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Born August 9, 1914 • Ellesmere Port and Neston • England
Died August 9, 1990 (aged 76) • Manchester • England
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Viv Anderson
British football (soccer) player
Pep Guardiola gestures and speaks to Cole Palmer, who wears a Manchester City jersey, during a Premier League match at Etihad Stadium with a referee in the background.
Pep Guardiola
Spanish football (soccer) manager and player
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Tommy Burns
Scottish association football player and manager
Sir Alex Ferguson after Manchester United won the 2008 Champions League final, Moscow.
Alex Ferguson
Scottish football (soccer) player and manager
Bobby Robson, in a blue and black Newcastle United training outfit, gestures while speaking to players standing around him on a football field before a UEFA Champions League match.
Bobby Robson
British football (soccer) player and manager
Bobby Charlton kneels on a grass soccer field wearing a red jersey and white shorts, holding a vintage brown football with both hands.
Bobby Charlton
British football (soccer) player and manager
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Sir Matthew Busby
British football (soccer) player and manager
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Jackie Milburn
British football (soccer) player
“Lady with the Lamp”
Florence Nightingale
British nurse, statistician, and social reformer
Alexia Putellas and Harry Kane stand onstage holding Ballon d'Or trophies, Putellas in a white gown and Kane in a black tuxedo.
Harry Kane
English football (soccer) player
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
Wayne Rooney of England in a white jersey with number 9, crouched and focused during a 2006 FIFA World Cup quarter-final soccer match against Portugal.
Wayne Rooney
English football (soccer) player
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Steven Gerrard: The Complete Midfielder
English football (soccer) player
Gary Lineker, wearing glasses, smiles as he poses for a photograph at the National Theatre Up Next Gala in London.
Gary Lineker
English football (soccer) player and sports broadcaster
Mabel St. Clair Stobart
Mabel St. Clair Stobart
English feminist and medical worker
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David Simon, Lord Simon of Highbury
British industrialist and politician
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
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Margaret Burbidge
English-born American astronomer
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
English astronomer
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Peter Hall
English theatrical manager and director

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