- male, deceased (1800)
- Hugh Blair, was a Scottish author, considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse. As a Presbyterian preacher and occupant of the...
- male, deceased (1956)
- Julien Benda (December 26, 1867 Paris - June 7, 1956) was a French philosopher and novelist. Born into a Jewish family, Benda became a master of...
- male, deceased (1958)
- James Branch Cabell (April 14, 1879 - May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. While Cabell's surname is often...
- male, deceased (1672)
- François de La Mothe Le Vayer was a French writer. Born in Paris of a noble family of Maine. His father was an avocat at the parlement of Paris a...
- male
- Laurentius Abstemius was an Italian writer, professor of Belles Lettres at Urbino, and librarian to Duke Guido Ubaldo under Pope Alexander VI. Born...
- male, deceased (1542)
- Girolamo Aleandro (also Hieronymus or Jerome Aleander) (13 February, 1480 - 1 February 1542) was an Italian cardinal, and the first cardinal...
- male, deceased (1893)
- Charles Lewis Reason (July 21, 1818 - 1893) was a mathematician, linguist, and educator. Born to immigrants from the West Indies, he was the first...
- male, deceased (1712)
- Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen (24 July 1657-28 July 1712) (Theodoor Jansson) was a Dutch physician, and the learned editor of various...
- male, deceased (1790)
- Johann Bernhard Basedow was a German educational reformer. He was born as the son of a hairdresser. He was educated at the Johanneum in that town,...
- male, deceased (1798)
- Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer, was born in Paris, son of Philippe-Jules-François, duc de Nevers, and M...
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