Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense.
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Inventor
1743–1826 · United States
Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809. From 1797 to 1801, he served as the second vice president under John Adams.
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Actor
1939–2013 · Ireland
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Author
1940 · France
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, is a writer and professor who holds both French and Mauritian nationality.
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American geneticist and Nobel laureate
1941 · United States
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Actor
1950 · United States
Ronald N. Perlman is an American actor.
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Author
1949–2011 · United States
Christopher Eric Hitchens was a British and American author and journalist. Known as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, he gained prominence as a columnist and speaker.
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