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1 Henry Handel Richardson (Henrietta Richardson, novelist, b. Melbourne 1870
2 Gilbert Murray, classicist and translator, b. Sydney, Australia 1866
3
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
, writer, b. Bloemfontain, South Africa 1892
4 Augustus John, artist, b. Wales 1878
5 King Camp Gillette, inventor, b. 1855
6 Gustave Doré, artist, b. France 1832
7 Gerald Durrell, author, b. India 1925
8
Elvis Presley
, singer, b. Mississippi 1935
9 Gracie Fields, singer and entertainer, b. Lancashire 1898
10 Dame Barbara Hepworth, sculptor, b. Wakefield, Yorkshire 1903
11 Alan Paton, novelist, b. Pietermartizburg, Natal 1903
12 Jack London, novelist, b. Sanfrancisco 1876
13 Albert Lamorisse, film director, b. Paris 1922
14 Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, b. Alsace, France 1875
15 Mazo De La Roche, novelist, b. Ontario, Canada 1885
16 Robert Service, poet, b. Preston, Lancashire 1874
17 Ronald Firbank, novelist, b. London 1886
18 Cary Grant, actor, b. Bristol, England 1904
19 Paul Cézanne, artist, b. France 1839
20 Federico Fellini, film director, b. Italy 1920
21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, American Civil War General, b. Clarksburg, West Virginia 1824
22 David Wark Griffith, film director and producer, b. Kentucky 1875
23 Edouard Manet, painter, b. Paris 1832
24 Ernst Theodor Amaedus Hoffman, composer, b. Königsberg, Germany 1776
25 Virginia Woolf, novelist and critic, b. London 1882
26 Paul Newman, actor, b. Cleveland, Ohio 1925
27 Lewis Carroll, writer, b. Cheshire 1832
28 Colette, novelist, b. France 1873
29 W. C. Fields, comedian, b. Pennsylvania 1880
30 Roy Eldridge, musician, b. Pittsburgh 1911
31 Tallulah Bankhead, actress, b. Huntsville, Alabama 1903
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