonial Governor, Fur Trader | Britannica

Antoine Laumet de La Mothe Cadillac was a French soldier, explorer, and administrator in French North America, founder of the city of Detroit (1701), and governor of Louisiana (1710 to 1716 or 1717). Going to Canada in 1683, he fought against the Iroquois Indians, lived for a time in Maine, and

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John Denver - Musician

 

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Leif Erikson

Leif Erikson | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts | Britannica

Leif Erikson, Norse explorer widely held to have been the first European to reach the shores of North America. The 13th- and 14th-century Icelandic accounts of his life show that he was a member of an early voyage to eastern North America, although he may not have been the first to sight its coast.

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Freddie Fender - Musician

 

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Oliver Wolcott Gibbs

Oliver Wolcott Gibbs - Wikipedia

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George Harrison - Musician

 

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Washington Irving

 

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Michael Jackson

 

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Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler | Biography, Discoveries, & Facts | Britannica

Johannes Kepler, German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion. His discoveries turned Nicolaus Copernicus’s Sun-centered system into a dynamic universe, with the Sun actively pushing the planets around in noncircular orbits. Learn more about Kepler’s life and discoveries...

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John Lennon

 

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Sir Patrick Manson

Sir Patrick Manson | Medical Microbiology, Tropical Medicine & Parasitology | Britannica

Sir Patrick Manson was a British parasitologist who founded the field of tropical medicine. He was the first to discover (1877–79) that an insect (mosquito) can be host to a developing parasite (the worm Filaria bancrofti) that is the cause of a human disease (filariasis, which occurs when the

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Alfred Nobel (Peace Price)