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Dean-Charles Chapman

Dean-Charles Chapman is an English actor. He has portrayed roles in The Revolting World of Stanley Brown, Into the Badlands and is best known for playing Tommen Baratheon in Game of Thrones.

Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore was an English sculptor and artist.

Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was a Soviet politician and the fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He led the Soviet Union from 13 February 1984 until his death thirteen months later, on 10 March 1985. Chernenko was also Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

Pierre de Fermat

Pierre de Fermat was a French mathematician who made significant contributions towards the development of infinitesimal calculus.

Charles Atlas

Charles Atlas whose real name was Angelo Siciliano was the developer of bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program that was best known for a landmark advertising campaign featuring Atlas’ name and likeness. The advert has been described as the longest lasting and most memorable ad campaigns of all time.

Mike Mangini

Michael Mangini is an American musician who is the current drummer of the progressive metal band Dream Theater, following the departure of founding drummer Mike Portnoy in 2010. He has also played for bands and artists such as Annihilator, Extreme, James LaBrie, and Steve Vai. Before joining Dream Theater, Mangini was a faculty member at Berklee College of Music.

Henry Brown

Henry Billings Brown was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1890 to 1906. An admiralty lawyer and U.S. District Judge in Detroit before ascending to the high court, Mr. Brown authored hundreds of opinions in his 31 years as a federal judge. He contributed most in the areas of admiralty and patent opinions, in which he had acquired considerable expertise in the cou...

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.

Claude Meziriac

Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac was a French prolific reader of poetry, history, commentary, scholarship, and mathematics. He is regarded as a poet and early mathematician of the French Academy, best known for his translation in 1621 of Diophantus's Arithmetica.

Rudolf Steiner

A popular lecturer in his day, Rudolf Steiner created the philosophy of anthroposophy and stressed the importance of creativity in children's education.

Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding was an English writer and magistrate who established the mechanisms of the modern novel. He was one of the great novelists of the 18th century. His novels, in which the author himself tells the story and controls the plot structure, are considered the first accurate portrayal of contemporary manners.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the Swiss-born philosopher, author, political theorist, the most popular philosopher among members of the Jacobin Club.

Mikalojus Čiurlionis

Mikalojus Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian composer, writer and painter. He was a representative of the fin de siècle epoch and contributed to symbolism and art nouveau. He has been considered one of the pioneers of abstract art in Europe. During his short life, Čiurlionis composed about 400 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings, as well as many literary works and poems.

Robert "Bob" Rafelson

Robert "Bob" Rafelson is an American film director, writer and producer. He is regarded as one of the founders of the New Hollywood movement in the 1970s. Among his best-known films are Five Easy Pieces (1970), The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981).

Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall was an American actress. She is known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa is a French politician who served as President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra from 16 May 2007 until 15 May 2012.