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Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645), Spanish nobleman and writer.

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Richelieu      key French political player during the 1600s

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Sibelius, Jean
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Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
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John Updike    multiple Pulitzer winner
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Vogt, Erich

Late Canadian physicist and co-founder of TRIUMF, Canada's premier physics laboratory.
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Orville and Wilbur Wright     perfected the aeroplane, 1903
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Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, aka Tiradentes (1746-1792).
Brazilian national hero.
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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011), American medical physicist, co-winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for devising the radioimmunoassay technique.
 
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Margaretha Zell, a.k.a. Mata-Hari.
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John Couch Adams (1819-1892), British mathematician and astronomer. He was once co-credited with Urbain Le Verrier for the discovery of Neptune, but now Le Verrier is considered the discoverer.
 
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Carl Schuricht, German musical conductor (1880-1967)
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Er...B is next so....Jim Bowie   19th-century American pioneer, who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating in his death at the Battle of the Alamo. 
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Gratton, Elvis (1948- )
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Anton Bruckner, 1824-1896, Austrian composer
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Guys.....we are on C now......it seems like we are having some cognitive dissonance here...
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I apologise for screwing the format up, I didn't realise it was alphabetical
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Doug....do a C person.......no apologies needed for me.
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Cratton, Elvis (1948- )



National hero.

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Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, aka Stalin (1878-1953).
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