John Bernoulli
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～ Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)
John Fletcher
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～ prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625)
John
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～ the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament
John Drew
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～ United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862)
John Berry Hobbs
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～ notable English cricketer (1882-1963)
John Cheever
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～ United States writer of novels and short stories (1912-1982)
John Heming
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～ English actor who edited the first folio of Shakespeare's plays (1556-1630)
John Hancock
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～ American revolutionary patriot who was president of the Continental Congress; was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence (1737-1793)
John Davys
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～ English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605)
John Haldane
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～ Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)
John
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～ (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation
John Henry
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～ hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill
John Huston
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～ United States film maker born in the United States but an Irish citizen after 1964 (1906-1987)
John Griffith Chaney
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～ United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916)
John
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～ youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216)
John Dalton
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～ English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844)
John Harvard
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～ American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638)
John Donne
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～ English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631)
John Endicott
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～ born in England; in 1629 he became the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588-1665)
John C. Fremont
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～ United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and Northwest (1813-1890)