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Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
Arthur Rimbaud
French poet (1854-1891)
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
Arthur Koestler
Hungarian-British author and journalist (1905–1983)

Ernst Thälmann
German communist politician, leader of Communist Party of Germany (1886–1944)
Siegfried Lenz
German author (1926-2014)

John Dillinger
American bank robber

Oskar Werner
actor (1922-1984)

Hardy Krüger
German actor (1928–2022)

Manfred Rommel
German politician (1928–2013)
Tom Mix
American film actor (1880-1940)
Joan Pujol García
Spanish spy, double agent for the British in World War II
Heinz Kessler
German military officer, Armeegeneral in the former National People's Army of East Germany (1920-2017)
Otl Aicher
German graphic designer and typographer (1922–1991)
Ewan MacColl
British folk singer, songwriter, communist, labour activist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer (1915–1989)
Friedrich Cerha
Austrian composer and conductor (1925–2023)

Tacfarinas
thumb|right|300px|Map of the Roman empire under Hadrian (AD ruled 117–138), showing the rough location of ancient Berber tribes on the fringes of the empire: Mauri, [[Musulamii, Garamantes, and Gaetuli. All four were engaged in bitter conflict with Rome during the rule of Augustus (30 BC – AD 14), and Tacfarinas was able to gain the support of substantial elements of all four tribes for his insurgency.]]
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield
American theologian, minister and writer (1843-1921)
Hedd Wyn
Welsh poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele (1887–1917)
Estêvão Gomes
Portuguese cartographer and explorer (c. 1483–1538)
Edmund Giemsa
Polish footballer (1912-1994)
Edgar Feuchtinger
German general (1894–1960)
Wolfgang Abendroth
German polticial scientist and jurist (1906–1985)
Alfredo Reinado
East Timorese military commander (1968-2008)
Wolfgang Harich
German journalist and philosopher (1923–1995)

Walter Kutschmann
German SS officer
Falk Harnack
German stage and film director (1913–1991)
Konrad Naumann
German politician (1928–1992)

Vladimir Katriuk
Alleged Nazi war criminal
Joannicius the Great
Byzantine saint

Gerhard Zwerenz
German writer and politician (1925-2015)
Eden Natan-Zada
Israeli mass murderer (1986–2005)
Alfred Neumann
East German politician (1909-2001)
Herbert Tobias
German photographer (1924–1982)
Anthony Sawoniuk
Belarusian war criminal (1921—2005)

Jānis Pīnups
last of the Forest Brothers

Viktor Ilyin
Soviet Army deserter and would-be assassin
Fred Pagnam
English footballer and manager (1891-1962)
William Alexander Harris
American politician (1841-1909)
Alfred Kubel
German politician (1909-1999)
Francesco Rismondo
Italian World War I soldier (1885-1915)
Jack Trevor
English actor (1890–1976)
Eliyahu Hakim
Member of Lehi (1925-1945)
Boris Holban
Romanian soldier and member of the French resistance (1908–2004)
Roger Degueldre
French foreign legion lieutenant (1925–1962)
Ilie Cătărău
Romanian political adventurer
Gust Graas
Luxembourgian abstract painter (1924-2020)
Alfred Liskow
German soldier and deserter
Gogu Rădulescu
Romanian politician (1914–1991)
Mike Flanagan
Irish soldier who assisted the formation of the Israeli armed forces
Charles Brown
American marine, born 1849

Wieland Förster
German sculptor and painter (born 1930)
Ivo Brnčić
Croatian-Slovenian writer and literary critic (1912-1943)