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Born
(60)
William Shakespeare
1564
Milan Kundera
1929
Otto von Bismarck
1815
Edmond Rostand
1868
Ludovico Carracci
1555
Abel Azcona
1988
Edgar Wallace
1875
Samuel R. Delany
1942
Antoine François Prévost
1697
Pietro Aretino
1492
Anne McCaffrey
1926
Yılmaz Güney
1937
Fernando del Paso
1935
Gregorio Fernández
1576
Memos Makris
1913
Edwin Austin Abbey
1852
Gil Scott-Heron
1949
Théophile de Viau
1590
Jesmyn Ward
1977
Salomon Gessner
1730
François-Xavier Fabre
1766
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
1647
Demyan Bedny
1883
Pieter Post
1608
Gaston Eyskens
1905
Simona Ventura
1965
Hiromi Kawakami
1958
Rolf Hochhuth
1931
Octavian Goga
1881
Albert Anker
1831
Jorge Isaacs
1837
Debbie Reynolds
1932
Andrea Riccio
1470
Taran Killam
1982
Sandro Veronesi
1959
Alexander Stubb
1968
Abraham Storck
1644
Cecil Frances Alexander
1818
Joseph de Maistre
1753
Carl Sternheim
1878
Jean Jouvenet
1644
William Manchester
1922
Dan Flavin
1933
William James Sidis
1898
Liu Xia
1961
Annie Baker
1981
Sergiusz Piasecki
1901
Ivan Kavaleridze
1887
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
1755
Maria Polydouri
1902
Jacoba van Heemskerck
1876
George Dance the Younger
1741
Emmanuel Mounier
1905
Barbara Krafft
1764
Francine Prose
1947
Anthonie Blocklandt van Montfoort
1533
Charles Maurin
1856
Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina
1918
Andreas Kalvos
1792
Auguste Couder
1789
Died
(60)
Max Ernst
1976
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
2017
Josef Čapek
1945
Francesc Eiximenis
1409
Mikhail Vrubel
1910
Brian O'Nolan
1966
Sassetta
1450
Ferenc Molnár
1952
Thanasis Apartis
1972
Fernando de Rojas
1541
Cristofano Allori
1621
Philipp Mainländer
1876
Lin Huiyin
1955
Andreas Achenbach
1910
Agniya Barto
1981
Michel de Ghelderode
1962
Elizabeth Goudge
1984
Nigâr Hanım
1918
Joseph-Siffred Duplessis
1802
Joanni Maurice Perronnet
1950
Driss Chraïbi
2007
Richard Lovelace
1658
Abraham Storck
1708
Charles Angrand
1926
Vonda N. McIntyre
2019
Anton Makarenko
1939
Emilia Lanier
1645
Dimitar Dimov
1966
Mykola Rudenko
2004
Juan Bautista Maíno
1649
Bartolomeo Pinelli
1835
Roger Williams
1683
Auguste Couder
1873
Rasul Rza
1981
Trinh Cong Son
2001
Rozz Williams
1998
Thomas Dunn English
1902
Hadım Hasan Pasha
1598
Jacques Stephen Alexis
1961
Diana Scultori
1612
Abraham van Westerveld
1692
Henriette Lorimier
1854
Cosima Wagner
1930
Petronella Moens
1843
Guillaume Taraval
1750
Kamal Nasser
1973
Jules Coignet
1860
Pauline Marie Armande Craven
1891
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
2019
Miklós Istvánffy
1615
Charlotte Bury
1861
Jenny Eakin Delony
1949
Pietro Faccini
1602
Sabin Bălașa
2008
Pierre Belon
1564
Camille Doucet
1895
Leonard Marconi
1899
Mame Younousse Dieng
2016
Marc Lescarbot
1641
Suki Lahav
2026
Works published or unveiled
(60)
The Da Vinci Code
2003
Flowers for Algernon
1959
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
2007
The Pickwick Papers
1836
Never Let Me Go
2005
The Thorn Birds
1977
Glen or Glenda
1953
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
1936
Battle Royale
1999
The Road Back
1931
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2005
Crime Busters
1977
Purge
2008
Spin
2005
A Fire Upon the Deep
1992
PS, I Love You
2004
Malazan Book of the Fallen
1999
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2009
Assassin's Apprentice
1995
Indiana
1832
Dying of the Light
1977
The Snow Queen
1980
The Emperor and the Golem
1952
Blood Music
1985
Lavinia
2008
Siti Nurhaliza I
1996
Legend
1984
Beggars in Spain
1993
The Dresden Files
2000
Failed States
2006
No Enemy But Time
1982
The Forest House
1994
The 33 Strategies of War
2006
Passing
1929
Before I Go to Sleep
2011
Last Call
1992
The Butcher Boy
1992
Black Swan Green
2006
The Basic Eight
1998
The Shattered Chain
1976
L'École des femmes
1929
Quicksand
1931
Before the Dawn
1929
Martyn Pig
2002
The Goblin Emperor
2014
Such a Long Journey
1991
Tersanjung the Movie
2021
Bringer of light
1936
Neveryóna
1983
Always
2007
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
1935
Makam
2010
Natural Histories
2013
Marieke
1961
Steering the Craft
1998
The War of the Roses
1981
Midwives
1997
Monument to tolerance
1992
Legasi
2021
A Northern Light
2003