American zoologist, gorilla researcher (1932–1985)
Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985.
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Mexican muralist (1886–1957)
Diego Rivera
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a Mexican painter.
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Spanish painter (1599–1660)
Diego Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish Baroque painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age.
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Russian journalist and television presenter (born 1961)
Dmitri Muratov
Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov is a Russian journalist, television presenter and the former editor-in-chief of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
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Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician (1895-1989)
Dolores Ibárruri
Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, also known as Pasionaria, was a Spanish Republican politician during the Spanish Civil War and a communist.
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Italian Renaissance painter from Florence (1448–1494)
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi, professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence.
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French politician and diplomat; 95th Prime Minister of France
Dominique de Villepin
Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2005 to 2007 under President Jacques Chirac.
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American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
Donald Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
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Early Renaissance Italian sculptor (1386–1466)
Donatello
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, known mononymously as Donatello, was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period.
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