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On this day 6th May
Born on this Day 1501 Pope Marcellus II, 1574 Pope Innocent X, 1856 Sigmund Freud, 1899 Billy Cotton, 1913 Stewart Granger, 1915 Orson Welles, 1924 Denny Wright, 1945 Bob Seger, 1946 Susan Brown, 1953 Tony Blair, 1961 George Clooney
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