Born: February 7, 1812, Landport, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
Died: June 9, 1870, Higham, United Kingdom.
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Roald Dahl Was Born On This Day
Born on this day Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Born: May 22, 1859, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Died: July 7, 1930, Crowborough, United Kingdom.
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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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Charles Pierre Baudelaire born on this day.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
Born April 9 1821
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Charles Dickens was born on this day.
George Orwell
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”— George Orwell
