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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

18091849

American writer, poet, and literary critic known for pioneering detective and science fiction, master of mystery and the macabre, and a central figure of American Romanticism and Gothic fiction.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

18091865

French philosopher, politician, and economist widely regarded as the "father of anarchism" and founder of mutualist philosophy

Louis Braille

Louis Braille

18091852

French inventor, organist, and educator who, blinded at a young age, developed the enduring system of braille for reading and writing