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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
J. M. Barrie
Author
9-May-1860 19-Jun-1937 Peter Pan
Jorge Luis Borges
Author
24-Aug-1899 14-Jun-1986 The Garden of Forking Paths
Emily Brontë
Novelist
30-Jul-1818 19-Dec-1848 Wuthering Heights
Paul Erdos
Mathematician
26-Mar-1913 20-Sep-1996 Loved only numbers
Edward Gorey
Author
22-Feb-1925 15-Apr-2000 Amphigorey
Oliver Heaviside
Engineer
18-May-1850 3-Feb-1925 Kennelly-Heaviside layer
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
22-Apr-1724 12-Feb-1804 Transcendental idealist
Ralph Nader
Activist
27-Feb-1934   Unsafe at Any Speed
Isaac Newton
Physicist
4-Jan-1643 31-Mar-1727 Father of the clockwork universe
Florence Nightingale
Activist
12-May-1820 13-Aug-1910 Established nursing as a profession
Paula Poundstone
Comic
29-Dec-1959   Asexual comic
Sun Ra
Jazz Musician
22-May-1914 30-May-1993 Jazz musician from Saturn
Cliff Richard
Singer
14-Oct-1940   England's most famous Christian
John Ruskin
Critic
8-Feb-1819 20-Jan-1900 Greatest Victorian art critic
Erik Satie
Composer
17-May-1866 1-Jul-1925 Messe des Pauvres
Nikola Tesla
Inventor
10-Jul-1856 7-Jan-1943 Invented alternating current
Samuel J. Tilden
Politician
9-Feb-1814 4-Aug-1886 Lost the stolen 1876 US election
Otto Warburg
Scientist
8-Oct-1883 1-Aug-1970 Effect of oxygen on cancer
Simone Weil
Philosopher
3-Feb-1909 24-Aug-1943 The Iliad, or the Poem of Force
Jemima Wilkinson
Religion
29-Nov-1752 1-Jul-1819 The Universal Friend



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