William Tindal
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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 Stanley Jevons
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～ English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882)
William Clark
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～ United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838)
William Gilbert
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～ English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)
William Hubbs Rehnquist
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～ United States jurist who served as an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court from 1972 until 1986, when he was appointed chief justice (born in 1924)
William Lloyd Garrison
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～ United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)
William Thornton
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～ American architect (1759-1828)
William Walton
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～ English composer (1902-1983)
William Randolph Hearst
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～ United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951)
William Harrison Dempsey
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～ United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (1895-1983)
William Menninger
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～ United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1899-1966)
William Henry Beveridge
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～ British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963)
William Dudley Haywood
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～ United States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928)
William Shockley
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～ United States physicist (born in England) who contributed to the development of the electronic transistor (1910-1989)
William Jennings Bryan
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～ United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)
William Henry Mauldin
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～ United States cartoonist noted for his drawings of soldiers in battle (1921-2003)
William Dawes
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～ American patriot who rode with Paul Revere to warn that the British were advancing on Lexington and Concord (1745-1799)