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- Feb 27 - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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- Feb 29 - Desai, Morarji
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- Mar 8 - Grahame, Kenneth
- Mar 8 - Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell
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- Mar 9 - Fischer, Bobby
- Mar 9 - Spillane, Mickey
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- Apr 3 - Irving, Washington
- Apr 3 - Luce, Henry R.
- Apr 3 - Weininger, Otto
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- Apr 4 - Giamatti, A. Bartlett
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- Apr 5 - Hobbes, Thomas
- Apr 5 - Powell, Colin
- Apr 5 - Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Apr 5 - Tracy, Spencer
- Apr 5 - Washington, Booker T.
- Apr 6 - Betjeman, John
- Apr 6 - Herzen, Alexander
- Apr 6 - Sculley, John
- Apr 6 - Steffens, Lincoln
- Apr 6 - Thomas, Lowell
- Apr 6 - Watson, James D.
- Apr 7 - Brenan, Gerald
- Apr 7 - Brown, Jerry
- Apr 7 - Channing, William E.
- Apr 7 - Frost, David
- Apr 7 - Winchell, Walter
- Apr 7 - Wordsworth, William
- Apr 8 - Buddha,
- Apr 8 - Cushing, Harvey
- Apr 9 - Baudelaire, Charles
- Apr 9 - Blum, Leon
- Apr 9 - Fulbright, J. William
- Apr 9 - Lehrer, Tom
- Apr 9 - Robeson, Paul
- Apr 9 - Steinmetz, Charles
- Apr 10 - Booth, William
- Apr 10 - Gibran, Kahlil
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- Apr 10 - Madden, John
- Apr 10 - Seagal, Steven
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- Apr 11 - Acheson, Dean
- Apr 11 - Canning, George
- Apr 11 - Everett, Edward
- Apr 11 - Hughes, Charles Evans
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- Apr 12 - Clancy, Tom
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- Apr 14 - Cabell, James Branch
- Apr 14 - Rose, Pete
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- Apr 14 - Toynbee, Arnold (Joseph)
- Apr 15 - Carman, Bliss
- Apr 15 - Durkheim, Emile
- Apr 15 - James, Jr., Henry
- Apr 15 - Jowett, Benjamin
- Apr 15 - Leonardo da Vinci,
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- Apr 15 - Szasz, Thomas
- Apr 16 - Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
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- Apr 16 - Chaplin, Charlie
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- Apr 16 - Ustinov, Peter
- Apr 17 - Khrushchev, Nikita
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- Apr 17 - Reasoner, Harry
- Apr 17 - Schnabel, Artur
- Apr 17 - Simms, William Gilmore
- Apr 17 - Vaughan, Henry
- Apr 17 - Wilder, Thornton
- Apr 18 - Darrow, Clarence
- Apr 18 - Lewes, George Henry
- Apr 18 - Middleton, Thomas
- Apr 19 - Hughes, Richard
- Apr 19 - Unser, Jr., Al
- Apr 20 - Aretino, Pietro
- Apr 20 - Hampton, Lionel
- Apr 20 - Hitler, Adolf
- Apr 20 - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus,
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- Apr 22 - Bailey, Philip James
- Apr 22 - Fielding, Henry
- Apr 22 - Kant, Immanuel
- Apr 22 - Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
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- Apr 23 - Buchanan, James
- Apr 23 - Donleavy, J. P.
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- Apr 23 - Shakespeare, William
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- Apr 25 - Brennan, Jr., William J.
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- Apr 26 - Defoe, Daniel
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- Apr 27 - Grant, Ulysses S.
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- Apr 28 - Baker, James
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- Apr 29 - Allen, George
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- May 2 - Byrnes, James F.
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- May 3 - Machiavelli, Niccolo
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- May 5 - Eldridge, Paul
- May 5 - Kierkegaard, Soren
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- May 6 - Delany, Martin
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- May 6 - Mays, Willie
- May 6 - Tagore, Rabindranath
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- May 7 - Hume, David
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- May 8 - Sheen, Fulton J.
- May 8 - Truman, Harry S.
- May 8 - Wilson, Edmund
- May 8 - Wilson, Sloan
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- May 11 - Sahl, Mort
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- May 13 - Barnes, Clive
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- May 15 - Arnold, Eddy
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- May 15 - Shaffer, Peter
- May 16 - Seward, William
- May 17 - Jenner, Edward
- May 17 - Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah
- May 17 - Leonard, Sugar Ray
- May 17 - Satie, Erik
- May 17 - Surtees, R. S.
- May 18 - Capra, Frank
- May 18 - Gropius, Walter
- May 18 - Jackson, Reggie
- May 18 - Khayyam, Omar
- May 18 - Pope John Paul II,
- May 18 - Russell, Bertrand
- May 18 - Stephens, James
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- May 19 - Malcolm X,
- May 19 - Mizner, Wilson
- May 20 - Balzac, Honore de
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- May 20 - Mill, John Stuart
- May 21 - Plato,
- May 21 - Pope, Alexander
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- May 22 - Doyle, Arthur Conan
- May 22 - Krishnamurti, Jiddu
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- May 22 - Packard, Vance
- May 22 - Pickens, T. Boone
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- May 23 - Hagler, Marvin
- May 23 - Hood, Thomas
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- May 24 - Cardozo, Benjamin
- May 24 - Dylan, Bob
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- May 25 - Beaverbrook, William Maxwell
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- May 26 - Wayne, John
- May 27 - Barth, John
- May 27 - Bennett, Arnold
- May 27 - Celine, Louis-Ferdinand
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- May 27 - Dante,
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- May 27 - Wouk, Herman
- May 28 - Agassiz, Louis
- May 28 - Commoner, Barry
- May 28 - Fleming, Ian
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- May 29 - Chesterton, G. K.
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- May 29 - Hope, Bob
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- May 29 - Spengler, Oswald
- May 30 - Bakunin, Mikhail
- May 30 - Cullen, Countee
- May 31 - Allen, Fred
- May 31 - Eastwood, Clint
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- May 31 - Whitman, Walt
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