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Waalkes, Otto - (born 1948), comedian
Carr, Gerald - astronaut
Ray, Man - (1890-1976), painter, photographer
Barham, Richard Harris - (1788-1845)
Egan, Susan - (born 1970), actress
Laurence of Canterbury - (died 619), Archbishop of Canterbury
Uqlidisi - (920-990), mathematician
Waller, Edwin - (1800-1881), first mayor of Austin, Texas
Agnes, Empress - (1020-1077), regent of the Holy Roman Empire 1056-1068
Fessenden, Reginald - two-way radio
Hemingway, Ernest - (1899-1961), American novelist
Paisiello, Giovanni - Italian opera composer
Saladin - (1137-1193), victor over Crusaders and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt and Syria
O'Brien, Edna - novelist, member of Aosdána
Carson, Rachel - (1907-1964), US biologist, author of Silent Spring
Yoakum, Joseph - (1886-1972), painter
Alfonso VI of Castile - (1040-1109), king of Castille in 1072 and of León in 1065
Finlay, Ian Hamilton - (born 1925), poet
Ximenez, Fortun - (d. 1533), early Spanish colonizer in Mexico
Aemilia Scaura - (c. 100 BC-82 BC), wife of Pompey
van Dongen, Kees - (1877-1968), Dutch Fauves painter
Brown, Bobby - (born 1969), singer
Bondar, Roberta - first Canadian woman in space
Wayne, Johnny - (1918-1990), comedian
Sanjo - emperor of Japan
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