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Born
(60)
Leonardo da Vinci
1452
Leonhard Euler
1707
Henry James
1843
Tomas Tranströmer
1931
Guru Nanak
1469
Wilhelm Busch
1832
Robert Walser
1878
Théodore Rousseau
1812
Olga Boznańska
1865
Jeffrey Archer
1940
Jonas Deichmann
1987
Arshile Gorky
1904
Emma Thompson
1959
Thomas Hart Benton
1889
Jean Moréas
1856
Jan van Huysum
1682
Sadriddin Ayni
1878
Seth Rogen
1982
Corrado Alvaro
1895
Charles Willson Peale
1741
Adolphe Thiers
1797
Benjamin Zephaniah
1958
Elizabeth Catlett
1915
Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy
1863
Amédée Ozenfant
1886
Guibert of Nogent
1055
Helene Hanff
1916
Émile Souvestre
1806
Vladimir Bogoraz
1865
Katarina Ivanović
1811
Anne Michaels
1958
Georg Kolbe
1877
Émile-René Ménard
1862
André Corthis
1882
Fernando Goncalves Namora
1919
Karl Goedeke
1814
Thomas F. Wilson
1959
Jean-Baptiste Hugues
1849
Muḥammad Mutawallī al-Shaʻrāwī
1911
Samuel Rayner
1806
Concha Espina
1869
Sally Miller Gearhart
1931
Thomas Szasz
1920
Cressida Cowell
1966
Artur Alliksaar
1923
Guru Arjan
1563
Georgy Beregovoy
1921
Manuel Quiroga Losada
1892
Marian Zazeela
1940
Carlo Ginzburg
1939
Ragnar Hovland
1952
Eva Figes
1932
Mahasundari Devi
1922
Eranuhi Aslamazyan
1909
Frank Vincent
1937
Johann Georg Bergmüller
1688
Josiane Balasko
1950
Emyr Humphreys
1919
Eden Ahbez
1908
Hendrik Christian Andersen
1872
Died
(60)
Jean-Paul Sartre
1980
Abraham Lincoln
1865
Matthew Arnold
1888
Filippo Brunelleschi
1446
Robert Musil
1942
John Singer Sargent
1925
César Vallejo
1938
Gaston Leroux
1927
Domenichino
1641
Rosalba Carriera
1757
Totò
1967
Rubem Fonseca
2020
Anna Ancher
1935
Jules Dalou
1902
Hubert Robert
1808
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1788
Damon Knight
2002
Simon Dach
1659
Hürrem Sultan
1558
Aristarkh Lentulov
1943
Gyula Illyés
1983
Bernard-Marie Koltès
1989
Vardges Petrosyan
1994
Amelia Edwards
1892
Julien Dupré
1910
Edward Gorey
2000
Leslie Charteris
1993
Francis Davis Millet
1912
Mary Delany
1788
Lazzaro Bastiani
1512
Georgios Vizyinos
1896
Charles Robert Knight
1953
Václav Brožík
1901
William Empson
1984
Leandro Bassano
1622
Francišak Bahuševič
1900
Friedebert Tuglas
1971
Alfred Moquin-Tandon
1863
Juan Manuel Blanes
1901
Andrés Quintana Roo
1851
Bruno Bauer
1882
Aleksei Gastev
1939
Sipan Shiraz
1997
Jacques Futrelle
1912
Henry Holiday
1927
Nina Cassian
2014
Warren Adler
2019
Natale Schiavoni
1858
William Thomas Stead
1912
Henry Grimes
2020
Adolf Stern
1907
John Jacob Astor IV
1912
Alexandru Plămădeală
1940
Jules Robert Auguste
1850
Corrie ten Boom
1983
Joseph Farquharson
1935
Jane Ellen Harrison
1928
Stefan Witwicki
1847
Viktor Chernov
1952
Valentine Prax
1981
Works published or unveiled
(9)
Rio
2011
The Jungle Book
2016
A Dictionary of the English Language
1755
Colors
1988
The Pale King
2011
Tripwire
1999
"A" Is for Alibi
1982
Jane Jensen's Moebius
2014
Coeur du Sahel
2022