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22 famous people found
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Isaac SINGER
American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company
1811 - 1875 -
ARLETTY
French actress, singer, and fashion model
1898 - 1992 -
Philippe Pétain
French general who commanded the French Army in World War I and became the head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II
1856 - 1951 -
Ulysses S. GRANT
18th President of the United States
1822 - 1885 -
Harvey FLETCHER
American physicist, known as the "father of stereophonic sound"
1884 - 1981 -
Marcel DE SERRES
French caver, geologist and naturalist
1780 - 1862 -
Andries PRETORIUS
Leader of the Boers who was instrumental in the creation of the South African Republic
1798 - 1853 -
Cordell HULL
American politician, 47th United States Secretary of State
1871 - 1955 -
Paul MORAND
French diplomat, novelist, playwright and poet
1888 - 1976 -
Georges AURIC
French composer
1899 - 1983 -
Alexandre Thomas FRANCIA
French painter
1815 - 1884 -
François-Xavier RIEHL
French bishop
1835 - 1886 -
Théodore MURET
French playwright, poet, essayist and historian
1808 - 1866 -
Marceline DESBORDES-VALMORE
French poet and novelist
1786 - 1859 -
André LEROY
French horticulturist
1801 - 1875 -
D. W. GRIFFITH
Pioneering American film director
1875 - 1948 -
Henry St. George TUCKER III
Representative from the Commonwealth of Virginia to the United States House of Representatives, professor of law, and president of the American Bar Association
1853 - 1932 -
Harry Lynde BRADLEY
Co-founder of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
1885 - 1965 -
Minnie WARREN
American entertainer associated with P.T. Barnum, a proportionate dwarf
1849 - 1878 -
Glenn CURTISS
American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry
1878 - 1930