Daniel Spoerri (born 27 March 1930 in Galați) is a Swiss artist and writer born in Romania.
 Spoerri is best known for his "snare-pictures," a type of assemblage or object art, in which he captures a group of objects, such as the remains of meals eaten by individuals, including the plates, silverware and glasses, all of which are fixed to the table or board, which is then displayed on a wall.
 He also is widely acclaimed for his book, "Topographie Anécdotée* du Hasard" ("An Anecdoted Topography of Chance"), a literary analog to his snare-pictures, in which he mapped all the objects located on his table at a particular moment, describing each with his personal recollections evoked by the object.
Robert James Belushi (born October 23, 1980) is an American actor.
 In films, he is best known for his work on "Sorority Row", "One Small Hitch", and "Valentine's Day".
 On television, he is best known as Allen ("The Buddy") on the of Spike TV's "The Joe Schmo Show" and Linus the Bartender on the ninth and final season of CBS's "How I Met Your Mother".
Jean-François Steiner is a French-Jewish writer born on 17 February 1938 in Paris, France.
 He is best known for his controversial non-fiction novel "Treblinka: The Revolt of an Extermination Camp" first published in 1966 as "Treblinka: la révolte d'un camp d'extermination"; translated a year later by Helen Weaver for Simon & Schuster.
 Written in the first person, the book blames members of the Jewish "Sonderkommando" for assisting the German SS in perpetrating a genocide.
 Following outrage among French, Jewish and foreign academics, Steiner agreed to republish his book (which became a bestseller), by presenting it as a fictional account of the Treblinka extermination camp operation.
 The book remains very popular in France.
Fung Wang-yuen (22 September 1942 – 4 February 2014), better known by his stage name Wu Ma, was a Hong Kong actor, director, producer and writer born in Tianjin, Republic of China.
 Wu Ma made his screen debut in 1963, and with over 240 appearances to his name (plus 49 directorial credits within a fifty-year period), he was one of the most familiar faces in the history of Hong Kong Cinema and best known as the Taoist ghosthunter in "A Chinese Ghost Story".
Mary Berry (16 March 1763 – 20 November 1852) was an English non-fiction writer born in Kirkbridge, North Yorkshire.
 She is best known for her letters and journals, namely "Social Life in England and France from the French Revolution", published in 1831, and "Journals and Correspondence", published after her death in 1865.
 Berry became notable through her association with close friend Horace Walpole, whose literary collection she, along with her sister and father, inherited.
Terry Wardle (born 17 April 1944) is a British writer born in Hereford.
 Has also been a soldier, teacher, journalist and businessman.
 He is perhaps best known for his award-winning children’s novel "The Hardest Sum in the World", originally published by Andersen in the UK and Australasia in hardback and by Corgi in paperback in Britain, published in Spain in 1989 and Italy in 1994 To date it has sold around 100,000 copies in the UK, Europe and Australasia.
 It has been in print continuously somewhere in the world for more than 20 years and is now published in the UK by MTC.
 It was particularly popular in Italy and in 1995 he became the first non-Italian winner of the Premio Verghereto literary award, which had previously been won by many leading Italian children’s authors.
Robert James "Bob" Dawson (born 3 January 1921) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
 Dawson came from Elmore and spent just one year at St Kilda, playing four games in the 1941 VFL season.
 The following year he enlisted in the army and served overseas during the war.
 He had considerable success in country football, with best and fairest awards in three different Victorian leagues.
 In 1946, the same year he returned from the war, he played for Elmore in the Bendigo Football League and won the Michelsen Medal.
 He then coached Tongala in the Goulburn Valley Football League, where he was awarded a Morrison Medal in 1950.
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 <nowiki>[</nowiki>OS 7 September]  – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
 Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and is described by the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".
 He is also the subject of the biography, "The Life of Samuel Johnson" by James Boswell.
Robert James (1703 – 23 March 1776) was an English physician who is best known as the author of "A Medicinal Dictionary", as the inventor of a popular "fever powder", and as a friend of Samuel Johnson.
Böðvar Guðmundsson is an Icelandic writer born January 9, 1939; he grew up in Borgarfjörður, specifically Kirkjuból í Hvítársíðu.
 He is known for plays, poetry, novels, and children's books.
 He is said to be best known for the novels "Híbýli vindanna" (1995; Where the Winds Dwell) and "Lífsins tré" (1996; Tree of Life) He has done numerous translations of writers such as Roald Dahl and Heinrich Böll.
 He was a teacher and guest lecturer at the University of Bergen in the 1980s.
 He was at one time married to the Icelandic literary scholar Helga Kress.
 He currently lives in Denmark and is still writing.

Question: Robert James is best known as a friend of a writer born in which year ?
Answer: 1709