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Born September 20, 1830 • Japan
Died November 21, 1859 (aged 29) • Tokyo • Japan
Fukuzawa Yukichi.
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Japanese author, educator, and publisher
Yoshino Sakuzō.
Yoshino Sakuzō
Japanese politician and educator
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Itō Jinsai
Japanese scholar
Motoda Nagazane.
Danshaku Motoda Nagazane
Japanese imperial tutor
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Bob Jones, Jr.
American clergyman and educator
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Clark Kerr
American educator
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A. Bartlett Giamatti
American baseball commissioner
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William Claire Menninger
American physician
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Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician
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Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician
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Mary Garrett
American educator
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Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
Confucius
Confucius
Chinese philosopher
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
United States jurist
Gustav Adolphus
Gustavus Adolphus
king of Sweden
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Sonam Wangchuk smailes as he poses for a photograph during the 40th Anniversary of Rolex Awards for Enterprise at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California.
Sonam Wangchuk
Indian engineer and activist
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Sylvester II, detail from the ivory vessel used at the consecration of Otto III, 996; in the Domschatzkammer des Aachener Domes, Aachen, Ger.
Sylvester II
pope
Jürgen Ovens: portrait of John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius
Czech educator