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Dick Durbin
United States Senator from Illinois
Emily Lowan
Emily Lowan is a Canadian politician and activist who has served as leader of the Green Party of British Columbia since 2025. She is the first Generation Z leader of a major political party in Canada.
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Selim II
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 to 1574
Theodosius I
Roman emperor from 379 to 395
Norodom Sihanouk
King of Cambodia (1941–1955; 1993–2004)
Philip IV of France
King of France from 1285 to 1314
Pepin the Short
King of the Franks from 751 to 768
Harald Fairhair
Legendary first king of Norway (c. 850–c. 932)
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1556 to 1564
Bayezid II
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512
Willy Brandt
Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1711 to 1740
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792
La Malinche
Nahua aide to Hernán Cortés
Pralhad Joshi
Indian politician (born 1962)
Dharmendra Pradhan
Indian politician (born 1969)
Getúlio Vargas
President of Brazil (1930–1945; 1951–1954)
Macrinus
Roman emperor from 217 to 218
Alfred Jodl
German general and war criminal (1890–1946)
Albert II of Belgium
King of the Belgians from 1993 to 2013
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Germanicus
Roman general (15 BC–19 AD)
Sarah Knafo
French politician (born 1993)
Olaf Scholz
German politician (SPD), ninth Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (2021–2025), Member of the Bundestag
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Edi Rama
Prime Minister of Albania since 2013 (born 1964)