Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.

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• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essayist

  Wednesday, May 25, 1803
  Thursday, Apr 27, 1882

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poet

  Wednesday, Oct 21, 1772
  Friday, Jul 25, 1834

• Marcus Aurelius

  Roman Emperor

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

• Carrie Fisher

  Actress

  Sunday, Oct 21, 1956
  Tuesday, Dec 27, 2016

• George Orwell

  Novelist

  Thursday, Jun 25, 1903
  Saturday, Jan 21, 1950

• Vincent Van Gogh

  Painter

  Wednesday, Mar 30, 1853
  Tuesday, Jul 29, 1890

• Chanakya

  Teacher

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

• Carl Sagan

  Astronomer

  Friday, Nov 09, 1934
  Friday, Dec 20, 1996

• Khalil Gibran

  Poet

  Saturday, Jan 06, 1883
  Friday, Apr 10, 1931

• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  Writer

  Thursday, Aug 28, 1749
  Thursday, Mar 22, 1832

• Voltaire

  Writer

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

• Pope John Paul Ii

  Priest

  Tuesday, May 18, 1920
  Saturday, Apr 02, 2005

• Charles Spurgeon

  Preacher

  Thursday, Jun 19, 1834
  Sunday, Jan 31, 1892

• Rodney Dangerfield

  Comedian

  Tuesday, Nov 22, 1921
  Tuesday, Oct 05, 2004

• Yogi Berra

  Baseball Manager

  Tuesday, May 12, 1925
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