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555:, counter-tenor and conductor (born 1946)
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487:, author, poet, and librarian (1912–1978)
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1093:People by populated place in Belgium
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432:, physiologist and recipient of the
300:, Jesuit and orientalist (1862–1937)
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308:Nobel Prize in Literature
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805:William Damasus Lindanus
801:married in Ghent in 1477
511:, politician (born 1927)
499:, weatherman (1920–2003)
452:, politician (1897–1944)
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372:, astronomer (1880–1974)
181:, astronomer (1561–1632)
99:patriot (c. 1340 – 1382)
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561:, conductor (born 1947)
187:, scholar of the Dutch
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589:, composer, conductor
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575:Godfried-Willem Raes
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244:of Ghent (1819-1900)
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921:Erwin Schrödinger
902:Virginie Loveling
839:Jan Frans Willems
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799:Mary of Burgundy
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