John Hemminge
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～ English actor who edited the first folio of Shakespeare's plays (1556-1630)
John Eccles
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～ Australian physiologist noted for his research on the conduction of impulses by nerve cells (1903-1997)
John Florio
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～ English lexicographer remembered for his Italian and English dictionary (1553-1625)
John Donald Budge
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～ United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)
John Chapman
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～ United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)
John Brown
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～ abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
John Barleycorn
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～ an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
John Cage
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～ United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
John Birks Gillespie
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～ United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993)
John Barrymore
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～ United States actor; son of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore (1882-1942)
John Bardeen
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～ United States physicist who won the Nobel prize for physics twice (1908-1991)
John Irving
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～ United States writer of darkly humorous novels (born in 1942)
John Dewey
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～ United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952)
John Calvin
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～ Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)