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Umberto Eco
Featured Biography Umberto Eco

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyper Reality (1986)

A renowned critic and semiotician (student of signs and symbols), Umberto Eco, born this day in 1932, is perhaps better known as the author of the best-selling murder mystery and fantasy novel The Name of the Rose (1981).

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August 16, 1763 — January 5, 1827
Frederick Augustus, duke of York and Albany
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Rogers Hornsby
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c.1637 — January 5, 1710 or January 5, 1711
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Maurizio Pollini
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King Camp Gillette
January 5, 1855 — July 9, 1932
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