Robert Koch
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~ German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910)
Robert Maynard Hutchins
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~ United States educator who was president of the University of Chicago (1899-1977)
Robert Clive
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~ British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774)
Robert Peel
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~ British politician (1788-1850)
Robert R. Livingston
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~ American Revolutionary leader who served in the Continental Congress and as minister to France (1746-1813)
Robert Bunsen
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~ German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899)
Robert King Merton
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~ United States sociologist (1910-2003)
Robert James Fischer
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~ United States chess master; world champion from 1972 to 1975 (born in 1943)
Robert Gray
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~ American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
Robert Burns
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~ celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796)
Robert Bruce Mathias
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~ United States athlete who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon (born in 1930)
Robert Edwin Peary
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~ United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)
Robert Herrick
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~ English lyric poet (1591-1674)
Robert Lowell
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~ United States poet (1917-1977)
Robert Joffrey
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~ United States choreographer (1930-1988)
Robert Peary
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~ United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)
Robert Mills
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~ United States architect who was the presidentially appointed architect of Washington D.C. (1781-1855)
Robert E. Lee
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~ American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)
Robert Nesta Marley
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~ Jamaican singer who popularized reggae (1945-1981)