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Landon, Alfred M. - (1887-1987), Governor, Presidential Candidate, Topeka, Kansas.
Bunshaft, Gordon - (1909-1990), architect
Banks, Russell - (born 1940), author of The Sweet Hereafter
Bedford, David - (born 1937), composer
Paine, Thomas O. - (1921-1992), third Administrator of NASA
Randolph, John - (born 1773), politician
Mauriac, Francois - (1885-1970), Roman Catholic writer
Calmy Rey, Micheline - (born 1945), member of the Swiss Federal Council
Brown, Dee - (1908-2002), U.S. novelist & historian
Bachchan, Amitabh - (born 1942), Indian actor
Easton, Sheena - (born 1959), singer
Watts, Isaac - (1674-1748), poet
Laurence, Margaret - (1926-1987), novelist, wrote "The Stone Angel"
Washington, William - (1752-1810), American revolutionary soldier
Darby, John Nelson - (1800-1882), Irish clergyman
Yu, Han - Chinese poet
Baker, Howard - (born 1925), former Senator from Tennessee, former White House Chief of Staff
Baker, Ginger - (born 1939), musician
Karamanlis, Konstantinos - (1907-1998), Greek politician
Garnier, Francis - (1839-1873), French explorer
Beebe, Charles William - (1877-1962), biologist
Esarhaddon - 681-669 BCE
Oberth, Hermann - (1894-1989), German physicist
Abel, Thomas - (c. 1497-1540), an English priest
Garvey, Marcus Mosiah - (1887-1940), US politician and prophet
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