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American novelist (1891–1980)

Henry Miller

Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist.

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British journalist and explorer (1841–1904)

Henry Morton Stanley

Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author, and politician famous for his exploration of Central Africa and search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

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American poet and educator (1807–1882)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator.

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Polish writer, novelist, journalist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate (1846–1916)

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz, also known by the pseudonym Litwos, was a Polish epic writer.

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Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)

Heraclitus

Heraclitus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire.

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President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933.

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English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist.

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Austrian conductor (1908–1989)

Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian conductor.

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American writer and poet (1819–1891)

Herman Melville

Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period.

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