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Nikolai Gogol

Ukrainian-born Russian writer of Dead Souls, The Government Inspector and The Overcoat, master of grotesque satire

Did you know? During a spiritual crisis late in life, he burned many of his manuscripts, including the second part of his novel Dead Souls.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 April 1809 – 4 March 1852) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the grotesque in his writings, for example in his works "The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat", and "Nevsky Prospekt".

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Valery Leontiev

Russian pop singer famed since the Soviet era for flamboyant costumes and energetic shows, a People's Artist of Russia

Did you know? He is famous for his elaborate stage costumes and energetic dance routines which he often designs himself.

Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev (Russian: Валерий Яковлевич Леонтьев; born 19 March 1949) is a Russian singer, songwriter and actor, whose popularity peaked in the 1980s and 1990s. He was titled a People's Artist of Russia in 1996.

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Bruce Willis

action films led by the Die Hard series, comedic television work in Moonlighting, and roles in Pulp Fiction and The Sixth Sense

Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is a retired American actor.

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David Livingstone

Scottish explorer and missionary who searched for the Nile's source

Did you know? He was a committed abolitionist whose reports on the horrors of the slave trade helped to eventually end the practice in East Africa.

David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish doctor, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family.

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Adolf Eichmann

Nazi official who was a primary architect of the Holocaust

Did you know? He managed to escape to Argentina after the war and lived under a false identity before being captured by Mossad agents.

Otto Adolf Eichmann ( EYEKH-mən; German pronunciation:; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.

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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Founding leader and first President of independent Bangladesh

Did you know? In his home country, he is widely revered as the Father of the Nation and is officially known as Bangabandhu.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975) was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist, and diarist who was the founding president of Bangladesh.

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A. Kollontaĭ

Revolutionary politician and the first female ambassador in modern history

Did you know? She advocated for radical social reforms and was a key figure in establishing the international women's day holiday.

Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (Russian: Александра Михайловна Коллонтай; née Domontovich; 31 March 1872 – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist theoretician.

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Albert Speer

German architect who served as the Nazi Minister of Armaments

Did you know? He was the only high-ranking Nazi official at the Nuremberg trials to admit some responsibility for the regime's actions and express regret.

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (German:; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close friend and ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and served 20 years in prison.

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