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Samuel Johnson

(1709-1784)
English writer and lexicographer
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Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".

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Born Samuel Johnson
18 September 1709
Lichfield, Staffordshire, England
Died
13 December 1784 (aged 75)
London, England
Zodiac Virgo
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  • Sarah Ford
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