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Campbell, Malcolm, Sir - land-speed record holder
Birch, S.J. Lamorna - (1869-1955), painter
Qi, Concubine - (died 194 BC)
van Zandt, Townes - (died 1997), musician
Eotvos, Roland - (1848-1919), physicist
Benedict V, Pope - (pope 964-965)
Van Dyke, Dick - (born 1925), US actor, comedian
Blankers Koen, Fanny - (born 1918), athlete
Galilei, Galileo - (1564-1642), Italian astronomy pioneer
Bourke White, Margaret - (born 1906), US aviator
Ballen, Albert - inventor of cruise ships
Rabelais, Francois - (ca. 1493-1553), Renaissance writer
Brandis, Jonathan - (1976-2003) U.S. actor
Barrowe, Henry - (1550-1593), English Puritan and Separatist
Cabral, Pedro Alvares - (c. 1467-c. 1520), discovered Brazil and Madagascar
Basiliscus - Byzantine Emperor
Alexander III of Russia - (1845 - 1894)
Tarrasch, Siegbert - (1862-1934), chess player
Carter, Elliott - (born 1908), composer
Ali, Tatyana - (born 1979), actress, singer
Yazdegerd I of Persia - from 399 to 420
Balmes, Jaime Luciano - (1810-1848)
Fahrni, Gordon S. - (1887-1995), physician
Alfonso I of Asturias - (693-757), king in 737
Zamenhof, L. L. - Esperanto initiator
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