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Also Known As Jānis Pliekšāns
Born September 11, 1865 • Latvia
Died September 12, 1929 (aged 64) • Latvia
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Iancu Văcărescu
Romanian author
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Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
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.
Samuel Johnson
English author
Engraving of Miguel de Cervantes, shown with a mustache and beard, wearing a ruffled collar and cloak, based on works by Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma.
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Russian author
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Spanish author
Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega
Spanish author
Portrait of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist and poet, with glasses, prominent sideburns, and formal attire, photographed in 1901.
Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian dramatist and poet
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer

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