• Dr. Chetwode Crawley
  
  November 15, 1843 - March 13, 1916 William John Chetwode Crawley, for many years Head Master of the Queen's Service Acadamy, Dublin, was, after a lengthy university career, elected a life member of the senate of Trinity College, Dublin in 1881. Auth ...
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• Dr. James Naismith
  
  November 6, 1861- November 28, 1939 Born in Ontario and educated at McGill University, Dr. James Naismith invented the game of basketball in a YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Mass., and developed basketball's original 13 rules Author of numerous art ...
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• Duke of Wellington
  
  Detail of a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), 1814. Canvas 91.4 x 71.1 cm. May 1, 1769 - September 14, 1852 "I am but a man." Born Arthur Wesley (later Wellesley) in Dublin, Wellington was educated in France. He saw active service in F ...
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• E.B. Eddy
  
  National Archives of Canada, PA25792 February 10, 1906 - August 22, 1827 Born in Vermont, industrialist Ezra Butler Eddy—the matchmaker of the world—moved his small friction-match factory from Burlington, Vermont, to Hull, Quebec in 185 ...
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• Ed Wynn
  
  November 9, 1886 - June 19, 1966 Born Isaiah Edwin Leopold, Ed was billed in vaudeville and the Ziegfeld Follies as "the Perfect Fool." More a clown, than a comedian in style, he later developed as a character actor. Host of a variety series, "The ...
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• Edgar A. Guest
  
  Eddie Guest and Bismark August 20, 1881 - August 5, 1959 Called "The People's Poet"—and known as Eddie—Edgar Albert Guest was a British-born American writer whose sentimental and optimistic verses were widely read throughout North Americ ...
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• Edward Gibbon
  
  Essai sur l'étude de la littérature à Londres, chez T. Beckett et P. A. de Hondt, in duodecimo 1761 April 27, 1737 [O.S.] - January 16, 1794 Born into a well-to-do Surrey family and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and later in ...
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• Edward Jenner
  
  Source: Jean-Loup Charmet, Paris May 17, 1749 - January 26, 1823 "He lived with the generosity of a good man and the simplicity which befits a great one." English surgeon, Fellow of the Royal Society, and discoverer of the scientific principles o ...
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• Edward VII
  
  Etched by Hollyer,Gould's History of Freemasonry p. 48. November 9, 1841 - May 6, 1910 Eldest son of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort, Albert Edward was king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions ...
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• Elias Ashmole
  
  May 23, 1617 - May 18 or 19, 1692 Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, Elias Ashmole was a chemist and antiquarian. Ashmole included in his diary reference to his having been a member of a Masonic Lodge. The dates for these meetings are place ...
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• Erasmus Darwin
  
  Portrait detail by Joseph Wright of Derby; original at Darwin College, Cambridge. December 12, 1731 - April 18, 1802 Best known as the grandfather of the biologist Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin was a philosopher, poet, scientist and physician. W ...
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• Ernest Winch
  
  March 22, 1879 - January 11, 1957 Apprenticed as a bricklayer in England, Ernie Winch was active in the trade union movement and Canadian politics. He served from 1933 until his death in 1957 as Burnaby's federal Member of Parliament (CCF). Describe ...
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• Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
  
  Source: Jean-Loup Charmet, Paris 1834 - 1904 French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, designed the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. Intended to celebrate the centenary of the American Revolution, it was not completed until 188 ...
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• Francis Bellamy
  
  May 18, 1855 - August 28, 1931 Francis Julius Bellamy, one-time Baptist minister and prominent member of the Christian Socialist movement, wrote the original USA Pledge of Allegiance, first published in the September 8, 1892, issue of The Youth's Co ...
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• Francis Mawson Rattenbury
  
  Municipality of Oak Bay Photo October 11, 1867 - March 28, 1935 Architect for, among many projects, the British Columbia legislative buildings, the Empress Hotel in Victoria, and the Vancouver courthouse (now Art Gallery), Rattenbury has been descr ...
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• Fred “Cyclone” Taylor
  
  June 24, 1884 - June, 1979 Frederick Wellington Taylor began playing hockey at the age of twelve, going on to be inducted into Hockey's Hall of Fame in 1947 after playing two Stanley Cup championship games in 1909 and 1915, and scoring 205 goals over ...
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• Fredrich Schwatka
  
  September 29, 1849 - Novembr 2, 1892 USA Army 1st Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka explored the Yukon and Alaska, descending the Alaska River to its mouth, He published newspaper and magazine accounts of his trip and also a book in 1885, Along Alaska's ...
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• Friedrich von Schiller
  
  November 10, 1759 - May 9, 1805 Johann Christopher Friedrich von Schiller's major poetic and dramatic works — Die Räuber (1782), Don Carlos (1787), Wallenstein Stuart (1800) and Wilhelm Tell (1804) — all express a yearning for escape ...
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• G. W. Speth
  
  April 30, 1847 - April 19, 1901 A founding member of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, and secretary for its first fourteen years, it was George William Speth's idea to form a Correspondence Circle for the lodge. An accomplished musician and knowled ...
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• General Douglas MacArthur
  
  26 January 1880 - 5 April 1964 General Douglas MacArthur, "liberator" of the Philippines, shogun of occupied Japan and mastermind of the Inchon invasion, was an admired national hero when he was relieved of his command by President Truman in April 19 ...
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• George McManus
  
  January 23, 1884 (82) - October 22, 1954 Cartoonist for the St. Louis Republic from 1899 to 1894 and the New York World from 1905, McManus drew and wrote the popular comic strip "Bringing up Father" for 41 years. It was syndicated in 750 papers, in ...
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