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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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O'Neill, Eugene
1888 - 1953
The American playwright Eugene O'Neill, the son of actors James O'Neill and Ella Quinlan, was born in a Manhattan hotel....
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Magnan, Pierre
1922 - 2012
The French author Pierre Magnan grew up in Manosque at the centre of the department Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, an isolated,...
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Yorke, Margaret
1924 - 2012
Margaret Yorke is the pseudonym of the popular English author of crime fiction Margaret Nicholson. She has been described...
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Freeling, Nicolas
1927 - 2003
Nicholas Freeling was born Nicolas Davidson in London. His parents were English, but his mother had Dutch roots and the...
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