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Scott Allen (1948-)
Richard Attenborough (1923-)
Bob Beamon (1946-1946) - best known for his long
Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) - Swedish actor
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) - French statesman
Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) - of Finance under King Louis XIV of France.
Max Evans (1925-)
William Friedkin (1939-) - best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970s. b.
Elliott Gould (1938-)
Temple Grandin (1947-)
Fred Graves (1929-)
Carla Gugino (1971-)
Lenny Henry (1958-)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Michael Jackson (1958-) - (bother of Janet Jackson). b.
Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958) - US engineer
Jack Kirby (1917-1994)
John Locke (1632-1704) - who made great contributions in studies of politics, government and psychology.
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) - Belgian writer
Amanda Marshall (1972-)
John McCain (1936-) - from Arizona since 1987. b.
Slobodan Milosevic (1941-)
Mary Norton (1903-1992) - and creator of the Borrowers.
Charlie Parker (1920-1955) - Principal stimulus of the modern jazz idiom known as bebop.
Preston Sturges (1898-)
Joseph Wechsberg (1907-1983)
Marion Williams (1927-)

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