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Laozi, Confucius and Buddha
Somewhat disputed, given the lack of details around Laozi's life.
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Mahatma Gandhi and Charles Dickens
Ghandi was born in 1869. Dickens died the year after.
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Tiberius Augustus and Jesus Christ
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Henry VIII and William Shakespeare
Shakespeare was an Elizabethan and Jacobean writer, though the 'Tudor' label may have thrown some people off here.
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Nero and Julius Caesar
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Genghis Khan and Marco Polo
Polo met Kublai Khan in the 1270s. Ghenghis had died in 1227.
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Frank Sinatra and James Joyce
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Haile Selassie and Madonna
Selassie died in 1974.
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Toulouse-Lautrec and John Steinbeck
Toulouse-Lautrec died at the turn of the century, in 1901. Steinbeck was born the year after.
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Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II
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Jane Austen and George Eliot
Austen died in 1817. George Eliot was born in 1819.
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Miles Davis and John Singer Sargent
Sargent died in 1925, while Davis was born in 1926.
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Michael Caine and Neville Chamberlain
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Ingmar Bergman and Fyodor Dostoevsky