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Paige, Satchel - (1908-1982), African American baseball pitcher
Salcedo, Diego - (1575-1644), Spaniard bishop, killed by the Tainos
Branting, Hjalmar - (1860-1925), politician
Burnside, Ambrose - (1824-1881), American Civil War general
Cale, John - (born 1942), musician
Banks, Joseph - (1743-1820), biologist, botanist
Cantinflas - (1911-1993), Mexican film comedian, appeared in Around the World in Eighty Days
Saebert of Essex - (604-616), King of Essex
Bellamy, Edward - US author
Edwy of England - (955-959), English monarch
Bomberg, David - (1890-1957), painter
Palmer, Robert - (1949-2003), British singer, guitarist
Lazarus, Emma - (born 1849), poet
Abe Kobo - (1924-1993), Japanese author of The Woman In the Dunes, The Magic Chalk
Barbuti, Ray - (1905-1988), American athlete
Barahona de Soto, Luis - (1548-1595)
Watterson, Bill - (born 1958), US cartoonist, creator of Calvin and Hobbes
Watie, Stand - (1806-1871), Confederate general, Cherokee leader
Yao Wenyuan - (born 1931)
Bettencourt, Liliane - majority owner of L'Oreal, wealthiest person in France
Abbot, William - (1798-1843), British actor
Underhill, John - (1609-1672), Puritan colonist and soldier in America
Savon, Felix - amateur boxer
Boyce, Max - entertainer
Birgitta, Saint - (1303-1373), patron saint of Europe
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