The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

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• Vince Lombardi

  Football Player

  Wednesday, Jun 11, 1913
  Thursday, Sep 03, 1970

• H. L. Mencken

  Journalist

  Sunday, Sep 12, 1880
  Sunday, Jan 29, 1956

• Sun Tzu

  Strategist

  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970

• Martin Luther

  Monk

  Saturday, Nov 10, 1483
  Monday, Feb 18, 1546

• Thomas Jefferson

  3Rd US President

  Saturday, Apr 13, 1743
  Tuesday, Jul 04, 1826

• Marcus Aurelius

  Roman Emperor

  Saturday, Apr 26, 0121
  Friday, Mar 17, 0180

• Voltaire

  Writer

  Sunday, Nov 21, 1694
  Saturday, May 30, 1778

• Abraham Lincoln

  16Th U.S. President

  Sunday, Feb 12, 1809
  Saturday, Apr 15, 1865

• Ronald Reagan

  40Th US President

  Monday, Feb 06, 1911
  Saturday, Jun 05, 2004

• Robert Frost

  Poet

  Thursday, Mar 26, 1874
  Tuesday, Jan 29, 1963

• John F. Kennedy

  35Th U.s. President

  Tuesday, May 29, 1917
  Friday, Nov 22, 1963

• Walt Disney

  Animator

  Thursday, Dec 05, 1901
  Thursday, Dec 15, 1966

• Steven Wright

  Comedian

  Tuesday, Dec 06, 1955
  

• Walt Whitman

  Poet

  Monday, May 31, 1819
  Saturday, Mar 26, 1892

• Lucy Larcom

  Poet

  Friday, Mar 05, 1824
  Monday, Apr 17, 1893