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1844

Friedrich Nietzsche is born

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1881

P. G. Wodehouse is born

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1905

C. P. Snow is born

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1908

John Kenneth Galbraith is born

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1917

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. is born

1920

Mario Puzo is born

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1926

Evan Hunter is born

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1926

Michel Foucault is born

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1953

Walter Jon Williams is born

1953

John Patrick’s drama Teahouse of the August Moon is first performed

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