Question: Who were the influences of Charles Dickens who died prior to September 17, 1771?
Answer(s):
answer: Henry Fielding
answer: William Shakespeare
answer: Miguel de Cervantes
answer: Laurence Sterne

SPARQL query:
PREFIX ns: <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?x
WHERE {
FILTER (?x != ns:m.01v9724)
FILTER (!isLiteral(?x) OR lang(?x) = '' OR langMatches(lang(?x), 'en'))
ns:m.01v9724 ns:influence.influence_node.influenced_by ?x .
?x ns:people.deceased_person.date_of_death ?num .
FILTER (?num < "1771-09-17"^^xsd:dateTime) . 
}