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Robert F. Kennedy
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Robert F. Kennedy

Politician · born November 20, 1925 · died 1968

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Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer.

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  1. 35Became United States Attorney GeneralJanuary 20, 1961
  2. 39Became United States senatorJanuary 3, 1965

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1952 · United States

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Joe Biden

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1942 · United States

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American retired politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025.

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Erika Kirk

Entrepreneur · Turning Point USA

1988 · United States

Erika Lane Kirk is an American businesswoman, nonprofit executive, and podcaster. She serves as chairwoman and CEO of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a conservative organization co-founded and led by her late husband, Charlie Kirk, until his assassination in September 2025.

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1923–2014 · South Africa

Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has. been of very great benefit to humanity".

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Selma Lagerlöf

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1858–1940 · Sweden

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909.

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Karl von Frisch

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1886–1982 · Austria

Karl Ritter von Frisch was a German-Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.

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