William Caxton
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～ English printer who in 1474 printed the first book in English (1422-1491)
William Penn
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～ Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)
William Tyndale
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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 Henry Harrison
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～ 9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841)
William Herschel
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～ English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822)
William Ewart Gladstone
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～ liberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times (1809-1898)
William Lawrence Shirer
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～ United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (1904-1993)
William Gladstone
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～ liberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times (1809-1898)
William Henry
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～ English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)
William Tecumseh Sherman
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～ United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West; he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891)
William Cowper
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～ English surgeon who discovered Cowper's gland (1666-1709)
William Penn Adair Rogers
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～ United States humorist remembered for his homespun commentary on politics and American society (1879-1935)
William the Conqueror
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～ duke of Normandy who led the Norman invasion of England and became the first Norman to be King of England; he defeated Harold II at the battle of Hastings in 1066 and introduced many Norman customs into England (1027-1087)
William Seward Burroughs
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～ United States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898)
William Thompson
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～ British physicist who invented the Kelvin scale of temperature and pioneered undersea telegraphy (1824-1907)
William Kidd
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～ Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701)
William Curtis
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～ English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799)
William Inge
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～ United States playwright (1913-1973)
William III
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～ King of England and Scotland and Ireland; he married the daughter of James II and was invited by opponents of James II to invade England; when James fled, William III and Mary II were declared joint monarchs (1650-1702)