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1586
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1633
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1625
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1709
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1632
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1704
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1710
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1761
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1719
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1791
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Christian Mayer
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1783
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1776
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1842
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1779
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1848
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1833
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President of the United States
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1901
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1845
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1916
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1847
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1912
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1889
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1856
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1909
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1860
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1934
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1865
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1911
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1868
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1954
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1873
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1950
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1881
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1959
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1886
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1965
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1890
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1937
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1897
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Tarjei Vesaas
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1970
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1898
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1973
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1901
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Salvatore Quasimodo
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Nobel Prize
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1968
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1905
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Jean Gebser
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1973
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Jack Teagarden
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1964
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1907
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Alan Reed
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1977
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1908
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Al Lopez
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2005
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1909
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Alby Roberts
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1978
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1910
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Eero Saarinen
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1961
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1913
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Roger Wolcott Sperry
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1994
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1984
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1918
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Jacqueline Susann
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1974
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1921
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1985
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1923
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Jim Reeves
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1964
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1926
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1927
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1980
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1930
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Mario Bernardi
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1931
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Don King
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1932
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Anthony Ainley
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2004
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Vasily Aksyonov
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Atholl McKinnon
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1983
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1933
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George J. Mitchell
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1934
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Armi Kuusela
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1935
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Ron Paul
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1988
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2008
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1936
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Hideki Shirakawa
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Nobel Prize
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1937
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Jim Bowen
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El Fary
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2007
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1938
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Alain Vivien
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1939
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Fernando Poe Jr.
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2004
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Rex Sellers
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1941
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Rich Brooks
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President of Serbia
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2006
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Jo Ramirez
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2008
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1943
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1944
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Prime Minister of India
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1991
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1946
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Connie Chung
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Ralf Hütter
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Kraftwerk
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Alan Lee
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1948
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John Noble
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Robert Plant
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1949
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Nikolas Asimos
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1988
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Norman Featherstone
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Alan Hardwick
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Phil Lynott
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1986
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1951
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Greg Bear
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1952
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John Emburey
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Doug Fieger
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The Knack
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John Hiatt
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1954
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Tawn Mastrey
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2007
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Al Roker
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Don Stark
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1955
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Agnes Chan
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1956
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Joan Allen
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Alvin Greenidge
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1957
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Finlay Calder
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Scottish
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1958
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Patricia Rozema
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1961
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Greg Egan
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Joe Pasquale
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1962
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Sophie Aldred
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James Marsters
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Dong-Wook Song
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1965
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KRS-One
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1966
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Dimebag Darrell
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Pantera
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Damageplan
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2004
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1967
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Andy Benes
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Colin Cunningham
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Terri Poch
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1968
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Klas Ingesson
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Yuri Shiratori
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1969
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Duke Droese
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1970
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Els Callens
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John D. Carmack
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Fred Durst
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Limp Bizkit
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1971
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Brad Avery
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Third Day
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Jonathan Ke Quan
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Steve Stone
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David Walliams
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1973
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Todd Helton
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1974
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Amy Adams
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Big Moe
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2007
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Szabolcs Sáfár
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Andy Strachan
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The Living End
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Maxim Vengerov
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Marianne Garvey
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1975
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Marcus Mastin
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1976
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Chris Drury
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1977
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Felipe Contepomi
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Manuel Contepomi
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Ivar Ingimarsson
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Mayra Veronica
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James Ormond
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1979
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Cory Sullivan
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1980
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Corey Carrier
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Rochelle Gadd
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1981
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Benjamin Barnes
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Prince Caspian
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Bernard Mendy
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1982
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Cléber Luis Alberti
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Youssouf Hersi
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Joshua Kennedy
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Barney Rogers
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1984
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Mirai Moriyama
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Golan Yosef
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1986
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Robert Clark
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1987
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Cătălina Ponor
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1990
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Ranomi Kromowidjojo
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1991
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Marko Đoković
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1992
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Demi Lovato
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2003
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Prince Gabriel of Belgium
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535
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Mochta
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Louth
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St. Patrick
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984
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Pope John XIV
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1384
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Geert Groote
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1340
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1572
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Miguel López de Legazpi
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1502
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1580
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Jeronymo Osorio
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1506
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1611
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
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1548
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1639
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Martin Opitz von Boberfeld
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1597
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1643
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Anne Hutchinson
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1591
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1648
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Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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1583
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1672
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Johan de Witt
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1625
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Cornelis de Witt
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1623
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1680
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William Bedloe
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1650
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1701
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Charles Sedley
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1639
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1707
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Nicolas Gigault
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1627
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1773
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Enrique Florez
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1701
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1811
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Louis Antoine de Bougainville
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1729
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1823
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Pope Pius VII
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1740
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1825
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William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock
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1753
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1887
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Jules Laforgue
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1860
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1904
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René Waldeck-Rousseau
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1846
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1912
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William Booth
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1829
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1914
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Pope Pius X
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1835
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1915
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Paul Ehrlich
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Nobel laureate
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1854
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1917
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Adolf von Baeyer
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Nobel laureate
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1835
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1919
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Greg MacGregor
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1869
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1930
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Charles Bannerman
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1851
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1959
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William Halsey, Jr
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1882
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1961
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Percy Williams Bridgman
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Nobel laureate
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1882
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1963
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Joan Voûte
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1879
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1965
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Jonathan Myrick Daniels
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Civil Rights
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1939
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1971
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Rashid Minhas
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1951
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1980
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Joe Dassin
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1938
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1982
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Ulla Jacobsson
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1929
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1986
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Milton Acorn
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1923
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1989
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George Adamson
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1906
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1993
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Bernard Delfgaauw
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1912
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1997
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Norris Bradbury
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1909
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Léon Dion
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1922
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1998
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Raquel Rastenni
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1915
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2001
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Fred Hoyle
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1915
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Kim Stanley
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1925
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2005
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Thomas Herrion
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1981
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Krzysztof Raczkowski
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1970
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2006
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Claude Blanchard
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1932
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Joe Rosenthal
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1911
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Bryan Budd
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VC
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1977
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2007
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Leona Helmsley
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1920
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Larry Hartsell
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Bruce Lee
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Dan Inosanto
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1942
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2008
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Hua Guofeng
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Mao Zedong
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1976
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Hu Yaobang
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1981
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1921
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Stephanie Tubbs Jones
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1949
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Gene Upshaw
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1945
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World Union
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Bernard of Clairvaux
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Bahá'í Faith
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