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Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer.
Born April 13th, 1939 in Castledawson. [ref]
Died August 30th, 2013 at 74 years old in Dublin (stroke). [ref]
Occupations
actor, author, linguist, playwright, poet, translator, university teacher, writer
Wikipedia
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. Leonardo da Vinci