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English essayist, poet, and dramatist Joseph Addison.

Joseph Addison

(1672 - 1719)

Abu al-Fadl Jafar ibn Ali al-Dimashqi

Jorge Amado (AF archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Jorge Amado

(1912 - 2001)

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Aristotle

(384 BC - 322 BC)

Herbert Asbury

(1889 - 1963)

Joshuah Bearman

Black and white photograph of English writer and traveler Gertrude Bell.

Gertrude Bell

(1868 - 1926)

Photograph of German literary critic Walter Benjamin.

Walter Benjamin

(1892 - 1940)

Fernand Braudel

(1902 - 1985)

French poet and author Christine de Pisan.

Christine de Pisan

(1364 - c. 1430)

Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

(106 BC - 43 BC)

Black and white photograph of Polish-born English writer Joseph Conrad.

Joseph Conrad

(1857 - 1924)

Curly Chief

(c. 1827 - c. 1897)

Ferdinand de Lesseps

(1805 - 1894)

Spanish soldier and author Bernal Díaz del Castillo.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo

(c. 1495 - 1584)

Maria Edgeworth

(1767 - 1849)

William Elford

(1749 - 1837)

German socialist philosopher Friedrich Engels.

Friedrich Engels

(1820 - 1895)

Adam Fortunate Eagle

Fukuzawa Yukichi

(1835 - 1901)

Eduardo Galeano

(1940 - 2015)

Amitav Ghosh

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

(1860 - 1935)

Glückel of Hameln

(c. 1646 - 1724)