Famous writers

person who uses written words to communicate ideas and to produce literary works

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

1667 – 1745 · Age 77
Deceased
Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee

1940 – 1973 · Age 32
Deceased
Petrarch

Petrarch

1304 – 1374 · Age 69
Deceased
Thales

Thales

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Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse

1877 – 1962 · Age 85
Deceased
Kim Il-sung

Kim Il-sung

1912 – 1994 · Age 82
Deceased
Anatole France

Anatole France

1844 – 1924 · Age 80
Deceased
Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

1918 – 2007 · Age 89
Deceased
Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran

1883 – 1931 · Age 48
Deceased
Plutarch

Plutarch

0040 – 0120
Deceased
Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

1822 – 1885 · Age 63
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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

1874 – 1964 · Age 90
Deceased
Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

1821 – 1880 · Age 58
Deceased
Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

1588 – 1679 · Age 91
Deceased
Rumi

Rumi

1207 – 1273 · Age 66
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Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini

1920 – 1993 · Age 73
Deceased
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918 – 2008 · Age 89
Deceased
T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

1888 – 1965 · Age 76
Deceased
Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

1918 – 1988 · Age 69
Deceased
David Hume

David Hume

1711 – 1776 · Age 65
Deceased
James Monroe

James Monroe

1758 – 1831 · Age 73
Deceased
Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu

0973 – 1014 · Age 41
Deceased
Seneca

Seneca

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Montesquieu

Montesquieu

1689 – 1755 · Age 66
Deceased
Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

1809 – 1852 · Age 42
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q36180