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Born
(60)
Samuel Beckett
1906
Seamus Heaney
1939
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
1940
Eudora Welty
1909
James Ensor
1860
Stanisław Ulam
1909
Christopher Hitchens
1949
Margrethe Vestager
1968
Garry Kasparov
1963
Thomas Lawrence
1769
Joseba Sarrionandia
1958
Nella Larsen
1891
Julius Nyerere
1922
Drago Jančar
1948
Ahlam Mosteghanemi
1959
Orhan Veli Kanık
1914
Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval
1808
Michael Herr
1940
Louis-Ernest Barrias
1841
Michel Deville
1931
Michel Faber
1960
Tim Krabbé
1943
Dany Laferrière
1953
Georg Lukács
1885
John Braine
1922
Zeruya Shalev
1959
Rebecca Yarros
1981
Sergey Shnurov
1973
Ludwig Rellstab
1799
Thomas Percy
1729
Semyon Budyonny
1883
Euphrase Kezilahabi
1944
Marguerite Henry
1902
Roderich Menzel
1907
Maja Berezowska
1898
Nicolae Tonitza
1886
Jean Daurat
1508
Anders Österling
1884
Alexander Roda Roda
1872
José Agustín Goytisolo
1928
Dina Korzun
1971
Alfred Schütz
1899
Herbert Yardley
1889
Mikhail Gasparov
1935
Rae Armantrout
1947
Ataol Behramoğlu
1942
Säbit Mūqanov
1900
Otto Treßler
1871
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
1825
Giacomo Guardi
1764
Enrique González Martínez
1871
Lanford Wilson
1937
Chris Riddell
1962
Mike Bamiloye
1960
Yves Congar
1904
Junnosuke Yoshiyuki
1924
Emilio Oribe
1893
Ferdinand Pauwels
1830
Hansen 'Ole Peter' Balling
1823
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
1919
Died
(60)
Günter Grass
2015
Jean de La Fontaine
1695
Mario Vargas Llosa
2025
Miloš Forman
2018
Eduardo Galeano
2015
Mercè Rodoreda
1983
Muriel Spark
2006
Nicolas Chamfort
1794
Georges Duhamel
1966
Bartolomeo Ammannati
1592
Emil Nolde
1956
Carlo Carrà
1966
Ilya Ilf
1937
Oskar Schlemmer
1943
Takuboku Ishikawa
1912
Giorgio Bassani
2000
Jean Marsh
2025
Faith Ringgold
2024
P. C. Skovgaard
1875
Wallace Stegner
1993
Julius I
352
Abdülhak Hâmit Tarhan
1937
Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval
1972
Henry Darger
1973
Jane Taylor
1824
Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi
1951
Matteo Palmieri
1475
Aasta Hansteen
1908
Willem Witsen
1923
Juhan Smuul
1971
Pieter van Anraedt
1678
Carl Moll
1945
Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint
1886
Francisca Aguirre
2019
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
1956
Theodoros Stephanides
1983
Saleh al-Ali
1950
Antiveduto Grammatica
1626
Constance de Salm
1845
William Quiller Orchardson
1910
Johann Philipp Lemke
1711
Olga Scheinpflugová
1968
Herman Rosse
1965
Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin
1832
Bernard Noël
2021
Théophile Marion Dumersan
1849
Elisa von der Recke
1833
Tony Buzan
2019
William Keith
1911
Iris Tree
1968
Jack Chambers
1978
George Mackay Brown
1996
Richard Riemerschmid
1957
Giovanni De Vecchi
1614
Jean-Jacques Bachelier
1806
Kanō Mitsunobu
1608
Richard Garnett
1906
Oscar Nemon
1985
Blanca de los Ríos
1956
Abel Paz
2009
Works published or unveiled
(5)
The Host
2008
The Valley of Horses
1982
Un taxi mauve
1973
Lonely Heart
1985
Victories Greater Than Death
2021