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Born
(60)
Maya Angelou
1928
Marguerite Duras
1914
Comte de Lautréamont
1846
Thomas Mayne Reid
1818
Bettina von Arnim
1785
Maurice de Vlaminck
1876
Remy de Gourmont
1858
Dan Simmons
1948
Edith Södergran
1892
Elmer Bernstein
1922
Jill Scott
1972
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
1758
Casimir Delavigne
1793
P. C. Skovgaard
1817
Frits Bolkestein
1933
György Spiró
1946
Robert E. Sherwood
1896
Cazuza
1958
John Hoppner
1758
Alessandro Varotari
1588
Gyula Juhász
1883
Edward Hicks
1780
Aimo Cajander
1879
Henry Bataille
1872
Abdullah Öcalan
1949
Natalya Vorozhbit
1975
Margaret Oliphant
1828
Anthony Perkins
1932
Stanley G. Weinbaum
1902
Ned Vizzini
1981
Gyrðir Elíasson
1961
Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin
1902
Katherine Neville
1945
Lars Ahlin
1915
Constance Marie Charpentier
1767
Francesco De Gregori
1951
Tokugawa Nariaki
1800
Jean-Baptiste Andrea
1971
Václav Čtvrtek
1911
Chaim Grade
1910
Makhanlal Chaturvedi
1889
Nikolai Trubetzkoy
1890
Howardena Pindell
1943
Grinling Gibbons
1648
Octave Penguilly L'Haridon
1811
Mehdi Huseyn
1909
Peter Englund
1957
Jan Drda
1915
Ilya Reznik
1938
Amalia Guglielminetti
1881
Carl Steffeck
1818
William Henry Jackson
1843
Craig T. Nelson
1944
Robert Schindel
1944
Charles Bernstein
1950
Agha Hashar Kashmiri
1879
Władysław Skoczylas
1883
Anna Bella Geiger
1933
Ašaĺči Oki
1898
Alex Grant
1973
Died
(60)
Mikhail Lomonosov
1765
Wilhelm Ostwald
1932
Ambrose
397
Oliver Goldsmith
1774
Martin Luther King Jr.
1968
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
1284
Max Frisch
1991
Isidore of Seville
636
Sadegh Hedayat
1951
Daniele da Volterra
1566
Carlo Gozzi
1806
Sachchidananda Vatsyayan
1987
Roger Ebert
2013
Klaus Rifbjerg
2015
Chögyam Trungpa
1987
Constantin Meunier
1905
Jérôme Lalande
1807
Libero Andreotti
1933
Jens Ferdinand Willumsen
1958
Formosus
896
Dmitry Levitzky
1822
Jeong Mong-ju
1392
Lynne Reid Banks
2024
Catherine Lucile Moore
1987
Luis Eduardo Aute
2020
Adam Willaerts
1664
Jürgen Thorwald
2006
Allan Kaprow
2006
Rachilde
1953
Gisela von Arnim
1889
Ludwig Emil Grimm
1863
Helena Kottler Vurnik
1962
Peter von Hess
1871
Craig Thomas
2011
Noboru Yamaguchi
2013
Vintilă Horia
1992
Germain Nouveau
1920
Fyodor Volkov
1763
Edward Dowden
1913
Ernest Ange Duez
1896
Vladimir Soloukhin
1997
Alberto Cortez
2019
Victoria of Baden
1930
Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer
1902
Vera Rockline
1934
Vahan Tekeyan
1945
Victoria Kovalchuk
2021
František Xaver Šalda
1937
Giovanni Sartori
2017
Gösta Knutsson
1973
Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath
2020
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
1890
Constantin Kryjitski
1911
Marino Sanuto the Younger
1536
Radi Nedelchev
2022
Alfred Duggan
1964
Beryl Gilroy
2001
Eduardo Cano
1897
Cristoforo Gherardi
1556
Egidio Forcellini
1768
Works published or unveiled
(4)
The Forbidden Kingdom
2008
A Happy Death
1971
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
2017
Simalko Geet
2015