Libel

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Libel

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Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Nicholas Amhurst Author 16-Oct-1697 12-Apr-1742 The Craftsman

P. T. Barnum Hoaxer 5-Jul-1810 7-Apr-1891 Circus showman

Andrew Breitbart Columnist 1-Feb-1969 1-Mar-2012 Washington Times columnist

William F. Buckley Columnist 24-Nov-1925 27-Feb-2008 National Review

Whittaker Chambers Author 1-Apr-1901 9-Jul-1961 Accuser of Alger Hiss

Thomas Dangerfield Criminal 1650 1685 English conspirator

Daniel Defoe Author Sep-1660 24-Apr-1731 Robinson Crusoe

Giulio Douhet Military 30-May-1869 15-Feb-1930 Father of strategic air power

Dietrich Eckart Playwright 23-Mar-1868 25-Dec-1923 Nazi intellectual, Hitler's best friend

William Lloyd Garrison Activist 10-Dec-1805 24-May-1879 Anti-slavery editor of the Liberator

Marcus Garvey Activist 17-Aug-1887 10-Jun-1940 Pan-African black nationalist

Graham Greene Novelist 2-Oct-1904 3-Apr-1991 The Third Man

Frank Hardy Novelist 21-Mar-1917 28-Mar-1994 Power Without Glory

Robert Harrison Publisher 14-Apr-1904 17-Feb-1978 Publisher of tabloid Confidential

Joseph Howe Government 13-Dec-1804 1-Jun-1873 Premier of Nova Scotia, 1860-63

Jerome K. Jerome Author 2-May-1859 14-Jun-1927 Three Men in a Boat

Thomas Kyd Playwright 1558 Aug-1594 The Spanish Tragedy

Ricardo Flores Magón Anarchist 16-Sep-1873 21-Nov-1922 Agitator behind Mexican revolution

Pat Matrisciana Activist ? Produced The Clinton Chronicles

Christopher Monckton Politician 14-Feb-1952 Deputy Leader, UK Independence Party

Westbrook Pegler Columnist 2-Aug-1894 24-Jun-1969 Ultraconservative newspaper columnist

Joseph Pulitzer Business 10-Apr-1847 29-Oct-1911 Established the Pulitzer Prize

John Ruskin Critic 8-Feb-1819 20-Jan-1900 Greatest Victorian art critic

Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor 30-Jul-1947 Governor of California, 2003-11

Simon Singh Author 19-Sep-1964 Fermat's Last Theorem

Gore Vidal Author 3-Oct-1925 31-Jul-2012 Visit to a Small Planet

Voltaire Author 21-Nov-1694 30-May-1778 Candide

Carl von Ossietzky Activist 3-Oct-1889 4-May-1938 German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient

Mike Wallace Journalist 9-May-1918 7-Apr-2012 Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent

John Wilkes Politician 17-Oct-1725 26-Dec-1797 Colorful London radical

John Peter Zenger Journalist c. 1697 28-Jul-1746 Sedition against the Crown

Émile Zola Novelist 2-Apr-1840 29-Sep-1902 J'Accuse

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