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Born
(60)
Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
599
Abdul Qadir Gilani
1078
William Gibson
1948
Siegfried Lenz
1926
Francesco Albani
1578
John Wayne Gacy
1942
Grimes
1988
Penelope Lively
1933
Jean-Marc Nattier
1685
Billy Corgan
1967
Karl Gutzkow
1811
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
1920
Olga Orozco
1920
Princess Patricia of Connaught
1886
François Girardon
1628
Theo Jansen
1948
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
1686
Saša Stanišić
1978
Kate Greenaway
1846
Charles Laval
1862
Alexander Bard
1961
Paul Green
1894
Konstantinos Volanakis
1837
James Morrow
1947
Luis Goytisolo
1935
Manon Roland
1754
Carlo Cassola
1917
Aleksandra Beļcova
1892
Valerio Adami
1935
Peter Robinson
1950
Gerard Seghers
1591
Harry Clarke
1889
Alecu Russo
1819
Patrick Hamilton
1904
Riichi Yokomitsu
1898
Emily Sartain
1841
Olivia Shakespear
1863
Urmuz
1883
D. V. Gundappa
1887
Anton Dominik Fernkorn
1813
P. T. Narasimhachar
1905
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
1695
Christian Griepenkerl
1839
Tosia Malamud
1923
Francisco González Ledesma
1927
Jean Ingelow
1820
Patrick Brontë
1777
Yvan Kyrlya
1909
Francisca Valenzuela
1987
Johan Peter Molin
1814
Conrad Schnitzler
1937
Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
1863
Ferdinand Ochsenheimer
1767
Ebenezer Elliott
1781
Ana Cecilia Blum
1972
Alessandro Marchetti
1633
Maria Theresia van Thielen
1640
Yekaterina Dashkova
1743
Pattie Boyd
1944
Oskar Herman
1886
Died
(60)
Ibn Khaldun
1406
Derek Walcott
2017
Marcus Aurelius
180
Eduard Limonov
2020
Dubravka Ugrešić
2023
Luchino Visconti
1976
Louis Kahn
1974
Aleksandra Ekster
1949
François de La Rochefoucauld
1680
Raoul Servais
2023
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville
1847
Helgo Zettervall
1907
Andre Norton
2005
Philip Massinger
1640
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
1741
Johannes Ewald
1781
Ferdinand Bauer
1826
Galaktion Tabidze
1959
Jost Amman
1591
George F. Kennan
2005
Jorge Edwards
2023
Antoni Lange
1929
Victorine Meurent
1927
Josef Svatopluk Machar
1942
Antun Gustav Matoš
1914
Kenyon Cox
1919
Fernand Crommelynck
1970
John Antoine Nau
1918
Denys Calvaert
1619
Jan Adam Kruseman
1862
Vilho Lampi
1936
Jan van Mieris
1690
Susan Warner
1885
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
2012
Alain Bosquet
1998
Nancy Cunard
1965
Emma Schenson
1913
Karl Edvard Diriks
1930
Ali bey Huseynzade
1940
Czesław Słania
2005
Soledad Acosta
1913
Johann Most
1906
Luise Rinser
2002
Monika Mann
1992
Pyotr Yakubovich
1911
Sid Fleischman
2010
Victor Rousseau
1954
Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński
1826
Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza
1960
Daagh Dehlvi
1905
Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes
1821
Nuno Júdice
2024
Konstantin Trutovsky
1893
Robert Chambers
1871
Hieronymous Francken II
1623
Rudolf Escher
1980
Gerardus Vossius
1649
Ernest Bryll
2024
Charles Guérin
1907
Pietro Paolo Bonzi
1636
Works published or unveiled
(5)
Beauty and the Beast
2017
The Word for World Is Forest
1972
The Magician's Elephant
2023
Again, Dangerous Visions
1972
When It Changed
1972