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Died November 15, 655 • (Anniversary in 2 days)
Title / Office king (632-654), Mercia
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Wulfhere
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Alfred the Great
Alfred
king of Wessex
King of England
Ethelred the Unready
king of England
Edward the Elder
Edward
Anglo-Saxon king
Egbert, from an undated engraving
Egbert
king of Wessex
Edmund I
Edmund I
king of England
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Aethelflaed
Anglo-Saxon ruler
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Leofric
earl of Mercia
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Eadric Streona
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Burgred
king of Mercia
Aethelred
Aethelred
king of Mercia
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Cenwulf
Anglo-Saxon king
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Baldwin V
count of Flanders
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Opechancanough
American Indian chief
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Donald Trump
president of United States
President Barack Obama stands smiling with arms crossed in the Oval Office, with the American flag and presidential seal visible behind him.
Barack Obama
president of United States
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
British prime minister Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom

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