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1805
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1828
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First Lady of the United States
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1849
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1835
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1828
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1850
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1806
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1822
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1912
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1907
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1838
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1925
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1929
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1860
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1917
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1882
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1949
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1883
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1933
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1894
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Chandrashekarendra Saraswati
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Jivanmukta
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1994
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1895
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1937
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1897
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Diego Abad de Santillán
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1983
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1899
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Alexander Deyneka
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1969
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1971
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1901
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1981
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1906
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1989
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1997
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1986
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2001
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1914
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1995
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Hideko Maehata
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1995
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1915
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Moshe Dayan
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1981
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2006
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2001
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1967
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2005
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2004
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1983
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1991
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Victoria Cross
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1947
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1998
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2003
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1956
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1994
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1928
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1930
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1931
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1982
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1987
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2008
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1936
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1938
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Marinella
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1940
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Sadaharu Oh
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Shorty Long
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1969
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1941
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Goh Chok Tong
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Senior Minister
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John Strasberg
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1942
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Carlos Hathcock
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sniper
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1999
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1943
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Al Bano
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1944
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Joe Cocker
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Boudewijn de Groot
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1945
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1946
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1947
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1949
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1953
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1954
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1955
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1956
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Dean Butler
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1958
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Ron Reagan
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Jane Wiedlin
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1959
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Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
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1997
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1960
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John Billingsley
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Chuck Brodsky
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Tony Goldwyn
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1961
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Clive Allen
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Mike Jeffries
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1963
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David Wells
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1965
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Ted Allen
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1966
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Mindy Cohn
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Dan Abrams
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Gina Ravera
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1967
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Gabriele Muccino
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Ramzi Yousef
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Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
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1968
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Timothy Olyphant
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Waisale Serevi
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rugby sevens
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1969
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Brian Gerard James
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1970
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Louis Theroux
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Terrell Brandon
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1971
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Šárka Kašpárková
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Tony Stewart
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1972
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Tina Hobley
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Busta Rhymes
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1973
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Elsa Lunghini
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1975
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Isaac Gálvez
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2006
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Mark Zupan
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1976
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Ramón Hernández
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Tomoya Satozaki
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1977
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Matt Czuchry
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Chad Muska
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Leonardo Noeren Franco
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Miriam Parrish
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Angela Goethals
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Vesa Toskala
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1980
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Austin Kearns
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1981
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Iker Casillas
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Calico Cooper
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Lindsay Taylor
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Mark Winterbottom
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1982
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Petr Čech
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Imran Farhat
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1983
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Jr. NTR
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1984
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Kenny Vasoli
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1986
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Dexter Blackstock
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LaLa Brown
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2007
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1988
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Carla Humphries
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1993
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Caroline Zhang
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685
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Ecgfrith of Northumbria
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645
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1277
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Pope John XXI
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1215
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1285
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John II of Jerusalem
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1259
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1444
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Bernardino of Siena
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1380
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1503
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Lorenzo de Medici
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1463
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1506
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Christopher Columbus
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1451
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1550
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Ashikaga Yoshiharu
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1510
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1622
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Osman II
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Ottoman Sultan
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1604
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1648
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Wladislaus IV of Poland
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1595
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1677
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George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol
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1612
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1713
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Thomas Sprat
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1635
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1717
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John Trevor
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1637
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1722
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Sébastien Vaillant
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1669
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1732
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Thomas Boston
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1676
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1782
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William Emerson
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1701
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1793
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Charles Bonnet
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1720
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1825
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Papaflessas
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1788
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1834
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Gilbert du Motier
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1757
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1841
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Joseph Blanco White
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1775
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1873
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George-Étienne Cartier
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1814
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1896
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Clara Schumann
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1819
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1909
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Ernest Hogan
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1859
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1917
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Philipp von Ferrary
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philatelist
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1850
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Valentine Fleming
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1887
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1940
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Verner von Heidenstam
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Nobel laureate
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1859
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1946
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Jacob Ellehammer
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1871
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1947
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Philipp Lenard
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Nobel laureate
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1862
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1949
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Randolph West
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1890
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1956
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Max Beerbohm
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1872
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1961
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Josef "Pips" Priller
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fighter
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ace
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1915
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1971
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Waldo Williams
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1904
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1973
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Jarno Saarinen
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1945
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1975
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Barbara Hepworth
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1903
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1976
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Syd Howe
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1911
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Zelmar Michelini
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Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz
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disappeared
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1989
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John Hicks
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Nobel laureate
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1904
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Gilda Radner
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1946
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1992
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Roger Keith Coleman
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1996
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Jon Pertwee
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1919
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2000
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Jean Pierre Rampal
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1922
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Malik Sealy
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1970
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2001
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Renato Carosone
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1920
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2002
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Stephen Jay Gould
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paleontologist
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1941
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2005
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Paul Ricoeur
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1913
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William Seawell
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1918
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2007
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Norman Von Nida
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1914
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2008
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Hamilton Jordan
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1944
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East Timor
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National Day
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