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•  Francis Scott Key

  Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."

  

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•  Peter Mark Roget

  Peter Mark Roget FRS (18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words.

  

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•  Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger

  Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (November 14, 1779 – January 20, 1850) was a Danish poet and playwright. He introduced romanticism into Danish literature.

  

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•  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841), and was a mentor of Queen Victoria. The city of Melbourne in Australia was named after him.

  

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•  William Clowes (printer)

  William Clowes (January 1, 1779 – January 26, 1847) founded a printing firm, William Clowes Ltd. , in London in 1803. The firm rapidly expanded, and became the largest printing firm in the world. In 1870, the firm amalgamated with William Moore, a Beccles printer who also owned the Caxton press. The firm led the field in the development of monotype composition. In 1984 William Clowes Ltd.

  

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•  Jöns Jakob Berzelius

  

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•  Stephen Decatur

  Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr. (5 January 1779 – 22 March 1820) was an American naval officer notable for his heroism in the Barbary Wars and in the War of 1812. He was the youngest man to reach the rank of captain in the history of the United States Navy, and the first American celebrated as a national military hero who had not played a role in the American Revolution.

  

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•  William Hedley

  William Hedley (13 July 1779 – 9 January 1843) was one of the leading industrial engineers of the early 19th century, and was very instrumental in several major innovations in early railway development. While working as a 'viewer' or manager at Wylam's Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, he built the first practical steam locomotive which relied simply on the adhesion of iron wheels on iron rails. He was born in Newburn, near Newcastle upon Tyne in 1779.

  

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•  Thomas Moore

  Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and the The Last Rose of Summer.

  

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•  Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn

  Henry Thomas Cockburn (October 26, 1779 – April 26, 1854) was a Scottish judge and biographer, with the style of Lord Cockburn. His father, a keen Tory, was a baron of the Court of Exchequer, and his mother was connected by marriage with Lord Melville. He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh. He was a member of the famous Speculative Society, to which Sir Walter Scott, Henry Brougham and Francis Jeffrey belonged.

  

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•  Hippolytus (mythology)

  In Greek mythology, Hippolytus (Greek for "horse liberator") was a son of Theseus and either Antiope or Hippolyte. He was identified with the Roman forest god Virbius. The most common legend regarding Hippolytus states that he was killed after rejecting the advances of Phaedra, the second wife of Theseus and Hippolytus's stepmother. Spurned, Phaedra convinced Theseus that Hippolytus had raped her.

  

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•  Akoda

  Akoda is a town and a nagar panchayat in Bhind district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.

  

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•  Återtåget (album)

  

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•  Maksim Mishenko

  Maksim Mishenko is a Russian politician, deputy of the State Duma, founder and leader of the youth movement Young Russia.

  

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