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1.Kanō Eitoku (16th February 1543 – 12th October 1590)
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He was one of the most prominent patriarchs of the Kanō school of painting, which was the dominant style of painting in Japan from the late 15th century until the Meiji period.
2.Mary Anning (21st May 1799 – 9th March 1847)
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She was a fossil collector at Lyme Regis in England whose finds include the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton, and whose observations include the fact that belemnites had ink sacs like modern cephalopods.
3.Imhotep (c. 27th century BC)
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He was a High Priest of Ra. He was also a chancellor to the Pharaoh Djoser and probable architect behind the first pyramid.
4.Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043 – 10th July 1099)
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Better-known as El Cid, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar fought for both Christian and Muslim rulers and temporarily conquered Valencia.
5.R. B. Bennett (3rd July 1870 – 26th June 1947
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He was the 11th prime minister of Canada.
6.Ulugh Beg (22nd March 1394 – 27th October 1449)
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He was a sultan of the Timurid Empire, an astronomer and a mathematician. He built an impressive observatory in Samarkand that is believed to have been one of the finest in the Islamic world.
7.Aeschylus (c. 523 – 456 BC)
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Specifically, he was a tragedian. He also fought in the Battle of Marathon, the Battle of Salamis and the Battle of Plataea; his experiences of war influenced his plays.
8.Abbas ibn Firnas (c. 809/810 – 887)
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Imam
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He invented a device which indicated the motion of the planets and stars, came up with a procedure to manufacture colourless glass and made magnifying glasses for reading. He was also a physician, chemist, engineer, musician and poet.
9.Henry Hunter (10th October 1832 –17th October 1892)
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He designed buildings in Tasmania and Queensland, including Hobart Town Hall.
10.Mozi (c. 470 – 391 BC)
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He was the founder of Mohism, a Chinese philosophy of logic, rational thought and science.
11.José de San Martín (25th February 1778 – 17th August 1850)
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He was an important leader of the struggle for independence of the central and southern parts of South America from Spain, and served as Protector of Peru from 28th July 1821 to 20th September 1822.
12.Hildegard of Bingen (1098 – 17th September 1179)
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She was also a writer, a composer, a philosopher and a mystic.
13.Phineas Gage (9th July 1823 – 21st May 1860)
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He was a railroad construction foreman. A large iron rod was driven completely through his head, which he managed to survive, despite the fact that it destroyed most of his left frontal lobe.
14.Steve Biko (18th December 1946 – 12th September 1977)
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Specifically, he was an anti-apartheid activist, who was at the forefront of the campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement.
15.Mazdak (died c. 524/8)
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He was a mobad, a Zoroastrian cleric of a particular rank. He founded Mazdakism, a religion that was an offshoot of Zoroastrianism.