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William Burges
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English architect 1827 - 1881
Georges Seurat
20
French painter 1859 - 1891
C. T. Studd
1
British cricketer and missionary 1860 - 1931
Susan Stebbing
9
British philosopher 1885 - 1943
Otto Dix
10
German painter and printmaker 1891 - 1969
Ida Friederike Görres
57
Austrian writer and noble 1901 - 1971
George Frederick James Temple
21
British mathematician 1901 - 1992
Osvaldo Pugliese
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Argentine pianist, tango composer 1905 - 1995
Russell Lynes
2
American art historian 1910 - 1991
Howard Finster
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American artist 1916 - 2001
Ali Meshkini
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Iranian ayatollah 1922 - 2007
Maria Callas
10
American-born Greek operatic soprano 1923 - 1977
Alexander Haig
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former U.S. States Secretary of State and U.S. Army general 1924 - 2010
James Gustafson
4
American academic 1925
Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt
2
German theologian 1928 - 2002
Gary S. Becker
8
American economist 1930 - 2014
Nigel Calder
7
British science writer 1931 - 2014
Edwin Meese III
3
American presidential advisor 1931
James C. Scott
2
American political scientist and anthropologist 1936
Peter Duesberg
3
American cell biologist 1936
Harry Reid
10
American politician 1939
T.C. Boyle
3
American novelist and short story writer 1948
Elizabeth Berg
22
American novelist 1948
Paul Watson
13
Canadian environmental activist 1950
Klaus F. Zimmermann
1
German economist 1952
Caroline Myss
22
author from the United States 1952
Joel Fuhrman
14
Family Physician and author 1953
Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar
2
Iranian politician 1956
Icyang Parod
1
Taiwanese Amis politician 1960
Ray Garton
1
American writer 1962
Shiva Ayyadurai
1
inventor 1963
Craig Groeschel
60
American priest 1967
Lucy Liu
5
American actress and model 1968
François-Eudes Chanfrault
8
Composer and musician 1974 - 2016
Rachel Marsden
10
journalist 1974
Sabrina Ward Harrison
12
Canadian writer 1975
Britney Spears
27
American singer, dancer and actress 1981
Death
John Ruysbroeck
90
Flemish mystic 1293 - 1381
Gerardus Mercator
3
cartographer, philosopher and mathematician 1512 - 1594
Pasquier Quesnel
3
French theologian 1634 - 1719
Marquis de Sade
24
French novelist and philosopher 1740 - 1814
Lewis Gompertz
9
Early animal rights activist 1783 - 1861
John Brown (abolitionist)
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American abolitionist 1800 - 1859
Jay Gould
10
American businessman 1836 - 1892
John J. Whitacre
1
American politician 1860 - 1938
Edmond Rostand
18
French writer 1868 - 1918
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement 1876 - 1944
L. E. J. Brouwer
2
Dutch mathematician and logician 1881 - 1966
Kliment Voroshilov
8
Soviet military commander 1881 - 1969
Edward Rydz-Śmigły
1
Polish general 1886 - 1941
Ruth Nanda Anshen
1
American philosopher, author and editor 1900 - 2003
Stephen Potter
7
British writer 1900 - 1969
Aaron Copland
13
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conduct… 1900 - 1990
Porphyrios Bairaktaris
1
Greek Saint 1906 - 1991
Joey Adams
2
American comedian, newspaper columnist 1911 - 1999
Robertson Davies
281
Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and nov… 1913 - 1995
Romain Gary
16
French writer and diplomat 1914 - 1980
Elizabeth Hardwick
14
Novelist, short story writer, literary critic 1916 - 2007
Dinu Lipatti
1
Pianist, Composer 1917 - 1950
Achille Castiglioni
3
Italian designers and architect 1918 - 2002
Mona Van Duyn
1
American poet 1921 - 2004
Philip Larkin
41
English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian 1922 - 1985
Ivan Illich
66
austrian philosopher and theologist 1926 - 2002
Christopher Logue
3
Poet, screenwriter, actor 1926 - 2011
Robert K. Massie
1
Historian, writer 1929 - 2019
Marty Feldman
9
British actor and comedian 1934 - 1982
Sandy Berger
1
US National Security Advisor 1945 - 2015
