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Everage, Dame Edna - (fl. late 20th century - 2000s), performing identity of Barry Humphries
Barnes, Steven - (born 1952), author
Daly, Tyne - (born 1946), actress
Sansom Hallowes, Odette - (1912-1995), British SOE agent, WW II heroine
Baner, Johan - (1596-1641), Swedish soldier
Yuan, Cheng Fung - Biomechanics
Ockels, Wubbo - astronaut
Dam, Henrik Carl Peter - (1895-1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Burgh, Hubert de - (1165-1243), justiciar
Abercromby, Robert - (1532-1613), Jesuit
Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de - (1594-1654), French playwright
Karaca, Cem - (born 1945), Turkish rock musician
Borchert, Wolfgang - (1921-1947), dramatist, author
Naruhito - (born 1960), crown prince of Japan
Baikie, William Balfour - (1824-1864)
David-Neel, Alexandra - (1868-1969), French explorer, visited Lhasa, Tibet in 1924
Fibonacci - (c. 1175-1250)
Adu, Freddy - (born 1989) soccer player
MacBride, Sean - lawyer and founding member of Amnesty International
Parkes, Henry - father of Federation
Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, IV - (1883-1953), major general in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor
Walton, Bill - (born 1952), basketball star, commentator
Baker, Kenneth - politician
Benedict XIII, Pope - (pope 1724-1730)
Eaton, Aileen - (1909-1987), boxing promoter, first woman inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame
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