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| With his landmark novel 'Catcher in the Rye,' he was one of the more influential 20th-century American writers. | |
| He was an American physician and medical researcher who developed the first safe and effective vaccine for polio. | |
| She is an American actress who starred in 'Thelma & Louise' and 'Dead Man Walking.' She is also an outspoken social and political activist. | |
| He was a cartoonist best known for creating one of the world's most successful comic strips, Peanuts. | |
| From the iconic 'Taxi Driver' to Academy Award-winner 'The Departed,' this director has produced some of the most memorable films in cinema history. | |
| He was a Caldecott award-winning children's book author and illustrator best known for his book 'Where the Wild Things Are.' | |
| She was a British writer who penned the famous tale 'Frankenstein' in 1818. | |
| He was a Russian-American pioneer of aviation, credited with designing America's first helicopter. | |
| She was one of the lead singers for the band Jefferson Airplane. She wrote the song 'White Rabbit'. | |
| He was on the TV show 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and has had a successful career as a film actor in several blockbusters since 1992. | |
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| He was a Greek philosopher and the main source of Western thought. Little is known of his life except what was recorded by his students, including Plato. | |
| He was an American writer of mysteries and pulp fiction. His most famous creation was hard-boiled detective, Mike Hammer. | |
| He was best known for his parenting advice book, 'Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care,' originally published in 1946. | |
| He was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party and took over after Vladimir Lenin's death and became the leader of the Soviet Union. | |
| He first rose to fame in the early 1960s as the drummer for the legendary rock group the Beatles. | |
| She is a founding member of the ska-pop group No Doubt. In the early aughts, she launched a successful solo-music career and two popular clothing lines. | |
| He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose book, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' portrayed the plight of migrant workers during the Depression. | |
| She is most famous for her starring role in the erotic thriller 'Basic Instinct.' She won an Oscar nomination for her performance in 'Casino.' | |
| He was a clothing manufacturer known as the originator of blue jeans. | |
| She was a teacher who, at age 21, taught Helen Keller, who was deaf, mute, and blind, how to communicate and read Braille. | |
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