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Cardinale, Claudia - (born 1938), Italian actor
Bartholin, Caspar, the Elder - (1585-1629)
Behan, Brendan - (1923-1964), playwright, novelist
Ammanati, Bartolomeo - (1511-1592), architect, sculptor
Oddie, Bill - (born 1941), comedian
Lane, Eastwood - (1879-1951), US composer
Bear, Greg - (born 1951), US science fiction author
Eadbald of Kent - (616-640), King of Kent
Papanikolaou, Georgios - (1883-1962)
Land, Michael - (born 1961), American video game composer
Al Khwarizmi - (780-850), (Al-Khwarazmi) founder of Algorithm algebra, mathematician, astronomer
Butragueno - athlete
Pallas, Peter Simon - zoologist
Fitzgerald, John F. - American politician
Aignan, Etienne - (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Académie française
Kahnweiler, Henry - (1884-1979), Montparnasse art promoter
Warham, William - (c. 1450-1532), Archbishop of Canterbury
Naosuke, Ii - (1815-60), Japanese political leader
Barret, Lawrence - (1838-1891), actor
Butler, James, 1st Duke of Ormonde - (died 1688), Irish statesman, soldier
Valvasor, Janez Vajkard - (1641-1693), Slovene polymath
Carpenter, John - (born 1948), US film director
Bailly, Jean Sylvain - (1736-1793), astronomer
Parry, William - (1790-1855), Arctic explorer
Bardot, Brigitte - (born 1934), French actress
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