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Alessi, Galeazzo - (1512-1572), architect
Barbieri, Giovannia Fancesco - (1591-1666), Italian painter
Dawes, Charles G. - (died 1951), Vice President of the United States for Calvin Coolidge
James II of Scotland - (1430-1460)
Paderewski, Ignace - (born 1860), composer, politician
Oerter, Al - (born 1936), Olympic Games gold medalist in track and field
Ballard, J. G. - (born 1930), British author of Crash, Empire of the Sun
Ferdinand I of Leon - (died 1065), Castilian monarch
Brightman, Sarah - (born 1960), U.S. singer
Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Sr. - Confederate general during American Civil War
Berzelius, Jons Jacob - (1779-1848), chemist
d'Albuquerque, Alfonso - (1453-1515)
Adamnan - (625-704), Irish religious leader
Oistrakh, David - (1908-1974), violinist
Farrell, Colin - (born 1976), US actor
Wallace, Alfred Russel - (1823-1913), UK natural selection co-discoverer
Gatling, Richard - (1818-1903), US Gatling gun inventor
Garfunkel, Art - (born 1941), musician
Ewing, Sir James Alfred - (1855-1935), Scottish physicist and engineer
Maclean, Katherine - (born 1925), author
Wahlen, Friedrich Traugott - (1899-1985), Swiss Federal Councilor
Beauvoir, Simone de - (1908-1986), French author
Edelfelt, Albert - (1854 - 1905), Finnish painter (1854 - 1905)
Fichte, Immanuel Hermann - (1797-1879), philosopher
Walters, Barbara - (born 1931), US television presenter
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