• Oliver Hudson Kelley
  
  January 7 [20?], 1826 - 1913 Founder of the The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, the nation's oldest national agricultural organization, with granges established in 3,600 local communities in 37 states. Born in Boston, Oliver Ke ...
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• Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde
  
  Photograph by N. Sarony, 1882 October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900 Born in Dublin, Ireland, Wilde was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford where he achieved a rare double-first. Wilde was known for his flamboyance and wit, but rejected b ...
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• Oscar Peterson
  
  www.verticalmanagement.com b August 15, 1925 First playing Carnegie Hall in 1949, Peterson is best known for Canadiana Suite of 1964, his score for Fields of Endless Day, a film tracing the history of the Underground Railroad, and his special wal ...
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• P. G. Wodehouse
  
  October 15, 1881 - February 14, 1975 Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was born in Guildford in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After working for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank for two years, he left to earn his living as a journalist and storywr ...
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• Palmer Cox
  
  Frontispiece Frontier HumorChicago: Donohue, Henneberry, c.1900 April 28, 1840 - July 24, 1924 Illustrator and poet Palmer Cox was born on his parent's farm in the South-Ridge District, between Adamsville and Granby, Quebec. Moving to San Francis ...
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• Paul Foster Case
  
  October 3, 1884 - March 2, 1954 Founder of the Los Angeles occult school, the Builders of the Adytum (B.O.T.A.), Paul Foster Case also wrote such books as The Book of Tokens, a collection of meditations on the 22 Tarot Keys of the Major Arcana. He ...
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• Peter Sellers
  
  1968 photo by Mel Traxel September 8, 1925 - July 24, 1980 Born Richard Henry, but called Peter by his parents in memory of an older brother, Peter Sellers was a major entertainment presence in the 1960s and 70s, appearing in over 60 films as we ...
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• Philip, Duke of Wharton
  
  AQC vol. xii, p. 106. December, 1698 - May 31, 1731 A Jacobite sympathizer zealous for the Hanover Settlement and one-time president of one of perhaps three Hell-Fire Clubs in London, the second Marquis of Wharton was a colourful figure of the per ...
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• Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
  
  1853 c. - January 16, 1942 His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was an active freemason. Duke of Connaught Lodge No. 64, in North Vancouver was named to commemorate his visit to Vancouver. Initiated: November 24, 1874 S ...
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• Prince Hall
  
  Portrait unattributed c.1735 - December 4, 1807 Abolitionist, civic leader, caterer, leather-dresser, and founder of what would become the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, little is known of the life of Prince Hall. He is claimed by Grims ...
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• Rev. George Oliver, D.D.
  
  November 5, 1782 - March 3, 1867 One of the most distinguished and learned of English freemasons, George Oliver is remembered as a laborious antiquary and author on both masonic and ecclesiastical themes. While his erroneous theories and fanciful s ...
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• Richard Bernard “Red” Skelton
  
  July 18, 1913 - September 17, 1997 "Good night, and may God bless." The son of a former circus clown vaudevillian, comedian Red Skelton left home at ten to travel with a medicine show through the Midwest, and joined the vaudeville circuit at fifteen ...
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• Richard Parsons 1st Earl of Rosse
  
  January 1702 - June 26, 1741 All official records of the Grand Lodge of Ireland prior to 1760, and all minute books prior to 1780, have been lost,1 so while Rosse is the first recorded Grand Master of Ireland, whether he was the first is a matter of ...
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• Ringling Brothers
  
  State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Negative No. WHi (x3) 37963 The sons of German-born harness maker August Rüngeling, the Ringling brothers founded the Ringling Brothers Circus in 1884. Conceived by Albert and headed by John, August T. ha ...
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• Rob Morris
  
  August 31, 1818 - July 31, 1888 Born Robert Williams Peckham, Rob Morris took the name of his foster parent, John Morris. Educated as a lawyer, he became a lecturer, educator, author, poet, lyricist and—for a time—president of Oldham Colleg ...
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• Robert Freke Gould
  
  1836 - March 26, 1915 A founding member and the second Master of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, London, Robert Freke Gould contributed twenty-five papers and many notes to Ars Quatuor Coronatorum. A lieutenant in the 31st Regiment, English Army a ...
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• Robert Gordon McBeath
  
  Died October 9th, 1922, aged 23 Robert Gordon McBeath was awarded the Victoria Cross for single handedly capturing an emplacement of five machine guns during the battle of the Somme, in Cambrai France, on November 20, 1917. He joined the Vancouver P ...
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• Robert Pim Butchart
  
  30 March 1856 - 27 October 1943 Remembered today for Butchart Gardens, now a famous tourist attraction, created by his wife, Jeannie, in the abandoned quarries surrounding their home. BUTCHART, Robert Pim--Director of Wooden Shipbuilding, Imperial M ...
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• Robert W. Service
  
  Yukon Archives. Whitehorse January 16, 1874 - September 11, 1958 Robert William Service was born in Preston, Lancashire, England. After spending his childhood in Scotland he came to Canada in 1894, working for the Canadian Bank of Commerce in the ...
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• Rouget de Lisle
  
  May 10 1760 - 26 June 1836 Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, a captain of engineers stationed at Strassburg, composed La Marseille on the night of 25-26 April 1792 after he heard the declaration of war against Austria and Prussia. Originally called Cha ...
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• Salvador Allende
  
  July 26, 1908 - September 11, 1973 A founder of Chile's Socialist Party in 1933, Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens was elected President of Chile in 1970. His restructuring of Chilian society along socialist lines, and his expropriation of US owned coppe ...
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