Ancient Greek historian
Polybius
Polybius was an ancient Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period.
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Indian writer of Hindi and Urdu fiction (1880–1936); pioneer of social realism in Hindustani literature
Premchand
Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand, was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.
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Thai prime minister (1900-1983)
Pridi Banomyong
Pridi Banomyong, also known by his noble title Luang Praditmanutham, was a Thai lawyer, professor, activist, politician, democratic socialist, and senior statesman.
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Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
Primo Levi
Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer.
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1st century BC Roman elegiac poet
Propertius
Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age.
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French writer, archaeologist and historian (1803–1870)
Prosper Mérimée
Prosper Mérimée was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story.
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2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy, better known mononymously as Ptolemy, was a Greco-Roman who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
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Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
Puyi
Puyi was the last emperor of China, having reigned as the Xuantong Emperor of the Qing dynasty and later as the Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state during World War II.
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Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.
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