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Aries historical figures
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42 figures
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, inventor & scientist
Charlemagne
King of the Franks & Emperor
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Vladimir Lenin
Revolutionary & head of government
Benito Juárez
President of Mexico
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Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President & Founding Father
Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
Kim Il Sung
Founder & dictator of North Korea
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Vincent van Gogh
Painter
René Descartes
Philosopher & mathematician
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Civil & marine engineer
Julius Nyerere
President of Tanzania
Getúlio Vargas
President of Brazil
Jane Goodall
Primatologist
Giuseppe Verdi
Opera composer
Ravi Shankar
Sitarist and composer
Ayrton Senna
Racing driver
Aretha Franklin
Singer and songwriter
Wilhelm Röntgen
Physicist
Leonhard Euler
Mathematician
Leopold II of Belgium
King of the Belgians
Rafael Correa
President of Ecuador
Wangari Maathai
Environmental activist
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Basketball player
Aristide Briand
Statesman
Timur
Founder of the Timurid Empire
Michael Joseph Savage
Prime Minister of New Zealand
Emmy Noether
Mathematician
Ronaldinho
Footballer
Emilio Aguinaldo
First President of the Philippines
Lê Duẩn
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Taksin
King of Thonburi
Viktor Frankl
Neurologist and psychiatrist
Corrie ten Boom
Resistance member and writer
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Alexandre Petion
President of the Republic of Haiti
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Francois Duvalier
President of Haiti
Raphael
Painter & architect
Francisco Goya
Painter & printmaker
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Michael Somare
Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
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Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Dolores Huerta
Labor leader & activist
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Frances Perkins
US Secretary of Labor
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Vigdis Finnbogadottir
President of Iceland
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