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Born June 7, 1662 • England
Died April 10, 1741 (aged 78) • Hackney • England
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
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Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
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D.H. Lawrence
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Diarist Samuel Pepys
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Sir Richard Burton
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Rudyard Kipling
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Graham Greene, 1982
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John Smith
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Fanny Kemble, detail from an engraving by A. Chappel after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1830.
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Laurence Oliphant, engraving after a photograph
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Gertrude Bell, c. 1910.
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Evelyn Waugh, photograph by Mark Gerson, 1964.
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