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Taverner, John - (c.1490-1545), composer
Davidson, Alan - (1924-2003), author
Faraday, Michael - (1791-1867), scientist
Ladislaus II - (1471-1516), Bohemian aristocrat
Blyton, Enid - (1896-1968), British children's writer
van der Waals, Johannes - physicist
MacLean, Steven - astronaut
Bordet, Jules - (1870-1961), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1919
Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig - (1784-1814), traveller, orientalist
Vadim, Roger - (1928-2000), journalist, actor, screenwriter, director
James, Elmore - (1918-1963), musician
Caldera, Rafael - Venezuelan president
Barris, Chuck - (born 1929), game show host, producer, writer
Jacques, Brian - (born 1939), author
Lansing, Robert - (1864-1928), Secretary of State
Adachi Kagemori - (? - 1248), Japanese warrior
Delpy, Julie - (born 1969), French actor
Aho, Esko - (born 1954), Finnish prime minister
Santi, Raffaello - (1483-1520), Italian painter
Yourcenar, Marguerite - (1903-1987), Belgian novelist
Carroll, Leo G. - (1892-1972), actor
Ward, Rachel - (born 1957), actress
Carter, Jimmy - (born 1924), president of the U.S.A.
Bassey, Shirley - (born 1937), singer
Dare, Virginia - (1587-1588), first English child born in North America
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