What is a proper noun?

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according to wikipedia, a proper noun represents unique entities such as London or John as opposed to common nouns which represent a class of entities such as city or person.
But what is an improprer noun?
that shows the name of a proper thing, place or person.
as River Thames, Chicago, David etc
Nouns name people, places, and things. Every noun can further be classified as common or proper. A proper noun has two distinctive features: 1) it will name a specific [usually a one-of-a-kind] item, and 2) it will begin with a capital letter no matter where it occurs in a sentence.

Ex:

Herman Melville

Mrs. Hacket

Snoopy

Oreo

Orlando

Paco's Mexican Cafe

Declaration of Independence

University of Virginia

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