Historical Figures 2.0: The Initials

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^ Robert is one to thank too, of course. -- It's funny to notice how several "Just for Fun" threads (such as Last question, One word to describe you, etc., for which I have no interest at all) are also kept alive by a very small group of members.

Olive Kitteridge, the ageing, bitter woman in the TV mini series of the same name, gorgeusly played by Frances McDormand. Based on the novel of Elizabeth Strout.

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	^ Robert is one to thank too, of course. -- It's funny to notice how several "Just for Fun" threads (such as Last question, One word to describe you, etc., for which I have no interest at all) are also kept alive by a very small group of members. Olive Kitteridge, the ageing, bitter woman in the TV mini series of the same name, gorgeusly played by Frances McDormand. Based on the novel of Elizabeth Strout.

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	Paul Klee (1879 - 1940) Swiss-German painter


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	Skipping QK... Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968). American politiician.
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	I tried to remember someone less obvious and preferably female SK, but I failed: Stephen King (b. 1947 Portland, Maine), American bestseller horror writer.

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	^ Sylvia Kristel
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	Thomas Kretschmann (born 1962). German actor. Remembered by playing the officer that helped The Pianist.
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	^^ Oh yes, Sylvia! Talking about the obvious choices: Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (1900 - 1986), Finnish politician and the 8th president of Finland ('56 - '82, over 25 years!). He's a real Finnish icon; already the letters UKK refer to him distinctively.

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	Vladimir Komarov (1927 - 1967). Soviet cosmonaut. First person to die in a space flight.
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	Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) Russian painter and art theorist


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	Xerxes I, King of Persia (518 BC - 465 BC). As portrayed by Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro.
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	^ Yasunari Kawabata (,1899 – 1972), Japanese novelist and short story writer. Nobel prize in 1968.

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	Zoe Kravitz (born 1988). American actress. Daughter of musician Lenny Kravitz.
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	^ Wow, the first complete X-Y-Z tail. Alice Liddell (1852 – 1934), the child friend of mathematician Charles Dodgson, who dedicated his fairy tale Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to her (as Lewis Carroll) and took lots of photographs of her:

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	Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfekd (1911 - 2004) Prince of the Netherlands 1937-2004 Founding member and first chairman (1954-1976) of the Bilderberg Group


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	Christiane Legrand (1930 - 2011), French singer. The original lead soprano of The Swingle Singers and the vocalist who dubbed the part of Madame Emery in Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, the music for which was composed by her brother Michel Legrand. You might have heard her vocalise singing in Procol Harum's Grand Hotel track 'Fires (Which Burnt Brightly)'. Lovely voice!

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	A lot of DL possibilities, let's go with: Dalai Lama (14th), born Lhamo Thondup, 1935.
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	Eberhard van der Laan (1955 -2017) Dutch politician. Mayor of Amsterdam 2010-2017.


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	Frederick Loewe (1901 - 1988), Austrian-American composer. His Broadway musicals include My Fair Lady and Camelot.

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	George Lucas (b. 1944) American filmmaker of Star Wars fame


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	Hubert Laws (b. 1939), American flutist and saxophonist. Over 40 years in jazz, classical and other genres.