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Carnera, Primo - (1906-1967), world boxing champion
Baldwin, Robert - (1804-1858)
Fallon, Jimmy - (born 1974), comedian
O'Brien, Conan - (born 1963), US comedian and talk show host
Boru, Brian - (940-1014), High King of Ireland
Achard, Marcel - (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
Brahe, Nils Magnus - (1790-1844), Swedish politician
Lah, Ivo - (1896-1979), mathematician, discoverer of Lah numbers
Jackson, Peter - (born 1961), New Zealand film director
Braun, Wernher von - (1912-1977), German rocket scientist
Zalm, William N. Vander - (born 1934), Canadian politician
Abbot, George writer - (1603-1648), English writer
Bouch, Thomas - (1822-1890), railways
Bache, Francis Edward - (1833-1858), composer
Bell, Marilyn - first person to swim Lake Ontario
Bell, Steve - (born 1951), contemporary British political cartoonist
Blakey, Art - (1919-1990), musician
Rand, Ayn - (1905-1982), US philosopher & Atlas Shrugged writer
Fabra, Pompeu - (1868-1948), grammarian
Bermudo I of Asturias - Asturian monarch
Paret, Benny Kid - world boxing champion who had tragic end
Pachelbel, Johann - (1653-1706), German composer
Feldenkrais, Moshe - (1904-1984), Creator of Feldenkrais Method
Wallace, Alfred Russel - (1823-1913), UK natural selection co-discoverer
Bond, Michael - author of Paddington Bear series
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