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Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

1802 – 1885
Literature

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
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Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
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Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
70 yr overlap
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
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Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville
66 yr overlap
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria
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Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
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Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
65 yr overlap
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
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