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  • Adolf Hitler (1)
  • Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) (3)
  • Alexander the Great (356 BC - 323 BC) (2)
  • Alexios I Komnenos (1056-1118) (1)
  • Alfred Rosenberg (1)
  • Alfred the Great (1)
  • Arthur Evans (1851-1941) (2)
  • Augustus (89BC - 14 AD) (1)
  • Baudica (†63) (1)
  • Bernini (1598-1680) (1)
  • Bertrand du Guesclin (1320 - 1380) (1)
  • Boromini (1599-1667) (1)
  • Caravaggio (1571-1610) (1)
  • Charles I of England (1600-1649) (1)
  • Charles VI of France (1368 – 1422) (1)
  • Chufu ( - 2566vC) (1)
  • Claudius (10 BC - 54 AD) (1)
  • Cleopatra (69 bC - 30 bC) (1)
  • Cnut the Great (1)
  • Edward I (Longshanks) of England (1272-1307) (1)
  • Edward III of England (1327-1377) (1)
  • Edward the black prince (1330 - 1376) (1)
  • Edward the Confessor (1)
  • Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603) (1)
  • Elizabeth Woodville (1437-1492) (1)
  • Enrico Dandolo (1107-1205) (1)
  • Fidel Castro (1926-) (1)
  • Florence Nightingale (1)
  • Frans Hals (1)
  • Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1)
  • George Blake (1922-) (1)
  • Gerald Ford (1913-2006) (1)
  • Gerrit Riedvelt Piet Mondriaan Vincent van Gogh Paul Devaux Rene Magritte (1)
  • Hafiz al-Assad (1930-2000) (1)
  • Harold Godwinson (1)
  • Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) (1)
  • Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) (1)
  • Henry Kissinger (1923-) (1)
  • Henry VII (1457-1509) (2)
  • Henry VIII (1491-1547) (1)
  • Henry VIII of England (1491-1547) (2)
  • Hieronymus Bosch (1)
  • Hirohito(1901-1989) (1)
  • Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) (2)
  • Isoroku Yamamoto (1)
  • J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) (1)
  • Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) (1)
  • Jan van Eijk (1)
  • Jimmy Carter (1924-) (1)
  • Joan of Arc (1412 - 1431) (1)
  • Johannes Vermeer (1)
  • John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) (1)
  • Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) (2)
  • Josip Broz Tito (1)
  • Kim Il-sung (1912-1994) (1)
  • Leo Tolstoy (1)
  • Leon Trotski (1879-1940) (1)
  • Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982) (1)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) (1)
  • Mao Zedong (1893-1976) (1)
  • Margaret Beaufort (1434-1509) (1)
  • Mark Rothko (1903-1970) (1)
  • Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) (1)
  • Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-) (1)
  • Montgomery (1887 - 1976) (1)
  • Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) (1)
  • Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) (1)
  • Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) (1)
  • Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934) (1)
  • Philip II of Spain (1)
  • Philip III (the Good) duke of Burgundy (1)
  • Philip VI of France (1293 – 1350) (1)
  • Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1)
  • Pope Urban II (1042-1099) (1)
  • Ramses II (1303 vC - 1213 vC) (1)
  • Raud the Strong (1)
  • Rembrandt (1)
  • Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) (1)
  • Richard I of England (1157-1199) (2)
  • Richard III of England (1452 – 1485) (2)
  • Richard Nixon (1913-1994) (2)
  • Robert McNamara (1916-2009) (1)
  • Rogier van der Weyden (1)
  • Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) (1)
  • Saladin (1137-1193) (1)
  • Sihanouk (1922-2012) (1)
  • Tancred of Hauteville (1)
  • Thomas Cromwell (1485-1540) (1)
  • Thomas Woolsey (1473-1530) (1)
  • Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) (1)
  • Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) (2)
  • William Formes-Sempill (1)
  • William the Conqeuror (1)
  • William the Conqueror (1)
  • William Walace (1271-1305) (1)
  • Willy Brandt (1913-1992) (1)
  • Winston Churchill (1874-1965) (1)

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