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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, Jurij Aleksejevič Gagarin Russian pronunciation: [ˈjurʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲeɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut....

Roosevelt Skerrit (born 8 June 1972) is the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica as well the Member of Parliament for the Vieille Case constituency. Regionally, he has served as the Chairman of the OECS.

Meglena Shtilianova Kuneva (Bulgarian: Меглена Щилянова Кунева) (born 22 June 1957) is a Bulgarian and EU politician.

Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Меле́нтьевич Во́лков IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr mʲɪˈlʲenʲtʲɪvʲɪtɕ ˈvolkəf]) (July 14, 1891 in Ust-Kamenogorsk – July 3, 1977) was a Russian novelist and mathematician.

Sanjeev Kumar or Harihar Jariwala (Hindi: संजीव कुमार) (July 9, 1938 – November 6, 1985) was one of the most prominent Indian actors in Bollywood.

Ruth Maria Kelly (born 9 May 1968) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Bolton West since 1997, although she will stand down as an MP at the next general election. Previously, she served...

Brigitte Zypries (born November 16, 1953, in Kassel, Germany) is a German politician. She is the current Federal Minister of Justice of Germany. She has been Minister of Justice since 2002. She is member of the Social Democratic Party of...

Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the...

Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio, GColTE, GCIH, GColL (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒɔɾʒ(ɨ) sɐ̃ˈpaiu]  ( listen)) is a Portuguese lawyer, politician, and the former President of the Republic. His brother is the teenage-psychiatrist and writer Daniel Sampaio.

Alan Arthur Johnson (born 17 May 1950) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Hull West and Hessle since 1997. He has been the Home Secretary since June 2009, and before that filled a...