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Born c.950
Died c.1023
Who was Viking chieftain Ivar the Boneless?
Ivar the Boneless
Viking chieftain
Harald III Sigurdsson
king of Norway
King of Denmark
Sweyn I
king of Denmark and England
John A. Rawlins
United States general
John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg
American clergyman and politician
Murtala Ramat Mohammed
head of state of Nigeria
Isaac Stevens
governor of Washington Territory, United States
James Fannin
American military figure
Gordon Gray
United States government official
João Lourenço
president of Angola
Richard S. Ewell
Confederate general
William B. Travis
United States military officer
Walter Campbell Short
United States Army officer
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
Mexican military officer
Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
Heydar Aliyev
president of Azerbaijan
Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi
French military commander
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
George Washington
George Washington
president of United States
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
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