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American musician famous for 'Like A Rollin' Stone' and 'Blowin' in the Wind'
American bank robber in depression-era USA killed in a shoot-out in Chicago 1934
English author of 'Oliver Twist' and 'A Tale of Two Cities'
French composer famous for 'Claire de Lune' and 'Afternoon of a Fawn'
Jewish 19th century British PM who made Queen Victoria Empress of India in 1876
British novelist and short story writer who wrote 'James and the Giant Peach' and 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'
Spanish surrealist painter of 'The Persistence of Memory'
1960s American murderer known as the 'Boston Strangler'
American actress who won Best Actress Academy Awards for 'To Each His Own' and 'The Heiress'
American film director of 'The Ten Commandments', 'Cleopatra', and 'The Greatest Show on Earth'
World heavyweight boxing champion 1919-1926
American actor, star of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' film series
American singer-songwriter known for the songs ' Sweet Caroline' and 'Song Sung Blue'
The late Princess of Wales, 1961-97
American vocalist and guitarist known for his technical innovations, including his trademark rectangular guitar
Canadian singer of 'My Heart Will Go On' from the film 'Titanic', best-selling Canadian artist of all time,
American actor, star of the films 'Spartacus' and 'Lust for Life'
British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes
American actress in the films 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'Chinatown'
American actor in the films 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Godfather I & II'
British chemist 1778-1829, discoverer of sodium, potassium and calcium and inventer of a safety lamp for coalminers
Scottish inventor, one of the founders of the rubber company that bears his name
Lead singer of The Who
American guitarist and singer of the songs 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' and 'Annie's Song'
French philosopher famous for 'I think, therefore I am'
19th-century maker of small pocket pistols, originally a single-shot pistol
Character in Greek myth who sat on a throne beneath a sword suspended by a single hair
Italian poet best known for 'The Divine Comedy'
Leading the first bomber attack on Japan by the U.S. in 1942 earned this man the Medal of Honor
Air Chief Marshall Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain 1940
Earl of Leicester, favourite and alleged lover of Elizabeth I
Russian author of 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'
Leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution, guillotined 1793
Knighted Elizabethan mariner, privateer and circumnavigator
Panamanian boxer who held world titles at four different weights, nicknamed 'Hands of Stone'
English naturalist, author of 'On the Origin of Species' published 1859
Builder of the world's first iron bridge on the River Severn England in 1789
American reclusive female poet 1830-86 who's works were published posthumously
French novelist of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and 'The Three Musketeers'
Ancient Greek philosopher who lived in a barrel and went about with a lantern in daylight searching for an honest man
American actor in the films 'The Aviator' and 'Titanic'
American jazz musician and trumpeter, composer of 'Birth Of Cool' and 'Kind Of Blue'
Flemish artist most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family
Portuguese mariner, first to round the tip of southernmost Africa 1488
English author of Robinson Crusoe
American film producer and director of animated films such as 'Snow White' and 'Sleeping Beauty'
Name of a vampire created by Bram Stoker
American film actor in the films 'Rebel Without a Cause' and 'East of Eden'
English sailor, first to to explore or map parts of western Australia and New Guinea in 1700
King of ancient Persia defeated at the Battle of Marathon 490 BC
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