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Thomas Hardy
(Novelist & Poet)
Thomas Hardy
7
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: June 2, 1840
Sun Sign: Gemini
Died: January 11, 1928
Victorian novelist and poet Thomas Hardy exhibited strong influences of Romanticism in his works. He wrote classic novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles. He mostly showed his characters struggling against social conditions and ending up in tragic situations.
 2 
John Le Carré
(Novelist)
John Le Carré
10
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: October 19, 1931
Sun Sign: Libra
 3 
Janet Montgomery
(Actress)
Janet Montgomery
8
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: October 29, 1985
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Height: 5'6" (168 cm)
 4 
Jayne Atkinson
(Actress)
Jayne Atkinson
2
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: February 18, 1959
Sun Sign: Aquarius
 5 
Robert Newton
(Actor)
Robert Newton
2
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: June 1, 1905
Sun Sign: Gemini
Died: March 25, 1956
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
 6 
Dido Harding
(Businesswoman)
Dido Harding
2
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: November 9, 1967
Sun Sign: Scorpio
 7 
Stephen Daldry
(film director, film producer, theatre director)
Stephen Daldry
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Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: May 2, 1960
Sun Sign: Taurus
 8 
Henry Fox Talbot
(English Scientist, Inventor, and Pioneer Photographer Who Invented the ‘Salted Paper’ and ‘Calotype’ Processes)
Henry Fox Talbot
2
Listed In: Photographers
Birthdate: February 11, 1800
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Died: September 17, 1877

Henry Fox Talbot was an English photography pioneer, inventor, and scientist. He is best remembered for inventing the calotype and salted paper processes that served as predecessors to photographic processes of the 20th century. He is also credited with inventing the photoglyphic engraving process. Henry Fox Talbot also played a major role in the progression of photography as an art.

 9 
Lady Caroline Lamb
(Aristocrat and Novelist Best Known for Her Gothic Novel ‘Glenarvon’)
Lady Caroline Lamb
21
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: November 13, 1785
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Died: January 25, 1828

Better known as one of Lord Byron’s lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb met a 24-year-old Byron when she was 26, married, and has an autistic son with her husband, future British prime minister William Lamb. An author, too, she is known for her anonymously published Gothic novel Glenarvon.

 10 
Natalie Clein
(Musician)
Natalie Clein
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Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: March 25, 1977
Sun Sign: Aries
 11 
John Eliot Gardiner
(Conductor)
John Eliot Gardiner
1
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: April 20, 1943
Sun Sign: Taurus
 12 
John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford
(Minister)
John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 1485 AD
Died: March 14, 1555
 13 
Mark Hix
(English Chef and Restaurateur)
Mark Hix
0
Listed In: Food Experts
Birthdate: December 10, 1962
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
 14 
George Turberville
(Poet)
George Turberville
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 1540 AD
Died: 1597 AD
 15 
Paul Sykes
(YouTuber)
Paul Sykes
4
Listed In: Social Media Stars
Birthdate: December 24, 1983
Sun Sign: Capricorn
 16 
Woodes Rogers
(Royal Governor of the Bahama Islands (1718-21, 1728-32))
Woodes Rogers
5
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: October 18, 1679
Sun Sign: Libra
Died: July 15, 1732
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