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Jacobus De Voragine - (c. 1230-c. 1298) Italian chronicler, archbishop of Genoa
Lascelles, George , 7th Earl of Harewood - aristocrat
Yogananda, Paramahansa - (1893-1952)
Alexander, Robert - (c.1740-1805), American Tory political leader during Revolution
Washington, Dinah - (1924-1963), musician
Brunner, John - (1934-1995), British science fiction writer
Caprino, Ivo - (1920-2001), animated film director
Billings, Josh - (1818-1825) US humorist
Rae, John - (1813-1893), travelled widely through the Canadian Arctic
Cao Cao - (155 AD-220 AD), poet
De Duve, Christian - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974
Baillie, Robert - (1602-1662)
Kadare, Ismail - (born 1936), Albanian poet
Taimanov, Mark - chess player
Yeats, William Butler - (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist, senator
Biletnikoff, Fred - (born 1943), American football star, coach
Callaghan, James - (born 1912), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Brattain, Walter Houser - (born 1902), transistor co-inventor
Vanderbilt, Cornelius - (1794-1877), entrepreneur
Fast, Howard - (born 1914), novelist
de Havilland, Geoffrey - (1882-1965), aerospace engineer
Van Halen, Eddie - (b. 1955 ), US musician
Edward the Martyr - (975-978), English monarch
Beefheart, Captain - (born 1941), avant garde blues musician and painter
Bizet, Georges - (1838-1875), composer of Carmen
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