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1958
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1962
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1670
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1910
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1828
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1882
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1896
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1842
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1912
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1845
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1924
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1850
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1924
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1867
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1938
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1874
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1929
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1880
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1951
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1889
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Anne Frank
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1980
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1892
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1970
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1895
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Nobel laureate
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1982
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1986
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1899
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Indra Devi
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2002
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1900
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1971
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1903
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1991
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1907
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1993
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Katharine Hepburn
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2003
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1996
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
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1994
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2004
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1993
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2002
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2005
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1953
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1986
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1998
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1968
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1928
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Henry Cosby
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2002
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1930
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1936
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2007
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1937
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1996
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2008
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1938
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1939
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2003
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2000
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1945
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2007
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1947
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1948
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1956
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Bernie Federko
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1957
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Lou Whitaker
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1958
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Andreas Petroulakis
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1959
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1960
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Paul Arcand
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1961
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Lar Park Lincoln
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Bruce McCulloch
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1962
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Emilio Estevez
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Brett Gurewitz
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Bad Religion
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Epitaph
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1963
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Piraeus
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Stefano Modena
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Charles Pettigrew
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Charles and Eddie
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2001
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Jerry Trimble
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Deborah Kara Unger
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Vanessa A. Williams
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1966
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Stephen Baldwin
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Bebel Gilberto
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1967
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Paul D'Amour
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Tool
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1968
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Mark Clark
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Tony Hawk
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Scott Schwartz
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Catherine Tate
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1969
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Kim Fields
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Cesar Millan
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Kevin Nalty
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1970
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Jim Furyk
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Samantha Mathis
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Steve Palframan
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Mike Weir
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1971
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Doug Basham
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1973
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Kendra Kassebaum
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Travis Lutter
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1975
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Jonah Lomu
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Lawrence Phillips
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1977
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Graeme Dott
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Rebecca Herbst
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1978
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Jason Biggs
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Wilfred Le Bouthillier
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Acadian
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Aya Ishiguro
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Morning Musume
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Josh Phelps
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Hossein Reza Zadeh
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1979
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Andre Carter
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Robert Key
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Erdinç Saçan
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Steve Smith
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1981
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Lorena Bernal
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Miss Spain
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1999
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Kentaro Sato
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1983
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Charilaos Pappas
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1985
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Tally Hall
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Jeroen Simaeys
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1986
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Emily VanCamp
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1988
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Marcelo
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1992
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Malcolm David Kelley
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1995
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Luke Benward
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1003
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Pope Silvester II
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1012
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Pope Sergius IV
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1382
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Joan I of Naples
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1327
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1465
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Thomas Palaeologus
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Despotate of Morea
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1634
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George Chapman
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1641
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Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
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1593
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1684
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Edme Mariotte
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1699
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Lucas Achtschellinck
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1626
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1700
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John Dryden
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1631
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1708
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Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
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1658
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1748
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Thomas Lowndes
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1692
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1759
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Lambert-Sigisbert Adam
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1700
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1784
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Abraham Trembley
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1710
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1792
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Charles Simon Favart
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1710
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1796
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Johann Peter Uz
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1720
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1798
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George Vancouver
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1757
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1801
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Nicholas Repnin
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1734
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1845
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János Bacsanyi
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1763
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1856
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Jacques Philippe Marie Binet
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1786
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1859
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Sergei Aksakov
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1791
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1860
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Charles Barry
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1795
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1864
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J. E. B. Stuart
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1833
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1867
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Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard
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1795
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1871
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Anselme Payen
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1795
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1876
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Georgi Benkovski
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Turks
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1843
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1884
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Bedřich Smetana
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1824
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1889
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John Cadbury
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1801
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1907
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Joris-Karl Huysmans
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1848
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1916
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James Connolly
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1868
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1925
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Amy Lowell
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1874
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1931
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Eugène Ysaÿe
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1858
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1935
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Józef Piłsudski
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1867
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1944
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Max Brand
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1892
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Arthur Quiller-Couch
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1863
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1956
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Louis Calhern
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1895
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1957
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Alfonso de Portago
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1928
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Erich von Stroheim
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1885
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1963
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Bobby Kerr
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1882
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1966
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Felix Martin Julius Steiner
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German
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Heer
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Waffen-SS
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1896
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1967
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John Masefield
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1878
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1970
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Nelly Sachs
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Nobel Prize
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1891
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1971
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Heinie Manush
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1901
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1973
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Art Pollard
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1927
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1985
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Jean Dubuffet
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1901
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1986
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Elisabeth Bergner
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1897
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1990
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Chen Kenmin
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1912
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1992
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Robert Reed
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1932
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Nikos Gatsos
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1911
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Lenny Montana
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1926
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1994
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Erik Erikson
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1902
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John Smith
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1938
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1995
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Mia Martini
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Domenica Bertè
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1947
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1999
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Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz
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Grand Mufti
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Saudi Arabia
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1910
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Saul Steinberg
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1914
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2000
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Adam Petty
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1980
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2001
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Perry Como
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1912
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Alexei Tupolev
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1925
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2002
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Erich Kulas
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2003
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Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
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1933
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2005
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Martin Lings
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1909
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Monica Zetterlund
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1937
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2006
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Gillespie V. Montgomery
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1920
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2007
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Mullah Dadullah Akhund
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Taliban
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1966
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2007
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Teddy Infuhr
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1936
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2008
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Robert Rauschenberg
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1925
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Irena Sendler
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1910
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International Nurses Day
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Florence Nightingale
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1820
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Finnishness
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Finland
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J. V. Snellman
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Feast day
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saints
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Roman Catholic Church
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Saints Achilleus and Nereus
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Saint Pancras
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Ice Saints
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Saint Epiphanius of Salamis
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Saint Modoald
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. It uses material from the
Wikipedia article "May 12"
.
