Jesse Louis Jackson
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～ United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
Jean Luc Godard
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～ French film maker influenced by surrealism; early work explored the documentary use of film; noted for innovative techniques (born in 1930)
Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm
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～ the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863)
Jorge Luis Borges
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～ Argentinian writer remembered for his short stories (1899-1986)
Jean Baptiste Lully
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～ French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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～ French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850)
John Luther Jones
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～ United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)
John Lyly
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～ English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606)
J. M. Barrie
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～ Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937)
John M. Browning
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～ United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)
Joseph M. Jacquard
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～ French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)