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
John Keats31 October 1795, British
Romantic poet
Edmund Burke12 January 1729, Irish, British
Statesman
Mary Wollstonecraft27 April 1759, British
Writer
Samuel Johnson18 September 1709, British
Writer
Giacomo Casanova02 April 1725, Italian
Womanizer
Walter Scott15 August 1771, Scottish
Novelist
Robert Burns25 January 1759, Scottish
Poet and Lyricist
Honoré de Balzac20 May 1799, French
French Novelist and Playwright
Jean-Paul Marat24 May 1743, Swiss, French
Physician
Washington Irving03 April 1783, American
Author, Historian, Diplomat
Friedrich Schiller10 November 1759, German
Poet, Playwright, Historian & Philosopher
Denis Diderot05 October 1713, French
Philosopher
James Fenimore Cooper15 September 1789, American
Writer
Robert Owen14 May 1771, Welsh
Phillis Wheatley08 May 1753, American
Poet
William Godwin03 March 1756, British
Journalist
Charles Lamb10 February 1775, British
Writer & Essayist
Stendhal23 January 1783, French
Writer
Ethan Allen21 January 1738, American
Revolutionary War Hero
Henry Fielding22 April 1707, British
Writer
Thomas Moore28 May 1779, Irish
Poet
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Olympe de Gouges07 May 1748, French
Playwright
John Clare13 July 1793, British
English poet
E. T. A. Hoffmann24 January 1776, Prussian
Author
William Cowper26 November 1731, British
Poet
Oliver Goldsmith10 November 1728, Irish, British
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
Mikhail Lomonosov19 November 1711, Russian
Scientist, Poet, Geologist, Astronomer
William Hazlitt10 April 1778, British
English Writer & Literary Critic
Novalis02 May 1772, German
Philosopher & Poet
Thomas De Quincey15 August 1785, British
Essayist
William Cullen Bryant03 November 1794, American
Romantic Poet
Alphonse de Lamartine21 October 1790, French
Writer
Frances Burney13 June 1752, British
Novelist
Leigh Hunt19 October 1784, British
English Essayist, Poet & Critic
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
P B Shelley04 August 1792, British
Poet
Anna Jameson19 May 1794, British
Writer, Women Rights Activist
Percy Bysshe Shelley04 August 1792, British
Linguist, Poet, Translator, Writer, Playwright,
Ahmad Shah Durrani1722 AD, Afghan
Mughal emperor
John Galt02 May 1779, Scottish
Novelist
Charles Atlas30 October 1893, Italian, American
Bodybuilder
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu15 May 1689, British
Writer
Horace Walpole24 September 1717
Writer, Novelist, Autobiographer, Politician
Usman dan Fodio15 December 1754, Nigerian
Teacher
Eugène François Vidocq24 July 1775, French
Detective, Writer, Police officer, Military
François-René de Chateaubriand04 September 1768, French
Writer, Politician, Diplomat, Historian, Poet,
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just25 August 1767, French
Politician, Writer
Christopher Smart11 April 1722, British
Poet
Germaine de Staël22 April 1766, French
Philosopher
Giacomo Leopardi29 June 1798, Italian
Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Philologist
James Boswell18 October 1740, British, Scottish
Biographer
Henry Fuseli07 February 1741, Swiss, British
Writer
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau09 March 1749, French
Journalist, Politician, Diplomat, Writer,
Mir Taqi Mir1722 AD, Indian
author, poet
Laurence Sterne24 November 1713, British
Writer, Novelist, Autobiographer, Religious
Thomas Gray26 December 1716, British
Poet, Writer, Literary critic
Isaac Watts17 July 1674, British
Theologian
William Blackstone10 July 1723, British
Jurist
Samuel Richardson19 August 1689, British
Writer, Novelist
Moses Mendelssohn06 September 1729, German
Philosopher, Translator, Writer, Bible translator
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing22 January 1729, German
Writer, Philosopher, Playwright, Poet, Librarian,
John Burgoyne24 February 1722
Politician, Playwright, Writer, Military personnel
Heinrich von Kleist18 October 1777, German
Playwright, Poet, Short story writer, Novelist,
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès03 May 1748, French
Writer
Richard Brinsley Sheridan30 October 1751, Irish
Poet, Politician, Librettist, Writer, Playwright
Leopold von Ranke21 December 1795, German
Historian, Academic, University teacher, Writer
Waris Shah1722 AD, Pakistani
poet
Jean-Baptiste Say05 January 1767, French
Economist, Politician, Writer, Professor,
David Garrick19 February 1717, British
Actor, Playwright, Film producer, Writer,
Jöns Jacob Berzelius20 August 1779, Swedish
Chemist, Non-fiction writer, University teacher
Benjamin Constant25 October 1767, Swiss, French
Philosopher, Politician, Writer, Diarist
François-Noël Babeuf23 November 1760, French
Journalist, Writer, Archivist, Politician
Friedrich Schlegel10 March 1772, German
Poet
Maria Edgeworth01 January 1768, Irish, British
Writer
Carlo Goldoni25 February 1707, Italian
Playwright, Writer, Librettist, Screenwriter,
Jules Michelet21 August 1798, French
Historian, Archivist, Writer, Diarist, Professor,
James Hogg09 December 1770
Poet, Writer, Novelist, Biographer, Songwriter
Robert Knox04 September 1791, British
Military physician
John Evelyn31 October 1620, British
Writer
Eleanor Hibbert01 September 1906, British
British author
Wilhelm Grimm24 February 1786, German
Lexicographer, Anthropologist, Librarian, Writer,