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Born
(60)
Jacques Brel
1929
John Fante
1909
Nnedi Okorafor
1974
Barbara Kingsolver
1955
Dionysios Solomos
1798
Julian Lennon
1963
Emil Cioran
1911
Mary Pickford
1892
Robert Kiyosaki
1947
Spyridon Lambros
1851
Barbara Bodichon
1827
Sara Shepard
1977
James Herbert
1943
Rafael Cadenas
1930
Odd Nerdrum
1944
Betty Ford
1918
Johann Christian Günther
1695
Oscar Zeta Acosta
1935
Yip Harburg
1896
Raymond Schwartz
1894
Momo Kapor
1937
Arthur Streeton
1867
Jan Styka
1858
Hope Mirrlees
1887
Ilka Chase
1900
Greg Iles
1960
Christoph Hein
1944
Josep Llimona i Bruguera
1864
Fred Ebb
1928
Frédéric Back
1924
Jean-Marie Rouart
1943
Cornelis de Heem
1631
Seymour Hersh
1937
Janne Teller
1964
Frederic William Burton
1816
Sarah Pinsker
1977
Hans Scherfig
1905
Basílio da Gama
1741
Margaret Ayer Barnes
1886
Violette Leduc
1907
Fritz Mackensen
1866
Pigault-Lebrun
1753
Gerald Green
1922
Auguste Fourès
1848
Cesare Brandi
1906
Nikas Safronov
1956
Harvey Williams Cushing
1869
Joan Sebastian
1951
Hégésippe Moreau
1810
Bijay Mohanty
1950
Lobsang Rampa
1910
Phineas Fletcher
1582
Åke Gustafsson
1908
Barbara Elisabeth van Houten
1862
Ernst Joachim Förster
1800
Renato Fucini
1843
Henrietta Skerrett Montalba
1848
Erdal Merdan
1949
Irving Ramsey Wiles
1861
Alberto Sanchez
1895
Died
(60)
Pablo Picasso
1973
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1931
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
1894
Lorenzo de' Medici
1492
Sol LeWitt
2007
Gerard Reve
2006
Louis Pergaud
1915
Wilhelm von Humboldt
1835
Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz
1893
Karoline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt
1783
Marcel Prévost
1941
Fritz von Opel
1971
Jan Willem Pieneman
1853
Jakub Arbes
1914
George Jean Nathan
1958
Jakub Jan Ryba
1815
István Széchenyi
1860
Albert Ehrenstein
1950
Armand Massard
1971
Ethel Turner
1958
Susanna Moodie
1885
Viktor de Kowa
1973
Henri Meschonnic
2009
Josef Weinheber
1945
Kyoshi Takahama
1959
Karlheinz Deschner
2014
Madeleine Lemaire
1928
Mario Adorf
2026
Antonio Marziale Carracci
1618
Hedda Sterne
2011
Božena Benešová
1936
Domenico Piola
1703
Georgy Grechko
2017
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
1968
Władysław Skoczylas
1934
Pieter van Mol
1650
Lucjan Rydel
1918
Robert Barker
1806
Sten Selander
1957
Ryan White
1990
Angelo Caroselli
1652
Pierre Dumont
1936
Mariusz Zaruski
1941
Alice Morgan Wright
1975
Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti
1955
Amelia Peláez
1968
Paul-Louis Couchoud
1959
Alfred Mombert
1942
Ernst von Possart
1921
Carl Graeb
1884
Jayakanthan
2015
Josip Juraj Strossmayer
1905
Ludwig Helmbold
1598
Kristian Osvald Viderø
1991
José Luis Sampedro
2013
Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb
1909
Jean-Claude Turcotte
2015
Gogi Totibadze
2010
Jovan Divjak
2021
Martin Chemnitz
1586
Works published or unveiled
(7)
All About My Mother
1999
The Last Lecture
2008
L'ultimo treno della notte
1975
Miss Lonelyhearts
1933
Comedy
2022
An Equal Music
1999
A Tragic Legacy
2008