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1969
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2003
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Jakarta
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Marriott Hotel
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1301
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Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent
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1330
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1397
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Guillaume Dufay
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1474
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1461
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Alexander Jagiellon
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1506
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1623
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Antonio Cesti
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1669
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1641
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John Hathorne
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1717
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1662
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James Anderson
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1728
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1694
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Leonardo Leo
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1744
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1802
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1829
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1811
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1896
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1813
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Ivar Aasen
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1896
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1815
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1901
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1827
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Deodoro da Fonseca
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President of Brazil
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1892
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1828
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Louise of the Netherlands
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1871
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1833
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Carola of Vasa
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1907
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1850
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Guy de Maupassant
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1893
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1862
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1890
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1866
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Carl Harries
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1923
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Harry Trott
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1917
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1872
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Oswaldo Cruz
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1917
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1877
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Tom Thomson
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1917
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1887
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Reginald Owen
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1972
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1888
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Victor Francen
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1977
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1889
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Conrad Aiken
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1973
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1890
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Erich Kleiber
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1956
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Naum Gabo
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1977
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1897
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Aksel Larsen
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1972
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2000
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1906
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1987
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Wassily Leontief
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Nobel laureate
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1999
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Joan Hickson
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1998
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1908
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Harold Holt
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Prime Minister of Australia
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1967
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1910
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1979
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1911
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Robert Taylor
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1969
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1912
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Abbé Pierre
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2007
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1914
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David Brian
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1993
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1918
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Tom Drake
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1982
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Betty Oliphant
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2004
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1922
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L. Tom Perry
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LDS
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apostle
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1923
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Devan Nair
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President of Singapore
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1930
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Neil Armstrong
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Michal Kováč
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President of Slovakia
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1934
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Wendell Berry
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1935
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John Saxon
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1937
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Herb Brooks
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2003
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1939
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Princess Irene of the Netherlands
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1941
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Bob Clark
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2007
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1943
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Nelson Briles
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2005
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Sammi Smith
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2005
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1946
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Loni Anderson
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Bruce Coslet
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Ron Silliman
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Erika Slezak
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Angry Anderson
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Rose Tattoo
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Bernie Carbo
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Rick Derringer
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Carole Laure
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Ray Clemence
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1951
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John Jarratt
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1953
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Rick Mahler
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2005
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Samantha Sang
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Jerry Ciccoritti
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Fred Ottman
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Maureen McCormick
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1957
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Faith Prince
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Clayton Rohner
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1959
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Pete Burns
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Dead or Alive
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1960
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Seth Swirsky
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1961
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Tawny Kitaen
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Mark O'Connor
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Athula Samarasekera
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1962
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Patrick Ewing
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Richard de Groen
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1964
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Adam Yauch (MCA)
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Beastie Boys
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1965
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Motoi Sakuraba
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Scott William Winters
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1966
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Jonathan Silverman
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1968
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Terri Clark
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Funkmaster Flex
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Tokimitsu Ishizawa
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Oleg Luzhny
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Colin McRae
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2007
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John Olerud
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1969
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Venkatesh Prasad
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Vasbert Drakes
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1970
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James Gunn
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1971
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Evil Jared Hasselhoff
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The Bloodhound Gang
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1972
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Christian Olde Wolbers
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Fear Factory
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Aaqib Javed
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Ikuto Hidaka
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1973
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Sean Sherk
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Sanwar Hossain
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1974
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Alvin Ceccoli
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Antoine Sibierski
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1975
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Antony Cotton
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Ami Foster
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Kajol Mukherjee
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Eicca Toppinen
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Apocalyptica
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1976
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Jeff Friesen
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Kwon Sang-woo
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Marian Pahars
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1977
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Eric Hinske
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Michael Walsh
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Mark Mulder
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1978
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Kim Gevaert
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Nektaria Karantzi
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1979
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David Healy
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1980
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Kaylani Lei
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Wayne Bridge
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Jason Čulina
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Ali Umar
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Sophie Winkleman
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1981
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Carl Crawford
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Rachel Scott
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1999
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Kō Shibasaki
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Erik Guay
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Cory Williams
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Alester Maregwede
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1982
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LoLo Jones
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Ryu Seung Min
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Tobias Regner
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1983
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Dawn Richard
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Danity Kane
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1985
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Laurent Ciman
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Salomon Kalou
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1986
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Paula Creamer
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1987
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Genelia D'Souza
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Xenia Tchoumitcheva
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1988
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Federica Pellegrini
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1993
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Suzuka Ōgo
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Corey J. Smith
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1995
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Devo Keenan
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2000
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Maya Bond
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882
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Louis III of France
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863
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1063
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Gruffydd ap Llywelyn
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King of Gwynedd
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1364
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Emperor Kogon
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1313
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1572
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Isaac Luria
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1534
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1579
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Stanislaus Hosius
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1504
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1610
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Alonso García de Ramón
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Royal Governor of Chile
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1633
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Archbishop George Abbot
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Archbishop of Canterbury
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1562
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1678
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Juan García de Zéspedes
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1619
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1743
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John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey
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1696
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1778
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Charles Clémencet
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1703
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1792
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Frederick North, Lord North
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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1732
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1799
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Richard Howe
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1726
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1868
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Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
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1788
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1877
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Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden
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1799
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1880
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Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra
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1816
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1895
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Friedrich Engels
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1820
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1911
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Bob Caruthers
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1864
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1923
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Vatroslav Jagić
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1835
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1925
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Jennie Lee (actor)
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1848
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1929
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Millicent Fawcett
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1847
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1944
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Maurice Turnbull
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1906
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1946
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Wilhelm Marx
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Chancellor of Germany
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1863
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1952
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Sameera Moussa
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1917
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1955
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Carmen Miranda
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1909
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1957
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Heinrich Otto Wieland
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Nobel Prize Laureate
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1877
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1959
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Edgar Guest
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1881
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1960
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Arthur Meighen
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Prime Minister of Canada
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1874
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1962
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Marilyn Monroe
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1926
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1963
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Salvador Bacarisse
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1898
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1964
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Art Ross
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1886
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1968
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Luther Perkins
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1972
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Harry Hylton-Foster
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Speaker of the British House of Commons
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1905
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1978
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Jesse Haines
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1893
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1980
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Harold Runnels
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1924
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1984
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Richard Burton
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Welsh
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1925
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1991
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Paul Brown
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1908
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Soichiro Honda
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1906
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1992
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Jeff Porcaro
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1954
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1994
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Alain de Changy
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1922
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1998
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Otto Kretschmer
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U-boat
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1912
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Todor Zhivkov
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1911
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2000
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Sir Alec Guinness
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1914
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Otto Buchsbaum
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1920
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2001
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Otema Allimadi
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1929
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2002
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Josh Ryan Evans
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1982
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Chick Hearn
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1916
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Franco Lucentini
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1920
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2005
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Polina Astakhova
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1936
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Jim O'Hora
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1915
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Raul Roco
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1941
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2006
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Susan Butcher
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1954
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2007
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Florian Pittiş
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1943
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Jean-Marie Lustiger
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2008
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Reg Lindsay
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1929
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Burkina Faso
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Independence Day
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Croatia
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Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day
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Chile
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Children's Day
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Abel of Reims
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Addai
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Saint Afra
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Saint Afra
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Saint Dominic
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Saint Emygdius
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bishop of Ascoli Piceno
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Mary "ad nives"
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Santa Maria Maggiore
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