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Bernard, Francis - (1712-1779), colonial governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts
Barnes, Djuna - (1892-1982), author
Eckert, Wallace John - (1902 – 1971) computation laboratory pioneer
Pasolini, Pier Paolo - (1922-1975), Italian film director
Parks, Rosa - (born 1913), US civil rights activist
Kapoor, Karisma - Indian actress
Biberstein, Carol - children's book Great Grandma's Rocking Chair
Bosch, Hieronymus - (c.1460-1518), painter
Pappus of Alexandria - euclidean geometry
Bauer, Georg - real name of Agricola (1490-1555), German scholar
Cantinflas - (1911-1993), Mexican film comedian, appeared in Around the World in Eighty Days
FitzGerald, George Francis - (1851-1901), physicist
Febvre, Lucien - historian
Davidson, Jim - (born 1954), British stand-up comedian
Afonso IV of Portugal - (1290-1357), king in 1325
Blunden, Edmund - poet
Ware, Chris - comic creator
Cartier, George Etienne - (1814-1873), French-Canadian statesman
Amsberg, Claus von - (1926-2002), prince consort of the Netherlands
Blaylock, James - (born 1950), author
Dearborn, Henry - (1751-1829), U.S. Congressman, Secretary of War
Janiga, Carly - (born 1988), American gymnast
Habermas, Jurgen - (born 1929), sociologist and philosopher
Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de - (1594-1654), French playwright
Nation, Carry - (1846-1911), US saloon smasher
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