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Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
Wangari Muta Maathai
Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 (1940–2011)
Josephine Baker
American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)
Kim Dae-jung
8th President of the Republic of Korea (1924–2009)
Richard Simmons
American fitness instructor and video producer (1948–2024)
Lars von Trier
Danish film director and screenwriter (born 1956)
Bob Hope
American entertainer (1903–2003)
Wesley Sneijder
Dutch association football player (born 1984)
Momoko Kōchi
Japanese actress (1932-1998)
Ernst Jünger
German writer (1895–1998)
Jane Wyman
American actress (1917–2007)
Margot Fonteyn
British ballerina
Hans Frank
German lawyer, Nazi politician, General Governor of Nazi occupied Poland and convicted war criminal (1900-1946)
Ricardo Quaresma
Portuguese association football player (born 1983)
Mary Astor
American actress and author (1906–1987)
James Earl Jones
American actor (1931–2024)
Susan Hayward
American actress (1917–1975)

Donna Tartt
American writer
Dave Brubeck
American jazz pianist and composer (1920–2012)
Tim Conway
American actor and comedian (1933–2019)
Clemens Brentano
German poet and novelist (1778–1842)
Buffalo Bill
American frontiersman and showman (1846–1917)

Blaise Meliani
Swiss writer (1887-1961)
Anton Raphael Mengs
German-Bohemian painter active in Dresden, Rome and Madrid (1728-1779)
Shūsaku Endō
author from Japan (1923–1996)
Dean Koontz
American writer and screenwriter (born 1945)
Aubrey Beardsley
British illustrator and author (1872–1898)

Kim Yuna
South Korean figure skater
Louise Brooks
American actress (1906–1985)

Edith Sitwell
British poet (1887-1964)

Siegfried Sassoon
English war poet and writer (1886-1967)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Scottish-American philosopher (1929–2025)

Fritz Kreisler
Austrian violinist and composer (1875-1962)

G. E. M. Anscombe
British analytic philosopher

John Dowland
English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer (1563–1626)
Hasekura Tsunenaga
Japanese samurai and diplomat

Ken Russell
British film director (1927–2011)

Jennifer Granholm
16th United States Secretary of Energy
William Levy
Cuban actor

Stacy Keach
American actor
Pierre Reverdy
French poet (1889-1960)

Rain
South Korean singer and actor

Ford Madox Ford
English writer and publisher (1873-1939)
Robert Hossein
French film actor, director, and writer of Azerbaijani origin (1927-2020)

Shirō Ishii
Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist, war criminal and director of Unit 731 (a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army)
Virginia Mayo
American actress (1920–2005)
Mary Seacole
British-Jamaican businesswoman and nurse

Jay Mohr
American actor and comedian

Betty Hutton
American actress (1921–2007)
Michael Dummett
British philosopher (1925–2011)

Robert Lowell
American poet (1917–1977)
Diana Dors
English actress

Rob Roy MacGregor
Scottish outlaw (1671–1734)

John Farrow
Film director, screenwriter and producer (1904–1963)
Gene Wolfe
American science fiction and fantasy writer (1931–2019)

James Bowie
nineteenth-century American pioneer, soldier, smuggler, slave trader, and land speculator, played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution

Ann Sothern
American actress (1909–2001)
Xu Guangqi
late-Ming-dynasty Chinese politician, Scholar, Lay Catholic leader and Servant of God (*1562 – †1633)

Augustus Pugin
English architect and designer (1812–1852)