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Japanese emperor
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2nd Earl of Somerset
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Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora
Catholic cardinal
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7th Baron Berkeley
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Davey Graham
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Elizabeth Blackburn
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Claes Elfsberg
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Galina Prozumenshchikova
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Shelley Moore Capito
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American baseball player and manage
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Scottish canoe race
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Japanese voice actor and singe
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American actres
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Natasha Bedingfield
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Conrad of Constance
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Swanehilde of Saxony
margravine of Meisse
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Al-Aziz Muhammad ibn Ghazi
Ayyubid emir of Aleppo
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Sylvester Gozzolini
Italian founder of the Sylvestrines
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Diego Fernández de la Cueva
1st Viscount of Huelm
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Isabella I
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Henry Ireton
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Benjamin Greene
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Pavel Kiselyov
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Otto Theodor von Manteuffel
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Sojourner Truth
American activist
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Thomas Andrews
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Charles Lavigerie
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George Edward Dobson
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Coventry Patmore
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Elsie Inglis
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Felipe Ángeles
Mexican general
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Semen Karetnyk
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Ernest Belfort Bax
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John Browning
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Reinhard Scheer
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John Cockburn
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Mykhailo Hrushevsky
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Şükrü Naili Gökberk
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Silvestras Žukauskas
Lithuanian general
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Ernest Lapointe
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Edward O'Hare
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Helen Maud Merrill
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Hedwig Courths-Mahler
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Sven Hedin
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Bill Doak
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Tommy Dorsey
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Albert Sarraut
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Amelita Galli-Curci
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John Rostill
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Cyril Connolly
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Vivien Thomas
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Thomas George Lanphier
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J. P. Guilford
American psychologist and academic
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Peter Hujar
American photographer
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Ahmed Abdallah
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Ed Heinemann
American engineer
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Bob Johnson
American ice hockey player and coach
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César Guerra-Peixe
Brazilian violinist, composer, and conductor
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David Bache
English car designer
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Arturo Rivera y Damas
Salvadoran archbishop
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Michael Bentine
English actor and screenwriter
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Paul Rand
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Marguerite Henry
American author
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Jonathan Kwitny
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Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
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Polo Montañez
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Verne Winchell
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Soulja Slim
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Stefan Wul
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Philippe de Broca
French actor, director, and screenwriter
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C. Walter Hodges
English author and illustrator
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Takanori Arisawa
Japanese composer and conductor
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Stan Berenstain
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Mark Craney
American drummer
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Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos
Portuguese painter and poet
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Dave Cockrum
American author and illustrator
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Isaac Gálvez
Spanish cyclist
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Raúl Velasco
Mexican television host and producer
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Silvestre S. Herrera
Mexican-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient
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Mel Tolkin
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Herb McKenley
Jamaican sprinter
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Leroy Drumm
American songwriter
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Manon Cleary
American painter and academic
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Celso Advento Castillo
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Peter Marsh
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Joseph Murray
American surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize laureate
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M. C. Nambudiripad
Indian author and translator
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Arik Einstein
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Jane Kean
American actress and singer
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Saul Leiter
American photographer and painter
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Tony Musante
American actor and screenwriter
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Mary Hinkson
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Gilles Tremblay
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Peter Underwood
English parapsychologist and author
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Amir Aczel
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Stephen Hillenburg
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