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Leonidas I
King of Sparta from c. 489 BC to 480 BC
Domitian
Roman emperor from AD 81 to 96
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 to 1250
Björn Ironside
Legendary Norse Viking and Swedish king
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Muslim general (died 642)
Kofi Annan
UN Secretary-General from 1997 to 2006
Catherine I of Russia
Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727
Raghav Chadha
Indian politician (born 1988)
Sarah McBride
American politician and activist (born 1990)
Rogéria Bolsonaro
Brazilian politician (born 1960)
John III Sobieski
Ruler of Poland–Lithuania from 1674 to 1696
Alfred Rosenberg
Baltic German Nazi theorist and war criminal (1893–1946)
Hongwu Emperor
Emperor of China from 1368 to 1398
Gerd von Rundstedt
German field marshal (1875–1953)
Vasily Zaitsev
Soviet sniper (1915–1991)
Jean-Marie Le Pen
French politician (1928–2025)
Ban Ki-moon
8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Valentina Tereshkova
Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space (born 1937)
Joko Widodo
7th President of the Republic of Indonesia
Petro Poroshenko
President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019
Sergio Mattarella
president of Italy (2015–present)
Sheikh Hasina
Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001, 2009–2024)
Stephen Harper
22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015
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Kevin Rudd
26th Prime Minister of Australia