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Joe Biden, the current President of the United States, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942.
Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich], Russian author, dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in 1910.
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Mulayam Singh Yadav, an Indian politician (Samajwadi Party), was born in Etawah district, Uttar Pradesh, in 1939.
Robert F. Kennedy, an American politician, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1925.
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