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Ostilio Ricci ( Fermo , 1540 - Florence , 1603 ) was a mathematician Italian . Professor Florence to the ' Academy of Arts and Design , founded in 1560 by Giorgio Vasari , was a teacher of the young Galileo Galilei . Galileo had been enrolled in the University of Pisa, from his father Vincenzo, to study medicine.

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Ivica Olic (born 14 September 1979 in Davor, SFR Yugoslavia - is a Croatian professional footballer who plays for VfL Wolfsburg in Germany and Croatian national team. He was named Croatian Footballer of the Year in 2009 and 2010. Olic represented his country in the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2006 FIFA World Cup, the UEFA Euro 2004, and the UEFA Euro 2008. With Bayern Munich he appeared in two UEFA Champions League finals in 2010 and 2012. He has been described as a relentless pursuer of the ball and possessing "power and a decent bit of pace with him."
Also played for Marsonija,Hertha BSC,NK Zagreb,Dinamo Zagreb,CSKA Moscow,Hamburger SV)

 

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Catherine Deneuve (French pronunciation: ​[katʁin dəˈnœv], born 22 October 1943) is a French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof and mysterious beauties in films such as Repulsion (1965) and Belle de jour (1967). Deneuve was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1993 for her performance in Indochine; she also won César Awards for that film and The Last Metro (1980). One of France's most renowned actresses, she has also appeared in seven English-language films, most notably the 1983 cult classic The Hunger. In 2008, she appeared in her 100th film, Un conte de Noël.

 

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Eduard Wiiralt (March 20, 1898, Russia – January 8, 1954, Paris) was an Estonian artist
After finishing school in 1919, he continued his studies at the Pallas art school in Tartu under Anton Starkopf. His first woodcuts and linocuts date back to 1916. He made his first etchings in 1917. During 1922–1923 Wiiralt attended the Dresden Academy of Art in Germany, under professor Selmar Werner. He returned to Tartu in the autumn of 1923. During this period he concentrated mostly on book illustrations.

He lived in Paris from 1925 to 1939, where he created his best-known works: "Hell" (1930–1932), "Cabaret" (1931), "The Preacher" (1932), "Heads of Negroes" (1933), and "Claude" (1936). After that he spent some years in Estonia, but moved permanently to France in 1946. He died there at the age of 55 and was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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Tupac Amaru Shakur, best known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2010, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world
 

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Raimond van der Gouw (born 24 March 1963 in Oldenzaal - is a former Dutch footballer, who played as a goalkeeper.
After a successful career with Vitesse and well into his 30s, he moved to Manchester United, also experiencing relative recognition, although he played very sparingly; he scored his only goal in the last game of his career for AGOVV Apeldoorn, before retiring at the age of 44, and becoming a coach.
Van der Gouw's first club was Go Ahead Eagles. A product of the club's youth system, he made his debut for the first team in a 2–1 victory against Den Bosch, on 14 September 1985. At the time, Eagles were competing in the bottom half of the first division, achieving a tenth placed finish in the player's first season. However, the club experienced relegation in 1987, and failed to achieve promotion the following season. After 97 league appearances, Van der Gouw joined second level's Vitesse.
His first season for Vitesse saw the club win the Eerste Divisie title, promoting to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in nine seasons. The following season saw further progress; a fourth-place finish in 1989–90 saw Vitesse qualify for the UEFA Cup for the first time in its history. The club also reached the final of the domestic cup)

 

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Call me stupid, but I never heard of Sir Walter;) ...
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(April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809).
 
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Nilmar Honorato da Silva (born 14 July 1984 in Bandeirantes - commonly known as Nilmar, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a striker for Qatari club Al Rayyan.
After coming through the Internacional youth teams, Nilmar played for the professional team in 1999 to 2002 seasons. Played for national team,Olympique Lyonnais,Corinthians,Internacional,Villarreal)

 

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Romano Prodi ( Scandiano , 9 August 1939 ) is a politician and economist Italian , who has held the office of President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic for two times (from 1996 to 1998 and from 2006 to 2008 ).
University Professor of Economics and Industrial Policy to ' University of Bologna , it was in 1978 Minister of Industry in the Government Andreotti IV , president of the ' IRI from 1982 to 1989 and from 1993 to 1994 .
He was president of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004 ( Prodi ).

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Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born 18 June 1952) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.

 

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Indro Alessandro Raffaello Montanelli ( Fucecchio , 22 April 1909 - Milan , 22 July 2001 ) was a journalist , essayist and playwright Italian .
Journalist from prose dry and dry, it was able to range from the editorial reportage and pungent italics. It was for about four decades, the flag of the first Italian newspaper, the Corriere della Sera , and for twenty years he led a major newspaper of opinion which he founded, the Journal . He was the author of history books which smiled a huge success. In each of these roles was able to gain a large following of readers.

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Ivan "Ivica" Osim (born 6 May 1941 in Sarajevo - is a Bosnian former football player and manager. He was most recently head coach of Japan, before he suffered a stroke in November 2007 and left the post. On April 18, 2011 FIFA announced that Osim will head an interim committee to run the Football Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina after the country was suspended from all international competitions.
As a player, he was a member of the Yugoslavia national team and played in the 1964 Olympics. As assistant manager, he won a bronze medal with Yugoslavia at the 1984 Olympics, and reached the quarterfinals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup as the manager of Yugoslavia.
Born during World War II in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, Osim's infant years were spent in difficult circumstances.
Following the end of war, he started playing football in the FK Zeljeznicar Sarajevo's youth system. He graduated from the University of Sarajevo.
Played for national team (Yugoslavia),Zeljeznicar,Zwolle,Strasbourg,Sedan,Valenciennes)

 

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Matthew Langford Perry (born August 19, 1969) is a Canadian-American actor and comedian.
He is well known for his Emmy-nominated role as Chandler Bing on the popular, long-running NBC television sitcom Friends. He also received acclaim for his portrayal of Ron Clark in the television movie The Ron Clark Story, accompanied by another Emmy nomination as well as a Golden Globe nomination. Perry also starred in the short-lived series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and has appeared in a number of films, including Fools Rush In (1997), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), and 17 Again (2009). In 2010 he expanded his resume to include both video games and voiceover work when he voiced Benny in the role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas. Perry was the co-creator, co-writer, executive producer and star of the short-lived ABC sitcom Mr. Sunshine, which ran from February to April 2011.


 
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Yusuf Şimşek (born July 20, 1975 in Elmalı,Antalya - is a Turkish professional footballer who plays for Kayseri Erciyesspor in the TFF First League.
Also played for national team,Denizlispor,Fenerbahçe,Gaziantepspor,Ankaraspor,Akçaabat Sebatspor,Bursaspor,Beşiktaş JK, as a player/manager in Turgutluspor and now as a assistant coach in Çaykur Rizespor)

 

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Enrico Caruso (Italian pronunciation: [enˈriːko kaˈruːzo]; February 25, 1873 – August 2, 1921) was an Italian tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and North and South America, appearing in a wide variety of roles from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. Caruso also made approximately 290 commercially released recordings from 1902 to 1920. All of these recordings, which span most of his stage career, are available today on CDs and as digital downloads.
Caruso's 1904 recording of "Vesti la giubba" from Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci was the first sound recording to sell a million copies.

 

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Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, simply known as Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative German statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s to his dismissal in 1890 by Emperor Wilhelm II
 

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Dame Edna Everage (wiki)
(I usually wouldn´t take a title like Dame for beginning, but in this case all three words are a unit;))



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Ella Fitzgerald - (Google) (April 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia – June 15, 1996 in Beverly Hills, California), also known as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", was an American jazz vocalist with a vocal range spanning three octaves (D♭3 to D♭6). She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook. Over the course of her 59-year recording career, she sold 40 million copies of her 70-plus albums, won 13 Grammy Awards and was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush

 
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