1
William Shakespeare
(Playwright)
537
151
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: April 26, 1564
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Died: April 23, 1616
2
Winston Churchill
(Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955))
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73
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: November 30, 1874
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Blenheim Palace, England, United Kingdom
Died: January 24, 1965
3
Woody Harrelson
(Actor)
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33
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: July 23, 1961
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Midland, Texas, United States
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
4
W. E. B. Du Bois
(Civil Rights Activists)
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25
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: February 23, 1868
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States
Died: August 27, 1963
5
William Wordsworth
(Poet)
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54
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: April 7, 1770
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Kingdom of Great Britain
Died: April 23, 1850
6
William Blake
(Poet and Visual Artist of the Romantic Age)
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19
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: November 28, 1757
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Soho, London, England
Died: August 12, 1827
7
Walt Whitman
(One of the Most Influential Poets in the American Canon, Regarded as the 'Father of Free Verse')
59
5
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: May 31, 1819
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: West Hills, New York, United States
Died: March 26, 1892
8
W B Yeats
(One of the Greatest English-Language Poets of the 20th Century and 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner)
89
16
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: June 13, 1865
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Sandymount, Ireland
Died: January 28, 1939
9
William Faulkner
(Regarded as One of the Most Significant American Writers of All Time)
39
9
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: September 25, 1897
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: New Albany, Mississippi, United States
Died: July 6, 1962
10
Walter Raleigh
(Politician, Writer, Explorer)
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6
11
Woody Guthrie
(Singer-songwriter)
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14
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: July 14, 1912
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Okemah, Oklahoma, United States
Died: October 3, 1967
12
William Penn
(Writer)
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4
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: October 14, 1644
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: London, England
Died: July 30, 1718
13
Washington Irving
(Author, Historian, Diplomat)
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2
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: April 3, 1783
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: New York City, New York
Died: November 28, 1859
14
Wilfred Owen
(Poet)
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20
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: March 18, 1893
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Oswestry
Died: November 4, 1918
15
William Morris
(Textile Designer, Poet)
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15
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: March 24, 1834
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Walthamstow, England
Died: October 3, 1896
16
William S. Burroughs
(Best Known for His Third Novel 'Naked Lunch')
17
8
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: February 5, 1914
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Died: August 2, 1997
17
Wole Soyinka
(Author, Poet, Playwright)
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8
18
Walter Scott
(Novelist and Poet known for his Works Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, and The Lady of the Lake)
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9
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: August 15, 1771
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: September 21, 1832
19
Wayne Dyer
(Self-Help Author and Motivational Speaker)
22
7
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William Maugham
(Novelist & Playwright)
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5
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: January 25, 1874
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: December 15, 1965
21
W. H. Auden
(One of the Greatest Authors of 20th Century)
11
2
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: February 21, 1907
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: York, England, United Kingdom
Died: September 29, 1973
22
William Golding
(Novelist)
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3
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: September 19, 1911
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Newquay
Died: June 19, 1993
23
William F. Buckley, Jr.
(Editor)
10
2
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: November 24, 1925
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Died: February 27, 2008
Height: 6'1" (185 cm)
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William Goldman
(Novelist)
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0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: August 12, 1931
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Highland Park, Illinois, USA
Died: November 16, 2018
Height: 6'1" (185 cm)
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William Gibson
(Science-Fiction Writer Known for His Novel ‘Neuromancer’ and a Pinoeer of 'Cyberpunk' Genre)
6
2
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: March 17, 1948
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Conway, South Carolina, United States
26
W. Kamau Bell
(Comedian)
6
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: January 26, 1973
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Palo Alto, California, United States U.S.
Height: 6'4" (193 cm)
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Willa Cather
(Author)
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1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: December 7, 1873
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Winchester
Died: April 24, 1947
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Walter Benjamin
(German Jewish Philosopher, Cultural Critic and Essayist)
8
4
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: July 15, 1892
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: September 26, 1940
30
Wilhelm Reich
(One of the Most Radical Figures in the History of Psychiatry)
6
3
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: March 24, 1897
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Dobryanychi, Ukraine
Died: November 3, 1957
31
William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author & Novelist)
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3
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: July 18, 1811
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Died: December 24, 1863
32
Wilbur A. Smith
(Novelist)
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2
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: January 9, 1933
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Kabwe, Zambia
Died: November 13, 2021
33
William Cowper
(Poet)
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13
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: November 26, 1731
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Berkhamsted
Died: April 25, 1800
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Win Butler
(Songwriter, Singer, Composer, Poet, Guitarist)
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2
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: April 14, 1980
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Truckee, California, United States
Height: 6'4" (193 cm)
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William Hazlitt
(English Writer & Literary Critic)
15
2
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: April 10, 1778
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Maidstone, Kent, England
Died: September 18, 1830
36
William Saroyan
(American-Armenian novelist)
6
0
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William Carlos Williams
(Poet)
5
2
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: September 17, 1883
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Rutherford, New Jersey, United States
Died: March 4, 1963
38
Wallace Stegner
(Author)
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1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: February 18, 1909
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Lake Mills
Died: April 13, 1993
39
Walter Dean Myers
(Writer)
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Will Durant
(American Writer Best Known for His Work 'The Story of Civilization')
4
1
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: November 5, 1885
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: North Adams, Massachusetts, United States
Died: November 7, 1981
41
Wallace Stevens
(Modernist poet)
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0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: October 2, 1879
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: August 2, 1955
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Wilkie Collins
(Novelist, Playwright)
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0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: January 8, 1824
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: London
Died: September 23, 1889
43
Wisława Szymborska
(Polish Poet, Essayist, Translator and Winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature)
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1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: July 2, 1923
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Kórnik, Poland
Died: February 1, 2012
44
Will Eisner
(Cartoonist)
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0
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: March 16, 1917
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died: January 3, 2005
45
William Cullen Bryant
(Romantic Poet)
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2
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: November 3, 1794
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Cummington, Massachusetts
Died: June 12, 1878
46
William Blackstone
(British Jurist and Judge Known for Writing the 'Commentaries on the Laws of England')
3
0
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: July 10, 1723
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: London, England
Died: February 14, 1780
47
Walter Tevis
(Novelist)
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0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: February 28, 1928
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, United States
Died: August 9, 1984
48
William Ernest Henley
(English Poet Best Known for His Poem 'Invictus' (1875))
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1
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: August 23, 1849
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Gloucester, England
Died: July 11, 1903
49
Wilhelm Grimm
(German Anthropologist, Author and One Half of the Popular Literary Duo, 'The Brothers Grimm')
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0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: February 24, 1786
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Hanau
Died: December 16, 1859
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Warsan Shire
(Writer)
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