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The Journalist, With a View of Auckinleck-or the Land of Stones, May 15, 1786 Thomas Rowlandson

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Victor Hugo, French author, 1879 Count Stanislaw Walery

Ernest Psichari, French soldier and author Anonymous

Dionysius Lardner, Irish-born scientific writer, 1835 Unknown

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George Sand, French author, 1864 Nadar

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Virginia Woolf, British author, 1902 George Charles Beresford

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Richard Owen, English zoologist, 1884 Edward Linley Sambourne