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Robert Burns was born to a poor farming family in the Lowlands of Scotland in 1759. During his adult years he wrote several volumes of poetry that were well received. By the time of his death he was considered the poet laureate of Scotland, and is still considered so by many to this day. Among his many poems are; Auld Lang Syne, Coming Thro the Rye, Tam O'Shanter etc.- Writer
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Friedrich Schiller was born on Nov. 10, 1759, in Marbach, Germany. His father was an army doctor. Growing up in a very poor environment, Schiller eventually managed to get the support of a wealthy duke that enabled him to study medicine. He served as a military doctor first, but through the efforts of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe he finally went to Jena and Weimar, where he died on the May 9, 1805.
Schiller is an important German author of his time, most famous for his stage plays. They were highly acclaimed--and mostly forbidden, because of their contents. His first big work, "Die Räuber", dealt with the revolt of sons against their parents and environment, a very modern topic for the time and one that was not accepted in many regions of Germany. Overall, though, he is underrated as an author due to the fact that he lived and wrote in the same time as Goethe: Schiller is considered to be a good writer, but not as brilliant as Goethe.- William Wilberforce was born on 24 August 1759 in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK. He died on 29 July 1833 in London, England.
- François Devienne was born on 31 January 1759 in Joinville, Haute-Marne, France. He died on 5 September 1803 in Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, France.
- Ferenc Kazinczy was born on 27 October 1759 in Érsemlyén, Hungary [now Simian, Romania]. He was a writer, known for A bor lelke (1999) and Fogságom naplója (1979). He died on 23 August 1831 in Széphalom, Hungary.