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Died November 15, 655
Title / Office king (632-654), Mercia
Offa
Offa
Anglo-Saxon king
Wulfhere
king of Mercia
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
Aethelflaed
Anglo-Saxon ruler
Leofric
earl of Mercia
Eadric Streona
Mercian noble
Aethelbald
king of Mercia
Burgred
king of Mercia
Aethelred
Aethelred
king of Mercia
Cenwulf
Anglo-Saxon king
Baldwin V
count of Flanders
Opechancanough
American Indian chief
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
president of United States
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
prime minister of Soviet Union

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