Rainer Maria Rilke, Bohemian-AustrianPoet and Novelist (1875-1926)

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• Name: René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke
• Known as: Rainer Maria Rilke
• Birth: December 4, 1875, Prague, Czech Republic
• Death: December 29, 1926, Montreux, Switzerland
• Language: German
• Who he was: Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist; poetry collections Duineser Elegien (Duino Elegies) and Die Sonette an Orpheus (Sonnets to Orpheus); novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge); and a collection of Letters to a Young Poet
• Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC

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Jose Rizal, Filipino Activist and Polymath(1861-1896)

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• Name: Jose Rizal
• Birth: June 19, 1861, Calamba, Laguna, The Philippines
• Death: December 30, 1896, Manila, The Philippines
• Language: Spanish, Tagalog, German--a reported 22 languages
• Who he was: Filipino activist and polymath; Noli Me Tángere; El Filibusterismo; "Mi último adios"

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Louise Smith Clapp, American Author(1819-1906)

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• Name: Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
• Known as: "Dame Shirley"
• Birth: July 28, 1819, New Jersey, USA
• Death: February 11, 1906, New Jersey, USA
• Language: English
• Who she was: American author; The Shirley Letters
• Included in lists (What's This?): CA

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Pliny the Younger, Roman Author(61-c. 113)

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• Name: Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo
• Known as: Pliny the Younger in English; legally Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (after adoption by his uncle)
• Birth: 61, Como, Italy
• Death: c. 113, Bithynia, Turkey
• Language: Latin
• Who he was: Roman author who wrote Letters
• Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 1); HC

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Notes toward a more complete article: Worth mentioning is Pliny's uncle and benefactor, Pliny the Elder (23-79) who, though not mentioned in any lists, was nevertheless famous in his day. The elder Pliny wrote a Natural History, encyclopedic in scope; and he has the singular distinction of having died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, while attempting to get a closer look at the phenomenon. (The things we do for science!) A bachelor without children, in his will he adopted Pliny the Younger (until then named Gaius Caecilius Cilo) and left him his estate.

Cicero, Roman Writer(106-43 BCE)

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• Name: Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Also known as: Cicero
• Birth: January 3, 106 BCE, Arpino, Italy
• Death: December 7, 43 BCE, Formia, Italy
• Language: Latin
• Who he was: Roman orator, author, and letter-writer who wrote these orations: In Verrem (Against Verres; In Catilinam (Catiline Orations) I-IV; Philippicae (Philippics); and philosophical works: De Oratore (On the Orator); De Re Publica (On the Commonwealth); De Legibus (On the Laws); De Finibus (On the Ends of Good and Evil); De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods); De Officiis (On Obligations)
• Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 2); HC; Bloom

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Su Dongpo, Chinese poet(1037-1101)

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• Name: Su Shi
• Known as: Su Dongpo
• Birth: January 8, 1037, Meishan, China
• Death: August 24, 1101, Changzhou, China
• Language: Chinese
• Who he was: major Chinese poet and author of around 2,700 poems, including Chibifu (The Red Cliffs); Nian Nu Jiao: Chibi Huai Gu (Remembering Chibi); and Shui diao ge tou (Remembering Su Zhe on the Mid-Autumn Festival); as well as letters, essays, and travel literature; one of "Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song," as were his father and brother

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