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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Nicholas Amhurst
Author
16-Oct-1697 12-Apr-1742 The Craftsman
P. T. Barnum
Hoaxer
5-Jul-1810 7-Apr-1891 Circus showman
Andrew Breitbart
Columnist
1-Feb-1969 1-Mar-2012 Washington Times columnist
William F. Buckley
Columnist
24-Nov-1925 27-Feb-2008 National Review
Whittaker Chambers
Author
1-Apr-1901 9-Jul-1961 Accuser of Alger Hiss
Thomas Dangerfield
Criminal
1650 1685 English conspirator
Daniel Defoe
Author
Sep-1660 24-Apr-1731 Robinson Crusoe
Giulio Douhet
Military
30-May-1869 15-Feb-1930 Father of strategic air power
Dietrich Eckart
Playwright
23-Mar-1868 25-Dec-1923 Nazi intellectual, Hitler's best friend
William Lloyd Garrison
Activist
10-Dec-1805 24-May-1879 Anti-slavery editor of the Liberator
Marcus Garvey
Activist
17-Aug-1887 10-Jun-1940 Pan-African black nationalist
Graham Greene
Novelist
2-Oct-1904 3-Apr-1991 The Third Man
Frank Hardy
Novelist
21-Mar-1917 28-Mar-1994 Power Without Glory
Robert Harrison
Publisher
14-Apr-1904 17-Feb-1978 Publisher of tabloid Confidential
Joseph Howe
Government
13-Dec-1804 1-Jun-1873 Premier of Nova Scotia, 1860-63
Jerome K. Jerome
Author
2-May-1859 14-Jun-1927 Three Men in a Boat
Thomas Kyd
Playwright
1558 Aug-1594 The Spanish Tragedy
Ricardo Flores Magón
Anarchist
16-Sep-1873 21-Nov-1922 Agitator behind Mexican revolution
Pat Matrisciana
Activist
?   Produced The Clinton Chronicles
Christopher Monckton
Politician
14-Feb-1952   Deputy Leader, UK Independence Party
Westbrook Pegler
Columnist
2-Aug-1894 24-Jun-1969 Ultraconservative newspaper columnist
Joseph Pulitzer
Business
10-Apr-1847 29-Oct-1911 Established the Pulitzer Prize
John Ruskin
Critic
8-Feb-1819 20-Jan-1900 Greatest Victorian art critic
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor
30-Jul-1947   Governor of California, 2003-11
Simon Singh
Author
19-Sep-1964   Fermat's Last Theorem
Gore Vidal
Author
3-Oct-1925 31-Jul-2012 Visit to a Small Planet
Voltaire
Author
21-Nov-1694 30-May-1778 Candide
Carl von Ossietzky
Activist
3-Oct-1889 4-May-1938 German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
Mike Wallace
Journalist
9-May-1918 7-Apr-2012 Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent
John Wilkes
Politician
17-Oct-1725 26-Dec-1797 Colorful London radical
John Peter Zenger
Journalist
c. 1697 28-Jul-1746 Sedition against the Crown
Émile Zola
Novelist
2-Apr-1840 29-Sep-1902 J'Accuse


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