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Franz Joseph I
Habsburg monarch from 1848 to 1916
Nebuchadnezzar II
King of Babylon from 605 to 562 BC
Ivan the Terrible
Tsar of Russia from 1547 to 1584
Akhenaten
Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian pharaoh
Pontius Pilate
Roman governor of Judea and condemner of Jesus
Pocahontas
Native American woman (c. 1596 – 1617)
Hürrem Sultan
Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Kim Il Sung
Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
Nicholas II
Emperor of Russia from 1894 to 1917
Edward V
King of England in 1483
Edward II
King of England from 1307 to 1327
Lee Kuan Yew
Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990
Golda Meir
Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
Charles VIII of France
King of France from 1483 to 1498
Wu Zetian
Empress of China from 690 to 705
Khafre
Ancient Egyptian pharaoh of 4th dynasty
Herod Antipas
1st-century AD tetrarch of Galilee and Perea (r. 1–39)
Simo Häyhä
Finnish military sniper (1905–2002)
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer (1746–1827)
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
Maltese politician
Danilo Türk
President of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012
Nicolae Timofti
4th President of Moldova (r. 2012–2016)
Iveta Radičová
Slovak politician and sociologist, former prime minister
Raimonds Vējonis
ninth president of Latvia