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Ida Lupino (1918 - 1995).
American actress, born in England of Italian ancestry.

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John Locke (1632 - 1704)

English philosopher


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Konrad Lorenz (1903 – 1989), Austrian zoologist, ethologist and ornithologist.
Shared the 1973 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine with two others.
 
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Louis Leakey (1903 - 1972).
Kenyan anthropologist. 


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Manon Lescaut, the female title character in the novel Manon Lescaut (1731) by Abbé Prévost.
Adapted into several operas and ballets, best known as the opera by Giacomo Puccini:
 
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Nathan Lane (b. 1956).
American actor: The birdcage.

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Onni Laihanen (1916 - 1956), Finnish accordionist, composer and dance musician. Migrated to USA in 1947.
 
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Ptolemy of Lagus "Soter" (367 BC - 282 BC).
Macedonian general of Alexander who inherited Egypt and started a dynasty (Lagidae) that ended with Cleopatra, 250 years later. 



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The Quarrymen of Liverpool.



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^ LOL, ok!          Roy Lichtenstein (1923 – 1997), American pop artist.
 
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Stan Laurel (1890 - 1965)

Arthur Stanley Jefferson, English comic actor

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Timothy Leary (1920 – 1996), American psychologist and writer, the LSD guru.   "Legend of a Mind" Wink
 
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Ursula von der Leyen (b. 1958).
German politician. Current Minister of Defence (since 2013).

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"Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn / Remember how she said that we will meet again / Some sunny day?" - Pink Floyd
Vera Lynn (b. 20 March 1917, now 101 years old!), English singer who was particularily popular during WW2.
 
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Walter Lantz (1899 - 1994).
Father of Woody Woodpecker.


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Yasmin Levy (1975 - ), Israeli-Spanish singer-songwriter.
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Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920).
Italian painter and sculptor.




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Bibian Mentel (b. 1972)

Dutch multifold Paralympic Snowboard champion (2014, 2018)



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Claude Monet (1840 – 1926), the founder of French Impressionist painting.
 
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Ian Holm (b. 1931)

English actor who played Bilbo Baggins several times

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