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Cancer historical figures
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Nelson Mandela
President & anti-apartheid leader
Frida Kahlo
Painter
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Alexander the Great
King of Macedon
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Benazir Bhutto
Prime Minister of Pakistan
Henry VIII
King of England
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Suffragette leader
Wilma Rudolph
Track and field athlete
Michael Phelps
Swimmer
Lionel Messi
Footballer
Alan Turing
Mathematician & computer scientist
Nikola Tesla
Engineer & inventor
Rembrandt
Painter & printmaker
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Wole Soyinka
Playwright, poet & novelist
Salvador Allende
President of Chile
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Patrice Lumumba
Independence leader
Eddie Mabo
Land rights activist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher
Gregor Mendel
Biologist and friar
Baybars
Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Eloy Alfaro
President of Ecuador
Roald Amundsen
Polar explorer
Muhammad Yunus
Economist and microfinance pioneer
Malala Yousafzai
Education activist
Shirin Ebadi
Lawyer and human rights activist
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Multi-sport athlete
Antoni Gaudí
Architect
Nursultan Nazarbayev
President of Kazakhstan
Vasil Levski
Revolutionary
Hassan II of Morocco
King of Morocco
Āpirana Ngata
Statesman and Māori leader
Gough Whitlam
Prime Minister of Australia
Zinedine Zidane
Footballer and manager
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Jean-Claude Duvalier
President of Haiti
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide
President of Haiti
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Peter Paul Rubens
Painter & diplomat
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Astrophysicist
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Seretse Khama
First President of Botswana
Hassanal Bolkiah
Sultan of Brunei
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