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- Born
- 12 January 1876
- Died
- 22 November 1916
- Works
- 9358
Top works
- Guía literaria de Londres
- The house of pride and other tales of Hawaii
- The game
- Le renégat
- The star rover
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There are 3 artists with the name Jack London (1) John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu
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- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
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- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
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- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,444x
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Quotes
- “I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.”
- “Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest.”
- “I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. “Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!””
- “Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.”
- “The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.”
- “A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Georgetown
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 1928 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- United Kingdom
- Mass
- 75
- Image
- Sport, SFA006003533.jpg
- Height
- 183
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- Commons category
- Jack London (athlete)
- date of birth
- 1905-01-13
- date of death
- 1966-05-02
- different from
- Jack London
- sports discipline competed in
- sprinting
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