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Ford Madox Ford17 December 1873, British
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William Monroe Trotter07 April 1872, American
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Wyndham Lewis18 November 1882, British
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Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson04 January 1890, American
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Frank Knox01 January 1874, American
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Newspaper Editor
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Daniel De Leon14 December 1852, American
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William Allen White10 February 1868, American
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William Worrall Mayo31 May 1819, British, American
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Phoebe Palmer18 December 1807, American
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Leopoldo Alas25 April 1852, Spanish
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Elinor Wylie07 September 1885, American
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Marcus Clarke24 April 1846, Australian, British
Novelist
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Lucia Moholy18 January 1894, Czech
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Francis P. Blair12 April 1791, American
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L. Frank Baum15 May 1856, American
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Victoria Woodhull23 September 1838, American
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J.R. Ackerley04 November 1896, British
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Alexander Lange Kielland18 February 1849, Norwegian
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Charlotta Spears Bass14 February 1874, American
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