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- Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865 · Serving as the 16th president of the United States
- Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · Theory of relativity
- Alexander the Great 356–323 BC · Conquering the Persian Empire
- Cleopatra c. 69–30 BC · Being the last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt
- Isaac Newton 1643–1727 · Laws of motion
- Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519 · Mona Lisa
- Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · Leading India to independence
- Marie Curie 1867–1934 · Discovering polonium and radium
- Nelson Mandela 1918–2013 · Fighting apartheid
- Nikola Tesla 1856–1943 · Alternating-current electricity system
- William Shakespeare 1564–1616 · Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791 · More than 600 works
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- Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · Theory of relativity
- Archimedes c. 287–c. 212 BC · Archimedes' principle
- Charles Darwin 1809–1882 · The theory of evolution by natural selection
- Dmitri Mendeleev 1834–1907 · The periodic table of the elements
- Ernest Rutherford 1871–1937 · The nuclear model of the atom
- Galileo Galilei 1564–1642 · Telescopic astronomy
- Isaac Newton 1643–1727 · Laws of motion
- Marie Curie 1867–1934 · Discovering polonium and radium
- Niels Bohr 1885–1962 · The Bohr model of the atom
- Nikola Tesla 1856–1943 · Alternating-current electricity system
- Pierre Curie 1859–1906 · Discovery of polonium and radium
- Thomas Edison 1847–1931 · The practical incandescent light bulb
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- Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865 · Serving as the 16th president of the United States
- Alexander the Great 356–323 BC · Conquering the Persian Empire
- Cleopatra c. 69–30 BC · Being the last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt
- Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 · Leading India to independence
- Nelson Mandela 1918–2013 · Fighting apartheid
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