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1819 – 1891Herman Melville (1819-1891)Died 28 September 1891, aged 72American novelist and poet best known for Moby-Dick, a work largely ignored in his lifetime. He died in relative obscurity as a customs inspector in New York. A 20th-century critical revival later established him as one of America's greatest writers.