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)
William Henry Seward
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～ United States politician who as Secretary of State in 1867 arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia (known at the time as Seward's Folly) (1801-1872)
William Christopher Handy
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～ United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958)
William Holmes McGuffey
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～ United States educator who compiled the McGuffey Eclectic Readers (1800-1873)
William Somerset Maugham
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～ English writer (born in France) of novels and short stories (1874-1965)
William of Ockham
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～ English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)
William Falkner
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～ United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)
William of Orange
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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)
William Tindale
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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 Harrison Hays
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～ United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United States films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954)
William Benjamin Hogan
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～ United States golfer who won many major golf tournaments (1912-1997)
William Pitt
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～ English statesman and son of Pitt the Elder (1759-1806)