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)
William F. Cody
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～ United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917)
William James
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～ United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910)
William Shakspere
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～ English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)
William Hogarth
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～ English artist noted for a series of engravings that satirized the affectations of his time (1697-1764)
William Wilkie Collins
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～ English writer noted for early detective novels (1824-1889)
William Holman Hunt
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～ Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
William Fulbright
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～ United States senator who is remembered for his creation of grants that fund exchange programs of teachers and students between the United States and other countries (1905-1995)
William Felton Russell
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～ United States basketball center (born in 1934)
William Burroughs
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～ United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997)
William Bradford Shockley
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～ United States physicist (born in England) who contributed to the development of the electronic transistor (1910-1989)