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• Shirley Jackson
  writer (1919)
• Patty Duke
  actress (1946)
• Michael Owen
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His real name was Michel de Nostredame. He is reputed to have effected remarkable cures during outbreaks of the plague in S France. His rhymed prophecies under the title Centuries (1555) gained him the favor of the French court. Obscure and symbolic, the predictions have been subject to many interpretations.

Bibliography:

See Erika Cheetham, ed. and tr., Prophecies on World Events by Nostradamus (1974).