William Saroyan
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~ United States writer of plays and short stories (1908-1981)
William Bligh
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~ British admiral; was captain of the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789 when part of the crew mutinied and set him afloat in an open boat; a few weeks later he arrived safely in Timor 4,000 miles away (1754-1817)
William Howard Taft
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~ 27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1857-1930)
William Blake
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~ visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)
William Seward Burroughs
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~ United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997)
William Henry Hoover
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~ United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
William H. Bonney
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~ United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881)
William Hoover
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~ United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
William Shakespeare
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~ English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)
William Harvey
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~ English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657)
William Crawford Gorgas
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~ United States Army surgeon who suppressed yellow fever in Havana and in the Panama Canal Zone (1854-1920)
William Cuthbert Faulkner
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~ United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)
William Crookes
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~ English chemist and physicist; discovered thallium; invented the radiometer and studied cathode rays (1832-1919)
William Gilbert
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~ a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
William Morris
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~ English poet and craftsman (1834-1896)
William Le Baron Jenny
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~ United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907)
William Sydney Porter
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~ United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910)
William Frederick Cody
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~ United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917)
William John Clifton Haley Jr.
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~ United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981)
William Green
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~ United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)