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Bernard VII
Lord of Lippe
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Thomas Darcy
1st Baron Darcy of Chiche
(d. 1558)
Heinrich Meibom
German poet and historian
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Sister Virginia Maria
Italian nun
(d. 1650)
Samuel Argall
English adventurer and naval officer
(d. 1626)
John Cotton
English-American minister and theologian
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Jean Chapelain
French poet and critic
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Daniel Eberlin
German composer
(d. 1715)
André Campra
French composer and conductor
(d. 1744)
Michel Pignolet de Montéclair
French composer and educator
(d. 1737)
John Aislabie
English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
(d. 1742)
Gasparo Gozzi
Italian playwright and critic
(d. 1786)
Johann Gottfried Zinn
German anatomist and botanist
(d. 1759)
Juliette Récamier
French businesswoman
(d. 1849)
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish-English historian, philosopher, and academic
(d. 1881)
Jules Armand Dufaure
French lawyer and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France
(d. 1881)
Nikoloz Baratashvili
Georgian poet and author
(d. 1845)
Samuel Butler
English author and critic
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Franz Xavier Wernz
German religious leader, 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
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Hannes Hafstein
Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland
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Edith Cavell
English nurse, humanitarian, and saint
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Stanley Argyle
Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Victoria
(d. 1940)
Jesse Burkett
American baseball player, coach, and manager
(d. 1953)
Agnes Forbes Blackadder
Scottish medical doctor
(d. 1964)
Joe Corbett
American baseball player and coach
(d. 1945)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian-Swiss poet and author
(d. 1926)
Morris Alexander
South African politician
(d. 1946)
Erwin von Witzleben
Polish-German field marshal
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Constance Davey
Australian psychologist
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Katharine Susannah Prichard
Australian author and playwright
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R. C. Majumdar
Indian historian
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Winifred Carney
Irish suffragist, trade unionist, and Irish republican
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Francisco Franco
Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain
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Liu Bocheng
Chinese commander and politician
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Herbert Read
English poet and critic
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Feng Youlan
Chinese philosopher and academic
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Robert Redfield
American anthropologist of Mexico
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Karl-Günther Heimsoth
German physician and politician
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Charlie Spencer
English footballer and manager
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Cornell Woolrich
American author
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Albert Norden
German journalist and politician
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Alfred Hershey
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Alex North
American composer and conductor
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R. Venkataraman
Indian lawyer and politician, 6th President of India
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Pappy Boyington
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Mark Robson
Canadian-American director and producer
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Rudolf Hausner
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Claude Renoir
French cinematographer
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Eddie Heywood
American pianist and composer
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Ely Jacques Kahn Jr.
American journalist and author
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I. K. Gujral
Indian poet and politician, 12th Prime Minister of India
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Nadir Afonso
Portuguese painter and architect
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Michael Bates
English actor
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Jeanne Manford
American educator and activist, co-founded PFLAG
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Canadian actress and singer
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Canadian-American psychologist and academic
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Ronnie Corbett
Scottish actor
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Jim Hall
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Alex Delvecchio
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Wally George
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Wink Martindale
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Dick Ricketts
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Bill Collins
Australian film critic and author
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American actor and director
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Paul O'Neill
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Freddy Cannon
American singer and guitaris
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John Giorno
American poet and performance artist
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Max Baer Jr.
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American lawyer and politicia
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Stephen W. Bosworth
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Gary Gilmore
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Marty Riessen
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Bob Mosley
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Chris Hillman
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Anna McGarrigle
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François Migault
French race car driver
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Dennis Wilson
American singer-songwriter, producer, and drummer
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Roberta Bondar
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Karina
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Jane Lubchenco
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Southside Johnny
American singer-songwrite
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Jeff Bridges
American acto
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Gary Rossington
American guitarist
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Patricia Wettig
American actress and playwrigh
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Rick Middleton
Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaste
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Tony Todd
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Philip Hammond
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Dave Taylor
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Cassandra Wilson
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Nia Griffith
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Bernard King
American basketball player and sportscaste
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Raul Boesel
Brazilian race car driver and radio hos
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Eric S. Raymond
American computer programmer and autho
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Lee Smith
American baseball playe
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Sergei Starikov
Russian ice hockey player and coac
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David Green
Nicaraguan-American baseball playe
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Glynis Nunn
Australian heptathlete and hurle
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Frank Reich
American football player and coac
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Naomi Robson
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Vinnie Dombroski
American singer-songwriter and musicia
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Gary Freeman
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Nixon Kiprotich
Kenyan runne
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Kevin Richardson
English footballer and manage
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Sergey Bubka
Ukrainian pole vaulte
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Nigel Heslop
English rugby playe
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Scott Hastings
Scottish rugby player and sportscaste
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Chelsea Noble
American actres
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Marisa Tomei
American actres
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Álex de la Iglesia
Spanish director, producer, and screenwrite
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English race car driver and businessma
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Ulf Kirsten
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Guillermo Amor
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Tahir Dawar
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Jay-Z
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Kevin Sussman
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American singer-songwriter and keyboard playe
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Michael Jackson
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Steven Menzies
Australian rugby league playe
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Kate Rusby
English singer-songwriter and guitaris
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Corliss Williamson
American basketball player and coac
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Tadahito Iguchi
Japanese baseball playe
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Kristina Groves
Canadian speed skate
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Betty Lennox
American basketball playe
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Ajit Agarkar
Indian crickete
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Darvis Patton
American sprinte
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Morten Veland
Norwegian guitarist and songwrite
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Jaclyn Victor
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Ysabella Brave
American singer-songwrite
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Jay DeMerit
American soccer playe
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Brian Cook
American basketball playe
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Viktor
Canadian wrestler and manage
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Brian Vandborg
Danish cyclis
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Nathan Douglas
English triple jumpe
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Waldo Ponce
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Ho-Pin Tung
Dutch-Chinese race car drive
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Nick Vujicic
Australian evangelis
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Jimmy Bartel
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Chinx
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Lindsay Felton
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Marco Giambruno
Italian footballe
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Anna Petrakova
Russian basketball playe
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Joe Thomas
American football playe
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Andrew Brackman
American baseball playe
r
Stephen Dawson
Irish footballe
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Carlos Gómez
Dominican baseball playe
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Kaija Udras
Estonian skie
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Martell Webster
American basketball playe
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Orlando Brown
American actor and rappe
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Yeng Constantino
Filipina singer and songwrite
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Andriy Pylyavskyi
Ukrainian footballe
r
Lukman Haruna
Nigerian footballe
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Blake Leary
Australian rugby league playe
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Igor Sjunin
Estonian triple jumpe
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Duje Dukan
Croatian basketball playe
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André Roberson
American basketball playe
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Reality Winner
American intelligence specialist convicted of espionag
e
Robin Bruyère
Belgian politicia
n
Peta Hiku
New Zealand rugby league playe
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Jean-Claude Iranzi
Rwandan footballe
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Jin
South Korean singer, songwriter and acto
r
Joe Musgrove
American baseball playe
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Blake Snell
American baseball playe
r
Gabriel Lundberg
Danish basketball playe
r
Ivan Belikov
Russian footballe
r
Diogo Jota
Portuguese footballe
r
Sebastián Vegas
Chilean footballe
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Kim Do-yeon
South Korean singer and actres
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king of Persia
(b. 600 BC)
John of Damascus
Syrian priest and saint
(b. 676)
Carloman I
Frankish king
(b. 751)
Suairlech ind Eidnén mac Ciaráin
Irish bisho
p
Anno II
German archbishop and saint
(b. 1010)
Omar Khayyám
Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher
(b. 1048)
William the Lion
Scottish king
(b. 1143)
Aymer de Valence
Bishop of Winchester
(b. 1222)
Henry Burghersh
English bishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of England
(b. 1292)
Janisław
Archbishop of Gniezn
o
Valentina Visconti
wife of Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléan
s
Charles I
Duke of Bourbon
(b. 1401)
Adolphus VIII
Count of Holstein
(b. 1401)
Georg Joachim Rheticus
Austrian-Slovak mathematician and cartographer
(b. 1514)
John Willock
Scottish minister and reformer
(b. 1515)
Maerten de Vos
Flemish painter and draughtsman
(b. 1532)
Alexander Hume
Scottish poet
(b. 1560)
Nicholas Ferrar
English trader
(b. 1592)
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and politician, Chief Minister to the French Monarch
(b. 1585)
William Drummond of Hawthornden
Scottish poet
(b. 1585)
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher and theorist
(b. 1588)
Thomas Bartholin
Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian
(b. 1616)
John Gay
English poet and playwright
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Luigi Galvani
Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher
(b. 1737)
Robert Jenkinson
2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(b. 1770)
John Leamy
Irish–American merchant
(b. 1757)
David Daniel Davis
Welsh-English physician and academic
(b. 1777)
Gregor MacGregor
Scottish soldier and explorer
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William Sturgeon
English physicist, invented the electric motor
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John Tyndall
Irish-English physicist and chemist
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Griffith Rhys Jones
Welsh conductor
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Charles Dow
American journalist and publisher, co-founded the Dow Jones & Company
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Ivana Kobilca
Slovenian painter
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Stefan George
German-Swiss poet and translator
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Johan Halvorsen
Norwegian violinist, composer, and conductor
(b. 1864)
Charles Richet
French physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1850)
Tamanishiki San'emon
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna
(b. 1903)
Juhan Kukk
Estonian politician, 3rd Head of State of Estonia
(b. 1885)
Fritz Löhner-Beda
Jewish Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer
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Roger Bresnahan
American baseball player and manager
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Thomas Hunt Morgan
American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
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Richárd Weisz
Hungarian Olympic champion wrestler
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Frank Benford
American physicist and engineer
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Jesse L. Brown
1st African-American Naval aviator
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George Shepherd
1st Baron Shepherd
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József Galamb
Hungarian-American engineer
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Constance Davey
Australian psychologist
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Bert Lahr
American actor
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Fred Hampton
American Black Panthers activist
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Shunryū Suzuki
Japanese-American monk and educator, founded the San Francisco Zen Center
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Hannah Arendt
German-American historian, theorist, and academic
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Tommy Bolin
American guitarist and songwriter
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English pianist, composer, and conductor
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W. F. McCoy
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Francisco de Sá Carneiro
Portuguese lawyer and politician, 111th Prime Minister of Portugal
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Stanisława Walasiewicz
Polish-American runner
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Don Warrington
Canadian football player
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Jeanne Block
American psychologist
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Jack Mercer
American animator, screenwriter, voice actor, and singer
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American author and illustrator
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Osman Achmatowicz
Polish chemist and academic
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Henry Clausen
American lawyer and author
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Margaret Landon
American missionary and author
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Frank Zappa
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
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Rose Bird
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Iggy Katona
American race car driver
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Elena Souliotis
Greek soprano and actress
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Errol Brathwaite
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Gregg Hoffman
American film producer
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Ross A. McGinnis
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Brazilian footballer and manager
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Hubert Sumlin
American singer and guitarist
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Jack Brooks
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Anthony Deane-Drummond
English general
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Joana Raspall i Juanola
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Claudia Emerson
American poet and academic
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V. R. Krishna Iyer
Indian lawyer and judge
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Vincent L. McKusick
American lawyer and judge
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Jeremy Thorpe
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Bill Bennett
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Robert Loggia
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Yossi Sarid
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Patricia Robins
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Bob McGrath
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Patrick Tambay
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