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Barr, Roseanne - (born 1952), American actress and comedian
Rachmaninov, Sergei - (1873-1943), Russian composer
Xenophanes - philosopher
Fischer, Edwin - (1886-1960), pianist and conductor
Kahn, Herman - (1922-1983), futurologist
Takemitsu Toru - (1930-1996), composer
Boorman, John - (born 1933), film director
Balfour, Sir James - (died 1584)
Barrymore, Drew - (born 1975), US actress
Bradley, Bill - (born 1943), basketball player, US Senator
Baldwin, William - (born 1963), actor
Lagerfeld, Karl - (born 1938), fashion designer
Janssen, Ruud - (born 1959), teacher, writer, artist, active in mail art
Pablo, Augustus - (died 1999), Jamaican reggae singer
Eschscholtz, Johann Friedrich von - biologist and explorer, namesake of the California Poppy
Achard, Marcel - (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
Eleanor of Aquitaine - (died 1204), wife of Henry II of England
Hadrian - (76-138), Roman Emperor
Carman, Bliss - (1861-1929), poet, wrote Low Tide on Grand Pre
Paret, Benny Kid - world boxing champion who had tragic end
Yancey, Jimmy - US boogie-woogie musician
Debye, Peter Joseph William - (1884-1966), chemist
Fawcett, Quinn - author
Bernard, Francis - (1712-1779), colonial governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts
Eddison, Eric Rucker - (1882-1945) US pre-Tolkien fantasy author
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