Enid Blyton Was Born On This Day


Enid Mary Blyton

Was Born 11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968

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Beatrix Potter was born on this day.


Beatrix Potter was born on this day July 28, 1866.

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Nelson Mandela Was Born On This Day


Nelson Mandela was born on this day

18th July 1918

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Helen Keller was born on this day.


Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880.

Famous American woman who, though deaf and blind, became a women’s suffragist and leftist political activist. She published twelve books and a number of articles over the course of her life and was a famous activist.

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George Orwell Was Born On This Day.


Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Was Born On This Day


Harriet Beecher Stowe: (June 14, 1811- July 1, 1896)

Stowe was an abolitionist and the author of the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Upon meeting her, Abraham Lincoln allegedly remarked, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”

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William Butler Yeats Was Born On This Day


W.B. Yeats: (June 13, 1865- January 28, 1939)

Poet and playwright William Butler Yeats was the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize in literature. A few of his more famous works include The Tower and Deirdre.

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Anne Frank Was Born On This Day


Born: 12 June 1929,Frankfurt, Germany.
Died: 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany.
Full name: Annelies Marie Frank.
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Walt Whitman Was Born On This Day.


Walter “Walt” Whitman May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892.

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