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George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898–1937)
Yves Saint Laurent
French fashion designer (1936–2008)
Ötzi
Ötzi, also called The Iceman, Similaun man, or Tyrolean Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC. Ötzi's remains were discovered on 19 September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps (hence the nickname "Ötzi", ) at the Austria–Italy border. He is Europe's oldest known natural human mummy, offering an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic (Copper Age) Europeans.
Afonso de Albuquerque
Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman (1453–1515)
Leopold Ružička
Croatian scientist (1887-1976)
Reuben
eldest son of Jacob with Leah, in the Bible
Diogo Cão
Portuguese explorer
Zebulun
Zebulun (; also Zebulon, Zabulon, or Zaboules in Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus) was, according to the Books of Genesis and Numbers, the last of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's tenth son), and the founder of the Israelite tribe of Zebulun. With Leah as a matriarch, biblical scholars believe the tribe to have been regarded by the text's authors as a part of the original Israelite confederation.
Issachar
thumb|Isachar, from Jacques de Gheyn II's prints (c. 1584–94) Issachar () was, according to the Book of Genesis, the fifth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's ninth son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Issachar. However, some Biblical scholars view this as an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.
Benjamin of Tudela
Jewish explorer and writer
Gad
biblical character, seventh son of Jacob
Simeon
Biblical character; second son of Jacob and Leah
Naphtali
According to the Book of Genesis, Naphtali (; ) was the sixth son of Jacob, the second of his two sons with Bilhah. He was the founder of the Israelite tribe of Naphtali.
Asher
Asher ( ’Āšēr), in the Book of Genesis, was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Zilpah, and Jacob's eighth son overall. He was the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Asher.
Dinah
In the Book of Genesis, Dinah (; ) was the seventh child and only named daughter of Leah and Jacob. The episode of her rape by Shechem, son of a Canaanite or Hivite prince, and the subsequent revenge of her brothers Simeon and Levi, commonly referred to as the rape of Dinah, is told in Genesis 34.
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Pakistani Urdu poet and author (1911–1984)
Bernardino de Sahagún
ca. 1499-1590, Spanish mesoamericanist, evangelizador, fraile franciscano, misionero
Jack Tramiel
American businessman (1928-2012)
Nicholas Tse
Hong Kong musician and actor
Lope de Aguirre
Basque Spanish conquistador
Koçi Xoxe
Albanian politician (1917–1949)
Antonio de Mendoza
Spanish colonial administrator
Samuel ibn Naghrillah
Spanish poet, vizier, and general
João Vaz Corte-Real
Portuguese explorer
Alexander Lodygin
Russian noble (1847-1923)
Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau
French biologist (1810–1892)
Félix Éboué
French Guiana politician (1884-1944)
Sally Yeh
Taiwanese-Canadian singer and actress
Sake Dean Mahomed
Indian author
Naima Akef
Egyptian belly dancer, film actress, acrobat, and performer
Nikolai Turczaninov
Russian botanist (1796-1864)
Martin Pfister
Swiss politician
Adam Cheng
Hong Kong singer, actor, and host
Stanisław Skrowaczewski
Polish composer and conductor (1923-2017)
Guo Jianmei
Chinese lawyer and human rights activist
Palden Gyatso
Tibetan monk (1933–2018)
João Fernandes Lavrador
Portuguese explorer
Francisco de Ulloa
Spanish explorer
Hanae Mori
Japanese fashion designer (1926-2022)
Vincent Zhao
Chinese actor
Li Xian
Chinese actor
Ahmad NikTalab
Iranian poet, author, and linguistic
`Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni
Grand Mufti of India and historian (1540–1615)
Nice Nailantei Leng'ete
Kenyan activist against the female genital mutilation
Marang Molosiwa
actor from Botswana in MTV Shuga playing Bokang 1992 -
Bachtyar Ali
Kurdish-Iraqi novelist and intellectual
George de Roerich
Russian tibetologist (1902–1960)
Q213778
German theologian and writer
Shintaro Uda
Japanese engineer (1896–1976)
Fifi Abdou
Egyptian actress
Nancy Ward
Cherokee Ghighau, or Beloved Woman, and warrior, introduced dairying to the Cherokee and advocating for the return of matriarchy
Hannah Quinlivan
Taiwanese actress
Mark Slavin
Israeli wrestler and Munich Massacre victim (1954–1972)
Shah Hussain
16th century Indian Punjabi poet
Danny Chan
Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor (1958-1993)
Yusuf Çim
Turkish actor (born 1991)
Rami Makhlouf
Syrian businessman
Adolf Berzhe
Russian orientalist (1828-1886)
Ruth Grützbauch
Austrian astronomer