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Ninth-​Day Births

On December 9, 1958, the John Birch Society was founded in the United States. December 9 also marks the birthdays of

  • Poet and anti-​censorship advocate John Milton (1608), author of the masterpiece of blank verse narrative, Paradise Lost (1667) and a classic prose defense of free speech and the press, Areopagitica (1644).
  • Russian prince and anarchist theoretician Peter Kropotkin (1842), author of Mutual Aid and other books and pamphlets. His is the photo shown above.
  • John Malkovich (1953), who directed The Dancer Upstairs (2002) and starred in the odd eponymous film Being John Malkovich (1999).

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