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•  George Washington

  George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and as the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783. Because of his significant role in the revolution and in the formation of the United States, he is often referred to as "Father of His Country". The Continental Congress appointed Washington commander-in-chief of the American revolutionary forces in 1775.

  

  31.9%
  

  27.7%
  

  40.4%
  
•  Joseph Haydn

  Franz Joseph Haydn (March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was an Austrian composer. He was one of the most important, prolific and prominent composers of the classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these genres. He was also instrumental in the development of the piano trio and in the evolution of sonata form.

  

  28.6%
  

  28.6%
  

  42.9%
  
•  Richard Henry Lee

  Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794) was an American statesman from Virginia best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain. His famous resolution of June 1776 led to the United States Declaration of Independence, which Lee signed. He also served a one-year term as the President of the Continental Congress, and was a U.S.

  

  60.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  20.0%
  
•  Charles Lee (general)

  Charles Lee (February 6, 1732 – October 2, 1782) was a British soldier turned Virginia planter who was a general officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.

  

  16.7%
  

  33.3%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, arms dealer, and revolutionary. He was best known, however, for his theatrical works, especially the three Figaro plays.

  

  33.3%
  

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  66.7%
  
•  Francis Marion

  Francis Marion (c. 1732 – February 26, 1795) was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. Acting with Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven out of the state in the Battle of Camden.

  

  50.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Jacques Necker

  Jacques Necker (September 30, 1732 – April 9, 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI, a post he held in the lead-up to the French Revolution in 1789.

  

  50.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  25.0%
  
•  Warren Hastings

  Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818) was the first Governor-General of Bengal, from 1773 to 1785. He was famously accused of corruption in an impeachment in 1787, but was acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1814.

  

  16.7%
  

  16.7%
  

  66.7%
  
•  Jérôme Lalande

  Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (July 11, 1732 – April 4, 1807) was a French astronomer and writer.

  

  66.7%
  

  22.2%
  

  11.1%
  
•  Frederick North, Lord North

  Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, KG, PC (13 April 1732 – 5 August 1792), more often known by his courtesy title, Lord North, which he used from 1752 until 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782. He led Great Britain through most of the American War of Independence. He also held a number of other cabinet posts, including Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

  

  0.0%
  

  66.7%
  

  33.3%
  

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• 1811 deaths by likeorhate
• Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge by likeorhate
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•  The Black Hole

  The Black Hole is a 1979 American science fiction film directed by Gary Nelson for Walt Disney Productions. The film stars Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins, and Ernest Borgnine, while the voices of the main robot characters are provided by Roddy McDowall and Slim Pickens (both unbilled). The music for the movie was composed by John Barry. Alan Dean Foster novelized the screenplay.

  

  75.0%
  

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  25.0%
  
•  Andrievs Niedra

  Andrievs Niedra, formerly spelt Andreews Needra, was a major Latvian writer, a Lutheran pastor, and the Prime Minister of the German puppet government in Latvia between April and June 1919, during the Latvian War of Independence. Niedra's first collection of poems was published when he was only nineteen years old, and he was still in his teens when his stories based on history and folklore began to appear in the newspaper Baltijas Vēstnesis.

  

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•  Vladimir Petrović

  Vladimir Petrović, widely known by his nickname Pižon is a Serbian former football player and current coach of his former team Red Star Belgrade.

  

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•  Persian walnut

  

  41.2%
  

  47.1%
  

  11.8%
  
•  Kurta, South Ossetia

  

  25.0%
  

  33.3%
  

  41.7%