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Elizabeth I and Anne Boelyn
Anne Boelyn was Elizabeth I's mother. Elizabeth was born in 1933. Boelyn would be executed three years later.
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Sigmund Freud and Woody Allen
Freud died in 1939. Woody Allen was born in 1935.
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Maximilien Robespierre and Queen Victoria I
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Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas
Avicenna lived at the turn of the 10th century. Aquinas was born in 1225.
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Hernán Cortés and Miguel de Cervantes
Cortés died in December 1547. Miguel was allegedly born in September of that year.
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Winston Churchill and Benjamin Disraeli
Churchill was born in 1874. Disraeli died in 1881.
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George Washington and Voltaire
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe
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Duke Ellington and Bruce Willis
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Suleiman the Magnificent and William Shakespeare
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Charlie Chaplin and Victoria I
Chaplin was a Victorian. Victoria's reign ended with her death in 1901.
12.
Beyoncé and John Lennon
Lennon was murdered in 1980. Beyoncé was born the next year.
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John D. Rockefeller and Rupert Murdoch
Murdoch was born in 1931 and is 90 at the time of this quiz's publishing. Rockefeller was born in 1839. He died in 1937, aged 97.
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David Bowie and George Orwell
Bowie was born in 1947. Orwell died three years later.
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Emily Dickinson and J. M. W. Turner