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Princip, Gavrilo

Gavrilo Princip

Slavic nationalist

Gavrilo Princip, South Slav nationalist who assassinated…

Walter Brennan and Gary Cooper in The Westerner

Walter Brennan, American character actor, best known…

Walter Payton, 1987.

American football player

Walter Payton, American professional gridiron football…

United States general

Henry Knox, American general in the American Revolution…

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Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait — Leonardo da VinciItalian artist, engineer, and scientist

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education

The title page of the 1556 edition of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb). This edition (sometimes called the 1556 Basel edition) was translated by medieval scholar Gerard of Cremona. — AvicennaPersian philosopher and scientist

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entertainment

The Bad and the Beautiful — Vincente MinnelliAmerican director

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history and society

The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1812; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. — Napoleon Iemperor of France

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literature

William Shakespeare, detail of an oil painting attributed to John Taylor, c. 1610. The portrait is called the “Chandos Shakespeare” because it once belonged to the duke of Chandos. — William ShakespeareEnglish author

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philosophy and religion

Thomas Jefferson, portrait by an anonymous artist, 19th century; in the National Museum of Franco-American Cooperation, Blérancourt, France. — Thomas Jeffersonpresident of United States

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sciences

Freud, Sigmund — Sigmund FreudAustrian psychoanalyst

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sports and recreation

Ruth, Babe — Babe RuthAmerican baseball player

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Galileo, oil painting by Justus Sustermans, c. 1637; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. — GalileoItalian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician

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