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Born
(60)
George Harrison
1943
Taras Shevchenko
1814
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841
Carlo Goldoni
1707
Amin Maalouf
1949
Anthony Burgess
1917
Karl May
1842
Santiago Rusiñol i Prats
1861
Sabahattin Ali
1907
Carl Gustaf von Brinkman
1764
Friedrich Spee
1591
Martin Kippenberger
1953
Neil Jordan
1950
Les Kurbas
1887
Nazario Pardini
1937
Benedetto Croce
1866
Giuseppe De Nittis
1846
Frederick McCubbin
1855
Şeref Han
1543
Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg
1337
François Fleury-Richard
1777
Hushang Ebtehaj
1928
Franz Xaver Kroetz
1946
Rashida Jones
1976
Karl Wilhelm Ramler
1725
Carel de Moor
1655
Severo Sarduy
1937
Broncia Koller-Pinell
1863
Matthias Braun
1684
Feliks Falk
1941
Wilhelm Amberg
1822
Joseph Koo
1931
Frank G. Slaughter
1908
Mary Chase
1907
Bernadette Sanou Dao
1952
Isaack Luttichuys
1616
John Doe
1954
Gerald Murnane
1939
Cesário Verde
1855
Jonathan Freedland
1967
Kash Patel
1980
Ric Flair
1949
Giovanni Battista Paggi
1554
John Lanchester
1962
Ewald Mataré
1887
Jelica Belović-Bernadžikovski
1870
John Saul
1942
Alice Bailly
1872
Peretz Smolenskin
1842
Mario Rapisardi
1844
Quirinus Kuhlmann
1651
Karel Toman
1877
Edgar Pangborn
1909
Chelsea Handler
1975
Scipione
1904
Douglas Hodge
1960
Erica Pedretti
1930
Antonio Sicurezza
1905
Shiva Naipaul
1945
Jan Henryk de Rosen
1891
Died
(60)
Tennessee Williams
1983
Mark Rothko
1970
Thomas Moore
1852
Alexander Archipenko
1964
Philip José Farmer
2009
Mário de Andrade
1945
Pu Songling
1715
Erland Josephson
2012
Vittoria Colonna
1547
Roelant Savery
1639
Anna Boch
1936
Emperor Dezong of Tang
805
Louis Feuillade
1925
Otto Ludwig
1865
Fritz von Uhde
1911
Wojciech Gerson
1901
Joan Alcover Masponcio
1926
Emperor Muzong of Tang
824
Mouloud Mammeri
1989
Pasquale Festa Campanile
1986
Mark Aldanov
1957
Eliza Haywood
1756
Grace Metalious
1964
Willem Drost
1659
Janet Asimov
2019
Bagrat Shinkuba
2004
Christian Schad
1982
Seweryn Goszczyński
1876
Agostino Tassi
1644
Friedrich Spielhagen
1911
Daniel Heinsius
1655
Worthington Whittredge
1910
Eusebio Blasco
1903
Haing S. Ngor
1996
Roger Foulon
2008
Jennifer Johnston
2025
Jurij Janowski
1954
Antoine Bret
1792
Ahmed Sefrioui
2004
Mokichi Saitō
1953
Suze Rotolo
2011
Henrik Hertz
1870
Violet Oakley
1961
Mohammed Hassan El Joundi
2017
Francisco Manoel de Nascimento
1819
George Marion, Jr.
1968
Paul Reuter
1899
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
2006
Wilhelm von Diez
1907
Mario Bunge
2020
Cezar Bolliac
1881
Boris Ioganson
1973
Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini
1798
Margaret Mayo
1951
Gabrijel Jurkić
1974
Graceanna Lewis
1912
Caio Fernando Abreu
1996
Elise Konstantin-Hansen
1946
Albert Gregorius
1853
Horace de Vere Cole
1936
Works published or unveiled
(9)
The Thin Red Line
1999
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
1953
Oh! Susanna
1848
1 Litre no Namida
1986
Communion
1987
Battle Cry of Freedom
1988
La ragazza del futuro
2022
al-Muqtabas
1906
The Lullaby of Polish Girls
2014