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Galilei, Galileo - (1564-1642), Italian astronomy pioneer
Cannon, Gus - (1883-1979), musician
Abbott, Bud - (1895-1974), US actor
Benitez, Clara - matriarch of famous boxing family
Bachchan, Amitabh - (born 1942), Indian actor
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem - (died 1185)
Adeney, Richard - British flautist
Qingyuan, Wu - (born 1914), better known as Go Seigen, the preeminent go player of the 20th century
Carolla, Adam - radio host, comedian
Bossuet, Jacques Benigne - (1627-1704)
Cantor, Moritz - (born 1829), mathematician
Van de Velde, Henry - (1863-1957), architect
Fanu, J. Sheridan le - (1814-1873), US fantasy writer
Bazalgette, Joseph William - (1819-1891)
Agrippinus of Alexandria - Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria 167-178
Hafstein, Hannes - (1912-1914), prime minister
Faulkner, William - (1897-1962), US author
Pavic, Milorad - (born 1929), novelist
Carter, Nick - (born 1980), singer, member of Backstreet Boys
Parks, Rosa - (born 1913), US civil rights activist
Kaline, Al - (born 1934), Baseball Hall of Famer
Burgee, John - architect
Davies, Ryan - (1937-1977), entertainer
Deleuze, Gilles - (1925-1995), French philosopher
Barrington, William Wildman Shute - (1717-1793), British statesman
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