Kipling, Rudyard
1865 - 1936

British author born as Joseph Rudyard Kipling in Bombay where his father was the Principal as well as the Professor of...

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Davidson, Diane Mott
1949 -

The American crime writer Diane Mott Davidson was born, one of six siblings, in Honolulu, Hawaii, where her father, a naval...

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Abbott, Megan
1971 -

The American scholar and author Megan Abbott was born in Detroit and raised there and at Grosse Pointe, Michigan. She...

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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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