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    Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller

    1859 - 1941 Male
    Diplomat

    Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, GON, RNL, FRGS was a Dutch businessman, diplomat, world traveller, publicist, and philanthropist. He was a son of Hendrik Muller Sz. , a Rotterdam-based Dutch businessman and politician, and Marie Cornelie van Rijckevorsel, member of another prominent Rotterdam based business family. Muller started his career as a businessman, trading with East and West Africa.read more

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    Hendrik Wade Bode

    1905 - 1982 Male
    Engineer, Research Worker, Scientist

    Hendrik Wade Bode, (24 December 1905 – 21 June 1982) was an American engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist, of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research.read more

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    Hendrik Bouman

    Age 61 Male
    Harpsichordist, Conductor, Composer

    Hendrik "Henk" Bouman is a Dutch harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor and composer of music written in the baroque and classical idioms of the 17th & 18th Century.

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    Hendrik Hofmeyr

    Age 54 Male
    South African Composer

    Hendrik Pienaar Hofmeyr is among the younger generation of South African composers. Born in Cape Town, he furthered his studies in Italy during 10 years of self-imposed exile as a conscientious objector. While there, he won the South African Opera Competition with The Fall of the House of Usher. He also received the annual Nederburg Prize for Opera for this work subsequent to its performance at the State Theatre in Pretoria in 1988.read more

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    Hendrik Verwoerd

    1901 - 1966 Male
    Former South African Prime Minister

    Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, commonly identified as H.F. Verwoerd, was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966. He is remembered as the man behind the conception and implementation of apartheid, a system of racial segregation dividing ethnic groups in the country.read more

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    Hendrik Spoorbek

    1845 Male
    Date

    Heinrich Schörbeck (born Dortmund, Germany, unknown date – death 13 June 1845, Tsitsikamma, South Africa) was a renowned seer, healer and magician who settled in South Africa around 1811. In Afrikaner legends he is commonly known as Hendrik Spoorbek / Skoorbek the “Towenaar”.read more

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    Hendrik Lorentz

    1853 - 1928 Male
    Physicist

    Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He also derived the transformation equations subsequently used by Albert Einstein to describe space and time.read more