LISTS

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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