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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Samuel Johnson 18 September 1709 Lichfield, Staffordshire, England
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13 December 1784 (aged 75) London, England
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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