American actor and comedian Don Adams is best known for his role as secret agent Maxwell Smart on NBC's hit 1960s sitcom Get Smart.
1923-2005
20th century Irish novelist, playwright and poet Samuel Beckett penned the play Waiting for Godot. In 1969, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1906-1989
Michael S. Brown is a molecular geneticist who was co-awarded a 1985 Nobel Prize for his work on the metabolism of cholesterol in the human body.
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Lucy Craft Laney was a school teacher and educator who opened a school for African-American students in the South in the late 1800s.
1854-1933
1519-1589
Al Green is known for the hit song "Let's Stay Together," and for leaving his musical career at its height in the 1970s to become a reverend at his own church.
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Seamus Henry is a renowned Irish poet and professor who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Christopher Hitchens was a controversial, thought-provoking British-American writer who covered a range of serious topics, including art and atheism.
1949-2011
Thomas Jefferson was a draftsman of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president (1801-09). He was also responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.
1743-1826
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1890-1949
Tanzanian statesman and president Julius Kambarage was premier when Tanganyika was granted internal self-government, and was made president on independence.
1922-1999
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1909-2001