| RO | American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815) |
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| RO | English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985) |
| RO | American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806) |
| RO | English lyric poet (1591-1674) |
| RO | English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703) |
| RO | United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945) |
| RO | King of Scotland from 1306 to 1329 |
| RO | United States chess master |
| RO | United States choreographer (1930-1988) |
| RO | United States sociologist (born in 1910) |
| RO | German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910) |
| RO | American poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963) |