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Born
(60)
Elena Ferrante
1943
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
1732
Thomas Hobbes
1588
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1837
Ravindra Prabhat
1969
Hugo Claus
1929
Peter Greenaway
1942
Robert Bloch
1917
Anthony Horowitz
1955
Arthur Hailey
1920
Akira Toriyama
1955
Jules Dupré
1811
Gustave Boulanger
1824
Urban VIII
1568
Herbert Bayer
1900
Jan van Kessel the Elder
1626
István Örkény
1912
Jane Asher
1946
Vítězslav Hálek
1835
Blaise de Vigenère
1523
Deborah Harkness
1965
A. C. Crispin
1950
Michael V. Gazzo
1923
Booker T. Washington
1856
Franz Pforr
1788
Princess Ubol Ratana of Thailand
1951
Matthias Jacob Schleiden
1804
Liang Yusheng
1924
Bora Ćosić
1932
Roger Corman
1926
George Roux
1853
Selva Almada
1973
Walter William Winans
1852
Rosemonde Gérard
1866
Richard Eberhart
1904
Ana Luísa Amaral
1956
Elene Akhvlediani
1898
Ruth Smith
1913
Giovan Battista Ruoppolo
1629
Frank R. Stockton
1834
Giacomo Gentilomo
1909
Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet
1810
Nancy Holt
1938
Vann Nath
1946
Marissa Nadler
1981
Edith Archibald
1854
Effat Nagy
1905
Albert Chevallier Tayler
1862
Paolo Ferrari
1822
Marcantonio Franceschini
1648
Caitlin Moran
1975
Olof Eriksson
1911
Vincenzo Gioberti
1801
Domenico Maria Canuti
1625
Imany
1979
Wilhelm von Wright
1810
Nigar Hasan-Zadeh
1975
Francisco Acebal
1866
Julius Janonis
1896
Agata Oleksiak
1978
Died
(60)
Saul Bellow
2005
Allen Ginsberg
1997
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
1723
Janus Pannonius
1472
Edward Young
1765
Aloïse Corbaz
1964
Parvin E'tesami
1941
Charlton Heston
2008
Peter Matthiessen
2014
Ivan Martos
1835
Cecil Taylor
2018
Fabre d'Églantine
1794
Nehemiah Persoff
2022
Earl Derr Biggers
1933
Eastman Johnson
1906
Gabriel Chevallier
1969
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
1862
Jean Jouvenet
1717
María Blanchard
1932
Helena Westermarck
1938
Laurent Marqueste
1920
Jan Luyken
1712
Nikephoros I of Constantinople
828
Ásgrímur Jónsson
1958
Hiroshi Yoshida
1950
Poornachandra Tejaswi
2007
Isolde Kurz
1944
A. Y. Jackson
1974
Josep Piera i Rubió
2026
Ananda Samarakoon
1962
Willard Robertson
1948
Pandita Ramabai
1922
Manly Wade Wellman
1986
Vincent Ferrer
1419
Sophie Elkan
1921
Roger de Piles
1709
José Benlliure y Gil
1937
Jiří Mucha
1991
Friedrich Wilhelm Weber
1894
Jimmy Wang Yu
2022
Ignazio Buttitta
1997
Bernhard Pankok
1943
Salvatore Di Giacomo
1934
Teresa Bandettini
1837
Robert Adams
1984
Maria Gripe
2007
Isidora Sekulić
1958
Sergey Glinka
1847
Asukai Masatsune
1221
Johann Georg Wille
1808
Marcelijus Martinaitis
2013
Emilio Greco
1995
Ilarie Voronca
1946
Karel Purkyně
1868
Viktor Oliva
1928
Makoto Ōoka
2017
Pinchus Krémègne
1981
Roberto Payró
1928
Pentti Linkola
2020
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans
1693
Works published or unveiled
(9)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
2023
Carrie
1974
The Seven Who Were Hanged
1908
Lessons in Chemistry
2022
Young Mungo
2022
Sea of Tranquility
2022
Die Nacht Der Nächte
2018
Suffer the Little Children
2007
Beastly Things
2012