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William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 and died in 1616.

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Karl Marx was born in Trier in 1818 and died in 1883.

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Confucius was born in Qufu in 550 BC and died in 478 BC.

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Leonardo da Vinci was born in Anchiano in 1452 and died in 1519.

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Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe Manor in 1643 and died in 1727.

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Plato was born in Athens in 428 BC and died in 348 BC.

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Abraham Lincoln was born in Sinking Spring Farm in 1809 and died in 1865.

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Mahatma Gandhi was born in Porbandar in 1869 and died in 1948.

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Leo Tolstoy was born in Yasnaya Polyana in 1828 and died in 1910.

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Julius Caesar was born in Rome in 99 BC and died in 43 BC.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt in 1749 and died in 1832.

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The Buddha was born in Lumbini in 500 BC and died in 500 BC.

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George Washington was born in George Washington Birthplace National Monument in 1732 and died in 1799.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756 and died in 1791.

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Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770 and died in 1827.

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Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and died in 1321.

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Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa in 1564 and died in 1642.

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Vincent van Gogh was born in Zundert in 1853 and died in 1890.

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Martin Luther was born in Eisleben in 1483 and died in 1546.

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Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach in 1685 and died in 1750.

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Michelangelo was born in Caprese Michelangelo in 1475 and died in 1564.

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Voltaire was born in Paris in 1694 and died in 1778.

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Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Röcken in 1844 and died in 1900.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born in Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor in 1821 and died in 1881.

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Thomas Edison was born in Milan in 1847 and died in 1931.

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René Descartes was born in Descartes in 1596 and died in 1650.

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Immanuel Kant was born in Königsberg in 1724 and died in 1804.

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in Thessaloniki in 1881 and died in 1938.

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Mark Twain was born in Florida in 1835 and died in 1910.

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Charles Dickens was born in Landport in 1812 and died in 1870.

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Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares in 1547 and died in 1616.

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Rabindranath Tagore was born in Kolkata in 1861 and died in 1941.

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Archimedes was born in Syracuse in 286 BC and died in 211 BC.

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Virgil was born in Andes in 69 BC and died in 18 BC.

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Alexander Pushkin was born in Moscow in 1799 and died in 1837.

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Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense in 1805 and died in 1875.

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Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 and died in 1924.

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Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog in 1860 and died in 1904.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva in 1712 and died in 1778.

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Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence in 1469 and died in 1527.

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Augustine of Hippo was born in Thagaste in 354 and died in 430.

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Molière was born in Paris in 1622 and died in 1673.

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Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy in 1723 and died in 1790.

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Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell in 1743 and died in 1826.

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Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809 and died in 1849.

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Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854 and died in 1900.

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Nikola Tesla was born in Nikola Tesla Memorial Center in 1856 and died in 1943.

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Lord Byron was born in City of Westminster in 1788 and died in 1824.

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Otto von Bismarck was born in Schönhausen (Elbe) in 1815 and died in 1898.

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Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston in 1706 and died in 1790.

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Sophocles was born in Colonus in 495 BC and died in 405 BC.

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Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Toruń in 1473 and died in 1543.

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Marco Polo was born in Venice in 1254 and died in 1324.

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Louis Pasteur was born in Dole in 1822 and died in 1895.

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Pythagoras was born in Samos in 582 BC and died in 490 BC.

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John Locke was born in Wrington in 1632 and died in 1704.

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James Joyce was born in Rathgar in 1882 and died in 1941.

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Thomas Aquinas was born in castle of the counts of Aquino in 1225 and died in 1274.

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Rembrandt was born in Leiden in 1606 and died in 1669.

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Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig in 1813 and died in 1883.

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