Favorite Celebrations ~  Writers, Born B.C.- 1799 Zen in the Art of Writing

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." ~ Alexander Pope

BC
DOB
800 Homer
625 Sappho
620 Aesop's Fables
551 Confucius
480 Euripides
469 Socrates

AD
DOB
121 Marcus Aurelius
878 Lady Murasaki

1265 Dante Alighieri
1469 Niccolo Machiavelli
1478 Thomas More
1515 St. Teresa
1533 Michel de Montaigne
1547 Cervantes
1561 Francis Bacon

William Shakespeare

1564 William Shakespeare
1572 John Donne
1579 Philip Sidney
1593 Izaak Walton

1601 Baltasar Gracián
1608 John Milton
1613 François de La Rochefoucauld
1622 Jean Baptiste Moličre
1628 Charles Perrault
1632 Benedict de Spinoza

DOB
1644 Matsuo Basho
1667 Jonathan Swift
1670 William Congreve
1688 Alexander Pope
1694 Voltaire
1706 Benjamin Franklin
1709 Samuel Johnson
1712 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1729 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

1737 Thomas Paine
1743 Thomas Jefferson
1744 Abigail Adams
1749 Johann von Goethe

1754 Joseph Joubert
1758 Noah Webster
1768 Chateaubriand
1772 Samuel Coleridge
1772 Novalis
1775 Jane Austen
1783 Washington Irving
1784 Leigh Hunt
1788 Lord Byron
1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley
1795 John Keats
1795 Thomas Carlyle
1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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