People from Kent, Ohio

John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.

American composer (1921-2017)

American physicist (1924–2004)

Swedish mathematician and concert pianist

Union Army general (1831–1896)

American politician (1884-1946)

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American politician (1920–1988)

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American politician (1829–1868)

American musician (1952–2014)

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American artist and photographer (born 1968)