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Brytni Born on July 26, 1875 Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist. Best known for founding of analytical psychology. He also worked with Sigmund Freud on dream analysis. Jung was the first modern psychiatrist who believed that humans were, by nature, religious. Jung also studied Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, and literature. Although Jung is best known for his philosophical contributions his true passion was science. Jung died on June 6, 1961.
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Born on September 9, 1828. Leo Tolstoy a Russian author best known for his works War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Often acclaimed as one of the most influential writers of all time, Tolstoy grew increasingly radical in his beliefs and was even excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox church. In the last year of his life Tolstoy corresponded a lot with Gandhi on religion. Tolstoy believed Buddhism to be almost exactly what he believed. Tolstoy died when at a train station in 1910.
 * **__Leo Tolstoy;__**

Born on March 20, 1828, Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright. He is known as the father of Prose Drama, his plays were ahead of their time and many were considered disgraceful. He is best known for his works, //A Doll’s House//, //Peer Gynt//, and //Brand//. In his plays Ibsen examined the truth about family life and what lay behind the fake façade that was put up all over Europe, he analyzed key points of morality and the issues of life. He is considered one of the greatest playwrights of European tradition. Ibsen passed away on May 26, 1906.
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Born on July 26, 1865, George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and author. He co- founded the London School of Economics. Shaw wrote over 60 plays and numerous short stories, he also wrote newspaper articles, starting off when he became a drama critic. In his works, he dealt with many social problems, but he masked them with comedy. He was a member of the Fabian Society, a socialist group, in which he rallied for their causes such as; gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. He is the only person to have ever received a Nobel Prize in Literature and an Oscar. He passed away in 1950.
 * **__George Bernard Shaw:__**

Born on June 2, 1840, Thomas Hardy was an English poet and novelist. Being stuck in the middle of two eras, his works reflect that with most of his works relating to naturalism and some poems relating to Romanticism and Enlightenment. He is best known for his works //Tess of the d'Urbervilles // and //Far from the Madding Crowd.// Hardy had a significant influence on English poetry. Hardy’s characters emphasized passions and social circumstances. He is thought to have started the term “cliffhanger” when one of his novels was abbreviated to be used for a serial in a magazine and the main character was left, literally, hanging from a cliff. Hardy was a fervent critic of the social constraints of the 19th century and wrote about breaking the status quo of the Victorian lifestyle. He died on January 11, 1928.
 * **__Thomas Hardy:__**