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Cesare Beccaria-Bonesana

Cesare Bonesana-Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, and politician.

Florence Kelley

Florence Kelley was an American social and political reformer and the pioneer of the term Wage abolitionism.

David Hasselhoff

David Michael Hasselhoff is an American actor, singer, producer, and businessman. He became a widely watched man with two worldwide successful shows: 'Knight Rider' and 'Baywatch.'

Rodman Serling

Rodman Edward Serling was an American screenwriter, producer and narrator. He was mostly known for his science-fiction anthology TV series The Twilight Zone.

Latif Karimov was a notable Azerbaijani carpet designer, who gained prominence for his contributions to the art of carpet making. He was a founder of Azerbaijan Carpet Museum and author of scientific work "Azerbaijan Carpet". In addition, Latif contributed to a number of books, classifying and describing various designs of Azerbaijani rugs.

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko was an American painter of Jewish descent. Although Rothko himself refused to adhere to any art movement, he is generally identified as an abstract expressionist. His use of colour as the sole means of expression led to the development of Colour Field Painting.

Dorothy Dunaway

Faye Dunaway is an American actress.

Eric Bana

Eric Banadinovic, better known as Eric Bana, is an Australian actor and comedian. He starred in several sketch-comedy shows in Australia, including "The Eric Bana Show," but came to prominence and was recognized as a talented actor for his powerful performance in "Chopper," "Full Frontal," and "Romulus, My Father," "Hulk," "Black Hawk Down" and "Troy."

Armand du Plessis

Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis was a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman.

Frederic Dard

His name is Frédéric Dard, but most of the time he wrote under the pseudonym San-Antonio, same as the name of the protagonist of his numerous novels. With over 300 crime novels he wrote, he was one of the most famous and prolific French writers of 20th century. His most famous writing work are 173 written adventures about fictional Detective Superintendent Antoine San-Antonio.

Le Duan

Le Duan was a Vietnamese communist politician. He was a founding member of the Vietnam Communist Party (at the time it was called the Indo-Chinese Communist Party) in 1930, who climbed steadily upwards on the ladder of power. He became, with the death of Ho Chi Minh in 1969, the major political figure in North Vietnam and then, after victory in the Vietnam War, in all of Vietnam.

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.

Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius was a Dutch jurist, statesman, historian and founder the modern school of international law.

Avicenna (Abū Avicenna)

Avicenna was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers, and writers of the Islamic Golden Age. He is considered to be the father of modern medicine.

Princess Alice Countess of Athlone

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone was an honorary commandant in chief, Women's Transport Service (FANY). Princess Alice provided royal patronage for the corps from 1933 until 1981.

Willard Libby

Willard Frank Libby was an American physical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960 for developing the technique of radiocarbon dating or carbon-14 dating, a process that proved to be extremely beneficial in the field of palaeontology and archaeology. He is also noted for his contribution in the development of the atomic bomb while his association with the Manhattan Project ...