- male, deceased (1546)
- Martin Luther was a German monk, theologian, and church reformer. Luther's theology challenged the authority of the papacy by emphasizing the Bible...
- male, deceased (1400)
- Geoffrey Chaucer -- courtier, diplomat, and poet -- is arguably one of the most important figures in English literature. His philosophically...
- male, deceased (1384)
- John Wycliffe (mid-1320s – 31 December 1384) was an English theologian and an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th ce...
- male, deceased (1953)
- Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was a Nobel-prize winning American playwright. More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced American drama to the...
- male, deceased (1837)
- Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian...
- male, deceased (1518)
- Kabīr (also Kabīra (1440-1518) (born in 1398 according to some accounts) was one of the most interesting personalities in the history of Indian my...
- male
- Salama Moussa (Ar: سلامه موسى) was a notable Egyptian journalist and reformer in the 1920s. Born in Zagazig to a Coptic Christian family, Moussa wa...
- male, deceased (1502)
- "Henry Medwall" (d. 1502) was the first known English vernacular dramatist. "Fulgens and Lucrece" (1497), whose heroine must choose between two...
- male, deceased (1631)
- Thomas Hobson, sometimes called "The Cambridge Carrier," is best known as the name behind the expression Hobson's choice. A carrier from Cambridge,...
- male
- Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (Whitby Abbey) du...
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