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Oscar Wilde:
On October 16, 1854, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Irish-born writer and wit, who was the chief proponent of the aesthetic movement, based on the principle of art for art's sake and who was a novelist, playwright, poet, and critic, was born in Dublin (d. 1900).
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