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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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German harpsichordist and composer 1714 - 1788
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
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Scottish metaphysician (1788–1856) 1788 - 1856
Edwin Percy Whipple
2
American writer 1819 - 1886
Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet
3
British politician 1826 - 1902
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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United States Supreme Court justice 1841 - 1935
Kenneth Grahame
83
British novelist 1859 - 1932
Otto Hahn
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German chemist 1879 - 1968
Stuart Chase
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American economist 1888 - 1985
Gene Fowler
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American journalist 1890 - 1960
Шарлотта Элизабет Уиттон
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1896 - 1975
Charlotte Whitton
2
Canadian politician 1896 - 1975
Howard H. Aiken
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pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind I… 1900 - 1973
Alan Hovhaness
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Armenian-American composer 1911 - 2000
Ernst von Glasersfeld
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German philosopher 1917 - 2010
Warren Bennis
11
American leadership expert 1925 - 2014
Hebe Camargo
3
Brazilian television host 1929 - 2012
Douglas Hurd
3
British Conservative politician and novelist 1930
Neil Postman
106
American writer and academic 1931 - 2003
John McPhee
4
American writer 1931
Christian Wolff
2
American composer 1934
Samy Vellu
2
Malaysian politician 1936
Jim Bouton
2
American baseball player, writer 1939 - 2019
Ina May Gaskin
3
American midwife 1940
Steven Lukes
1
British sociologist 1941
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
1
Italian writer and archaeologist 1943
Waldemar Łysiak
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Polish art historian 1944
Anselm Kiefer
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German painter and sculptor 1945
Jonathan Sacks
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British rabbi 1948
Gyles Brandreth
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British writer, broadcaster and former Member of Parliament 1948
Ethlie Ann Vare
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American journalist 1953
Patrick Califia-Rice
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American writer 1954
David Klass
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American writer 1960
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman
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British philosopher 1961
James Van Der Beek
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actor 1977
Alison Becker
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American actress and comedian 1977
Кэт Фон Ди
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1982
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Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
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Persian writer 1006 - 1089
Christopher Wren
2
English architect 1632 - 1723
William III of England
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Prince of Orange, King of England, Scotland and Ireland 1650 - 1702
Millard Fillmore
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American politician, 13th President of the United States (i… 1800 - 1874
Hector Berlioz
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French Romantic composer 1803 - 1869
Henry Ward Beecher
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American clergyman and activist 1813 - 1887
Gerard Bilders
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painter from the Netherlands 1838 - 1865
Charles Follen Adams
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American poet 1842 - 1918
William Howard Taft
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American politician, 27th President of the United States (i… 1857 - 1930
Frederick W. Lanchester
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British polymath 1868 - 1946
Sherwood Anderson
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writer 1876 - 1941
Thomas Beecham
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British conductor and impresario 1879 - 1961
George Bailey Sansom
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japanologist 1883 - 1965
José Raúl Capablanca
2
Cuban chess player 1888 - 1942
Harold Lloyd
6
American film actor and producer 1893 - 1971
Erich von dem Bach
6
German politician and SS functionary 1899 - 1972
Jack Lindsay
1
Australian writer in the United Kingdom 1900 - 1990
János Esterházy
10
Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, ru… 1901 - 1957
Rab Butler
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British politician 1902 - 1982
Adolfo Bioy Casares
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Argentine novelist 1914 - 1999
Wilson Harris
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Guyanese writer 1921 - 2018
John Bellairs
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American novelist, primarily speculative fiction for childr… 1938 - 1991
