Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, and politician.
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Creator
1986 · United States
Ryan Kyle Coogler is an American filmmaker. His accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award, ten Black Reel Awards, and fourteen NAACP Image Awards.
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Inventor
1908–1991 · United States
John Bardeen was an American physicist.
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1891–1974 · Sweden
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Scientist
1925–2008 · United States
Joshua Lederberg was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program.
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Actor
1933 · United Kingdom
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins is an English actress, author and columnist. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a People's Choice Award, two Soap Opera Digest Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Investor
1707–1778 · Sweden
Carl Linnaeus, also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy".
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