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Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen was an American businessman, computer programmer, and investor. He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which was followed by the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Allen discovered the wrecks of various famous warships, like the IJN Musashi and USS Indianapolis, and was ranked as one of the richest people in American history by Forbes, with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion at the time of his death in October 2018.
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist
Timothy Leary
American psychologist (1920–1996)
Hary Gunarto
Japanese scientist
Edward R. Murrow
American broadcast journalist (1908–1965)
Patty Murray
United States Senator from Washington since 2013
Philip Abelson
US physicist, editor of the journal Science, and director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory (1913–2004)
Patrick Rothfuss
American fantasy writer
Laurence J. Peter
Canadian educator (1919–1990)
Moeketsi Majoro
Mosotho politician
Sherman Alexie
American author and filmmaker
John M. Fabian
American pilot and astronaut
Gary Larson
American cartoonist
Ralph Mann
American hurdler (1949–2025)
Mike Lowry
American politician (1939-2017)
Lisa Roman
Canadian rower
Dan Newhouse
American politician
Ed Viesturs
American mountain climber
Denny Rehberg
American politician
William S. Skylstad
Catholic bishop
Terence Knox
American actor
Charles Piper
American botanist (1867–1926)
Charles Glen King
United States biochemist (1896-1988)
Göte Turesson
Swedish botanist (1892-1970)
William Julius Wilson
American sociologist
Mark Driscoll
American pastor
Don Newman
American basketball player-coach (1957-2018)
Etsujirō Uehara
Japanese bureaucrat, cabinet minister (1877-1962)
Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer
American botanist (1870-1942)
Kim Jong-il
South Korean long jumper (born 1962)
George Nethercutt
American lawyer, author, and politician (1944–2024)
Michael Baumgartner
American politician (born 1975)
Tom McTigue
American actor
George Frederick McKay
American composer
Dana Simpson
American artist and writer
Mike McCormack
American politician (1921–2020)
Robert A. Roe
American politician (1924-2014)
Neva Abelson
physician
Dennis Crosby
American singer and actor (1934-1991)
Simon S. Lam
American computer scientist
William Alfred Weber
American botanist (1918-2020)
Wesley Abner D'Ewart
American politician (1889-1973)
Walter Franklin Horan
American politician (1898–1966)
Yasser Abbas
Palestinian-Canadian businessman
Christopher Waller
American economist
William M. Mann
American entomologist and zoo director (1886-1960)
Boyd E. Haley
American chemist
Ian Waltz
American discus thrower
Jacob Bigeleisen
American chemist (1919–2010)
Eric Engstrom
American software engineer
Keith Jackson
American sports announcer
Kiersten Dallstream
American soccer player
William Bridge Cooke
American mycologist
James T. Richardson
American sociologist
John Abelson
molecular biologist
Loren H. Rieseberg
American botanist
Naeem M. Abdurrahman
Academic, engineer, nuclear scientist
George Ogbeide
Nigerian long jumper
Wajih Owais
Jordanian molecular biologist and politician
John van Reenen
South African discus thrower, shot putter and artist (1947-2018)