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William Cavendish
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Joseph Lamb
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David Ossman
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Patrick Bauchau
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Franco Carraro
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Lawrence Bergman
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Richard Edlund
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Helen Cornelius
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Keith West
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Jonathan King
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Chris Stamey
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Anne Begg
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Nick Park
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Stephen Hepburn
English politicia
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Satoru Iwata
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Stephen Muggleton
English computer scientist and enginee
r
Masahiko Katsuya
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David Lovering
American drumme
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Jonathan Melvoin
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Manuel Reuter
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Janine Turner
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s
Ben Watt
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Ulrich Thomsen
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Mall Nukke
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Gordon Durie
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r
Natascha Badmann
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e
Per-Ulrik Johansson
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Judd Apatow
American director, producer, and screenwrite
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Helen Greiner
American businesswoman and enginee
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Cuban boxer
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Karl Ove Knausgård
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Ali Latifiyan
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Akihiro Yano
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Torri Higginson
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s
Ulf Ekberg
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Mark Reckless
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n
Jeff Rouse
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Craig Brewer
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José Contreras
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Naozumi Takahashi
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Carole Thate
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Ryan White
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English scientis
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Jens Pulver
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Nick Stajduhar
Canadian ice hockey playe
r
Noel Clarke
English actor, director, and screenwrite
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Mexican footballe
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Lindsay Price
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s
Kevin Cash
American baseball player and manage
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Andrew Flintoff
English cricketer, coach, and sportscaste
r
Paul McVeigh
Irish footballe
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Chris Başak
American baseball playe
r
Darrell Jackson
American football playe
r
Adriana Moisés Pinto
Brazilian basketball playe
r
Ramiro Pez
Argentine rugby playe
r
Tim Cahill
Australian footballe
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Danielle Downey
American golfer and coach
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Steve Lovell
English footballe
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Carlos Takam
Cameroonian-French boxe
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Federico Balzaretti
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Ryan Carnes
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Alberto Contador
Spanish cyclis
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Sean Ervine
Zimbabwean crickete
r
Robbie Gould
American football playe
r
Aaron Sandilands
Australian footballe
r
Susie Wolff
Scottish race car drive
r
Syndric Steptoe
American football playe
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Nora Kirkpatrick
American actress and musicia
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Princess Sofia
Duchess of Värmlan
d
Shannon Bobbitt
American basketball playe
r
Aristeidis Grigoriadis
Greek swimme
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R. P. Singh
Indian crickete
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Sean Edwards
English race car driver
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Matt Niskanen
American ice hockey playe
r
Adam Eaton
American baseball playe
r
Ravindra Jadeja
Indian crickete
r
Sandra Nurmsalu
Estonian singer and violinis
t
Nils Petersen
German footballe
r
Nobunaga Shimazaki
Japanese voice acto
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Felix Schiller
German footballe
r
Tamira Paszek
Austrian tennis playe
r
Rachel Jarry
Australian basketball playe
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Milica Mandić
Serbian taekwondo athlet
e
Coco Vandeweghe
American tennis playe
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Viktor Antipin
Russian ice hockey playe
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Britt Assombalonga
Congolese footballe
r
Johnny Manziel
American football playe
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Jasprit Bumrah
Indian crickete
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Elián González
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Tautau Moga
Australian-Samoan rugby league playe
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Giannis Antetokounmpo
Greek-Nigerian basketball playe
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Wakatakakage Atsushi
Japanese sumo wrestle
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Shreyas Iyer
Indian crickete
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A Boogie wit da Hoodie
American rapper and singer-songwrite
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Davide Calabria
Italian footballe
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Stefanie Scott
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Sabrina Ionescu
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Angelīna Kučvaļska
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Saint Nicholas
Greek bishop and saint
(b. 270)
Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya
Arab rebel leader
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Maximus
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Roger Bigod
5th Earl of Norfolk
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Jan van Scorel
Dutch painter
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Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi
Moroccan writer, judge and mathematician
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Jacques Davy Duperron
French cardinal
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Baltasar Gracián
Spanish priest and author
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John Lightfoot
English priest, scholar, and academic
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Eleonora Gonzaga
Queen consort of Ferdinand III
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Benedictus Buns
Dutch priest and composer
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Nicholas Rowe
English poet and playwright
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Lady Grizel Baillie
Scottish poet and songwriter
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Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Italian anatomist and pathologist
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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
French painter
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Jonathan Shipley
English bishop
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William John Swainson
English ornithologist and entomologist
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Jean Pierre Flourens
French physiologist and academic
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August Schleicher
German linguist and academic
(b. 1821)
Theodoros Vryzakis
Greek painter and educator
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Erastus Brigham Bigelow
American businessman
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Alfred Escher
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Anthony Trollope
English novelist, essayist, and short story writer
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Jefferson Davis
American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America
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Werner von Siemens
German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company
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Alexander Dianin
Russian chemist
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Said Halim Pasha
Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
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Gene Stratton-Porter
American author and screenwriter
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Edmund Dwyer-Gray
Irish-Australian politician, 29th Premier of Tasmania
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Harold Ross
American journalist and publisher, founded The New Yorker
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Honus Wagner
American baseball player and manager
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B. R. Ambedkar
Indian economist and politician, 1st Indian Minister of Justice
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Frantz Fanon
Martinique-French psychiatrist and author
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Evert van Linge
Dutch footballer and architect
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Janet Munro
English actress and singer
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Nikolay Kuznetsov
Soviet naval officer
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João Goulart
Brazilian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Brazil
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Charles Deutsch
French engineer and businessman, co-founded DB
(b. 1911)
Jean-Marie Seroney
Kenyan activist and politician
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Lucienne Boyer
French singer and actress
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Gul Khan Nasir
Pakistani poet, historian, and politician
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Burr Tillstrom
American actor and puppeteer
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Burleigh Grimes
American baseball player and manager
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Carroll Cole
American serial killer, arsonist, and cannibal
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Roy Orbison
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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Frances Bavier
American actress
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Sammy Fain
American pianist and composer
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John Payne
American actor, singer, and producer
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Pavlos Sidiropoulos
Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
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Tunku Abdul Rahman
Malaysian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia
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Mimi Smith
English nurse
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Richard Stone
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Don Ameche
American actor
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Heinz Baas
German footballer and manager
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Gian Maria Volonté
Italian actor and director
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Pete Rozelle
American businessman
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Willy den Ouden
Dutch swimmer
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César Baldaccini
French sculptor and educator
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Werner Klemperer
German-American actor
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Aziz Mian
Pakistani singer-songwriter and poet
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Charles McClendon
American football player and coach
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Philip Berrigan
American priest and activist
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Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
Guatemalan general and politician, President of Guatemala
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Charly Gaul
Luxembourger cyclist
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Devan Nair
Malaysian-Singaporean union leader and politician, 3rd President of Singapore
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Danny Williams
South African singer
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William P. Yarborough
American general
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John Feeney
New Zealand director and producer
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Mark Dailey
American-Canadian journalist and actor
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Dobie Gray
American singer-songwriter and producer
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Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó
Equatoguinean engineer and politician, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea
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Jan Carew
Guyanese author, poet, and playwright
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Jeffrey Koo Sr.
Taiwanese banker and businessman
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Huw Lloyd-Langton
English guitarist
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Pedro Vaz
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Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers
French poet and critic
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Stan Tracey
English pianist and composer
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M. K. Turk
American basketball player and coach
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Ralph H. Baer
German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey
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Fred Hawkins
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Luke Somers
English-American photographer and journalist
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Ko Chun-hsiung
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Peter Vaughan
British actor
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