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Bernoulli, Johann - (1667-1748), Swiss mathematician
Waller, Thomas Fats - (1904-1943), US jazz pianist & composer
Endo, Shusaku - (1923-1996), Japanese writer of Silence, Deep River
Queen, Ellery - mystery writer pseudonym
Barnet, Charlie - musician
Belmondo, Jean Paul - (born 1933), French actor
Ekman, V. Walfrid - (1874-1954), Swedish physicist and meteorologist
Campbell, Ramsey - (born 1946), author
Davies, Ray - (born 1944), singer-songwriter
Paul I, Pope - (757-767)
Ingyo, emperor of Japan - (5th Century AD)
Alexander of Aphrodisias - (2nd century AD), greek philosopher
Macaulay, Thomas - (born 1800), English poet
vant Hoff, Jacobus Henricus - (1852-1911) Dutch Nobel Prize in Chemistry scientist
Edison, Thomas Alva - (1847-1931), US inventor
Cartier Bresson, Henri - (born 1908), photographer
Sangharakshita - (born 1921), Founder of the Western Buddhist Order
Epictetus - (AD 55-circa 135), Greek philosopher
Pankhurst, Christabel - British suffragette
Paracelsus - (1493-1541), alchemist
Lansbury, George - (1859-1940), politician
Bacon, John - (1740-1799), sculptor
Elton, Ben - (born 1959), English comedian, writer
Aleksey I of Russia - (1629-1676)
Boudinot, Elias - (1800-1839), Cherokee Indian journalist and publisher
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