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Petrarch was born in Arezzo in 1304 and died in 1374.

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James Clerk Maxwell was born in Edinburgh in 1831 and died in 1879.

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Hafez was born in Shiraz in 1325 and died in 1389.

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Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg in 1833 and died in 1897.

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William Blake was born in London in 1757 and died in 1827.

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Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667 and died in 1745.

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George Frideric Handel was born in Halle (Saale) in 1685 and died in 1759.

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Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh in 1847 and died in 1922.

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Thomas Hobbes was born in Westport in 1588 and died in 1679.

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Anatole France was born in Paris in 1844 and died in 1924.

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Murasaki Shikibu was born in Heian-kyō in 970 and died in 1100.

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Octave Mirbeau was born in Trévières in 1848 and died in 1917.

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Plutarch was born in Chaeronea in 40 and died in 120.

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James Watt was born in Greenock in 1736 and died in 1819.

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Rumi was born in Vakhsh in 1207 and died in 1273.

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Ulysses S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant in 1822 and died in 1885.

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Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821 and died in 1880.

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Claude Monet was born in Paris in 1840 and died in 1926.

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Seneca was born in Corduba in 4 BC and died in 65.

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David Hume was born in Edinburgh in 1711 and died in 1776.

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Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau in 1732 and died in 1809.

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Kahlil Gibran was born in Bsharri in 1883 and died in 1931.

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James Monroe was born in Monroe Hall in 1758 and died in 1831.

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Wilhelm Röntgen was born in Lennep in 1845 and died in 1923.

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Lewis Carroll was born in Daresbury in 1832 and died in 1898.

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Nikolai Gogol was born in Velyki Sorochyntsi in 1809 and died in 1852.

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Euripides was born in Salamis Island in 480 BC and died in 406 BC.

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Erasmus was born in Rotterdam in 1466 and died in 1536.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston in 1803 and died in 1882.

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Selma Lagerlöf was born in Östra Ämtervik church parish in 1858 and died in 1940.

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Guy de Maupassant was born in Tourville-sur-Arques in 1850 and died in 1893.

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John Milton was born in Cheapside in 1608 and died in 1674.

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Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850 and died in 1894.

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William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in 1865 and died in 1939.

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Aeschylus was born in Elefsina in 524 BC and died in 455 BC.

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Gustav Mahler was born in Kaliště in 1860 and died in 1911.

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Ivan Turgenev was born in Oryol in 1818 and died in 1883.

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Antonín Dvořák was born in Nelahozeves in 1841 and died in 1904.

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Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib was born in Mecca in 599 and died in 661.

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Florence Nightingale was born in Florence in 1820 and died in 1910.

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Giordano Bruno was born in Nola in 1548 and died in 1600.

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Giovanni Boccaccio was born in Florence in 1313 and died in 1375.

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John Stuart Mill was born in Pentonville in 1806 and died in 1873.

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Denis Diderot was born in Langres in 1713 and died in 1784.

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Epicurus was born in Samos in 341 BC and died in 269 BC.

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Aristophanes was born in Classical Athens in 444 BC and died in 384 BC.

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Sappho was born in Lesbos in 650 BC and died in 569 BC.

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James A. Garfield was born in Moreland Hills in 1831 and died in 1881.

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Giacomo Puccini was born in Lucca in 1858 and died in 1924.

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Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst in 1830 and died in 1886.

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William Howard Taft was born in Cincinnati in 1857 and died in 1930.

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Heraclitus was born in Ephesus in 534 BC and died in 470 BC.

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Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876 and died in 1916.

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Martin Van Buren was born in Kinderhook in 1782 and died in 1862.

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Jean de La Fontaine was born in Château-Thierry in 1621 and died in 1695.

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Tacitus was born in Gallia Narbonensis in 55 and died in 120.

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Sima Qian was born in Hejin in 144 BC and died in 85 BC.

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Arthur Rimbaud was born in Charleville in 1854 and died in 1891.

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Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660 and died in 1731.

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Chanakya was born in Taxila in 374 BC and died in 282 BC.

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