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Nicolaus von Amsdorf
German theologian and Protestant reformer
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Jan Gruter
Dutch scholar and critic
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Daniel Seghers
Flemish Jesuit brother and painter
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John Wallis
English mathematician and cryptographer
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Ludvig Holberg
Norwegian historian and writer
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Hryhorii Skovoroda
Ukrainian poet, composer, and philosopher
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Antonio Soler
Spanish composer and theorist
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Mahadaji Shinde
Maratha ruler of Gwalior
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Gilbert Stuart
American painter
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Clarkson Frederick Stanfield
English painter and academic
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France Prešeren
Slovenian poet and lawyer
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Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord
American author and political essayist
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George B. McClellan
American general and politician, 24th Governor of New Jersey
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Lombe Atthill
Northern Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist
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Carlos Finlay
Cuban epidemiologist and physician
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Cleveland Abbe
American meteorologist and academic
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Octavia Hill
English activist and author
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Phoebe Hearst
American philanthropist and activist
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Charles Alfred Pillsbury
American businessman, founded the Pillsbury Company
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Ellen Swallow Richards
American chemist, ecologist, and educator
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William Shiels
Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Victoria
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Richard Butler
English-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of South Australia
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George Leake
Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Western Australia
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Joseph Conrad
Polish-born British novelist
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Mathilde Kralik
Austrian pianist and composer
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Gussie Davis
African-American songwriter
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Herman Heijermans
Dutch author and playwright
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William John Bowser
Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of British Columbia
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Arthur Charles Hardy
Canadian lawyer and politician, Canadian Speaker of the Senate
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William Haselden
English cartoonist
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Max Meldrum
Scottish-Australian painter and educator
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Francis A. Nixon
American businessman
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Albert Asher
New Zealand rugby player
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Charles Hutchison
American actor, director, and screenwriter
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Kafū Nagai
Japanese author and playwright
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Donald Matheson Sutherland
Canadian physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence
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Fedor von Bock
German field marshal
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Anton Webern
Austrian composer and conductor
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Rajendra Prasad
Indian lawyer and politician, 1st President of India
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Walther Stampfli
Swiss lawyer and politician, 50th President of the Swiss Confederation
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Manne Siegbahn
Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
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Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni
Japanese general and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Japan
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Thomas Farrell
American general
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Deiva Zivarattinam
Indian lawyer and politician
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Anna Freud
Austrian-English psychologist and psychoanalyst
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Sheng Shicai
Chinese warlord
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William Gropper
American cartoonist and painter
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Hayato Ikeda
Japanese politician, 58th Prime Minister of Japan
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Howard Kinsey
American tennis player
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Bert Hawke
Australian politician, 18th Premier of Western Australia
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Ulrich Inderbinen
Swiss mountaineer
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Richard Kuhn
Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
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Glenn Hartranft
American shot putter and discus thrower
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Mildred Wiley
American high jumper
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Mitsuo Fuchida
Japanese captain and pilot
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Feliks Kibbermann
Estonian chess player and philologist
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Edgar Moon
Australian tennis player
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Les Ames
English cricketer
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Connee Boswell
American jazz singer
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Nino Rota
Italian pianist, composer, conductor, and academic
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Irving Fine
American composer and academic
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Abdul Haris Nasution
Indonesian general and politician, 12th Indonesian Minister of Defence
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Charles Lynch
Canadian journalist and author
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Phyllis Curtin
American soprano and academic
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John Doar
American lawyer and activist
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Len Lesser
American actor
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Eli Mandel
Canadian poet, critic, and academic
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Sven Nykvist
Swedish director and cinematographer
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Trevor Bailey
English cricketer and sportscaster
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Stjepan Bobek
Croatian-Serbian footballer and manager
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Moyra Fraser
Australian-English actress, singer, and dancer
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Dutch footballer and manager
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F. Sionil José
Filipino journalist, writer and author
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Roberto Mieres
Argentinian race car driver and sailor
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American country music singer
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Bob Rogers
Australian radio and television host
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American singer
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Thomas M. Foglietta
American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy
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Muhammad Habibur Rahman
Indian-Bangladeshi jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh
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John S. Dunne
American priest and theologian
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Jean-Luc Godard
French-Swiss director and screenwriter
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Raul M. Gonzalez
Filipino lawyer and politician, 42nd Filipino Secretary of Justice
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Yves Trudeau
Canadian sculptor
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Franz Josef Degenhardt
German author and poet
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Jaye P. Morgan
American singer and actres
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Takao Fujinami
Japanese lawyer and politician
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Nicolas Coster
British-American actor
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Paul J. Crutzen
Dutch chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
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Viktor Gorbatko
Russian general, pilot and cosmonaut
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Abimael Guzmán
Peruvian philosopher and academic
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American nurse and politician
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Bobby Allison
American race car driver and businessma
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Morgan Llywelyn
American-Irish model and autho
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Jean-Claude Malépart
Canadian lawyer and politician
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Sally Shlaer
American mathematician and engineer
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John Paul Sr.
Dutch-American race car drive
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David Phillips
English chemist and academi
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Jeffrey R. Holland
American academic and religious leade
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Mike Gibson
Northern Irish-Irish rugby playe
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Pedro Rocha
Uruguayan footballer and manager
(d. 2013)
Alice Schwarzer
German journalist and publisher, founded EMMA Magazin
e
David K. Shipler
American journalist and autho
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Joseph Franklin Ada
American lawyer and politician, 5th Governor of Gua
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J. Philippe Rushton
English-Canadian psychologist and academic
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Ralph McTell
English singer-songwriter and guitaris
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English poet, author, and playwrigh
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António Variações
Portuguese musician
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Jan Hrubý
Czech violinist and songwrite
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Maxwell Hutchinson
English architect and television hos
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Ozzy Osbourne
English singer-songwrite
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Heather Menzies
Canadian-American actress
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American singer-songwrite
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Alberto Juantorena
Cuban runne
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American basketball playe
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Ray Candy
American wrestler and trainer
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American race car drive
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English songwriter, record producer, and musicia
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American singer-songwriter and guitaris
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American guitarist and songwriter
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English comedian, actor, director, and producer
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Austrian skier and race car drive
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American-English author, poet, and playwrigh
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Steven Culp
American acto
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Émile Gros Raymond Nakombo
Central African politician, Mayor of Bangu
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Polish physician and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Polan
d
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Russian businessman and politicia
n
Eamonn Holmes
Irish journalist and game show hos
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Daryl Hannah
American actress and produce
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Russian ice hockey playe
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American actress and autho
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American ice hockey player and coac
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American economist and business executive
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English banker, journalist, and politicia
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Ukrainian hurdle
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Tammy Jackson
American basketball playe
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American singer-songwriter and bass playe
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Terri Schiavo
American medical patient
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Darryl Hamilton
American baseball player and sportscaster
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Andrew Stanton
American voice actor, director, producer, screenwrite
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German figure skater and actres
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Danish footballer and manage
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Irina Zhuk
Russian figure skater and coac
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Burkinabé mathematicia
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American actor and produce
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American singer-songwriter and produce
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English guitarist and songwrite
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American businessma
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American baseball playe
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Lindsey Hunter
American basketball player and coac
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Christian Karembeu
French footballe
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Laura Schuler
Canadian ice hockey player and coac
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Heiko Herrlich
German footballer and manage
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Frank Sinclair
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Italian runne
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American actress and produce
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MC Frontalot
American rappe
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South African crickete
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Lucette Rådström
Swedish journalis
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Mark Boucher
South African crickete
r
Gary Glover
American baseball playe
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American football playe
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Byron Kelleher
New Zealand rugby playe
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Tomotaka Okamoto
Japanese sopran
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Chad Durbin
American baseball playe
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Troy Evans
American football playe
r
Adam Małysz
Polish ski jumper and race car drive
r
Yelena Zadorozhnaya
Russian runne
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Daniel Alexandersson
Swedish footballe
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Jiří Bicek
Slovak ice hockey playe
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Dutch cyclis
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Trina
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New Zealand-English singer-songwrite
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American football playe
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American comedian and actres
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American entrepreneur and philanthropis
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Anna Chlumsky
American actres
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Jenna Dewan
American actress and dance
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Zlata Filipović
Bosnian-Irish diarist
Ioannis Amanatidis
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Brian Bonsall
American actor and musicia
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American football playe
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Edwin Valero
Venezuelan boxer
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David Villa
Spanish footballe
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Manny Corpas
Panamanian baseball playe
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Michael Essien
Ghanaian footballe
r
Dascha Polanco
Dominican-American actres
s
Franco Sbaraglini
Argentinian-Italian rugby playe
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Stephen Donald
New Zealand rugby playe
r
Aleksey Drozdov
Russian decathlet
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Sherri DuPree
American singer-songwriter and guitaris
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American singer, songwriter, and record produce
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American football playe
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Manuel Arana
Spanish footballe
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Greek footballe
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Nina Ansaroff
American martial artis
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László Cseh
Hungarian swimme
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Mike Randolph
American soccer playe
r
Brian Roberts
American basketball playe
r
Amanda Seyfried
American actres
s
Robert Swift
American basketball playe
r
Marcus Williams
American basketball playe
r
James Laurinaitis
American football playe
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Michael Angarano
American actor, director, and screenwrite
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Erik Grönwall
Swedish singer-songwrite
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Brian Robiskie
American football playe
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American gymnas
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Melissa Aldana
Chilean saxophonis
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Selçuk Alibaz
Turkish footballe
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Alex McCarthy
English footballe
r
Tomasz Narkun
Polish mixed martial artis
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Christian Benteke
Belgian footballe
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Sharon Fichman
Canadian-Israeli tennis playe
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Matt Reynolds
American baseball playe
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Ekaterine Gorgodze
Georgian tennis playe
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Cristian Ceballos
Spanish footballe
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Joseph McManners
English singer-songwriter, musician and acto
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Jake T. Austin
American acto
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Lil Baby
American rappe
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New Zealand rugby league playe
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Bernarda Pera
American tennis playe
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Finnish ice hockey playe
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Roman emperor
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Birinus
French-English bishop and saint
(b. 600)
Abbo
bishop of Auxerr
e
Siegfried
Frankish noblema
n
Abraham
Coptic pope of Alexandri
a
Emma of Lesum
Saxon countess and Sain
t
Odofredus
Italian lawyer and juris
t
Henry III the White
Duke of Wrocla
w
Henry III
Duke of Głogów
(b. 1251/60)
Maud Chaworth
Countess of Leicester
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Louis II
Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
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Jean Tixier de Ravisi
French scholar and academic
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Francis Xavier
Spanish missionary and saint
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Alexander Farnese
Duke of Parma
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Honda Tadakatsu
Japanese general and daimyō
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William Cecil
2nd Earl of Salisbury
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Katherine Jones
Viscountess Ranelagh, British scientist
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Henri-Guillaume Hamal
Walloon musician and composer
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Lord John Sackville
English cricketer and politician
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Claude Joseph Vernet
French painter
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John Carroll
American archbishop
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Edward Thonen
German emigrant to Australia
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Samuel Cooper
American general
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Archibald Tait
Scottish-English archbishop
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Carl Zeiss
German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument
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Billy Midwinter
English-Australian cricketer
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Afanasy Fet
Russian author and poet
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist
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Robert Lawson
New Zealand architect, designed the Otago Boys' High School and Knox Church
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David Bratton
American water polo player
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Mary Baker Eddy
American religious leader and author, founded Christian Science
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Prudente de Morais
Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil
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Harold Garnett
English-French cricketer
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter and sculptor
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Ezra Meeker
American farmer and politician
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Charles James O'Donnell
Irish lawyer and politician
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William Propsting
Australian politician, 20th Premier of Tasmania
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Pavel Filonov
Russian painter and poet
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Maria Ouspenskaya
Russian-American actress and educator
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Rudolf Margolius
Czech lawyer and politician
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Manik Bandopadhyay
Indian author, poet, and playwright
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Alexander Rodchenko
Russian sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer
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Harry Wismer
American football player and sportscaster
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William Manuel Johnson
American bassist
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Emile Christian
American trombonist, cornet player, and composer
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Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
President of Mexico, 1952-1958
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Dhyan Chand
Indian field hockey player and coach
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Oswald Mosley
English lieutenant, fascist, and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
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Walter Knott
American farmer, founded Knott's Berry Farm
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Joel Rinne
Finnish actor
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Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin
Azerbaijani-Russian mathematician and academic
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Fernando Martín Espina
Spanish basketball player
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Connie B. Gay
American businessman, founded the Country Music Association
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Lewis Thomas
American physician, etymologist, and academic
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Georges Duby
French historian and author
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Pierre Hétu
Canadian pianist and conductor
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John Archer
American actor
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Scatman John
American singer-songwriter and pianist
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Madeline Kahn
American actress, comedian, and singer
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Horst Mahseli
Polish footballer
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Jarl Wahlström
Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army
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Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
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Hoyt Curtin
American composer and producer
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Adrienne Adams
American illustrator
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Glenn Quinn
Irish-American actor
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David Hemmings
English actor
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Sita Ram Goel
Indian historian, publisher and writer
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Shiing-Shen Chern
Chinese-American mathematician and academic
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Frederick Ashworth
American admiral
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Herb Moford
American baseball player
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Kikka Sirén
Finnish pop/schlager singer
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James Kemsley
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Robert Zajonc
Polish-American psychologist and author
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Leila Lopes
Brazilian actress and journalist
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Richard Todd
Irish-born British soldier and actor
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Abdumalik Bahori
Azerbaijani poet and author
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Dev Anand
Indian actor, director, and producer
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Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil
Iraqi-Lebanese archbishop
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Kuntal Chandra
Bangladeshi cricketer
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Fyodor Khitruk
Russian animator, director, and screenwriter
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Diego Mendieta
Paraguayan footballer
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Janet Shaw
Australian cyclist and author
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Paul Aussaresses
French general
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Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed
Egyptian air marshal
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Ahmed Fouad Negm
Egyptian poet and educator
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Herman Badillo
Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician
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Jacques Barrot
French politician, French European Commissioner
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Nathaniel Branden
Canadian–American psychotherapist and author
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Ian McLagan
English-American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
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James Stewart
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Gladstone Anderson
Jamaican singer and pianist
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Eevi Huttunen
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Scott Weiland
American singer-songwriter
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Ragnar Ulstein
Norwegian journalist and war historian
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