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People from Shoreditch
- Lew GradeLev Isaakovich Winogradsky was born in Tokmak, a town within the Berdyansky Uyezd of the Russian Empire. His family fled pogroms in 1912 when he was five…
- Edmond HalleyEdmond Halley was born in Haggerston, Middlesex, during the year 1656. His father Edmond Halley Sr. worked as a wealthy soap-maker in London and came from a…