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Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Antonin Artaud Playwright 4-Sep-1896 4-Mar-1948 Theater of Cruelty

Charles Baudelaire Poet 9-Apr-1821 31-Aug-1867 Les Fleurs du Mal

Branwell Brontë Poet 26-Jun-1817 24-Sep-1848 The Brontë sisters' brother

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poet 6-Mar-1806 29-Jun-1861 Sonnets from the Portuguese

Sir Richard Burton Explorer 19-Mar-1821 20-Oct-1890 Translated The Arabian Nights

Robert Clive Military 29-Sep-1725 22-Nov-1774 Conquered India for Britain

Jean Cocteau Poet 5-Jul-1889 11-Oct-1963 La Belle et la Bête

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet 21-Oct-1772 25-Jul-1834 Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Wilkie Collins Novelist 8-Jan-1824 23-Dec-1889 The Moonstone

Thomas De Quincey Author 15-Aug-1785 8-Dec-1859 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Sylvester Graham Activist 5-Jul-1794 11-Sep-1851 Graham crackers

Hermann Hesse Author 2-Jul-1877 9-Aug-1962 Siddhartha

Billie Holiday Singer 7-Apr-1915 17-Jul-1959 Lady Sings the Blues

Ivan Illich Philosopher 4-Sep-1926 2-Dec-2002 Deschooling Society

James Clarence Mangan Poet 1-May-1803 20-Jun-1849 O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire

Gideon Mantell Geologist 3-Feb-1790 10-Nov-1852 English paleontologist and geologist

John Randolph of Roanoke Politician 2-Jun-1773 24-May-1833 US Senator from Virginia, 1825-27

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