Benjamin Franklin17 January 1706, British, American
Founding Father of the United States
Jane Austen16 December 1775, British
Novelist
Mary Shelley30 August 1797, British
Novelist
William Wordsworth07 April 1770, British
Poet
Voltaire21 November 1694, French
Writer
Jean-Jacques Rousseau28 June 1712, Swiss, French
Philosopher, Writer, & Composer
William Blake28 November 1757, British
Painter
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe28 August 1749, German
Poet
Marquis de Sade02 June 1740, French
Erotic Novelist
Thomas Paine29 January 1737, British, American
Founding Father of the United States
Mary Wollstonecraft27 April 1759, British
Writer
John Keats31 October 1795, British
Romantic poet
Edmund Burke12 January 1729, Irish, British
Statesman
Samuel Johnson18 September 1709, British
Writer
Giacomo Casanova02 April 1725, Italian
Womanizer
Washington Irving03 April 1783, American
Author, Historian, Diplomat
Robert Burns25 January 1759, Scottish
Poet and Lyricist
Walter Scott15 August 1771, Scottish
Novelist
Honoré de Balzac20 May 1799, French
French Novelist and Playwright
Jean-Paul Marat24 May 1743, Swiss, French
Physician
Phillis Wheatley08 May 1753, American
Poet
Denis Diderot05 October 1713, French
Philosopher
Friedrich Schiller10 November 1759, German
Poet, Playwright, Historian & Philosopher
James Fenimore Cooper15 September 1789, American
Writer
Robert Owen14 May 1771, Welsh
William Godwin03 March 1756, British
Journalist
Ethan Allen21 January 1738, American
Revolutionary War Hero
Charles Lamb10 February 1775, British
Writer & Essayist
Olympe de Gouges07 May 1748, French
Playwright
Henry Fielding22 April 1707, British
Writer
Stendhal23 January 1783, French
Writer
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Thomas Moore28 May 1779, Irish
Poet
Oliver Goldsmith10 November 1728, Irish, British
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
E. T. A. Hoffmann24 January 1776, Prussian
Author
William Cowper26 November 1731, British
Poet
Thomas De Quincey15 August 1785, British
Essayist
Novalis02 May 1772, German
Philosopher & Poet
William Hazlitt10 April 1778, British
English Writer & Literary Critic
Mikhail Lomonosov19 November 1711, Russian
Scientist, Poet, Geologist, Astronomer
John Clare13 July 1793, British
English poet
Alphonse de Lamartine21 October 1790, French
Writer
William Cullen Bryant03 November 1794, American
Romantic Poet
Leigh Hunt19 October 1784, British
English Essayist, Poet & Critic
Frances Burney13 June 1752, British
Novelist
Jean Paul21 March 1763, German
Writer
Alfred de Vigny27 March 1797, French
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Eugenio Espejo21 February 1747, Ecuadorian
Writer & Medical Pioneer
Samuel Coleridge21 October 1772, British
Poet
Anna Jameson19 May 1794, British
Writer, Women Rights Activist
P B Shelley04 August 1792, British
Poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley04 August 1792, British
Linguist, Poet, Translator, Writer, Playwright,
John Galt02 May 1779, Scottish
Novelist
Charles Atlas30 October 1893, Italian, American
Bodybuilder
Usman dan Fodio15 December 1754, Nigerian
Teacher
Horace Walpole24 September 1717
Writer, Novelist, Autobiographer, Politician
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu15 May 1689, British
Writer
Eugène François Vidocq24 July 1775, French
Detective, Writer, Police officer, Military
Johann Gottfried Herder25 August 1744, German, Polish
Philosopher
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just25 August 1767, French
Politician, Writer
James Boswell18 October 1740, British, Scottish
Biographer
John Burgoyne24 February 1722
Politician, Playwright, Writer, Military personnel
William Blackstone10 July 1723, British
Jurist
Henry Fuseli07 February 1741, Swiss, British
Writer
Germaine de Staël22 April 1766, French
Philosopher
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau09 March 1749, French
Journalist, Politician, Diplomat, Writer,
Mir Taqi Mir1722 AD, Indian
author, poet
Jöns Jacob Berzelius20 August 1779, Swedish
Chemist, Non-fiction writer, University teacher
Laurence Sterne24 November 1713, British
Writer, Novelist, Autobiographer, Religious
Thomas Gray26 December 1716, British
Poet, Writer, Literary critic
Leopold von Ranke21 December 1795, German
Historian, Academic, University teacher, Writer
Giacomo Leopardi29 June 1798, Italian
Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Philologist
Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire13 May 1758, British
Writer
Isaac Watts17 July 1674, British
Theologian
Heinrich von Kleist18 October 1777, German
Playwright, Poet, Short story writer, Novelist,
Moses Mendelssohn06 September 1729, German
Philosopher, Translator, Writer, Bible translator
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing22 January 1729, German
Writer, Philosopher, Playwright, Poet, Librarian,
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès03 May 1748, French
Writer
Samuel Richardson19 August 1689, British
Writer, Novelist
Robert Surcouf12 December 1773, French
Privateer, Writer, Shipowner, Slave trader
Richard Brinsley Sheridan30 October 1751, Irish
Poet, Politician, Librettist, Writer, Playwright
Waris Shah1722 AD, Pakistani
poet
David Garrick19 February 1717, British
Actor, Playwright, Film producer, Writer,
Jean-Baptiste Say05 January 1767, French
Economist, Politician, Writer, Professor,
Christopher Smart11 April 1722, British
Poet
Robert Knox04 September 1791, British
Military physician
François-Noël Babeuf23 November 1760, French
Journalist, Writer, Archivist, Politician
Benjamin Constant25 October 1767, Swiss, French
Philosopher, Politician, Writer, Diarist
Wilhelm Grimm24 February 1786, German
Lexicographer, Anthropologist, Librarian, Writer,
Sayat-Nova14 June 1712, Armenian
Poet
Eleanor Hibbert01 September 1906, British
British author
Jules Michelet21 August 1798, French
Historian, Archivist, Writer, Diarist, Professor,
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours14 December 1739, French, American
Economist
Eliza Lucas28 December 1722, Antiguan, American
Business person
William Whewell24 May 1794, British
Economist, Physicist, Historian, Philosopher,