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Born
(60)
Anatole France
1844
Margrethe II of Denmark
1940
Charlie Chaplin
1889
Peter Ustinov
1921
Tristan Tzara
1896
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
1755
Kingsley Amis
1922
John Millington Synge
1871
Émile Friant
1863
Ford Madox Brown
1821
K’naan
1978
Spike Milligan
1918
Sarah Kirsch
1935
Frans van Mieris the Elder
1635
Ernst Josephson
1851
Sibylle Lewitscharoff
1954
Charlotte Salomon
1917
Inji Aflatoun
1924
Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema
1852
Kandukuri Vireshalingam
1848
Martin Lawrence
1965
Vladimir Propp
1895
Albrecht Adam
1786
Octave Crémazie
1827
Jan Luyken
1649
Gala Galaction
1879
Dareen Tatour
1982
Matthijs Naiveu
1647
Lambert van Haven
1630
Samuel Youd
1922
Teddy Cobeña
1973
Orazio Borgianni
1574
Vicar
1934
John Chamberlain
1927
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
1661
Alexander von Wagner
1838
Włodzimierz Czacki
1834
Vittorio Messori
1941
Margaret Woodrow Wilson
1886
Tracy K. Smith
1972
Ludvík Kuba
1863
Théodore Barrière
1821
Laurent Tailhade
1854
Zoya Boguslavskaya
1924
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
1940
Alfred Isidore Römer
1832
Max Frey
1874
Hayley Squires
1988
John Davies
1569
Behçet Necatigil
1916
Émilien de Nieuwerkerke
1811
Moni Ovadia
1946
Gustave Chouquet
1819
Hanna Rönnberg
1862
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
1984
Dominique Venner
1935
John Bagot Glubb
1897
Britt Karin Larsen
1945
Pierre Étienne Rémillieux
1811
Max Jiménez
1900
Died
(60)
Francisco Goya
1828
Yasunari Kawabata
1972
Aphra Behn
1689
Edna Ferber
1968
Ralph Ellison
1994
Émile Bernard
1941
Marie Tussaud
1850
Henry Fuseli
1825
Alexis de Tocqueville
1859
Panait Istrati
1935
David Lean
1991
Roland Topor
1997
Domenico Fetti
1623
Viktor Tilgner
1896
József Katona
1830
Madeleine Zillhardt
1950
Kemalpaşazade
1534
Rachel Bluwstein
1931
Daniel Gran
1757
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
1687
Jean Amrouche
1962
Carlos Arniches
1943
Luis Sepúlveda
2020
Miroslav Kraljević
1913
Nandalal Bose
1966
Samuel Smiles
1904
Karl Madsen
1938
Gesina ter Borch
1690
Francesco Rustici
1626
Samuel Selvon
1994
Peter Ilsted
1933
Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit
1998
Giuseppe Vasi
1782
Giacomo Gentilomo
2001
Charles G. Finney
1984
Carlos Franqui
2010
Volodymyr Yavorivsky
2021
Richard Lindner
1978
Martin Drolling
1817
Archil II
1713
Hemin Mukriyani
1986
Andrey Nartov
1756
Takeda Nobukado
1582
Eduardo Rózsa-Flores
2009
Viktor Paskov
2009
Marie Petiet
1893
Louis Ulbach
1889
Pia Colombo
1986
Erik Bodom
1879
Knut Ekwall
1912
Richard Lydekker
1915
Konstantin Kedrov
2025
Yongqi
1766
Tawfiq Yusuf 'Awwad
1989
Taşköprizâde Ahmed Efendi
1561
Henryk Pillati
1894
George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle
1911
Johanna Schopenhauer
1838
Tomáš Špidlík
2010
Juan Correa de Vivar
1566
Works published or unveiled
(7)
Kill Bill: Volume 2
2004
Sinners
2025
Everything Is Illuminated
2002
Mazeppa
1854
Body of Lies
2007
Vredesmonument
1993
Rebelle
1998