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Nancy Wake
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake was a ‘Special Operations Executive’ agent of the British at the time of the ‘Second World War’
James Armistead Lafayette
James Armistead Lafayette was an African-American slave who worked for the ‘American Continental Army’ during the Revolutionary War of America as a spy
Corazon Aquino
Corazon Aquino was the 11th President of Philippines
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the ‘Father of the Nation’ of Bangladesh
Fernand Léger
Fernand Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century
Junípero Serra
Junípero Serra was a Franciscan priest, who was canonized in 2015
Laurent Fignon
Laurent Patrick Fignon was a French professional road bicycle racer
Paul Signac
Paul Signac was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who played a major role in the development of the Pointillist style
Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess was the Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler and the third most important politician in Nazi Germany after Hitler and Hermann Göring
Eugène Delacroix
Eugene Delacroix was an eminent French Romantic artist of his time and considered to be the forerunner of the French Romantic school