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Baels, Mary Lilian - (1916-2002), Princess de Rethy
Buchanan, James M. - (born 1919), economist
Savitskaya, Svetlana - astronaut
Ximenes, Ettore - (1855-1919), Italian painter
Candy, John - (1950-1994), actor/comedian
Eusebius of Caesarea - (~275-339), historian
Akihito - (born December 23, 1933), emperor of Japan
Boone, Debby - (born 1956), singer
Qingyuan, Wu - (born 1914), better known as Go Seigen, the preeminent go player of the 20th century
Ericsson, Lars Magnus - (1846-1926), industrialist
Brutus - (c. 85-42 BC), conspirator against, and murderer of Julius Caesar
Brackett, Leigh - (1915-1978), U.S. science fiction author
Lackey, Mercedes - (born 1950), US fantasy author
Wambaugh, Joseph - (born 1936), author
Abbot, William - (1798-1843), British actor
Agnew, Spiro - (1918-1996), Vice President of the United States
Bakeman, Daniel F. - (1760-1869), Revolutionary war veteran
Sakamoto, Ryuichi - (born 1942), musician, pop composer
Dam, Henrik Carl Peter - (1895-1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Benedict XV, Pope - (1914-1922)
Wang, Wayne - (born 1949), director
Carleton, Sir Guy - (1724-1808), British general, Governor of Canada
Carpenter, David - Canadian writer
Walton, William - (1902-1983), composer
Beatty, Warren - (born 1937), US film director
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