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Born
(60)
Hans Christian Andersen
1805
Émile Zola
1840
Giacomo Casanova
1725
Max Ernst
1891
Thomas Jefferson
1743
Maria Sibylla Merian
1647
Sue Townsend
1946
Serge Gainsbourg
1928
William Holman Hunt
1827
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
1955
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
1798
Jahanara Begum
1614
Scott Lynch
1978
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim
1719
Gabriela Adameșteanu
1942
Tua Forsström
1947
Edgar Hilsenrath
1926
Francisco Balagtas
1788
Anatole Le Braz
1859
Joan D. Vinge
1948
Joseph Joffo
1931
Georgi Rakovski
1821
George Turner
1841
George MacDonald Fraser
1925
Victor Borisov-Musatov
1870
Nicholas Murray Butler
1862
Kenneth Tynan
1927
Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay
1804
Clark Gregg
1962
Camille Paglia
1947
Anne Waldman
1945
Peyami Safa
1899
Gwenaëlle Aubry
1971
Lluïsa Vidal
1876
István Csukás
1936
Luljeta Lleshanaku
1968
Zheng Xiaoxu
1860
Jennifer Rowe
1948
Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen
1806
Heinrich Christoph Kolbe
1771
Flora Annie Steel
1847
Miquel de Palol
1953
Pierre Zaccone
1818
Joanna Chmielewska
1932
Edward Eliscu
1902
György Konrád
1933
Charles Giron
1850
Pauline Smith
1882
Anton Shagin
1984
Gösta Adrian-Nilsson
1884
Émilie Charmy
1878
Jumana El Husseini
1931
Eduardo Barrón
1858
al-Qadi al-Fadil
1135
Catharine Macaulay
1731
Vasily Shebuyev
1777
Elena Skuin
1908
Lewis Theobald
1688
Francisco Candido Xavier
1910
Oleksa Hryshchenko
1883
Died
(60)
John Paul II
2005
Paul Heyse
1914
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
1872
Kansuke Yamamoto
1987
Sabahattin Ali
1948
Maryse Condé
2024
Ğabdulla Tuqay
1913
John Barth
2024
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
1709
C. S. Forester
1966
Al-Qa'im
1075
Elizabeth Catlett
2012
Terenci Moix
2003
Ahmad Khaled Tawfik
2018
Paul Fleming
1640
Ulrika Pasch
1796
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
1791
Ahmed Vefik Pasha
1891
Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski
1640
Franz Halder
1972
Taos Amrouche
1976
Chang Ta-chien
1983
Nathan Birnbaum
1937
Juan Giménez
2020
John R. Pierce
2002
Estelle Harris
2022
Theodore Robinson
1896
Arthur Kopit
2021
Cécile Tormay
1937
Thomas Brown
1820
Recha Freier
1984
Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso
1682
Hieronymus van Alphen
1803
John Sinclair
2024
Albert Pike
1891
Raymond Sabouraud
1938
Kōtarō Takamura
1956
Katharine Tynan
1931
Eduard von Grützner
1925
William McTaggart
1910
Filippo De Pisis
1956
Aldo Fabrizi
1990
Wilhelm von Gegerfelt
1920
Jean Epstein
1953
Christopher Durang
2024
Gabriel Bonnot de Mably
1785
Richard Cobden
1865
Johann Georg Bergmüller
1762
Chaïbia Talal
2004
Maximilian Pirner
1924
Jenő Barcsay
1988
Étienne Allegrain
1736
Gustaf Munch-Petersen
1938
Jacques Rabemananjara
2005
Ruy González de Clavijo
1412
Mıgırdiç Margosyan
2022
Pimien Pančanka
1995
Gérard Edelinck
1707
Ángela Figuera Aymerich
1984
Henry Slesar
2002
Works published or unveiled
(7)
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
Dora Bruder
1997
Echo Burning
2001
Trading Secrets
1998
The Tradition
2019
Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir
2019
Inaugural Address at Edinburgh University
1866