01/15/1929 - 04/04/1968
Martin Luther King, Jr was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the worl...
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10/15/1926 - 07/15/2010
James E. Akins, the State Department’s top energy expert and then ambassador to Saudi Arabia, who warned more than a year in advance of the 1973 Arab oil embargo that oil-exporting nations were poised to restrict shipments, died on July 15 i...
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Bill Janklow (William John Janklow)
09/13/1939 - 01/12/2012
William John "Bill" Janklow (September 13, 1939 – January 12, 2012) served as the 25th Attorney General of South Dakota, before being elected as South Dakota's 27th and 30th Governor, as well as to the United States House...
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01/09/1913 - 04/22/1994
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States (1969–74), having formerly been the 36th Vice President of the United States (1953–61). A member of the Republican Party, he was...
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09/26/1891 - 01/11/1985
Sir William John McKell (26 September 1891 – 11 January 1985), Australian politician, was Premier of New South Wales from 1941 to 1947, and was the 12th Governor-General of Australia.
03/18/1837 - 06/24/1908
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897) and therefore is the onl...
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12/02/1809 - 15/04/1865
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the Amer...
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09/03/1910 - 04/17/2007
Kitty Carlisle (also billed as Kitty Carlisle Hart; September 3, 1910 – April 17, 2007) was an American singer, actress and spokeswoman for the arts.
04/23/1888 - 03/05/1967
Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier PC DSO MC* CD (April 23, 1888 – March 5, 1967) was a Canadian soldier and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 19th since Canadian Confederation.
11/07/1917 - 01/01/2009
Helen Suzman, DBE (November 7, 1917 – January 1, 2009) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician.
03/29/1799 - 10/23/1869
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869) was an English statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party. He...
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Betty Ford (Elizabeth Ford)
04/08/1918 - 07/08/2011
Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren Ford (April 8, 1918 – July 8, 2011), better known as Betty Ford, was the wife of former United States President Gerald Ford and served as the First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977. As First Lady,...
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01/30/1882 - 04/12/1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States (1933–45). The only president elected to the office four times, Roosevelt led the United States through two of the greatest...
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07/06/1872 - 05/02/1955
Brigadier General Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie (6 July 1872 – 2 May 1955) was a British soldier and colonial governor and the tenth and longest serving Governor-General of Australia. Prior to his appointmen...
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03/24/1912 - 04/20/2010
Dorothy Irene Height (March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010) was an American administrator, educator, and social activist. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years, and wa...
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