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It is 152 years today since Bertrand Russell was born.
The British philosopher and author Bertrand Arthur William Russel was born in Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales, to an aristocratic family that included the former Prime Minister Lord John Russell. His parents were liberal and advocated, among other things, the emancipation of women. Although his godfather was John Stuart Mill, the boy was brought up by his Presbyterian grandmother after he was...
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It is 80 years today since W.G. Sebald was born.
Winfried Georg (W.G.) Sebald was born near the end of the Second World War in the Bavarian mountain village of Wertach where his mother had moved to get away from the bombing of the town of Bamberg. His parents, Rosa and Georg, had three children. His father, an officer of the Wehrmacht who had participated in the invasion of Poland, was a prisoner of war until 1947, but mentioning the war was...
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Capote, Truman
1924 - 1984
Truman Capote was born in New Orleans as Truman Streckfus Persons. His father, Arch Persons, was a young chancer who later...
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Bell, Josephine
1897 - 1987
Josephine Bell is the pseudonym of the British writer and physician Doris Bell Ball, the author of radio plays, serials, a...
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Noll, Ingrid
1935 -
The German author Ingrid Noll was born in Shanghai. Her parents had left Hessen for China where her father, a physician,...
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Ovid
43 BCE - 17 or 18 CE
Publius Ovidius Naso was born in Sulmo (present-day Sulmona), which is situated in a valley of the Apennine Mountains near...
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