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James Prescott Joule

James Prescott Joule (24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist. Joule studied the nature of heat and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.

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Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 1798 – 26 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as a national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus.

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Ilham Aliyev

Ilham Heydar oghlu Aliyev (Azerbaijani: İlham Heydər oğlu Əliyev, born 24 December 1961) is an Azerbaijani politician and statesman who has been the fourth president of Azerbaijan since 2003. He is the son of the previous president, Heydar Aliyev, and has led the New Azerbaijan Party since 2005.

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Hamid Karzai

Hamid Karzai (born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan politician who served as the seventh president of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014, particularly as the first president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 2004 to 2014. He also served as chairman of the Afghan Interim Administration from 2001 to 2002.

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Tarja Halonen

Tarja Kaarina Halonen (born 24 December 1943) is a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland, and the first and to date only woman to hold the position in Finland, from 2000 to 2012.

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John, King of England

John (Christmastide 1166/7 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Baptist minister and leader of the American civil rights movement, known for his 'I Have a Dream' speech.

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Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, historian and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed.

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Elvis Presley

Singer and actor known as the 'King of Rock and Roll'.

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Stephen Hawking

Theoretical physicist known for his work on black holes and the bestselling book A Brief History of Time.

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