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Isaac Newton Dec. at 84 (1643-1727) Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific ...more

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Charles Darwin Dec. at 73 (1809-1882) Charles Robert Darwin, FRS was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory. He established that all species of life have descended over time from ...more

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Charles Dickens Dec. at 58 (1812-1870) Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. ...more

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Robert Blake age 84 Robert Blake is an American actor having starring roles in the film In Cold Blood and the U.S. television series Baretta. Blake began performing as a child, with a lead role in the final years ...more

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Rudyard Kipling Dec. at 71 (1865-1936) Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay ...more

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Laurence Olivier Dec. at 82 (1907-1989) Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also ...more

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Samuel Johnson Dec. at 75 (1709-1784) Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and ...more

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Henry Purcell Dec. at 36 (1659-1695) Henry Purcell, was an English composer. Although incorporating Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, Purcell's legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. He is ...more

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David Livingstone Dec. at 60 (1813-1873) David Livingstone was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. His meeting with H. M. Stanley on 10 November 1871 ...more

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Ernest Rutherford Dec. at 66 (1871-1937) Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM FRS was a New Zealand-born British physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. Encyclopædia Britannica considers him ...more

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George Frideric Handel Dec. at 74 (1685-1759) George Frideric Handel was a German-born, British Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Born in ...more

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Edward V of England Dec. at 13 (1470-1483) Edward V was King of England from his father Edward IV's death on 9 April 1483 until 26 June of the same year. He was never crowned, and his 86-day reign was dominated by the influence of his ...more

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Joseph John Thomson Dec. at 84 (1856-1940) Sir Joseph John "J. J." Thomson, OM, FRS was an English physicist. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of London and appointed to the Cavendish Professorship of ...more

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Geoffrey Chaucer Dec. at 57 (1343-1400) Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster ...more

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Muzio Clementi Dec. at 80 (1752-1832) Muzio Clementi was an Italian-born English composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Rome, he spent most of his life in England. ...more

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Ralph Vaughan Williams Dec. at 86 (1872-1958) Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song; this collecting ...more

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Mary I of England Dec. at 42 (1516-1558) Mary I was the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. Her executions of Protestants caused her opponents to give her the sobriquet "Bloody Mary". She was the only ...more

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Robert Adam Dec. at 64 (1728-1792) Robert Adam FRSE FRS FSA FSA FRSA was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam, the country's foremost architect of the time, ...more

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William Wilberforce Dec. at 74 (1759-1833) William Wilberforce was an English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career ...more

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Henry Irving Dec. at 67 (1838-1905) Sir Henry Irving, born John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J.H Irving was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility for ...more

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Robert Browning Dec. at 77 (1812-1889) Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, and in particular the dramatic monologue, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known ...more

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Clement Attlee Dec. at 84 (1883-1967) Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG OM CH PC FRS was a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the ...more

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Edward I of England Dec. at 68 (1239-1307) Edward I, also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The first son of Henry III, Edward was involved early in the political intrigues of ...more

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John Dryden Dec. at 69 (1631-1700) John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point ...more

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Robert Aytoun Dec. at 68 (1570-1638) Sir Robert Aytoun or Ayton was a Scottish poet. Ayton was the son of Ayton of Kinaldie House in Fife. He and his elder brother entered St Leonard's College in St Andrews in 1584. After ...more

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan Dec. at 65 (1751-1816) Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for ...more

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Ben Jonson Dec. at 65 (1572-1637) Ben Jonson was an English playwright, poet, and literary critic of the seventeenth century, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the ...more

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William Ewart Gladstone Dec. at 89 (1809-1898) William Ewart Gladstone, was a British Liberal politician. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times, more than any other person, and served as ...more

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Thomas Hardy Dec. at 88 (1840-1928) Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William ...more

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Aphra Behn Dec. at 49 (1640-1689) Aphra Behn [Aphara] was a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke ...more

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Thomas Campbell Dec. at 67 (1777-1844) Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry dealing especially with human affairs. He was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became the ...more

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David Garrick Dec. at 62 (1717-1779) David Garrick is a Screenwriter.

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George II of Great Britain Dec. at 77 (1683-1760) George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death. George was the last British ...more

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Richard II of England Dec. at 33 (1367-1400) Richard II, also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed on 30 September 1399. Richard, a son of Edward, the Black Prince, was born during the reign of ...more

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Robert Stephenson Dec. at 56 (1803-1859) Robert Stephenson FRS was an early railway engineer. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Robert has been called the ...more

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Charles Lyell Dec. at 78 (1797-1875) Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, FRS was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts ...more

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William Pitt the Younger Dec. at 47 (1759-1806) William Pitt the Younger was a British politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He became the youngest Prime Minister in 1783 at the age of 24. He left office in 1801, but was Prime ...more

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William Congreve Dec. at 59 (1670-1729) William Congreve was an English playwright and poet.

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William Davenant Dec. at 62 (1606-1668) Sir William Davenant, also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career ...more

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William Camden Dec. at 72 (1551-1623) William Camden was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and officer of arms. He wrote the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and the first ...more

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Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald Dec. at 85 (1775-1860) Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, 1st Marquess of Maranhão, GCB, ODM, styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a Scottish naval flag officer of the Royal Navy and ...more

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Henry V of England Dec. at 36 (1386-1422) Henry V was King of England from 1413 until his death at the age of either 34 or 35 in 1422. He was the second English monarch who came from the House of Lancaster. After military experience ...more

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Old Tom Parr Dec. at 152 (1483-1635) Thomas Parr was an Englishman who was said to have lived for 152 years. He is often referred to simply as Old Parr or Old Tom Parr. A portrait of Parr hangs at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, ...more

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John Herschel Dec. at 79 (1792-1871) Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet, KH, FRS was an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, and experimental photographer, who in some years also did ...more

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Abraham Cowley Dec. at 49 (1618-1667) Abraham Cowley was an English poet born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, with 14 printings of his Works published between 1668 and

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John Gay Dec. at 47 (1685-1732) John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera, a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly ...more

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John André Dec. at 30 (1750-1780) John André was a British Army officer hanged as a spy by the Continental Army during the American War of Independence for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at ...more

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Edward III of England Dec. at 65 (1312-1377) Edward III was King of England from 25 January 1327 until his death; he is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous reign of his father, Edward II. ...more

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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson Dec. at 83 (1809-1892) Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. Tennyson excelled ...more

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George Gilbert Scott Dec. at 67 (1811-1878) Sir George Gilbert Scott, styled Sir Gilbert Scott, was an English Gothic revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he ...more