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David-Neel, Alexandra - (1868-1969), French explorer, visited Lhasa, Tibet in 1924
Finney, Albert - (born 1936), actor
Laing, R. D. - (1927-1989), psychiatrist
Saxo Grammaticus - Danish historian
Sakai, Stan - Japanese-born cartoonist of Usagi Yojimbo fame
d'Aguillon, Francois - (1566-1617), mathematician
Burgee, John - architect
Binchois, Gilles - (c.1400-1460), Belgian composer
Blackbeard - (1680-1718), pirate
Afonso II of Portugal - (1185-1233), king in 1212
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth - (1837-1915), English novelist
Galuppi, Baldassare - (1706-1785), composer
Gansevoort, Peter - (1749-1812), American Revolutionary War Colonel
Valvasor, Janez Vajkard - (1641-1693), Slovene polymath
Satir, Virginia - (1916-1988), psychologist, psychotherapist
Paul III, Pope - (1534-1549)
Euler, Leonhard - (1707-1783), Swiss mathematician and physicist
Jackson, Shirley - (1916-1965), author
Beiderbecke, Bix - (1903-1931), jazz trumpeter
Ephron, Nora - (born 1941), film director
Nash, John - (1752-1835), architect
Ethelbert, St., king of Kent - (c.552-616), British monarch
Tartaglia, Niccolo Fontana - (1500-1557), Italian mathematician
Landrieu, Moon - (born 1930), New Orleans mayor
Wallace, David Foster - (born 1962), USA novelist
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