William Tatem Tilden Jr.
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~ United States tennis player who dominated men's tennis in the 1920s (1893-1953)
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
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~ United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963)
William Styron
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~ United States writer best known for his novels (born in 1925)
William Averell Harriman
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~ United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986)
William Henry Gates
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~ United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
William Chambers
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~ English architect (1723-1796)
William S. Burroughs
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~ United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997)
William Faulkner
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~ United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)
William Patterson
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~ American Revolutionary leader (born in Ireland) who was a member of the Constitutional Convention (1745-1806)
William Maxwell Aitken
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~ British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)
William Henry Hudson
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~ English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922)
William Tindal
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~ English translator and Protestant martyr; his translation of the Bible into English (which later formed the basis for the King James Version) aroused ecclesiastical opposition; he left England in 1524 and was burned at the stake in Antwerp as a heretic (1494-1536)
William Stanley Jevons
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~ English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882)
William Clark
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~ United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838)
William Gilbert
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~ English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)
William Hubbs Rehnquist
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~ United States jurist who served as an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court from 1972 until 1986, when he was appointed chief justice (born in 1924)