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    Henry Winkler

    Age 66 Male
    Actor, Director and Writer
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    Henry Franklin Winkler, OBE (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, director, producer, and author. Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days. "The Fonz," a leather-clad greaser and auto mechanic, started out as a minor character at the show's beginning but had achieved top billing by the time the show ended.read more

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    Henry Kissinger

    Age 89 Male
    United States Secretaries of State, National Security Advisor
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    Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American writer, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, he served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. After his term, his opinion was still sought by many subsequent presidents and many world leaders.read more

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    Henry Rollins

    Age 51 Male
    Singer-songwriter
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    Henry Rollins is an American singer-songwriter, spoken word artist, writer, publisher, actor, and radio DJ. After performing for the short-lived Washington D.C. -based band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from August 1981 until mid-1986.read more

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    Henry Cisneros

    Age 65 Male
    Politician, Businessman, Mayor
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    Henry Gabriel Cisneros is a politician and businessman. A Democrat, Cisneros served as the 10th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the administration of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. As HUD Secretary, Cisneros was credited with initiating the revitalization of many of the nation’s public housing developments and with formulating policies that contributed to achieving the nation’s highest ever homeownership rate.read more

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    Henry Paulson

    Age 66 Male
    Politician, Banker, Investment Banker
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    Henry Merritt "Hank" Paulson, Jr. is an American banker who served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury. He previously served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs.read more

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    Henry II of England

    1133 - 1189 Male
    King of England , First of the Plantagenet Or Angevin Kings

    Henry II, also known as Henry Curtmantle, Henry FitzEmpress or Henry Plantagenet, ruled as King of England (1154–89), Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Nantes, and Lord of Ireland; at various times, he also controlled Wales, Scotland and Brittany. Henry was the son of Geoffrey of Anjou and Matilda, who took the title of Empress from her first marriage.read more

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    Henry Fonda

    1905 - 1982 Male
    Actor

    Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins. He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl.read more

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    Henry VIII of England

    1491 - 1547 Male
    King of England

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    Henry Every

    1659 - 4712 BC Male
    Pirate

    Henry Every, also Evory or Avery, sometimes erroneously given as John Avery, was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in the mid-1690s. He likely used several aliases throughout his career, including Henry Bridgeman, and was known as Long Ben to his crewmen and associates.read more

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    Henry Lozano

    Age 63 Male
    Politician, Organizer, Deputy

    Henry Lozano is a non-profit executive and grassroots organizer. His years of public service culminated in his post at the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of USA Freedom Corps. On August 10, 2011, he was appointed to serve as the Director of Los Angeles County Teen Challenge and Urban Ministries Initiatives. On September 11, 2007, President George W.read more

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    Henry Marshall Furman

    1850 - 1916 Male
    Judge, Lawyer

    Henry Marshall Furman was the first Presiding Judge of the Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals, now the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, and served as Presiding Judge from 1909 to 1916. He died after a lengthy illness, from Bright's Disease, on April 10, 1916.read more

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    Henry Earl Singleton

    1916 - 1999 Male
    Electrical Engineer, Earl, Businessman

    Henry Earl Singleton was an electrical engineer, business executive, and rancher/land owner. Singleton made significant contributions to aircraft inertial guidance and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He co-founded Teledyne, Inc. , one of Americas most successful conglomerates and was its chief executive officer for three decades. Late in life, Singleton became one of largest holder of ranchland in the United States.read more

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    Henry Ford

    1863 - 1947 Male
    Founder of the Ford Motor Company and Father of Modern Assembly Lines Used In Mass Production

    Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers.read more

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    Henry Raeburn Dobson

    1901 - 1985 Male
    Twentieh Century Scottish Portrait Painter

    Henry Raeburn Dobson - also known as Raeburn Dobson - was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter from Edinburgh who was active in Edinburgh and Brussels (Belgium) from 1918/1920 until 1980. His father Henry John Dobson (1858–1928) and his brother Cowan Dobson (1894–1980) were genre and portrait painters. His portraits are mainly painted in oil, while his landscape paintings are mainly painted in watercolour.read more

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    Henry M. Jackson

    1912 - 1983 Male
    Politician

    Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from the state of Washington from 1941 until his death. Jackson was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and 1976. The political philosophies and positions of Jackson, a Cold War anti-Communist Democrat, have been cited as an influence on a number of key figures associated with neoconservatism, including Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle.read more

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    Henry H. Arnold

    1886 - 1950 Male
    General Officer, Pioneer, Military Person

    Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold was an American general officer holding the grades of General of the Army and later General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps (1938–1941), Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, the only Air Force general to hold five-star rank, and the only person to hold a five-star rank in two different U.S. military services.read more

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    Henry Vane the Younger

    1613 - 1662 Male
    Colonial Governor of Massachusetts; English Parliamentary Leader During the Civil War and Interregnum

    Sir Henry Vane, son of Henry Vane the Elder (often referred to as Harry Vane to distinguish him from his father), was an English politician, statesman, and colonial governor. He was briefly present in North America, serving one term as the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and supported the creation of Roger Williams' Rhode Island Colony and Harvard College.read more

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    Henry James

    1843 - 1916 Male
    American-born, Later British, Author and Literary Critic. Novelist, Short Story Writer, Biographer, Autobiographer, Travel Writer, Playwright.

    Henry James, OM was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. , a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. James alternated between America and Europe for the first 20 years of his life, after which he settled in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death.read more

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    Henry Waxman

    Age 72 Male
    Politician, Congressman, Lawyer
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    Henry Arnold Waxman is the U.S. Representative for, serving in Congress since 1975. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He is considered to be one of the most influential liberal members of Congress. His district includes much of the western part of the city of Los Angeles, as well as West Hollywood, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, and used to be the 29th District before the post-2000 census redistricting.read more

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    Henry Mancini

    1924 - 1994 Male
    Composer

    Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards (20), plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995.read more

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    Henry Wood

    1869 - 1944 Male
    Conductor

    Sir Henry Joseph Wood, CH was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms. He conducted them for nearly half a century, introducing hundreds of new works to British audiences. After his death, the concerts were officially renamed in his honour as the "Henry Wood Promenade Concerts", although they continued to be generally referred to as "the Proms".read more

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    Henry Huttleston Rogers

    1840 - 1909 Male
    Capitalist, Businessman, Industrialist

    Henry Huttleston Rogers was a United States capitalist, businessman, industrialist, financier, and philanthropist. He made his fortune in the oil refinery business, becoming a leader at Standard Oil.

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    Henry de Bracton

    1210 - 1268 Male
    Writer

    Henry of Bracton, also Henry de Bracton, also Henrici Bracton, or Henry Bratton also Henry Bretton was an English jurist. He is famous now for his writings on Law, particularly De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (On the Laws and Customs of England), and his ideas on mens rea, or criminal intent. According to Bracton, it was only through the examination of a combination of action and intention that the commission of a criminal act could be established.read more

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    Henry Parkes

    1815 - 1896 Male
    New South Wales Politician and Premier

    Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation. " As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers. Parkes was described during his lifetime by The Times as "the most commanding figure in Australian politics".read more

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    Henry Morgentaler

    Age 89 Male
    Champion of Women's Right To Safe, Legal Abortion

    Henry Morgentaler, CM is a Canadian physician and prominent pro-choice advocate who has fought numerous legal battles for that cause.