Writers
The best known writers — ranked by how many Wikipedias write about them, never more than 8 alive at once — each from birth to death, to see who was alive at the same time.
Events 159 totals
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Apr
22
1707
Henry Fielding · 1707–1754
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Sep
18
1709
Samuel Johnson · 1709–1784
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Nov
24
1713
Laurence Sterne · 1713–1768
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Jan
22
1729
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · 1729–1781
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Aug
22
1749
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1749–1832
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Jan
25
1759
Robert Burns · 1759–1796
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Apr
27
1759
Mary Wollstonecraft · 1759–1797
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Nov
10
1759
Friedrich Schiller · 1759–1805
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May
2
1772
Novalis · 1772–1801
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Jan
22
1788
Lord Byron · 1788–1824
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Oct
31
1795
John Keats · 1795–1821
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Jun
6
1799
Alexander Pushkin · 1799–1837
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Feb
26
1802
Victor Hugo · 1802–1885
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Apr
2
1805
Hans Christian Andersen · 1805–1875
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Jan
19
1809
Edgar Allan Poe · 1809–1849
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Feb
7
1812
Charles Dickens · 1812–1870
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Nov
11
1821
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1821–1881
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Sep
9
1828
Leo Tolstoy · 1828–1910
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Nov
30
1835
Mark Twain · 1835–1910
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Jan
29
1860
Anton Chekhov · 1860–1904
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May
6
1861
Rabindranath Tagore · 1861–1941
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Nov
1
1871
Stephen Crane · 1871–1900
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Feb
2
1882
James Joyce · 1882–1941
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Jul
3
1883
Franz Kafka · 1883–1924
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Jul
21
1899
Ernest Hemingway · 1899–1961
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