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Born
(60)
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
1892
Martial
40
Attar of Nishapur
1145
Oskar Kokoschka
1886
David Niven
1910
Ralph Ellison
1914
Adolfo Wildt
1868
Tsangyang Gyatso
1683
Robert Lowell
1917
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
1609
Delphine de Vigan
1966
Nikolaos Gyzis
1842
Ion Creangă
1837
William Dean Howells
1837
Lytton Strachey
1880
Georgi Markov
1929
Fadwa Tuqan
1917
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1848
Mary Beale
1633
Zulfiya
1915
Richard Wilbur
1921
Giorgos Zongolopoulos
1903
Vasili Bazhenov
1737
Mercedes de Acosta
1892
Itō Jakuchū
1716
William McGonagall
1825
Gheorghe Asachi
1788
Alfred Philippe Roll
1845
Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten
1622
Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem
1847
Bama
1958
Jacques Chessex
1934
Francesco Bacchiacca
1494
Zack Snyder
1966
Thomas Brock
1847
Georg Ebers
1837
Nevada Barr
1952
Henri Jules Jean Geoffroy
1853
Párvusz
1981
Franzobel
1967
Yi Sŏu
1633
Jim Crace
1946
János Zsámboky
1531
Pietro Canonica
1869
Ibn al-Abbar
1199
Nicola da Guardiagrele
1385
Jacques Rivette
1928
Vladimir Gelfand
1923
Franz Hanfstaengl
1804
Rie Yasumi
1972
Leonardo Bistolfi
1859
Hamlet Isakhanli
1948
Catharina Helena Dörrien
1717
Franz Hohler
1943
Clara Sanchez
1955
Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit
1927
Rudolf Erich Raspe
1736
Kanoko Okamoto
1889
Ümmiye Koçak
1957
Jakob Ayrer
1543
Died
(60)
Gabriele D'Annunzio
1938
Arthur Koestler
1983
William Caxton
1492
George Herbert
1633
A. H. Tammsaare
1940
Francesco Redi
1697
Nicholas I of Montenegro
1921
Giacomo Balla
1958
Anna Pavlovna of Russia
1865
Ernesto Cardenal
2020
Alfonso de Palencia
1492
Davíð Oddsson
2026
Akira Toriyama
2024
Hypatia
415
Tristan Corbière
1875
Luigi Vanvitelli
1773
Abraham van Beijeren
1690
Mariano Azuela
1952
José María de Pereda
1906
Paula Fox
2017
Jean Malouel
1415
Thomas Campion
1620
Mikhail Kuzmin
1936
Felix III
492
Leo VIII
965
John XV
996
Adam Pynacker
1673
Vincenzo Gemito
1929
Paul Scott
1978
Peter Candid
1628
Tullia d'Aragona
1556
Pocahontas
1617
Cornelis Cort
1578
Charlotte Delbo
1985
Jack Vettriano
2025
František Hrubín
1971
Vergílio Ferreira
1996
Ibn Al Ouardy
1349
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume
1905
Diana Der Hovanessian
2018
Dino Campana
1932
Yehuda Pen
1937
Prafulla Dahanukar
2014
Vera Gedroits
1932
Shikishi-naishinnō
1201
Friedrich Weinbrenner
1826
Gertrud Kolmar
1943
Carel Visser
2015
George Sandys
1644
Ghazanfar Khaligov
1981
Aelbrecht Bouts
1549
Camilo Pessanha
1926
Childebert II
596
Willem de Heusch
1692
Józef Simmler
1868
Tarak Mehta
2017
Matija Ban
1903
Peter Malkin
2005
Felice Casorati
1963
Gustav Metzger
2017
Works published or unveiled
(60)
Père Goriot
1835
Slaughterhouse-Five
1969
Death in Venice
1971
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839
The Left Hand of Darkness
1969
Cloud Atlas
2004
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
1967
La Princesse de Clèves
1678
Looking for Alaska
2005
Gender Trouble
1990
Killing Floor
1997
3001: The Final Odyssey
1997
Lettres provinciales
1657
Trinity Blood
2001
The Wise Man's Fear
2011
A Prayer for Owen Meany
1989
Revelation Space
2000
Royal Assassin
1996
Perdido Street Station
2000
Samarkand
1988
Chariots of Fire
1981
Because of Winn-Dixie
2000
Assassin's Quest
1997
Stone Butch Blues
1993
The Shockwave Rider
1975
Native Son
1940
9/11: The Big Lie
2002
The Paper Menagerie
2011
Doorways in the Sand
1976
The Wanderer
1814
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
2011
Project Pope
1981
Thanda Gosht
1950
Made in Heaven
2019
Phantoms
1983
Thrice Upon a Time
1980
Point of Impact
1993
Our Lady of the Nile
2012
Digger
2003
Bastard Out of Carolina
1992
Gorky Park
1981
The Rage Against God
2010
The City, Not Long After
1989
Nick of the Woods
1837
A Golden Age
2007
Totto TV
2016
Premier Artiste
1890
Get involved!
2011
Ghana Must Go
2013
Killshot
1989
Before They Are Hanged
2007
Bad Girls
2019
The Last Light of the Sun
2004
The Enigma of Arrival
1987
Zoeken naar Eileen W
1995
Monument to Martín Alonso Pinzón
1977
Memoirs of Samuel Foote
1837
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
1994
Annie John
1985
Engine Summer
1979