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• Abraham Lincoln

  16Th U.S. President

  Sunday, Feb 12, 1809
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• Oscar Wilde

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  Monday, Oct 16, 1854
  Friday, Nov 30, 1900

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

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  Tuesday, Jan 15, 1929
  Thursday, Apr 04, 1968

• Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philologist

  Tuesday, Oct 15, 1844
  Saturday, Aug 25, 1900

• Barack Obama

  44Th U.s. President

  Friday, Aug 04, 1961
  

• Aldous Huxley

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  Thursday, Jul 26, 1894
  Friday, Nov 22, 1963

• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  Thursday, Aug 28, 1749
  Thursday, Mar 22, 1832

• Rodney Dangerfield

  Comedian

  Tuesday, Nov 22, 1921
  Tuesday, Oct 05, 2004

• Billy Graham

  Evangelist

  Thursday, Nov 07, 1918
  

• Julius Caesar

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  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
  

• Stephen Covey

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  Monday, Oct 24, 1932
  Monday, Jul 16, 2012

• Lucy Larcom

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  Friday, Mar 05, 1824
  Monday, Apr 17, 1893

• Charles Spurgeon

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  Thursday, Jun 19, 1834
  Sunday, Jan 31, 1892

• Walt Disney

  Animator

  Thursday, Dec 05, 1901
  Thursday, Dec 15, 1966