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Barnard, Henry - (1811-1900)
Bell, Eric Temple - (1883-1960), mathematician
Carthy Deu, Deborah - Miss Universe 1985
Bohm, David - (1917-1992), physicist
Rae, John - (1813-1893), travelled widely through the Canadian Arctic
Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jakob - (1804-1851), German mathematician
Bono - (born 1960), lead singer of Irish rock band U2
Barlow, George Hilarow - (1762-1847)
Barrington, William Wildman Shute - (1717-1793), British statesman
Eliot, T. S. - (1888-1965), writer
Sakamoto, Ryuichi - (born 1942), musician, pop composer
Field, John - (1782-1837), composer (creator of the nocturne
Narutowicz, Gabriel - (1865-1922), President of Poland and assassination victim
Dantzig, David van - (1900-1959), mathematician
Savage, Michael Joseph - (1872-1940), politician
Bryars, Gavin - (born 1943), composer
Breguet, Abraham Louis - (1747-1823), watchmaker
Parkinson, Michael - television personality, television presenter
Beg, Ulugh - (1394-1449), astronomer
Ra, Sun - (died 1993), singer-songwriter, musician
Behan, Brendan - (1923-1964), playwright, novelist
de Beauharnais, Josephine - (1763-1814), Empress
Macalister, John Kenneth - (1914-1944), SOE agent, WW II hero
Lampley, Jim - (born 1952) American sportscaster
Karmal, Babrak - (1929-1996), president of Afghanistan
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