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•  Albrecht Altdorfer

  Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 near Regensburg – 12 February 1538 in Regensburg) was a German painter, printmaker and architect of the Renaissance era, the leader of the Danube School in southern Germany, and a near-contemporary of Albrecht Dürer. He is best known as a significant pioneer of landscape in art.

  

  40.0%
  

  40.0%
  

  20.0%
  
•  Hans Baldung

  Hans Baldung, known as Hans Baldung Grien/Grün (c. 1480–1545) was a German Renaissance artist in painting and printmaking in woodcut. He was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer.

  

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  60.0%
  

  40.0%
  
•  Myles Coverdale

  Myles Coverdale (Also spelled Miles Coverdale) (c. 1488 – 20 January 1569) was a 16th-century Bible translator who produced the first complete printed translation of the Bible into English.

  

  57.1%
  

  14.3%
  

  28.6%
  
•  Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex

  Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, KG, PC (c. 1485 – 28 July 1540) was an English statesman who served as King Henry VIII's chief minister from 1532 to 1540. Cromwell rose from humble beginnings and attempted to modernize government at the expense of the privileges of the nobility and church; as a result, he was seen as an upstart.

  

  12.5%
  

  37.5%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Hans von Kulmbach

  Artist Hans von Kulmbach (real name Hans Suess or Hans Süß) was born around 1480 in Kulmbach, Franconia and died previous to Dec. 3, 1522 in Nuremberg. Hans von Kulmbach was the artist who created the Kraków St. John's Altar. Kulmbach probably arrived in Nuremberg around 1505. He received instruction by Jacopo de Barbiri, who for a time worked in Nuremberg.

  

  50.0%
  

  16.7%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Giovanni da Verrazzano

  Giovanni da Verrazzano (often spelled Verrazano; 1485–1528) was an Italian explorer of North America, in the service of the French crown. He is renowned as the first European since the Norse colonization of the Americas around AD 1000 to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between South and North Carolina and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay in 1524.

  

  25.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Matteo Bandello

  Matteo Bandello (c. 1480 – 1562) was an Italian writer.

  

  20.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  30.0%
  
•  Titian

  Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1473/1490 – 27 August 1576 better known as Titian was an Italian painter, the leader of 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno, in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called Da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth.

  

  55.6%
  

  22.2%
  

  22.2%
  
•  Thomas Müntzer

  Thomas Müntzer (ca. 1488 – 27 May 1525) was an early Reformation-era German theologian, who became a rebel leader during the Peasants' War. He turned against Luther with several anti-Lutheran writings, and supported the Anabaptists. In the battle at Frankenhausen, Müntzer and his farmers were defeated. He was captured, tortured and decapitated.

  

  71.4%
  

  28.6%
  

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•  John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford

  John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, KG, PC, JP (c. 1485 – 14 March 1554/1555) was an English royal minister in the Tudor era. He served variously as Lord High Admiral and Lord Privy Seal. He was the son of James Russell of Kingston Russell and his wife Alice Wyse, and was born about 1485 at Long Bredy, near Dorchester, Dorset.

  

  40.0%
  

  40.0%
  

  20.0%
  

• 1480s births by likeorhate
• 1550s deaths by likeorhate
• Collectors of fairy tales by likeorhate
• Italian writers by likeorhate

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•  Le Corbusier

  Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also painter, who is famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called Modern architecture or the International Style. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in his 30s.

  

  33.3%
  

  41.7%
  

  25.0%
  
•  Oreochromis urolepis hornorum

  The Wami tilapia is a tilapiine cichlid that grows to over 20 cm in length and is considered a useful food fish in Tanzania and the island of Zanzibar, where it may have been introduced by man. It is tolerant of brackish water and grows well in saline pools, making it particularly suitable for aquaculture by communities living close to the sea. Like other tilapia it is an omnivore and will feed on algae, plants, small invertebrates, and detritus. The common name refers to the Wami River.

  

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•  Insight (E-mail client)

  Insight WebClient is an groupware E-Mail client from Bynari embedded on Arachne Web browser for DOS. It supports IMAP4, POP3 and SMTP email protocol with simple settings. It allows Sunbird, Outlook, and Evolution to work together.

  

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•  Şandru River (Moldova)

  The Şandru River is a tributary of the Moldova River in Romania. The road from Câmpulung Moldovenesc to Stulpicani through the Prihodişte Pass follows the course of the Şandru River.

  

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•  Atomic Scientists' Association in the UK

  

  27.6%
  

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