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Salieri, Antonio - (1750-1825), Austrian composer
Ferguson, Patrick - (1744-1780), British Major killed in the American Revolution
Lautaro - (1535-1557) Inca leader
Caroline of Ansbach - (born 1683), Queen-Consort of King George II of Great Britain
Beg, Ulugh - (1394-1449), astronomer
Lafargue, Paul - (1841-1911), Cuban-French Communist
O'Daniel, W. Lee - (1939-1941), Texas Governor
Ferdinand of Portugal - (1367-1383), Portuguese monarch
Baker, Julius - US flautist
Jackson, Cyril - (1746-1819)
Dam, Henrik Carl Peter - (1895-1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Brenner, Ernst - (1856-1911), Swiss president
Bopp, Franz - (1791-1867), linguist
Burnside, Ambrose - (1824-1881), American Civil War general
Octavianus, Gaius Julius Caesar - (emperor Augustus)
Labe, Louise - (c. 1525-1566), poet
Evans, Daniel J. - former governor of Washington state
Sapir, Edward - (1884-1939), linguist
Bohr, Aage Niels - (born 1922)
Davydova, Yelena - (born 1961), Olympic gymnast
Pappus of Alexandria - euclidean geometry
Inness, George - (1829-1894), painter
Berne, Eric - (1910-70), US psychiatrist, founder of Transactional Analysis
Eastwood, Clint - (born 1930), film director
Patkul, Johann - (1660-1707), Swedish politician
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