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Tim Carvell’s History’s Notable Persons Reconsidered

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Tim Carvell is the head writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He wrote this column long before that, though.

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Solomon (6/5/2003)

Jean-Paul Sartre (6/5/2003)

Cuba Gooding, Jr (6/5/2003)

Art Garfunkel (6/5/2003)

Pierre de Fermat (6/5/2003)

Albert Camus (6/5/2003)

J.D. Salinger (4/10/2002)

Sigmund Freud (4/10/2002)

Bruce Springsteen (4/10/2002)

Colonel Harlan Sanders (4/10/2002)

Tom Jones (4/10/2002)

Vincent Van Gogh (4/10/2002)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1/9/2001)

Elvis Presley (1/9/2001)

Monica Lewinsky (1/9/2001)

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (1/9/2001)

Gerald Ford (1/9/2001)

Oprah Winfrey (1/9/2001)

Dr. Louis Pasteur (1/9/2001)

Hugh Hefner (1/9/2001)

Betsy Ross (2/8/2000)

Oscar Wilde (2/1/2000)

Oscar Meyer (1/21/2000)

Alexander Graham Bell (1/15/2000)

Joan of Arc (11/15/1999)

Andy Kaufman (11/15/1999)

Orson Welles (11/15/1999)

Jeffrey Wigand (11/15/1999)

Princess Diana (7/30/1999)

Emmanuel Lewis (7/23/1999)

Mahatma Gandhi (7/16/1999)

James Dean (7/9/1999)

Napoleon Bonaparte (7/3/1999)

Winston Churchill (6/15/1999)

David Caruso (6/6/1999)

Henry Ford (6/6/1999)

President Abraham Lincoln (5/11/1999)

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