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Free love advocates
- HippieThe word hippie emerged from the jazz slang of 1940s Harlem, where musicians used terms like hip and hep to describe someone who was sophisticated or…
- Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre was born on the 21st of June 1905 in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre and Anne-Marie Schweitzer.
- William BlakeWilliam Blake was born on the 28th of November 1757 at 28 Broad Street in Soho, London. He was the third of seven children, and two died in infancy.
- Simone de BeauvoirSimone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir entered the world on the 9th of January 1908 in a wealthy Parisian family.
- Bertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell was born at Ravenscroft, a country house in Trellech, Monmouthshire, on the 18th of May 1872.