Katharine Hepburn, Legendary Actress

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Pablo Picasso, Groundbreaking Painter

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Erik Erikson, German Psychologist

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Roger Staubach, America’s Quarterback

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Orville Wright, First Man to Fly an Airplane

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Helen Keller, Blind and Deaf Author and Activist

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W.E.B. Du Bois, Civil Rights Pioneer and Social Historian

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Cecil B. DeMille, Hollywood Director

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Desmond Tutu, Former Archbishop of Cape Town and Anti-Apartheid Activist

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