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Corliss Chotkin Jr
A Tlingit boy from Sitka, Alaska, born in 1947 with two marks matching surgical scars that his great-uncle, Victor Vincent, had shown his mother while saying he would return as her son. As a toddler he reportedly used the uncle's name and recognised his relatives.
İsmail Altınkılıç
A Turkish boy who from about eighteen months insisted he was Abit Süzülmüş, a farmer murdered in Adana in 1957 with his wife and two children; his father's demands for money made it one of Stevenson's most closely checked cases, and it is linked to that of Cevriye Bayrı, who remembered being the wife.
Nazih Al-Danaf
A Lebanese Druze boy who from about eighteen months spoke of carrying pistols and grenades and being shot; at six his directions led to the family of Fuad Khaddage, shot dead in Beirut in 1982, whose widow and brother tested him and accepted him as Fuad reborn.
Ratana Wongsombat
A Bangkok girl who at fourteen months showed an adult's knowledge of Buddhist worship at Wat Mahathat and said she had been Kim Lan, a wealthy laywoman who had meditated there and died after an operation in Sri Racha in 1962.
Süleyman Andary
A Lebanese Druze boy whose memories surfaced mainly from about eleven; he said he had been Abdallah Abu Hamdan, mukhtar of Gharife, 30 kilometres away, who died around 1942, and on his first visit there at thirteen gave the names of seven of Abdallah's children in birth order.
Swarnlata Mishra
An Indian girl who from the age of three described the life of Biya Pathak of Katni, who died in 1939; she later recognised many of Biya's relatives, some of whom tried to mislead her, and sang Bengali songs she linked to a second, unidentified life.
Titu Singh
An Indian boy, Toran Singh, known as Titu, who said he had owned a radio shop in Agra and been shot; he matched Suresh Verme, killed in his car in 1983, and had birthmarks at the bullet's entry and exit sites.