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Italian writer, poet, playwright, soldier and politician (1863-1938)
General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso, sometimes written d'Annunzio as he used to sign himself, was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and Royal Italian Army officer during World War I.
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Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré and later French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and lingui
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Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin was one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin, as well as a statesman.
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Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician who has led the far-right Party for Freedom since he founded it in 2006.
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Pope Gelasius I was the bishop of Rome from 1 March 492 to his death on 21 November 496.
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Pope Gelasius II, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 January 1118 to his death in 1119.
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Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, writer and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales.
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Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile.
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