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Born
(60)
Henrik Ibsen
1828
Nikolai Gogol
1809
Friedrich Hölderlin
1770
Jean-Antoine Houdon
1741
Lois Lowry
1937
Anne Bradstreet
1612
José Joaquín de Olmedo
1780
Polina Zherebtsova
1985
B. F. Skinner
1904
Otar Chiladze
1933
Wilhelm Bendz
1804
Juan Garaizabal
1971
Carl Reiner
1922
Anna Todd
1989
Andrée Chedid
1920
Edward Poynter
1836
George Caleb Bingham
1811
Karin Michaëlis
1872
Theodor Aman
1831
David Malouf
1934
Anouk Grinberg
1963
Jafar Jabbarly
1899
Antonio de Pereda
1611
Peter Berling
1934
John Lavery
1856
Mitsumasa Anno
1926
Eduard Wiiralt
1898
Brian Mulroney
1939
Sapardi Djoko Damono
1940
Christoph Ransmayr
1954
Illarion Mikhailovich Pryanishnikov
1840
Sida Košutić
1902
Alfonso García Robles
1911
Usmar Ismail
1921
Gerard Malanga
1943
Alexander Shishkov
1754
Antoine Étex
1808
Louis Sachar
1954
Samina Ali
1969
Renée Sintenis
1888
Marie Ellenrieder
1791
Joseph Paelinck
1781
Alessandro Tiarini
1577
Camilla Grebe
1968
Michael Redgrave
1908
George Topîrceanu
1886
Jessie M. King
1875
Jean-Victor Bertin
1767
Giovanni da San Giovanni
1592
Moyshe Kulbak
1896
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
1870
George Gallo
1956
Karl August Nicander
1799
William John Locke
1863
Louis Bertrand
1866
Joseph Bouchardy
1810
Polyxena Solovyova
1867
Pamela Sargent
1948
Dara Shikoh
1615
Emily Giffin
1972
Died
(60)
Alain Chartier
1430
Georges Chastellain
1475
Brendan Behan
1964
Vernor Vinge
2024
Fernand Cormon
1924
Khushwant Singh
2014
Constant Troyon
1865
Amir Hamzah
1946
Falih Rıfkı Atay
1971
Louis-Michel van Loo
1771
Nicolas de Largillière
1746
Nicolas Mignard
1668
Lord Alfred Douglas
1945
James Herbert
2013
Ilya Mashkov
1944
Marietta Shaginyan
1982
Graciliano Ramos
1953
Clement III
1191
Nadar
1910
January Suchodolski
1875
Anatole Le Braz
1926
Virginie Ancelot
1875
David Rockefeller
2017
Sina Mesdag-van Houten
1909
Henry Handel Richardson
1946
Hoca Ali Rıza
1930
Lina Bo Bardi
1992
Maciej Słomczyński
1998
Nicolas-Antoine Taunay
1830
Léopold Robert
1835
Antonio da Ponte
1597
V. S. Pritchett
1997
Gustav Diessl
1948
Sidney Kingsley
1995
William Charles Wentworth
1872
Frants Henningsen
1908
Atena Pashko
2012
Eddie Jordan
2025
Rodolphe Salis
1897
Antonietta Brandeis
1926
Isabelle Mergault
2026
Baptista Mantuanus
1516
Gerard Sekoto
1993
Michael Reaves
2023
Ashraf Gilani
1934
Karl August Tavaststjerna
1898
Louise-Adéone Drölling
1834
Gyoshū Hayami
1935
Muztar Khairabadi
1927
Emilio Sereni
1977
Cuthbert
687
Paolo Antonio Rolli
1765
Ulfat Idilbi
2007
Dorothy Young
2011
Satoshi Itō
2009
Gaspar de Witte
1681
Henrique Pousão
1884
Marie Jeanne Clemens
1791
Katie Boyle
2018
Johann Nikolaus Forkel
1818
Works published or unveiled
(9)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
1869
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852
Froth on the Daydream
1947
Dreamcatcher
2001
Going Places
1974
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
2012
China Mountain Zhang
1992
The World Goes On
2013
The Children of the Poor: A Child Welfare Classic
2018