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No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.
| F. Murray Abraham, Actor (1939) |
| Doug Davidson, Actor (1954) |
| Sarah Josepha Hale, Writer (1788) |
| Moss Hart, Playwright (1904) |
| Steven Hatfill, Scientist (1953) |
| Bob Kane, Artist (1916) |
| Monica Denise Brown, Musician (1980) |
| George Cadbury, Businessman (1922) |
| Mary Calderone, Scientist (1998) |
| Franz Lehar, Composer (1948) |


