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Johnny Depp
John Christopher Depp II is an American actor, musician, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. His films, in which he has often played eccentric characters, have grossed over $10.8 billion worldwide.
Justinian I
Eastern Roman Emperor who ruled from 527 to 565 (482-565)
Tiberius
Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus ( ; 16 November 42 BC – 16 March AD 37) was Roman emperor from AD 14 until 37. He succeeded his stepfather Augustus, the first Roman emperor. Tiberius was born in Rome in 42 BC to politician Tiberius Claudius Nero and his wife, Livia Drusilla. In 38 BC, Livia divorced Nero and married Augustus. Following the untimely deaths of Augustus's two grandsons and adopted heirs, Gaius and Lucius Caesar, Tiberius was designated Augustus's successor. Prior to this, Tiberius had proved himself an able diplomat and one of the most successful Roman generals. His conquests of
Trajan
Trajan ( ; born Marcus Ulpius Traianus, 18 September 53) was a Roman emperor from AD 98 to 117, remembered as the second of the Five Good Emperors of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. He was a philanthropic ruler and a successful soldier-emperor who presided over one of the greatest military expansions in Roman history, during which, by the time of his death, the Roman Empire reached its maximum territorial extent. He was given the title of optimus princeps ('the best ruler') by the Roman Senate.
Hadrian
Hadrian ( ; born Publius Aelius Hadrianus, 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian was born in Italica, in the present-day Andalusian province of Seville in southern Spain, an Italic settlement in Hispania Baetica; his gens Aelia came from the town of Hadria in eastern Italy. He was a member of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty.
Antoninus Pius
15th Roman Emperor (138–161)
Charles XIV John of Sweden
King of Sweden and Norway between 1818–1844. Prince of Ponte Corvo 1806–1810 and French field marshal (1763–1844)
Władysław II Jagiełło
King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Constantius Chlorus
Roman emperor (250-306)
Basil I
Byzantine emperor from 867 to 886
Maximinus Daza
Roman emperor from 310 to 313
Tiberius II Constantine
Byzantine Emperor (520-582)
John VII Palaiologos
Byzantine emperor
Michael V Kalaphates
Byzantine emperor
Buffy Sainte-Marie
American musician
Titus Pomponius Atticus
Roman banker, writer and philosopher (c.110 BC – 32 BC)
Louis I
Duke of Anjou
Lucius Aelius Caesar
heir of the Roman Empire as the adopted son of Emperor Hadrian, and father of emperor Lucius Verus
Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi Licinianus
adoptive son and heir of Roman emperor Galba
Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria
Bavarian Royal
Ruprecht of the Palatinate
German bishop
Syrgiannes Palaiologos
Byzantine general and governor
Joseph Boyden
Canadian writer
Heinrich Thyssen
German-Hungarian entrepreneur and art collector (1875-1947)
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt
German-American socialite
Pedro Pablo Nakada Ludeña
Peruvian serial killer
Hans Hermann Weyer
German title dealer (1938–2023)