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Frederick Barbarossa
Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190
Josef Mengele
Nazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911–1979)
Sridevi
Sridevi Kapoor (née Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan; 13 August 1963 – 24 February 2018), known mononymously as Sridevi, was an Indian actress who worked in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada language films. Cited as the "first female superstar" of Indian cinema, she was the recipient of various accolades, including a National Film Award, Seven Filmfare Awards (a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, Three Filmfare Awards, Three Filmfare Awards South), Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, a Kerala State Film Award, and a Nandi Award. Sridevi's career spanned over 50 years in a wide range of genres.
Maxentius
Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius ( 283 – 28 October 312) was a Roman emperor from 306 until his death in 312. Despite ruling in Italy and North Africa, and having the recognition of the Senate in Rome, he was not recognized as a legitimate emperor by his fellow emperors.
Mungo Park
Scottish naturalist and explorer of the African continent
Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator
Pharaoh of Egypt from 51 to 47 BC
Józef Poniatowski
nephew of King of Poland Stanislaus II; Marshal of France (1763-1813)
Antinous
Antinous, also called Antinoös, (; ; – ) was a Greek youth from Bithynia, a favourite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Following his premature death before his 20th birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in both the Greek East and Latin West, sometimes as a god () and sometimes merely as a hero ().
Enrique Granados
Spanish pianist and composer (1867–1916)
Dmitry Pisarev
Russian journalist (1840–1868)
Magnus IV of Sweden
King of Sweden and Norway (1316–1374)
Zubeen Garg
Zubeen Garg was an Indian musician, composer, singer, songwriter who primarily worked and sang in the Assamese, Bengali, and Hindi-language films and music industries. He also sang in 40 other languages and dialects, including Bishnupriya Manipuri, Adi, Boro, Dimasa, English, Goalpariya, Gujarati, Kannada, Karbi, Malayalam, Marathi, Mising, Rabha, Garo, Nepali, Bhojpuri, Odia, Sadri, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Tiwa and Urdu.
Kilij Arslan I
Seljuk sultan (1079–1107)
Piero the Unfortunate
Italian noble (1472-1504)
Ágnes Heller
Hungarian philosopher and academic
Helle
Greek mythology character
Rudi Dutschke
German student activist (1940–1979)
Robert Maxwell
Ian Robert Maxwell was a Czechoslovak-born British-French media proprietor and politician. He was the father of socialite and child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
Aerope
In Greek mythology, Aerope (Ancient Greek: Ἀερόπη) was a Cretan princess as the daughter of Catreus, king of Crete. She was the sister of Clymene, Apemosyne and Althaemenes. After an oracle said he would be killed by one of his children, Catreus gave Aerope to Nauplius to be sold abroad. Nauplius spared her, and she became the wife of Atreus or Pleisthenes (or both). By most accounts, she is the mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus. While the wife of Atreus, she became the lover of his brother Thyestes, and gave Thyestes the golden lamb that allowed him to become king of Mycenae.
Suleyman Shah
Turkish khan
Antiochus XI Epiphanes
Hellenistic Seleucid monarch (94–93 BCE)
Samad Behrangi
Iranian writer and social critic (1939–1967)
Asmahan
Amal al-Atrash ( ', North Levantine ; November 25, 1912 – July 14, 1944), known professionally as Asmahan (, '), was a Syrian singer.
Aripert II
King of the Lombards
Hero and Leander
mythical couple
Emperor Bing of Song
emperor of the Song Dynasty
Muzio Sforza
Italian condottiero
Peter Artedi
Swedish zoologist (1705-1735)
Georg Bühler
German Indologist (1837–1898)
Chrysippus
son of Pelops
Zong massacre
Deliberate drowning of Africans by the crew of the slave ship Zong in 1781
King Zhao of Zhou
King of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty
Sunanda Kumariratana
Queen consort of Thailand (1860-1880)
Henrik Sjöberg
Swedish sportsman (1875–1905)
Christl Haas
Austrian alpine skier
Samia Yusuf Omar
Somali athlete (1991-2012)
Aristobulus III of Judea
last scion of the Hasmonean royal house
Bruno, Duke of Saxony
Catholic saint
Ole Beich
Danish musician
John Walter Gregory
British geologist and explorer (1864–1932)
Hendrik Marsman
Dutch writer (1899–1940)
Antonio Pietrangeli
Italian film director and screenwriter (1919–1968)
Pieter Both
Dutch colonial governor
Stheneboea
thumb|upright=1.2|Bellerophon and Stheneboea detail from the 2nd-century Four Seasons mosaic from Antioch, [[Hatay Archaeological Museum.]]
Ernst Schultz
Danish sprinter (1879–1906)
Franz Babinger
German orientalist and turkologist (1891-1967)
Amastris
Persian princess (died c. 284 BC)
Jakob II Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician (1759-1789)
Daniel O. Fagunwa
Nigerian author (1903–1963)
Pontus De la Gardie
French noble (1520-1585)
Eric Fleming
American actor (1925-1966)
Henry Foster
Royal Navy officer and scientist
Yulia Ryabchinskaya
Ukrainian Soviet canoe racer (1947–1973)
Pentti Haanpää
Finnish writer (1905–1955)
Audrey Mestre
French freediver (1974–2002)
Canens
Roman personification of song
Julian Scriabin
Russian composer (1908–1919)
Stere Adamache
Romanian footballer (1941-1978)
Ott Arder
Estonian poet (1950-2004)
Ruth Smith
Danish artist (1913-1958)