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1932
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1936
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Australian Antarctic Territory
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1937
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1942
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1954
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Communist Control Act
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1960
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1990
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1992
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2004
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2006
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redefines the term "planet"
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Dwarf Planet
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1113
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1151
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1198
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Alexander II of Scotland
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1249
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1358
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1390
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1393
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1458
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1552
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1614
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1580
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John Taylor
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1654
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1591
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Robert Herrick
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1674
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1635
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Peder Griffenfeld
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1699
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1669
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Alessandro Marcello
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1747
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1707
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Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
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1791
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1750
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Letizia Ramolino
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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1836
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1758
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Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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1794
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1759
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1833
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1772
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1840
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1787
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James Weddell
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1834
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1817
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1875
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1837
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Théodore Dubois
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1924
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1845
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James C. Calhoun
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George Armstrong Custer
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1876
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1851
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Tom Kendall
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1924
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1852
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Deacon White
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1919
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1863
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Dragutin Lerman
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1918
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1865
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Ferdinand I of Romania
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1927
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1872
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Max Beerbohm
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1956
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1880
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Joshua Lionel Cowen
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1965
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1884
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Earl Derr Biggers
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1933
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1887
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Harry Hooper
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1974
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1890
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Duke Kahanamoku
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1968
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Jean Rhys
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1979
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1895
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Richard Cardinal Cushing
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archbishop of Boston
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1970
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1897
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Fred Rose
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1954
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1898
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Malcolm Cowley
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1989
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1899
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Jorge Luis Borges
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1986
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Albert Claude
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Nobel laureate
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1983
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Gaylord DuBois
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1993
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1901
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Preston Foster
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1970
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1902
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Fernand Braudel
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1985
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Carlo Gambino
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1976
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1903
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Karl Hanke
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1945
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1904
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Alice White
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1983
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1905
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Arthur Crudup
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1976
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Siaka Stevens
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President of Sierra Leone
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1988
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1909
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Ronald Grieveson
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1998
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1911
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Lofty England
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1995
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1912
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Durward Kirby
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2000
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1915
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James Tiptree, Jr.
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1987
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1916
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Léo Ferré
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1993
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Hal Smith
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1994
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1917
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Dennis James
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1997
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1918
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Sikander Bakht
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Kerala
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2004
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1919
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Enrique Llanes
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2004
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1920
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Alex Colville
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1921
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Sam Tingle
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1922
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René Lévesque
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1987
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Howard Zinn
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1923
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Arthur Jensen
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1927
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David Ireland
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Harry Markowitz
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Nobel laureate
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1929
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Yasser Arafat
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2004
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1932
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Robert D. Hales
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LDS
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apostle
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1934
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Kenny Baker
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1936
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A. S. Byatt
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Kenny Guinn
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1937
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Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola
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1998
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1938
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Halldór Blöndal
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David Freiberg
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Quicksilver Messenger Service
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Jefferson Starship
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Mason Williams
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1940
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Francine Lalonde
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1942
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Max Cleland
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Howard Jacobson
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1943
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John Cipollina
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Quicksilver Messenger Service
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1989
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Pini Zahavi
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1944
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Bill Goldsworthy
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1996
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Gregory Jarvis
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1986
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Rocky Johnson
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1945
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Ken Hensley
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Uriah Heep
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Vince McMahon
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1947
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Anne Archer
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Paulo Coelho
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Roger De Vlaeminck
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Vladimir Masorin
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1948
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Jean-Michel Jarre
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Kim Sung-Il
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Republic of Korea Air Force
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1949
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Joe Regalbuto
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Charles Rocket
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2005
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1950
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Tim White
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1951
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Orson Scott Card
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Oscar Hijuelos
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1952
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Bob Corker
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Mike Shanahan
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1953
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Ron Holloway
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1954
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Philippe Cataldo
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Alain Daigle
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1955
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Mike Huckabee
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1956
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John Culberson
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Dick Lee
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1957
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Jeffrey Daniel
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Shalamar
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Stephen Fry
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1958
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Steve Guttenberg
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Tracy Harris
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Chris Offutt
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1959
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Adrian Kuiper
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1960
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Kim Christofte
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Takashi Miike
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Cal Ripken, Jr.
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1961
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Ingrid Berghmans
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Jared Harris
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1962
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Craig Kilborn
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David Koechner
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1963
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John Bush
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Anthrax
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Hideo Kojima
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1964
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Dana Gould
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Salizhan Sharipov
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1965
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Marlee Matlin
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Reggie Miller
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Brian Rajadurai
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1967
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Michael Thomas
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1968
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Benoît Brunet
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Shoichi Funaki
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Andreas Kisser
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Sepultura
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Tim Salmon
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1970
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Dan Henderson
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Tugay Kerimoğlu
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1971
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Pierfrancesco Favino
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1972
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Jean-Luc Brassard
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1973
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Andrew Brunette
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Dave Chappelle
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Inge de Bruijn
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Carmine Giovinazzo
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1974
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Orla Fallon
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Jennifer Lien
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1975
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Mark de Vries
|
1976
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Nordin Wooter
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1977
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Denílson
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Robert Enke
|
Per Gade
|
John Green
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Jürgen Macho
|
1978
|
Rafael Furcal
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Derek Morris
|
1979
|
Elva Hsiao
|
Michael Redd
|
Orlando Engelaar
|
1980
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Sonja Bennett
|
1981
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Wang Dong Cheng
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Chad Michael Murray
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Mercedes Scelba - Shorte
|
1982
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Kim Kallstrom
|
1983
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Marcel Goc
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Christopher Parker
|
1984
|
Kyle Schmid
|
1985
|
Destiny Davis
|
Playboy
|
Playmate
|
1986
|
Nick Adenhart
|
1987
|
Anže Kopitar
|
Jon Scheyer
|
1988
|
Rupert Grint
|
1995
|
Runa Tsukishima
|
2003
|
Alexandre Coste
|
Albert II, Prince of Monaco
|
79
|
Pliny the Elder
|
naturalist
|
23
|
1042
|
Michael V
|
Byzantine Emperor
|
1015
|
1103
|
Magnus III of Norway
|
1073
|
1217
|
Eustace the Monk
|
1170
|
1540
|
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola
|
1503
|
1542
|
Gasparo Contarini
|
1483
|
1572
|
Gaspard de Coligny
|
1519
|
Pierre de la Ramée
|
1515
|
Charles de Téligny
|
1535
|
1595
|
Thomas Digges
|
1546
|
1647
|
Nicholas Stone
|
1586
|
1664
|
Maria Cunitz
|
1610
|
1679
|
Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz
|
1614
|
1680
|
Thomas Blood
|
1618
|
1683
|
John Owen
|
1616
|
1759
|
Ewald Christian von Kleist
|
1715
|
1779
|
Cosmas of Aetolia
|
1714
|
1798
|
Thomas Alcock
|
1709
|
1831
|
August von Gneisenau
|
1760
|
1832
|
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
|
1796
|
1841
|
Theodore Edward Hook
|
1788
|
1888
|
Rudolf Clausius
|
1822
|
1921
|
Nikolay Gumilyov
|
1886
|
1940
|
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
|
1860
|
1943
|
Simone Weil
|
1909
|
1946
|
James Clark McReynolds
|
1862
|
1954
|
Getúlio Vargas
|
President of Brazil
|
1882
|
1956
|
Kenji Mizoguchi
|
1898
|
1958
|
Paul Henry
|
1876
|
1967
|
Henry J. Kaiser
|
1882
|
Lam Bun
|
1930
|
1974
|
Alexander de Seversky
|
1894
|
1977
|
Buddy O'Connor
|
1916
|
1978
|
Louis Prima
|
1910
|
1979
|
Hanna Reitsch
|
test pilot
|
1912
|
Sampson Sievers
|
1898
|
1980
|
Yootha Joyce
|
1927
|
1982
|
Félix-Antoine Savard
|
1896
|
1985
|
Paul Creston
|
1906
|
1987
|
Malcolm Kirk
|
1936
|
1990
|
Sergei Dovlatov
|
1941
|
Gailli AbedElrhman
|
1931
|
1991
|
Bernard Castro
|
1904
|
1995
|
Alfred Eisenstaedt
|
1898
|
1998
|
E.G. Marshall
|
1910
|
1999
|
Alexandre Lagoya
|
1929
|
2001
|
Jane Greer
|
1924
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2002
|
Nikolay Guryanov
|
1909
|
2003
|
Wilfred Thesiger
|
1910
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2004
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
|
1926
|
2005
|
Kaleth Morales
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1984
|
2006
|
Léopold Simoneau
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1916
|
Cristian Nemescu
|
1979
|
2007
|
Andrée P. Boucher
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Quebec City
|
1937
|
Aaron Russo
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1943
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Roman Catholic Saints
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Bartholomew
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Abban of Ireland
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Roman calendar
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Mundus patet
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Ukraine
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National holiday
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Soviet Union
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1991
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January 0
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. It uses material from the
Wikipedia article "August 24"
.
