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Born
(60)
Michel de Montaigne
1533
Marcel Pagnol
1895
Sergey Mikhalkov
1913
Bai Juyi
772
Daniel Handler
1970
John Tenniel
1820
Berthold Auerbach
1812
Antonio Rotta
1828
Futabatei Shimei
1864
Ben Hecht
1894
Ernest Renan
1823
Stephen Spender
1909
Amir Hamzah
1911
John Turturro
1957
Walter Tevis
1928
Colum McCann
1965
Gilbert Gottfried
1955
Paul Krugman
1953
Kehinde Wiley
1977
Jarl Kulle
1927
Philip Reeve
1966
Mimsy Farmer
1945
Svetlana Alliluyeva
1926
Arthur Symons
1865
Murray Gold
1969
Vsevolod Pudovkin
1893
Trinh Cong Son
1939
Gabriele Rossetti
1783
Hugues Merle
1822
Sonam Gyatso
1543
Thomas Theodor Heine
1867
Natalya Estemirova
1958
Bernadette Peters
1948
Erik Demaine
1981
John Barnes
1957
Maurice Renard
1875
Ferdinand Gottschalk
1858
William Zorach
1887
Rudolf Nilsen
1901
Johann Beer
1655
José Gutiérrez Solana
1886
Octavio Ocampo
1943
Geraldine Farrar
1882
Christopher C. Kraft
1924
Patricia Briggs
1965
William Degouve de Nuncques
1867
Hércules Florence
1804
Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz
1790
Lorand Gaspar
1925
Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński
1819
Moina Mathers
1865
Maria Blom
1971
François Kinson
1771
Willi Sitte
1921
Johan van Hell
1889
Steve Martini
1946
Leo von König
1871
Otakar Vávra
1911
Lex Jacoby
1930
Arthur Heyer
1872
Died
(60)
Ali Khamenei
2026
Alphonse de Lamartine
1869
Henry James
1916
Álvaro Cunqueiro
1981
Yaşar Kemal
2015
Ara Harutyunyan
1999
Tsubouchi Shōyō
1935
Michio Mado
2014
Bing Xin
1999
Maxwell Anderson
1959
Anne Vallayer-Coster
1818
Carmen Laforet
2004
Rajendra Prasad
1963
Henriëtte Ronner-Knip
1909
André Charles Boulle
1732
Lilla Cabot Perry
1933
Joseph Wambaugh
2025
Charles Nicolle
1936
Mihály Zichy
1906
François Flameng
1923
Vsevolod Vishnevsky
1951
Girolamo de Rada
1903
Eric Frank Russell
1978
Mario Luzi
2005
Zofia Stryjeńska
1976
Luke Fildes
1927
Abbad II al-Mu'tadid
1069
Miguel Serrano
2009
Zoltán Ambrus
1932
Anna Stainer-Knittel
1915
Nikolay Nikanorovich Dubovskoy
1918
Jan Barszczewski
1851
Kornel Filipowicz
1990
Franco Brusati
1993
Pedro Bonifacio Palacios
1917
Martin Bucer
1551
Józef Wittlin
1976
Hermann Burger
1989
Cyril Tourneur
1626
Jacques Raymond Brascassat
1867
Johann Rudolf Huber
1748
Kylie Tennant
1988
Ida Baccini
1911
Hortense Allart
1879
Eriks Ādamsons
1946
Beda Weber
1858
Arthur M. Schlesinger
2007
Muhammad Imara
2020
Dai Wangshu
1950
Fernando Fader
1935
Vespasiano Bignami
1929
Ayako Sono
2025
Daniel J. Boorstin
2004
Auguste Angellier
1911
Miyoko Matsutani
2015
Ludwig Rubiner
1920
Aharon Amir
2008
Dinos Dimopoulos
2003
Anatole de Baudot
1915
Petr Zabolotskiy
1866
Works published or unveiled
(7)
IQ and the Wealth of Nations
2002
Here Comes Everybody
2008
Pandemonium
2012
Big win
1981
Doraemon
2018
The Courage to Be Free
2023
Les Beaux Draps
1941