Henry Adams16 February 1838, American
Historian
Nirad C. Chaudhuri23 November 1897, Indian
Indian writer
John George Nicolay26 February 1832, American
Biographer
Lytton Strachey01 March 1880, British
Writer
Karl Pearson27 March 1857, British
Mathematician, Historian of mathematics,
Ruth Benedict05 June 1887, American
Anthropologist, Folklorist, University teacher,
Charles Francis Adams Sr.18 August 1807, American
Writer
Harold Nicolson21 November 1886, British
Diplomat
Rahul Sankrityayan09 April 1893, Indian
Linguist, Author, Autobiographer, Biographer
Josephine Tey25 July 1896, British
Writer, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter,
Harvey Cushing08 April 1869, American
Physician, Neuroscientist, Neurosurgeon, Academic,
James Farley30 May 1888, American
Politician
Leon Leonwood Bean13 October 1872, American
Inventor
Eleanor Farjeon13 February 1881, British
Writer
William Allen White10 February 1868, American
Editor
James Truslow Adams18 October 1878, American
Historian of the modern age, Historian, Biographer
Compton Mackenzie17 January 1883, British, Scottish
Writer
Georgios Grivas06 June 1897, Cypriot
Cypriot leader
Richard Aldington08 July 1892, British
Writer
Douglas Southall Freeman16 May 1886, American
Historian
Louis Untermeyer01 October 1885, American
Author
Clarence Day18 November 1874, American
Author
Edmund Gosse21 September 1849, British
Poet
Mason Locke Weems11 October 1759, American, Scottish
Author
Nikolay Nekrasov10 December 1821, Russian
Poet
Edward John Trelawny13 November 1792, British
Biographer
Henri Barbusse17 May 1873, French
Writer, Journalist, Esperantist, Screenwriter,
James Anthony Froude23 April 1818, British
Historian
Alice Stone Blackwell14 September 1857, American
Journalist, Poet, Biographer, Feminist
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn15 December 1831, American
Journalist
Francis H. Underwood12 January 1825, American
Writer
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Cornelia Otis Skinner30 May 1899, American
Author
Vera Figner01 July 1852, Russian
Revolutionary
Mary Anne Clarke03 April 1776, British
Author
Josephine Shaw Lowell16 December 1843, American
Biographer
Padraic Colum08 December 1881, Irish
Poet
Mari Sandoz11 May 1896, American
Novelist
Benjamin Fondane14 November 1898, French, Romanian
Linguist, Poet, Librarian, Film director,
Tom Taylor19 October 1817, British
Dramatist
Thomas Jefferson Hogg24 May 1792, British
Barrister
Hartley Coleridge19 September 1796, British
Poet
Clifford Whittingham Beers30 March 1876, American
Author
Emil Ludwig25 January 1881, Swiss, German
Writer
Mariano Azuela01 January 1873, Mexican
Author
Graciliano Ramos27 October 1892, Brazilian
Writer
Maxwell Fry02 August 1899, British
Architect
Samuel Ringgold Ward17 October 1817, American
Author
Joaquim Nabuco19 August 1849, Brazilian
Writer
Carl Van Doren10 September 1885, American
Critic
Dumas Malone10 January 1892, American
Historian
Van Wyck Brooks16 February 1886, American
Critic
Swami Sivananda08 September 1887, Indian
Spiritual & Yoga Teacher
Amelia Opie12 November 1769, British
Novelist and poet
Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases21 June 1766, French
Author
Frans G. Bengtsson04 October 1894, Swedish
Author
John Gibson Lockhart14 July 1794, Scottish
Biographer
Joseph Pennell04 July 1857, American
Artist
Moncure D. Conway17 March 1832, American
Writer
Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi01 December 1875, South African
Dramatist
Hervey Allen08 December 1889, American
Writer, Novelist, Literary critic, Poet,
Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantès06 November 1784, French
Writer
Sergey Aksakov01 October 1791, Russian
Autobiographer
W. N. P. Barbellion07 September 1889, British
Author
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne09 July 1769, French
Diplomat
Henriette Campan06 October 1752, French
Educator
Catherine Drinker Bowen01 January 1897, American
Witer
Edgar Saltus08 October 1855, American
Writer
Thomas Alexander Browne06 August 1826, Australian
Author
Henry Francis Cary06 December 1772, British
Biographer
William Hayley09 November 1745, British
Writer
Karl August Varnhagen von Ense21 February 1785, German
Biographer
Jacques Rivière15 July 1886, French
Writer
Martin Boyd10 June 1893, Australian, British
Writer
Matthew Simpson21 June 1811, American
Biographer
Gladys Bronwyn Stern17 June 1890, British
Journalist, Novelist, Literary critic, Biographer
Alcides Arguedas15 July 1879, Bolivian
Writer
Annie Turner Wittenmyer26 August 1827, American
Writer
Evert Augustus Duyckinck23 November 1816, American
Publisher
Katharine Anthony27 November 1877, American
Biographer
Kanagaki Robun06 January 1829, Japanese
Author
Maria Stella16 April 1773, Italian
Memoirist
Robert Chambers10 July 1802, Scottish
Geologist
E.F. Benson24 July 1867, British
Novelist
Frederick Robert Tennant01 September 1866, British
Theologian
Charles Cowden Clarke15 December 1787, British
Author
Rafael Arévalo Martínez25 July 1884, Guatemalan
Writer
Bo Bergman06 October 1869, Swedish
Writer
Lucy Wheelock01 February 1857, American
Translator
Manuel Gálvez06 May 1882, Argentinian
Novelist
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle22 January 1819, Italian
Writer
Frédéric Masson08 March 1847, French
Historian
Hannah Johnston Bailey05 July 1839, American
Advocate
Richard Garnett27 February 1835, British
English librarian
Alfred Stephens28 August 1865, Australian
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