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Oliver, Richard and Henry Cromwell were born here. Pepys was educated in the town.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing died here. Carl Friedrich Gauss was born here.
Vivien Leigh was born here. Tom Stoppard was educated in this town.
The Pilgrims came from here. Rembrandt was born in the town. Einstein taught here.
Both Chopin and violinst, Henryk Szeryng were born in this village.
Princess Alexia of Denmark, and Britain's Prince Philip were both born here.
Margaret Thatcher was born, Isaac Newton educated, and Thomas Paine collected taxes here.
The birthplace of Adam Smith, reformer Henry Balnaves, the Adams brothers and Sir Sandford Fleming. Thomas Carlyle taught here.
Birthplace of J.S. Bach. Luther translated the Bible into German here. Pachelbel, Telemann and Goethe are all associated with the town.
Napoleon was born here. Baron Haussmann represented the town. Botticelli's Virgin and Child hangs in the town gallery.
Keith Vaz and Eddie Izzard were born here. (At that time, it was a town!)
Rodin, Puccini, Marx, Proudhon and Lenin all lived here. Audrey Hepburn was born in the town.
Freddie Mercury was born here, and slave trader, Sultan Said bin Sultan made it his capital.
The birthplace of Saint Ambrose and Karl Marx. The Western Roman Empire was ruled from here.
George Pataki, Mel Gibson and 'The Wizard of Oz' author, L. Frank Baum, were all born here.
Presidents George Washington and James Monroe were both born just outside this town.
