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Also Known As	Winifred Marjorie Williams
Born	June 23, 1897 • Hastings • England
Died	March 5, 1980 (aged 82) • Germany

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German composer

Cosima Wagner

German art director

Hans Eysenck

German-born British psychologist

William Herschel

British-German astronomer

Max Born

German physicist

Sir William Siemens

British inventor

Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang

Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls

British physicist

Tino Sehgal

British-born artist

Ludwig Guttmann

English neurosurgeon

Albert, Prince Consort

British prince

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs

German-British biochemist

Kurt Jooss

German dancer and choreographer

Paul Julius, baron von Reuter

German journalist

Otto Hermann Kahn

American businessman

Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st marquess of Milford Haven

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E.F. Schumacher

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Houston Stewart Chamberlain

British-German political philosopher

John Zoffany

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John Christopher Pepusch

German composer

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