Hint
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Year
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Answer
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Irish author of The Importance of Being Earnest
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1900
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Oscar Wilde
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German who said "God is dead"
|
1900
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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President of the United States from 1889 to 1893
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1901
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Benjamin Harrison
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The queen who ruled the British Empire for 63+ years
|
1901
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Queen Victoria
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President of the United States from 1897 to 1901
|
1901
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William McKinley
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Creator of famous denim jeans
|
1902
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Levi Strauss
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French novelist and the author of J'Accuse
|
1902
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Emile Zola
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Post-Impressionist painter of Tahitian girls
|
1903
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Paul Gaugin
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Russian writer and the author of The Cherry Orchard
|
1904
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Anton Chekhov
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Explorer of Africa who searched for David Livingstone
|
1904
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Henry Morton Stanley
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The Confederate Civil War general blamed for the Gettysburg loss
|
1904
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James Longstreet
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Author of Around the World in Eighty Days
|
1905
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Jules Verne
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The women's rights activist on the one-dollar coin
|
1906
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Susan B. Anthony
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Chemist who created the periodic table of elements
|
1907
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Dmitri Mendeleev
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Outlaws of the old American west
|
1907
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Butch Cassidy
|
1907
|
The Sundance Kid
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The 22nd and the 24th president of the United States
|
1908
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Grover Cleveland
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The author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
|
1910
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Mark Twain
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Author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina
|
1910
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Leo Tolstoy
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British nursing hero of the Crimean War
|
1910
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Florence Nightingale
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Newspaperman who started the prize named after him
|
1911
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Joseph Pulitzer
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Irish author who wrote Dracula
|
1912
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Bram Stoker
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Early 20th century financier who formed U.S. Steel
|
1913
|
J.P. Morgan
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The most famous conductor on the 'Underground Railroad'
|
1913
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Harriet Tubman
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The man whose killing sparked WWI
|
1914
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Franz Ferdinand
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Wild-eyed court mystic of Czarist Russia
|
1916
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Grigori Rasputin
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The Viennese painter of 1908's The Kiss
|
1918
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Gustav Klimt
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The last emperor of Russia
|
1918
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Nicholas II
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President of the United States from 1901 to 1909
|
1919
|
Theodore Roosevelt
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The great peasant hero of the Mexican Revolution
|
1919
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Emiliano Zapata
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