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German fashion designer 1933–2019

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German poet and writer 1772–1801

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Canadian-born American writer 1915–2005

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Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order 1182–1226

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Classical Greek philosopher -427–-347 BC

Charles Manson53

American criminal and musician 1934–2017

Theodor W. Adorno90

German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for … 1903–1969

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Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551–-479 BC

Groucho Marx117

American comedian 1890–1977

George Carlin270

American stand-up comedian 1937–2008

Ernest Hemingway501

American author and journalist 1899–1961

Henry David Thoreau385

1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862

Charlie Chaplin75

British comic actor and filmmaker 1889–1977

Jim Morrison129

lead singer of The Doors 1943–1971

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American filmmaker 1958

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philosopher from Ancient Greece 50–138

Marie Curie21

French-Polish physicist and chemist 1867–1934

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founder of aikido 1883–1969

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach81

Austrian writer 1830–1916

Galileo Galilei70

Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer 1564–1642

Ralph Waldo Emerson727

American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

Robert Baden-Powell23

lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and… 1857–1941