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Park, Barbara - (born c. 1949), children's author
Finetti, Bruno de - (1906-1985), Italian mathematician, statistician
Ockley, Simon - (1678-1720)
Kasparov, Gary - (born 1963), Russian chess champion
Dahl, Anders - (1751-1789), (namesake of the Dahlia)
Amis, Martin - (born 1949), writer, son of Kingsley
Laxness, Halldor - (1903-1998), Icelander novelist
Karmal, Babrak - (1929-1996), president of Afghanistan
Janov, Arthur - psychologist
Payne Gaposchkin, Cecilia - (1900-1979), astronomer
Brown, Margaret - Titanic survivor aka Molly Brown
Wakata, Koichi - astronaut
Delcasse, Theophile - (1914-1915), Foreign Minister (1914-1915)
Endo, Shusaku - (1923-1996), Japanese writer of Silence, Deep River
Earle, Sylvia - biologist
Danjon, Andre Louis - (1890-1967), astronomer
Felix IV, Pope - (526-530)
Aalto, Alvar - (1898-1976), Finnish architect
Debussy, Claude - (1862-1918), French Impressionist composer
Cakste, Janis - Latvian president
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo - (1598-1680), Italian architect, sculptor, painter
Baker, David - musician
Bacall, Lauren - (born 1924), US actor
Kalinin, Mikhail - (1875-1946), Soviet head of state
Balfour, Sir James - (died 1584)
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