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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин IPA: [ˈjʉrʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to […]

William Erwin Will Eisner (March 6 1917 – January 3 2005) was an American cartoonist writer and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American […]

Vice Admiral of the Blue William Bligh FRS RN (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A historic […]

Wenceslaus I (Czech: Václav [ˈvaːtslaf] ; c. 907 – September 28 935) or Wenceslas I was the duke (kníže) of Bohemia from 921 until his assassination in 935 purportedly in […]

Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25 1908 – December 25 2000) (known to intimates as Van) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. From 1930 until his […]

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18 1883 – July 5 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Le […]

William Pitt 1st Earl of Chatham PC (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778). He is called Chatham or William Pitt the Elder to distinguish from his son who also […]

William of Ockham (/ˈɒkəm/; also Occam; c. 1287 – 1347) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher and theologian who is believed to have been born in Ockham a […]

William Allen (December 18 or 27 1803 – July 11 1879) was a Democratic Representative Senator and 31st Governor of Ohio.

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a German (Prussian) philosopher government functionary diplomat and founder of the University of Berlin which […]