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| Happy birthday to Japanese writer and poet Jien (May 17, 1155), author of "Gukanshō" (1220) et al. |
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| Happy birthday to Dutch writer and theologist Martin Delrio (May 17, 1551), author of "Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex" (1599) et al. |
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| Happy birthday French writer/theologian Antoine Court (May 17,1696)."Histoire des troubles des Cévennes ou de la guerre des Camisards"(1760) |
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| Happy birthday German writer/historian Andreas Felix von Oefele (May 17,1706). "Lebensgeschichten der gelehrtesten Männer Bayerns" (1727). |
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| Happy birthday British scientist/writer/smallpox pioneer Edward Jenner (May 17,1749). "The Origin of the Vaccine Inoculation"(1801) et al. |
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| Happy birthday to Irish-born British writer Anna Brownell Jameson (May 17, 1794), author of "The Diary of an Ennuyée"(1826) et al. |
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| Happy birthday to British writer/editor Robert Smith Surtees (May 17,1805) author of the 1843 novel "Handley Cross" and other notable works. |
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| Happy birthday to Flemish writer and poet Virginie Loveling (May 17,1836) author of the 1911 novel "Een revolverschot" and many other works. |
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| Happy birthday to German writer and scholar Julius Wellhausen (May 17, 1844), author of "Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels" (1883) et al. |
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| Happy birthday to German writer and poet Nataly von Eschstruth (May 17, 1860), author of “Sonnenfunken” (1901) et al. |
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| Happy birthday Dutch writer and art historian Henricus Bremmer (May 17,1871). "Eene inleiding tot het zien van beeldende kunst"(1906) et al. |
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| Happy birthday to British writer Dorothy Miller Richardson (May 17, 1873), author of the Pilgrimage novel series. |
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| Happy birthday to French writer Henri Barbusse (May 17, 1873), author of the 1921 novel "Le couteau entre les dents" et al. |
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| Happy birthday to Belgian sportswriter Alban Collignon (May 17, 1876). |
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| Happy birthday to Mexican writer and philosopher Alfonso Reyes (May 17, 1889), author of "Quince presencias" and many other works. |
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| Happy birthday to German writer Hannah Tillich (May 17, 1896), author of the 1978 novel "The Harbor Mouse" and other works. |
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| Happy birthday to writer and psychiatrist Lena Levine (May 17, 1903), author of “The modern book of marriage:…” (1957) et al. |
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| Happy birthday to playwright and screenwriter John Patrick (May 17, 1905), author of the 1945 play "The Hasty Heart" and other works. |
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| Happy birthday to writer and poet Frederic Prokosch (May 17, 1906), author of "My Wilderness" (1972) and many other works. |
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| Happy birthday to Czech writer Lenka Reinerova (May 17, 1916), author of “Alle Farben der Sonne und der Nacht“ (2003) et al. |
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