Joseph Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and the nation's Premier from 1941 to 1953.
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Actor
1937 · United States
Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress and activist. Fonda's work spans several genres and over seven decades of film and television.
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Actor
1948 · United States
Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American actor and film producer. He is one of the most widely recognized actors of his generation. The films in which he has appeared have collectively grossed more than $27 billion worldwide, making him the highest-grossing actor of all time.
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Actor
1966 · Canada
Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland is a British and Canadian actor.
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Actor
1989 · India
Tamanna Santosh Bhatia, better known as Tamannaah Bhatia, is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films.
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Politician
1942 · People's Republic of China
Hu Jintao is a retired Chinese politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, president of China from 2003 to 2013, chairman of the Party Central Military Commission (CMC) from 2004 to 2012 and chairman of the State Central Military Commission from 2005 to 2013.
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Creator
1917–1985 · Germany
Heinrich Theodor Böll was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post–World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972).