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Otho was the seventh Roman emperor, in power for three months in the year 69. A former governor of Lusitania and companion of Nero, he came to the throne after having Galba assassinated, before being defeated by Vitellius and taking his own life.

Mazu is the protective goddess of sailors in Chinese tradition. According to legend, she was born around 960 CE in Fujian province under the name Lin Mo, and was deified after her death. Her cult spread across all the coasts of China and into Chinese communities throughout Southeast Asia.

Marie Héricart was the wife of Jean de La Fontaine, whom she married in 1647. Their union, an unhappy one, led to a legal separation of their property. She was the mother of their only son, Charles.

French painter of the 19th century and leading figure of the Romantic movement. Delacroix revolutionized painting through his bold use of color, movement, and political and Orientalist subjects. His masterpiece "Liberty Leading the People" became an icon of republican freedom.

American blues singer, known as the "Mother of the Blues." A pioneer of classic blues, she was one of the first African American artists to record records in the 1920s and influenced an entire generation of female singers.

Austrian, then British, philosopher and logician, a major figure of 20th-century analytic philosophy. He profoundly transformed thinking about language, logic, and meaning, first with the Tractatus and later with his Philosophical Investigations.

Vicente Aleixandre is a major Spanish poet of the 20th century, a figure of the Generation of '27. His work, marked first by surrealism and then by a poetry of human solidarity, earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1977.

French filmmaker (1905-1934), a major figure of poetic cinema. Creator of L'Atalante and Zéro de conduite, he revolutionized French cinema with a lyrical and anarchist style before dying at the age of 29.

Young French communist militant, arrested at 16 in 1940 and shot as a hostage at Châteaubriant on October 22, 1941, at the age of 17. His farewell letter to his family, written a few hours before his execution, became a symbol of the French Resistance.