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Cao Cao
Chinese warlord and statesman (155–220)
Empress Dowager Cixi
Regent of China from 1861 to 1908
James VI and I
King of Scotland from 1567 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603
Hulegu Khan
Western Asian Mongol ruler (c. 1217–1265)
Akbar
Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605
Emperor Meiji
Emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912
Scipio Africanus
Roman general and politician (236/235 – c. 183 BC)
Ptolemy VI Philometor
6th Pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt
Randal Cremer
English politician (1828–1908)
Élie Ducommun
Swiss peace activist (1833–1906)
Ladislaus IV of Hungary
King of Hungary and Croatia from 1272 to 1290
Ernst Thälmann
German communist politician (1886–1944)
Teti
Egyptian Pharaoh of 6th dynasty
Al-Mu'tasim
8th Abbasid caliph (r. 833–842)
Yuan Shao
Han dynasty warlord (died 202)
Algirdas
Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1345 to 1377
Franklin Pierce
President of the United States from 1853 to 1857
Alexei Rykov
Premier of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1930
José María Figaredo
Spanish politician (born 1988)
Facundo Moyano
Argentine trade unionist and politician
David Guiraud
French politician (born 1992)
Didier Guillaume
French politician (1959–2025)
Catherine Pégard
French journalist and politician (born 1954)
Claude Guéant
French civil servant and politician (born 1945)