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Karl Marx

1818–1883

Philosopher and economist, born in Trier

Highgate Cemetery (East), London

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Clara Schumann

1819–1896

Pianist and composer

Alter Friedhof, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia

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Robert Koch

1843–1910

Country doctor who found the germs behind three diseases

Mausoleum at the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin

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Max Planck

1858–1947

Physicist who found the quantum

Stadtfriedhof, Göttingen, Lower Saxony

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Nikola Tesla

1856–1943

Engineer of alternating current

Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Serbia

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Jackie Robinson

1919–1972

First Black player in modern Major League Baseball

Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York City

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César Chávez

1927–1993

Organiser of farm workers

National Chávez Center, Keene, California

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John Steinbeck

1902–1968

Novelist of the Dust Bowl

Garden of Memories Memorial Park, Salinas, California

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Sojourner Truth

1797–1883

Preacher and abolitionist, born Isabella Baumfree

Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Michigan

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Helen Keller

1880–1968

Author and campaigner, deaf and blind from nineteen months old

Columbarium, Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

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Simone de Beauvoir

1908–1986

Philosopher, author of "The Second Sex"

Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris

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Albert Camus

1913–1960

Novelist and essayist

Cemetery of Lourmarin, Vaucluse

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Émile Zola

1840–1902

Novelist who wrote "J'accuse…!"

The Panthéon, Paris

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Voltaire

1694–1778

Writer, born François-Marie Arouet

The Panthéon, Paris

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William Wilberforce

1759–1833

Member of Parliament who fought the slave trade for twenty years

Westminster Abbey, London

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Mary Wollstonecraft

1759–1797

Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

St Peter's churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel

1806–1859

Engineer of bridges, tunnels, railways and ships

Kensal Green Cemetery, London

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Alexander Fleming

1881–1955

Bacteriologist who noticed penicillin

Crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, London

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Virginia Woolf

1882–1941

Novelist and essayist

Garden of Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex

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George Orwell

1903–1950

Writer, born Eric Arthur Blair

All Saints' churchyard, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire

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Aristides de Sousa Mendes

1885–1954

Consul who disobeyed and signed visas for thousands

Cemetery of Cabanas de Viriato, Carregal do Sal, Viseu

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Amália Rodrigues

1920–1999

The voice of fado

National Pantheon, Santa Engrácia, Lisbon

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Fernando Pessoa

1888–1935

Poet who was several poets

Jerónimos Monastery, Belém, Lisbon

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Antonio Machado

1875–1939

Spanish poet who died in exile

Cemetery of Collioure, Pyrénées-Orientales, France