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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson, oil on canvas by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1756; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The English author Samuel Johnson died on December 13, 1784, in London. Following his death, he was buried in Westminster Abbey.12