LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Charles Baudelaire	Poet	9-Apr-1821	31-Aug-1867	Les Fleurs du Mal
Karen Blixen	Author	17-Apr-1885	7-Sep-1962	Babette's Feast and Out of Africa
Beau Brummell	Socialite	7-Jun-1778	30-Mar-1840	Dandy, 19th c. arbiter of fashion
William S. Burroughs	Author	5-Feb-1914	2-Aug-1997	Naked Lunch
Sir Richard Burton	Explorer	19-Mar-1821	20-Oct-1890	Translated The Arabian Nights
Al Capone	Criminal	17-Jan-1899	25-Jan-1947	Scarface
Lord Darnley	Royalty	7-Dec-1545	9-Feb-1567	Husband of Mary, Queen of Scots
Sir William Davenant	Poet	1606	7-Apr-1668	Gondibert
Frederick Delius	Composer	29-Jan-1862	10-Jun-1934	Over the Hills and Far Away
Gaetano Donizetti	Composer	29-Nov-1797	8-Apr-1848	Lucia di Lammermoor
Mihai Eminescu	Poet	15-Jan-1850	15-Jun-1889	The greatest Romanian poet
Paul Gauguin	Painter	7-Jun-1848	8-May-1903	French post-impressionist painter
Charles Guiteau	Assassin	8-Sep-1841	30-Jun-1882	Assassin of President Garfield
King Henry IV	Royalty	3-Apr-1367	20-Mar-1413	King of England, 1399-1413
Howard Hughes	Business	24-Sep-1905	5-Apr-1976	Insane billionaire
John Hunter	Doctor	13-Feb-1728	16-Oct-1793	English pathologist
Ivan the Terrible	Royalty	25-Aug-1530	18-Mar-1584	Russian Tsar, 1533-84
Scott Joplin	Musician	24-Nov-1868	1-Apr-1917	The King of Ragtime
Katherine Mansfield	Author	14-Oct-1888	9-Jan-1923	Bliss
Guy de Maupassant	Author	5-Aug-1850	6-Jul-1893	French short story writer
Friedrich Nietzsche	Philosopher	15-Oct-1844	25-Aug-1900	God is dead
Harry Partch	Composer	24-Jun-1901	3-Sep-1974	Hobo composer, built his own instruments
Pocahontas	Royalty	c. 1595	21-Mar-1617	Native American princess
Arthur Rimbaud	Poet	20-Oct-1854	10-Nov-1891	Une Saison en Enfer
Franz Schubert	Composer	31-Jan-1797	19-Nov-1828	Symphony in C Major
Bedrich Smetana	Composer	2-Mar-1824	12-May-1884	My Country
Bram Stoker	Author	8-Nov-1847	20-Apr-1912	Dracula
Leo Tolstoy	Author	9-Sep-1828	20-Nov-1910	Russian novelist
Georges Gilles de la Tourette	Doctor	30-Oct-1857	26-May-1904	Tourette's syndrome
Lester Young	Jazz Musician	27-Aug-1909	15-Mar-1959	Jazz tenor saxophoneist

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