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Essayists

Serj Tankian

American musician

 51 21st Aug

Theodore Roosevelt

American politician, 26th President of the United States
1858 - 1919
27th Oct

Paul Reiser

American actor and comedian

 61 30th Mar

George Orwell

English author and journalist
1903 - 1950
25th Jun

J.R.R. Tolkien

British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
1892 - 1973
3rd Jan

C.S. Lewis

Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
1898 - 1963
29th Nov

Leo Tolstoy

Russian writer
1828 - 1910
28th Aug

Che Guevara

Argentine Marxist revolutionary
1928 - 1967
14th Jun

Virginia Woolf

English writer
1882 - 1941
25th Jan

Salman Rushdie

British Indian novelist and essayist

 71 19th Jun

Richard Wagner

German composer, conductor
1813 - 1883
22nd May