LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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