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Born
(60)
Christopher Marlowe
1564
Erich Kästner
1899
W. E. B. Du Bois
1868
Rosalía de Castro
1837
Jiří Menzel
1938
Franz von Stuck
1863
Henri Meilhac
1831
Boris Kustodiev
1878
George Frederic Watts
1817
Hendrik Willem Mesdag
1831
Peter Fonda
1940
Karl Jaspers
1883
Bernard Cornwell
1944
Miyuki Nakajima
1952
César Aira
1949
Ivar Lo-Johansson
1901
Margaret Deland
1857
Naoki Hyakuta
1956
Zacharie Astruc
1833
Samuel Pepys
1633
Tom Wesselmann
1931
Elisabeth Langgässer
1899
Josh Gad
1981
Julius Fučík
1903
Franz Antoine
1815
Agnes Smedley
1892
Jean Antoine Injalbert
1845
Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis
1960
Rebecca Goldstein
1950
Mattheus Terwesten
1670
William L. Shirer
1904
William Hjortsberg
1941
Jan van Os
1744
Edgar Ende
1901
Leo Stein
1861
Eduard von Hartmann
1842
Francesca Simon
1955
Anupama Chopra
1967
Radosław Sikorski
1963
Giacinto Brandi
1621
Jozef Cíger-Hronský
1896
Masuo Ikeda
1934
Victoria Åberg
1824
Julian Ochorowicz
1850
Sonya Hartnett
1968
Vasily Mate
1856
Jean-Jacques Waltz
1873
Josephin Soulary
1815
Edmund Evans
1826
Mamang Dai
1957
Liang Chi-chao
1873
John Sandford
1944
Leevi Lehto
1951
Sámal Joensen-Mikines
1906
Dietrich Brüggemann
1976
Gustav Hermann Nachtigal
1834
August Matthias Hagen
1794
Peter Adolf Hall
1739
John Cary
1755
Doug Moench
1948
Died
(60)
John Keats
1821
Paul Claudel
1955
Aleksey Tolstoy
1945
Joshua Reynolds
1792
Gentile Bellini
1507
John Quincy Adams
1848
Jean Gaston Darboux
1917
Giambattista Basile
1632
Zygmunt Krasiński
1859
Muhammad Asad
1992
José Afonso
1987
Andreas Dudith
1589
Svatopluk Čech
1908
Gregory V
999
Noman Çelebicihan
1918
L. S. Lowry
1976
Ernest Dowson
1900
Hans Hellmut Kirst
1989
Joanna Baillie
1851
Jean-Baptiste Clément
1903
James Aldridge
2015
James Herriot
1995
Janez Drnovšek
2008
Polycarp
155
Dirk van der Aa
1809
Minas Avetisyan
1975
Magnus Stenbock
1717
Michael Seymour
1887
William Allan
1850
Henry Lincoln
2022
Boris Slutsky
1986
David Samoilov
1990
Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine
1830
Auguste de Forbin
1841
Fannie Hurst
1968
Mihály Fazekas
1828
Tuulikki Pietilä
2009
Margaret Maron
2021
Josep Palau i Fabre
2008
Tallapaka Annamacharya
1503
Mabel Normand
1930
Johann Matthäus Bechstein
1822
Lieuwe van Aitzema
1669
Karl Ludwig von Knebel
1834
Alojzy Feliński
1820
Charles Nuitter
1899
Alice Herz-Sommer
2014
Lewis Gilbert
2018
Coleman Barks
2026
Mary Eliza Fullerton
1946
Mario Pani
1993
Jules Coutan
1939
Fidus
1948
Joan Llimona
1926
Carla Accardi
2014
Vijaya Dabbe
2018
Julie Charpentier
1845
Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson
1801
Anna Radlova
1949
Valentino Bompiani
1992
Works published or unveiled
(6)
Trainspotting
1996
The Barber of Seville
1775
Henderson the Rain King
1959
Three Day Road
2005
THE PARADISE OF FROGS
2016
Piggies on the railway : a Kasthuri Kumar mystery
2010