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    Edmund Stoiber

    Age 70 Male
    Politician, Minister, Military Person
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    Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber is a German politician, former minister-president of the state of Bavaria and former chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU). On 18 January 2007, he announced his decision to step down from the posts of minister-president and party chairman by 30 September, after having been under fire in his own party for weeks.read more

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    Edmund Burke

    1729 - 1797 Male
    Philosopher

    Edmund Burke PC was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution.read more

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    Edmund Husserl

    1859 - 1938 Male
    Philosopher, Known As the Father of Phenomenology

    Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a philosopher and mathematician and the founder of the 20th century philosophical school of phenomenology. He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day, yet he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic. Not limited to empiricism, but believing that experience is the source of all knowledge, he worked on a method of phenomenological reduction by which a subject may come to know directly an essence.read more

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    Edmund Sharpe

    1809 - 1877 Male
    Architect, Historian, Engineer

    Edmund Sharpe was an English architect, architectural historian, railway engineer, and sanitary reformer. Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, he was educated, first by his parents, then at schools locally and in Runcorn, Greenwich and Sedbergh. Following graduation at Cambridge University, he was awarded a travelling scholarship enabling him to study architecture in Germany and southern France.read more

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    Edmund Blacket

    1817 - 1883 Male
    Architect

    Edmund Thomas Blacket was an Australian architect, best known for his designs for the University of Sydney, St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney and St. Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn. Arriving in Sydney from England in 1842, at a time when the city was rapidly expanding and new suburbs and towns were being established, Blacket was to become a pioneer of the revival styles of architecture, in particular Victorian Gothic.read more

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    Edmund Andros

    1637 - 1714 Male
    Governor of Several North American Colonies

    Sir Edmund Andros was an English colonial administrator in North America. Andros was known most notably for his governorship of the Dominion of New England during most of its three-year existence. He also governed at various times the provinces of New York, East and West Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland. Prior to his service in North America, he served as bailiff of Guernsey.read more

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    Edmund Dummer

    1651 - 1713 Male
    Marine Engineer, Surveyor, Member of Parliament

    Edmund Dummer was an English naval engineer and shipbuilder who, as Surveyor of the Navy, founded the Royal Navy dockyard at (Devonport), Plymouth and extended that at Portsmouth. His survey of the Royal Navy Dockyards is a valuable and well-known historic document. He also served Arundel as Member of Parliament for approximately ten years and founded the first packet service between Falmouth, Cornwall and the West Indies. He died a bankrupt in the Fleet debtors' prison.read more

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    Edmund Muskie

    1914 - 1996 Male
    Politician

    Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie was an American politician from Rumford, Maine. He served as Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, as a member of the United States Senate from 1959 to 1980, and as Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981. Muskie was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in the 1968 presidential election, and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 1972. Muskie held the highest office held by a Polish American in U.S.read more

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    Edmund Hillary

    1919 - 2008 Male
    Mountaineer, Explorer

    Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE, was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed as having reached the summit of Mount Everest – see Timeline of climbing Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt.read more

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    Edmund Evans

    1826 - 1905 Male
    Wood Engraver and Printer

    Edmund Evans was a prominent English wood engraver and colour printer during the Victorian era. Evans specialized in full-colour printing, which became popular in the mid-19th century. He employed and collaborated with illustrators such as Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway and Richard Doyle to produce what are now considered to be classic children's books.read more

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    Edmund Herring

    1892 - 1982 Male
    Australian Army General During World War Ii and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria

    Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Francis Herring, KCMG, KBE, DSO, MC, KStJ, ED, QC was an Australian Army officer during the Second World War, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria. A Rhodes scholar, Herring was at New College, Oxford, when the First World War broke out and served with the Royal Field Artillery on the Macedonian front, for which he was awarded the Military Cross and Distinguished Service Order.read more

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    Edmund MacGauran

    1547 - 1593 Male
    Catholic Bishop

    Edmund MacGauran was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland from 1587 to 1593 and Bishop of Ardagh from 1581 to 1587.

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    Edmund the Martyr

    841 AD - 869 AD Male
    King of East Anglia

    Edmund the Martyr; also known as St Edmund or Edmund of East Anglia was king of East Anglia from about 855 until his death. Almost nothing is known of Edmund. He is thought to be of East Anglian origin and was first mentioned in an annal of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written some years after his death. His kingdom was devastated by the Vikings, who destroyed any contemporary evidence of his reign.read more

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    Edmund Charaszkiewicz

    1895 - 1975 Male
    Secret Agent, Military Person

    Edmund Kalikst Eugeniusz Charaszkiewicz was a Polish military intelligence officer who specialized in clandestine warfare. Between the World Wars, he helped establish Poland's interbellum borders in conflicts over territory with Poland's neighbors.read more

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    Edmund Rubbra

    1901 - 1986 Male
    Composer, Soloist, Musician

    Edmund Rubbra was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak of his fame in the mid-20th century. The most famous of his pieces are his eleven symphonies. Although he was active at a time when many people wrote twelve-tone music, he decided not to write in this idiom himself.read more

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    Edmund Kuempel

    1942 - 2010 Male
    Politician

    Edmund Perry Kuempel was a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 44, based at Seguin, the seat of Guadalupe County in central Texas.

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    Edmund Barton

    1849 - 1920 Male
    First Prime Minister of Australia and A Founding Justice of the High Court of Australia

    Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC, Australian politician and judge, served as the first Prime Minister of Australia and became a founding justice of the High Court of Australia. Barton first became an MP in 1879, in the Parliament of New South Wales. He contributed solidly to the federation movement through the 1890s, eventually contesting the inaugural 1901 federal election as head of a caretaker Protectionist Party federal government.read more

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    Edmund Phelps

    Age 78 Male
    Economist

    Edmund Strother Phelps, Jr. is an American economist and the winner of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Early in his career he became renowned for his research at Yale's Cowles Foundation in the first half of the 1960s on the sources of economic growth.read more

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    Edmund Spangler

    1825 - 1875 Male
    Alleged Conspirator In the Abraham Lincoln Assassination

    Edmund Spangler, also known as Edman, Edward, and Ned Spangler, was originally from York, Pennsylvania, but he spent the majority of his life in the Baltimore, Maryland area. He was an alleged conspirator in the Abraham Lincoln assassination and had worked at Ford's Theatre at the time of Abraham Lincoln's murder.read more

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    Edmund Blampied

    1886 - 1966 Male
    Etcher, Lithographer, Cartoonist

    Edmund Blampied was one of the most eminent artists to come from the Channel Islands, yet he received no formal training in art until he was 16 years old. He was noted mostly for his etchings and drypoints published at the height of the print boom in the 1920s, but was also a lithographer, caricaturist, cartoonist, book illustrator and artist in oils, watercolours, silhouettes and bronze.read more

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    Edmund Bonner

    1500 - 1569 Male
    Bishop of London, Was An English Bishop

    Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, was an English bishop. Initially an instrumental figure in the schism of Henry VIII from Rome, he was antagonized by the Protestant reforms introduced by Somerset and reconciled himself to Roman Catholicism. He became notorious as Bloody Bonner for his role in the persecution of heretics under the Catholic government of Mary I of England, and ended his life as a prisoner under Queen Elizabeth.read more

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    Edmund Hockridge

    1919 - 2009 Male
    Baritone, Actor, Singer

    Edmund James Arthur Hockridge was a Canadian baritone and actor who had an active performance career in musicals, operas, concerts, plays, and on radio. According to his obituary in The Guardian, his life could have provided the storyline for one of the musicals he starred in.read more

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    Edmund Ser

    Age 56 Male
    Malaysian Fashion Designer

    Edmund Ser is a Malaysian fashion designer and businessman based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is best known for his designer brand, Edmund Ser of Malaysia. He created the Edmund Ser, Spade, and SER fashion labels. He has been a guest judge on Project Runway Malaysia, as well as judging the Malaysia Young Designers' competition and the Miss Malaysia Pageant.read more

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    Edmund Rice

    1594 - 1663 Male
    Immigrant To Massachusetts Bay Colony

    Edmund Rice, was an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony who was born in Suffolk, England, and lived in Stanstead, Suffolk and Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire before sailing with his kin to America. He landed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in summer or fall of 1638, thought to be first living in the town of Watertown, Massachusetts.read more

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    Edmund Curll

    1675 - 1747 Male
    Bookseller, Publisher, Pope

    Edmund Curll was an English bookseller and publisher. His name has become synonymous, through the attacks on him by Alexander Pope, with unscrupulous publication and publicity. Curll rose from poverty to wealth through his publishing, and he did this by approaching book printing in a mercenary and unscrupulous manner.read more