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Baldi, Bernardino - (1533-1617), mathematican
Edelfelt, Albert - (1854 - 1905), Finnish painter (1854 - 1905)
Nabokov, Vladimir - (1899-1977), novelist
Zatopek, Emil - Czechoslovakian runner, Olympic gold medalist
Languet, Hubert - (died 1581), French diplomat
Daley, Richard M. - (born 1942), politician
Sienkiewicz, Henryk - (1846-1916), Pole
Canaletto - (1697-1768), Italian, Polish painter
Banks, Ernie - (born 1931), Baseball Hall of Famer
Berton, Pierre - (born 1920), popularizer of Canadian history, TV personality, columnist
Barry, Charles - (1795-1860), architect
Bond, Michael - author of Paddington Bear series
Galois, Evariste - (1811-1832), mathematician
Ray, Man - (1890-1976), painter, photographer
Cals, Jo - (1914-1971), prime minister
Wan Hu - Ming dynasty astronaut
Adrian I, Pope - (d.795)
Davies, Walford - (1869-1944), composer, Master of the King's Music
Feoktistov, Konstantin - (born 1926), astronaut
Campbell, David - musician
Jackson, Thomas William - US novelist
Bordet, Jules - (1870-1961), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1919
Bridger, Jim - (1804-1881), pioneer
Savage, Fred - (born 1976), actor
Blackman, Honor - (born 1927), actress
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