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6,738 famous people found
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Wolfram Freiherr VON RICHTHOFEN
German Generalfeldmarschall (General Field Marshal) of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) during the Second World War
1895 - 1945
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H. G. WELLS
English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre
1866 - 1946
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Guillaume Apollinaire
French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic
1880 - 1918
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F. Scott FITZGERALD
American author of novels and short stories
1896 - 1940
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William FAULKNER
American writer and Nobel Prize laureate
1897 - 1962
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Douglas FAIRBANKS
American actor, screenwriter, director and producer
1883 - 1939
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Cecil B. DE MILLE
American film director and film producer
1881 - 1959
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Isaac SINGER
American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company
1811 - 1875
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Sigmund FREUD
Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
1856 - 1939
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Oscar Wilde
Irish poet and playwright
1854 - 1900
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Mary PICKFORD
Canadian motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists
1893 - 1979
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Henri MATISSE
French artist
1869 - 1954
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Charles DICKENS
English writer and social critic
1812 - 1870
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Agatha CHRISTIE
British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays
1890 - 1976
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Richard WAGNER
German composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist
1813 - 1883
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Groucho MARX
American comedian and film and television star
1890 - 1977
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Jean Auguste Dominique INGRES
French Neoclassical painter
1780 - 1867
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Lucien Louis BONAPARTE
French cardinal
1828 - 1895
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SISSI (SISI)
Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary
1837 - 1898
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General Tom Thumb
American with dwarfism who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P. T. Barnum
1838 - 1883