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Zacharias, Pope - (741-752), pope
Bigelow, Wilfred - first artificial pacemaker
MacCormick, John - Nationalist
Black, Roger - (born 1966), British athlete
Larson, Gary - (born 1950), US The Far Side cartoonist
Carpeaux, Jean Baptiste - French sculptor
Gagarin, Yuri - (1934-1968), Soviet cosmonaut
Brundtland, Gro Harlem - Norwegian politician
Ballard, Hank - (1936-2003), musician
Berne, Eric - (1910-70), US psychiatrist, founder of Transactional Analysis
Bennett, James Gordon, Jr. - (1841-1918), publisher
Albert, Carl - (1908 - 2000), D. U.S. Speaker of the House
Agazarian, Jack - (1916-1945), SOE agent, WW II hero
Yimou, Zhang - (born 1950), film director
Dal, Vladimir - Russian lexicographer
Young, Andrew - (b. 1932), civil rights activist, UN ambassador
de Beauharnois, Charles - (1670-1749), Governor of New France
Bartholin, Caspar, the Younger - (1655-1738)
Eugene III, Pope - (1145-1153)
Brown, John pioneer - (1737-1812), pioneer and statesman from North Carolina
Wallach, Eli - (born 1915), US actor
Carissimi, Giacomo - (1605-1674), composer
Benton, Thomas Hart - (1889-1975), painter
Bryson, Peabo - (born 1951), pop singer
Aikin, Arthur - (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
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