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Achard, Marcel - (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
Patelaros, Athanasius - (520-535), patriarch of Constantinople
Pasha, Emin - (1840-1892), doctor, naturalist to Africa
Xu Zhi Mo - melancholic poet of early 20th century China
Birkin, Jane - (born 1946), actor
Bellini, Jacopo - (c.1400-1470), Italian painter
Beefheart, Captain - (born 1941), avant garde blues musician and painter
Boleslaus II of Poland - (1058-1079), Polish ruler
Alfonso X of Castile - (1221-1284), king of Castille 1252
Laxness, Halldor - (1903-1998), Icelander novelist
Berrigan, Daniel - poet
Boggs, Hale - (died 1972), US Congressman from Louisiana
Eiermann, Egon - (1904-1970), architect
Banim, John - (1798-1842)
Abel, Niels Henrik - (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician
Zamenhof, L. L. - Esperanto initiator
Hadfield, Chris - (born 1959), first Canadian to walk in space
Valery, Paul - (1871-1945), French author, poet
Paxman, Jeremy - (born 1950), television personality, television presenter
Saltykov Shchedrin, Mikhail - (1826-1889), Russian novelist
Barry, James - (1795?-1865), British army surgeon
Fabriano, Gentile da - (c.1370-1427), Italian painter
Nannen, Henri - (1913-1966), journalist and publisher
Alexius II Comnenus - (1167-1183), Byzantine Emperor
Eden, Barbara - (born 1934), US actress
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