John Bird, Baron Bird (1946)
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Charles X Gustav (1622)
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Ralph Stanley (1927)
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Kiki VanDeWeghe (1958)
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Vladimír Remek (1948)
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Isaac Newton (1643)
English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time. His Principia Mathematica laid the foundations for classical mechanics.