Famous People In History A-Z

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Othello

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Park Chung Hee - south korean strongman; supported the rise of the "chaebols" (conglomerates) that shaped modern day/prosperous south korea; assassinated in 1981(?).

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Jackie Robinson - first black baseball player to play in the major leagues (USA)

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Quandt Family - munich-based controlling group in the BMW car company

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Ronaldinho - player for Barcelona, reportedly now the world's highest paid football player

 

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Samuel Jackson

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Ted Turner - media mogul; founded TBS and CNN; philanthropic grant of $1 billion to the U.N.; owner of Atlanta Braves; formerly married to Jane Fonda

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Ulysses Grant

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Vincent Van Gogh - 19th century dutch painter; virtually unknown & suffering from mental illness took own life; paintings now worth tens of millions of US$

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William Shakesphere

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xerex xaviera

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Yeltsin, Boris - former moscow mayor who took over russian presidency from mikhail gorbachev after collapse of soviet union; survived coup attempt in '91; groomed current president vladimir putin while in position

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Zappa, Frank - born 1940, died on 4 December 1993.

 

Musician who earned a cult following at the end of the 70's and then in the 80's.

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Attila the Hun ~ Attila became king (c. 433-53) and led the Huns on a devastating course through Europe for which reason Attila and the Huns are known as the Scourge of Europe.

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Bob Woodward - one of the two washington post reporters whose relentless sleuthing of seemingly ordinary burglary at the watergate complex led to the resignation of a sitting u.s. president.

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Charles Schultz

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David Copperfield

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Eichmann, Adolf - head of the Department for Jewish Affairs in the Gestapo from 1941 to 1945

 

At the end of the war, Eichmann was arrested and confined to an American internment camp, but he was able to escape unrecognized. He fled to Argentina and lived under the assumed name of Ricardo Klement for ten years until Israeli Mossad agents abducted him in 1960 to stand trial in Jerusalem. The controversial and highly publicized trial lasted from April 2 to August 14, 1961. Eichmann was sentenced to death and executed in Ramleh Prison on May 31, 1962.

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Fleming, Alexander - british scientist credited with the discovery of penicillin; awarded with the Nobel prize; knighted by the british monarch

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Gandhi

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Hitler, Adolf

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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (इन्दिरा प्रियदर्शिनी गान्धी) (November 19, 1917 – October 31, 1984) was Prime Minister of India from January 19, 1966 to March 24, 1977, and again from January 14, 1980 until her assassination on October 31, 1984.

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Joseph Pulitzer - hungarian-born american newspaperman; established the pulitzer prize for journalism

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Kareem Abdul Jabbar

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Lee Kuan Yew