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Kenesaw Mountain Landis (Former Baseball Commissioner)

Sun Yet-sen (Chinese revolutionary, father of modern China)

H.G. Wells (Author, “The Time Machine”)

Beatrix Potter (Writer, Tale of Peter Rabbit)

Matt Kilroy (Baseball player, MLB single-season record 513 strikeouts)

Anne Sullivan (Teacher to Helen Keller)

Butch Cassidy (Notorious train robber along with his partner the Sundance Kid)

Hebert Henry Dow (Dow Chemical)

President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, even though fighting had stopped months earlier.

Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank.

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